🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (26th January 2026 - 60th Edition)
- 🧠 Quotes of the Week
- 🔥 Community Highlights
- 1. New DiVine UI updates first of all in Nostr 😍
- 2. Getting rid of the life sentence after more than 11 years 🕊️
- 3. Ultimate onboarding experience for Nostr from Paul Keating 😍
- 4. This proves how the centralized platforms disrespect freedom 👇🏻
- 5. Let’s join Nostr wellness check 🤘🏻
- 6. Do you know what a pleb is? 🫵🏻
- 7. She uses the latest feature on Geyser 👇🏻
- 8. Got rid of almost two decades slavery and embrace freedom 😍
- 9. Well said by Derek Ross 👌🏻
- 10. This is 💯% true. Do you agree?
- 11. We should encourage devs like this 💪🏻
- 12. A great news from Plebeian Market 😍
- 13. This is the life which most of the people spend 👇🏻
- 14. A Nostrich asks for recommendations from the Community 👇🏻
- 15. A great news from a Nostrich 🤩
- 🌱 Ecosystem Growth
- According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
- 👉🏻 Publishing Users last week : 296.7k (+15%)
- 👉🏻 New Users Last week : 257.4k (+18.6%)
- 👉🏻 All time Zap Count : 6.41M
- 👉🏻 All time Sats Amount : 41.69 BTC
- 👉🏻 All time Zap Senders : 168.6K
- According to https://npub.world/stats,
- During last week:
- 👉🏻 Total Users: 2,604, compared to 1,712 users the week before
- 🎓 Educational Guides
- 1. NOSTR: Why Jack Dorsey Put Millions Behind This Censorship Resistant Protocol!
- 2. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 56: Denúncias Reporting
- 3. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 57: Lightning Zaps
- 4. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 58: Emblemas
- 5. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 59: Gift Wrap (Embrulho de Presente)
- 6. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 60: Carteiras Cashu
- 7. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 61: Nutzaps
- 📅 Upcoming Events
- 📰 Nostr in the Media
- ⚡ Most Zapped Last Week
- 😂 Nostr Memes
- 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
- 🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases
- 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
- 👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
- 🫡 Credits
🧠 Quotes of the Week
“Geyser has been permanently banned from Instagram.
No explanation given.
As a result, we’ll be fully migrating all our Instagram content on Nostr.
Boycott Instagram, choose Nostr. 💪”
🔥 Community Highlights
1. New DiVine UI updates first of all in Nostr 😍
2. Getting rid of the life sentence after more than 11 years 🕊️
3. Ultimate onboarding experience for Nostr from Paul Keating 😍
4. This proves how the centralized platforms disrespect freedom 👇🏻
5. Let’s join Nostr wellness check 🤘🏻
6. Do you know what a pleb is? 🫵🏻
7. She uses the latest feature on Geyser 👇🏻
8. Got rid of almost two decades slavery and embrace freedom 😍
9. Well said by Derek Ross 👌🏻
10. This is 💯% true. Do you agree?
11. We should encourage devs like this 💪🏻
12. A great news from Plebeian Market 😍
13. This is the life which most of the people spend 👇🏻
14. A Nostrich asks for recommendations from the Community 👇🏻
15. A great news from a Nostrich 🤩
🌱 Ecosystem Growth
Nostr is growing fast!
According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 140 Nostr clients and over 450 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe.
According to https://nostr.watch, there are more than 950 relays online in more than 45 countries at the moment.
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
👉🏻 Publishing Users last week : 296.7k (+15%)
👉🏻 New Users Last week : 257.4k (+18.6%)
👉🏻 All time Zap Count : 6.41M
👉🏻 All time Sats Amount : 41.69 BTC
👉🏻 All time Zap Senders : 168.6K
According to https://npub.world/stats,
During last week:
👉🏻 Total Users: 2,604, compared to 1,712 users the week before
Many thanks to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @JeffG https://npub.world/stats by @pip and @franzap all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr and https://nostr.watch/ for providing these insights.
🎓 Educational Guides
1. NOSTR: Why Jack Dorsey Put Millions Behind This Censorship Resistant Protocol!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yX7HeBl5V8
2. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 56: Denúncias Reporting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hsIHuPYF8k
3. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 57: Lightning Zaps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdUseKL7xDc
4. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 58: Emblemas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bztk96YGtiA
5. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 59: Gift Wrap (Embrulho de Presente)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6jbvEYKSVQ
6. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 60: Carteiras Cashu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu-QseP0idI
7. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 61: Nutzaps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZhqlrsGXnM
📅 Upcoming Events
1. nostr live talk radio - January 2026
📅 Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026 ⏰ Time: 10.00 AM - 12.00 PM GMT 📍 Location: https://cornychat.com/nostrradio (Online)
🤹♀️ Organizers: @c0rn…tlvg
2. POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr at FOSDEM 2026 - January 2026
📅 Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026 ⏰ Time: 5.35 PM - 6.00 PM CET (UTC+1) 📍 Location: Room: K.3.401 Track: Collaboration and Content Management Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles / Brussels, Belgium
🤹♀️ Organizers: FOSDEM, @Sebastix
🔗 Event: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SDDNPS-posse-content-drupal-nostr
3. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - February 2026
📅 Date: Sunday, February 1, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris
🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjcdbcb/
4. Nostr Nights #1 - February 2026
📅 Date: Monday, February 2, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CST 📍 Location: 1910 21st Ave S Nashville, TN, USA
🤹♀️ Organizers: @Derek Ross @shawn @OpenMike @05d3…uhce @bitkite
🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/312318620
📰 Nostr in the Media
1. PBJ: Unpacking Bitcoin’s Underperformance, Vibecoding with Nostr, Prediction Markets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSNQApWdtNo
2. From Recipes to Relays: Seth’s Zap.Cooking Playbook for Building on Nostr
@ZapCooking @heatherlarson @seth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3URnFKrkus
3. Nostr Rebellion Kill Rage Bait, Own Your Social Wouter Constant S2 EP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFhIjfBOFu0
4. Soapbox Sessions Episode 21: Another Notch on Your NPUB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmaIYkSz4IY
⚡ Most Zapped Last Week
Nostr’s Value4Value (V4V) model is all about plebs directly rewarding creators for the value they receive, no middlemen fees, no ads, just pure community-driven support using sats via the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
Thanks to https://zaplife.lol by @PABLOF7z for providing this data.
Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing creators who received/sent the most engagement:
🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
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Name: @flash
- Zaps Received: 539
- Sats Earned: 73k
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Name: @uno
- Zaps Received: 239
- Sats Earned: 40k
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Name: @Gigi
- Zaps Received: 239
- Sats Earned: 17k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: @aqstr
- Zaps Sent: 313
- Sats Spent: 19k
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Name: @piotr
- Zaps Sent: 176
- Sats Spent: 43k
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Name: @lemon
- Zaps Sent: 147
- Sats Spent: 35k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: @fountainboostbot
- Sats Earned: 473k
- Zaps Received: 217
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Name: @BitBetBot
- Sats Earned: 415k
- Zaps Received: 60
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Name: @justinmoon
- Sats Earned: 224k
- Zaps Received: 119
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: @BitBetBot
- Sats Spent: 301k
- Zaps Sent: 99
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Name: @leo
- Sats Spent: 190k
- Zaps Sent: 5
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Name: @MartyBent
- Sats Spent: 142k
- Zaps Sent: 10
😂 Nostr Memes
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🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
1. Nonboard - New Tool
Nonboard is a lightweight Nostr onboarding widget built with MithrilJS, designed to seamlessly guide new users through getting started on Nostr with minimal friction.
Developed by: @jlrs…ynqn
2. Ridestr - v0.1.3 (Back Handler & Edit Profile Fixes) - New Tool
Ridestr is a decentralized rideshare platform built on Nostr that enables peer-to-peer ride coordination without centralized control. This release improves Android usability by adding proper back-gesture handling and refining the profile flow, separating profile setup from editing with clear titles, buttons, and correct responses to the system back button, making navigation smoother and less confusing for users. This was the latest and there were also the releases of v0.1.2 (Wallet Balance Check for Fare Boost), v0.1.1 and v0.1.0 (Initial Release) last week.
Developed by: @Stirling Forge
3. Pathos - v0.0.19 - New Tool
Pathos is a decentralized activist platform built on Nostr and Bitcoin that enables communities to organize, collaborate, and take coordinated action in a censorship-resistant way. This release introduces an Android APK for direct installation, making Pathos easier to access and use on mobile devices without relying on app stores. This was the latest and there was also the release of v0.0.18 last week.
Developed by: @Derek Ross
4. Amber - v4.1.0-pre3
Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that allows users to securely generate, manage, and sign Nostr events. This release introduces a refreshed UI for login, events, and permissions screens, refactors relay counters using the updated Quartz library, fixes relay connection issues and datastore handling, exposes datastore errors, adds a loading indicator during login, removes old migration code, and improves private key error reporting, resulting in a more robust, user-friendly, and reliable signing experience. This was the latest release and there was the release of v4.1.0-pre2 also last week.
Contributed by: @greenart7c3
5. Aegis - v0.3.6
Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer that supports multiple connection methods. This release introduces running the local relay as a foreground service on Android, adds bottom padding to prevent overlap with the navigation bar, shows the connection count for the local relay, and fixes an event count issue, resulting in improved usability and more accurate relay monitoring for users.
Contributed by: @ZharlieW
6. Flotilla - 1.6.3
Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client built around the concept of “relays as groups.” This release improves user experience and reliability by fixing UI issues like scroll button layering, tooltips on mobile, chat list responsiveness, and image fullscreen dialogs, enhancing video embeds, room editing, and profile selection. It also strengthens functionality with support for blocked relays, authentication policy settings, reporting pending signers, default relay updates, memory leak fixes, and login with a key when no signer is detected, making the app more stable, user-friendly, and secure.
Contributed by: @jlrs…ynqn
7. 0xchat App - v1.5.3
0xchat App is a secure chat application built on the Nostr protocol. This release enhances messaging and file handling by adding automatic draft saving for Moments, default file storage via FileDropServer and BlossomServer, and better reply context by moving replied-to messages to the top. It also fixes tag-based topic search, note search responsiveness, reply display issues, and pending Cashu proofs handling, ensures the Cashu wallet is available before claims, and fully aligns with NIP-55, resulting in a more reliable, secure, and user-friendly chat experience. This was the biggest release and there was the release v1.5.3 desktop release also last week.
Contributed by: @0td4…x2wl
8. Primal Android App - 2.6.21
Primal Android App is Primal’s Android client for Nostr. This release fixes multiple issues including handling local signer requests from deleted apps, resolving race conditions when loading uncached articles, ensuring valid pubkey hex for local signer login, allowing external signer login with hex pubkey, correcting malformed NostrConnect relay parameters, caching LocalApps names, fixing session event row order, preventing crashes from missing Cronet R8 rules, enforcing wss prefixes for relay URLs, correcting Nostr Connect screen layout overflow, fixing replies published as root notes under low connectivity, and adding support for reading NIP-92 dimensions, improving stability, reliability, and Nostr compatibility.
Contributed by: Aleksandar Ilic, Marko Kocic
9. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.26.74
Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight ephemeral and persistent chat client built on the Nostr protocol, bridging with Bitchat for anonymous, temporary messaging. Release v2.26.74 is a hotfix that deprecates nostrmedia.com in favor of blossom.band, ensuring media links now point to the updated, supported service for more reliable content handling.
Contributed by: @Luxas
🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases
1. Nostr Java - v1.2.1
Nostr Java is a Java library for generating, signing, and publishing Nostr events, enabling developers to integrate Nostr functionality into Java applications. This release refactors NIP-44 key derivation for improved reliability, enhances error handling, and updates several dependencies, resulting in a more robust and maintainable library for building Nostr-based applications.
Contributed by: @398ja
2. Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) - v0.7.0
Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) is a Dart library designed to enhance the Nostr development experience by providing tools for event handling, relay communication, and Nostr protocol integration. This release improves relay handling and reconnections, fixes NWC deserialization and event tampering vulnerabilities, adds wildcard tag search, introduces isolates for compute-heavy tasks, updates NIP-44 encryption detection, deprecates old filters, and unifies cache event APIs, resulting in a more secure, efficient, and developer-friendly environment for building Nostr applications in Dart.
Contributed by: @w9ll…3tur @Russell @Anipy frnandu
3. Secure Nostr Software Toolkit for Renegades (SNSTR) - v0.2.0
SNSTR is a secure, lightweight TypeScript library for interacting with the Nostr protocol, providing a simple API with minimal dependencies. This release improves compatibility and developer experience by replacing NIP-04’s runtime require() switching with a registry pattern for clean ESM and bundler support, removing Node crypto from web builds for proper tree-shaking, fixing NIP-51 content field validation, clarifying NIP-57 zap pubkey usage, and exporting ephemeral relay utilities for easier testing, resulting in a more robust, modular, and testable Nostr development toolkit.
Contributed by: @bitcoinplebdev
🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
1. Citrine - v1.0.2
Citrine is a Nostr relay for Android that enables decentralized event publishing and retrieval. This release fixes a crash that occurred when attempting to restore follows, improving app stability and ensuring a smoother relay experience for users.
Contributed by: @greenart7c3
👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
Nostr is built by the plebs, for the plebs. If you found this recap helpful, consider supporting me, Nomishka, with a zap.
I’m committed to supporting Nostr, and I split a part of the zaps I receive for this note with the plebs mentioned in this recap for all their great effort. Thank you so much for being part of this journey. Let me know your thoughts about this Sixtieth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap, and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.
🫡 Credits
Thank you @Jurjen de Vries for this amazing idea!
A big shoutout to @rabble for his generous patronage!
Thank you, my brother @samalka for helping me to make the graphic stuff for this recap!
Recap by @Nomishka
