• 🧠 Quote of the Week
  • “Can’t wait to have Nostr as my dominant channel. I swear”
• 🔥 Community Highlights
  • 1. The New Year wish of a popular nostrich 🎆
  • 2. This is the way that celebrate the new year effectively 👇
  • 3. This is so ambitious 👇
  • 4. Let’s go a house tour 😉
  • 5. This pleb has got scammed 😥
  • 6. Let’s keep patience and pray him 🙏
  • 7. A New Year celebration with his wife 🎉
  • 8. There is a huge thing to learn from this video 🎞️
  • 9. The new year wish and positive vibe from a Primal team member 👇
  • 10. The life recap in 2025 👇
  • 11. What do you think about this suggestion? 🫵
  • 12. Expressing gratitude to teachers on 17th birthday of Genesis block 🫡
  • 13. Let’s tag musicians and artists 🙂
  • 14. The first Plebchain Radio episode in 2026 🗓️
  • 15. The gratitude of the Nostur creator to the users 🫡
  • 16. The thing is happening what should happen 👇
• 🌱 Ecosystem Growth
  • Nostr is growing fast!
  • According to https://npub.world/stats,
  • During last week:
  • 👉 Total Users: 5,288, compared to 9,018 users the week before
  • According to https://stats.nostr.band,
  • During last week:
  • 👉 Total Zaps: 35,015, compared to 35,236 zaps the week before
  • 👉 Total Zap senders: 2,721, compared to 4,107 plebs the week before
  • 👉 Total Zap Amount: 6,611,280, compared to 8,696,789 sats the week before
  • 👉 Total Events: 3,207,983, compared to 3,852,282 events the week before
• 🎓 Educational Guides
  • 1. Nostr for Beginners: 3 Apps You Need to Know
• 📅 Upcoming Events
  • 1. POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr at FOSDEM 2026 - January 2026
  • 2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026
  • 3. Nostr Nights #1 - February 2026
• 📰 Nostr in the Media
  • 1. Soapbox Sessions Episode 18: 2026, Year of the Builder
  • 2. Freedom Tech vs the Surveillance State: White Noise, Bitcoin & Nostr
  • 3. Take back control of your digital life with nostr
  • 4. How Nostr works as censorship resistant social
  • 5. Introducing Pidgeon, a privacy‑first Nostr scheduler
• ⚡ Most Zapped Last Week
  • Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing creators who received/sent the most engagement:
  • 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
  • 🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
  • 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
  • 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
  • Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:
  • 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
  • 🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
• 😂 Nostr Memes
• 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
  • 1. Mostro - v0.15.6
  • 2. Aegis - v0.3.5
  • 3. Plebs - v2.7.32
  • 4. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.24.62
• 🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases
  • 1. File Drop - New Developer tool
  • 2. nostr-spring-boot-starter - v0.5.0
  • 3. Gitplaza - v0.26.1
• 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
  • 1. Nosflare - v7.9.32
• 👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
  • 🫡 Credits

§🧠 Quote of the Week

@efenigson

§“Can’t wait to have Nostr as my dominant channel. I swear”

§🔥 Community Highlights

§1. The New Year wish of a popular nostrich 🎆

§2. This is the way that celebrate the new year effectively 👇

§3. This is so ambitious 👇

§4. Let’s go a house tour 😉

§5. This pleb has got scammed 😥

§6. Let’s keep patience and pray him 🙏

§7. A New Year celebration with his wife 🎉

§8. There is a huge thing to learn from this video 🎞️

§9. The new year wish and positive vibe from a Primal team member 👇

§10. The life recap in 2025 👇

§11. What do you think about this suggestion? 🫵

§12. Expressing gratitude to teachers on 17th birthday of Genesis block 🫡

§13. Let’s tag musicians and artists 🙂

§14. The first Plebchain Radio episode in 2026 🗓️

§15. The gratitude of the Nostur creator to the users 🫡

§16. The thing is happening what should happen 👇

§🌱 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 around 50 countries at the moment.

§According to https://npub.world/stats,

§During last week:

§👉 Total Users: 5,288, compared to 9,018 users the week before

§According to https://stats.nostr.band,

§During last week:

§👉 Total Zaps: 35,015, compared to 35,236 zaps the week before

§👉 Total Zap senders: 2,721, compared to 4,107 plebs the week before

§👉 Total Zap Amount: 6,611,280, compared to 8,696,789 sats the week before

§👉 Total Events: 3,207,983, compared to 3,852,282 events the week before

Many thanks to https://npub.world/stats by @pip and @franzap https://stats.nostr.band by @brugeman all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights.

§🎓 Educational Guides

§1. Nostr for Beginners: 3 Apps You Need to Know

@Radixura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgX_j6FOMWs

§📅 Upcoming Events

§1. 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

§2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 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/

§3. 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. Soapbox Sessions Episode 18: 2026, Year of the Builder

@heatherlarson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E872q-UNrUk

§2. Freedom Tech vs the Surveillance State: White Noise, Bitcoin & Nostr

@JeffG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW7d31Z8pmM

§3. Take back control of your digital life with nostr

@wildburro https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2Z9b_ETCudU

§4. How Nostr works as censorship resistant social

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6ClqDRGHqOc

§5. Introducing Pidgeon, a privacy‑first Nostr scheduler

@Car @k00b

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKQu73HBNDc

§⚡ 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

1. Name: @flash

   • Zaps Received: 599
   • Sats Earned: 73k

2. Name: @Gigi

   • Zaps Received: 435
   • Sats Earned: 24k

3. Name: @Max

   • Zaps Received: 423
   • Sats Earned: 194k

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

1. Name: @aqstr

   • Zaps Sent: 2384
   • Sats Spent: 93k

2. Name: @

   • Zaps Sent: 268
   • Sats Spent: 2k

3. Name: @FLjustin

   • Zaps Sent: 204
   • Sats Spent: 62k

§💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

1. Name: @fountainboostbot

   • Sats Earned: 806k
   • Zaps Received: 268

2. Name: @Pengsats

   • Sats Earned: 408k
   • Zaps Received: 104

3. Name: @RabbitHoleRecap

   • Sats Earned: 272k
   • Zaps Received: 36

§💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

1. Name: @BitBetBot

   • Sats Spent: 356k
   • Zaps Sent: 80

2. Name: “The name is not visible”

   • Sats Spent: 222k
   • Zaps Sent: 1

3. Name: @thepurpose

   • Sats Spent: 111k
   • Zaps Sent: 2

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   • Sats Earned: 28k

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   • Sats Earned: 78k
   • Zaps Received: 60

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   • Sats Earned: 74k
   • Zaps Received: 1

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§🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases

§1. Mostro - v0.15.6

Mostro is a peer-to-peer Bitcoin Lightning exchange platform built on Nostr, enabling decentralized, trust-minimized trading without centralized custody. This version advances the development fund system with Phase 4 audit events published via Nostr, configurable funding infrastructure, and clearer documentation, while fixing amount calculation issues in buyer/seller messages and aligning premium logic with the LNP2P bot. These changes improve transparency, correctness, and sustainability of the platform, giving users more reliable trades and developers a clearer, auditable funding and architecture model.

Contributed by: @catr…euhz @qqqq…rfkq @Pinball Wizard

• Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro/releases/tag/v0.15.6

§2. Aegis - v0.3.5

Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer designed to let users securely sign events and connect to Nostr apps using multiple connection methods. This release adds Dark Mode, improves app icon rendering, and refines UI layouts for a cleaner, more consistent experience, while fixing iOS iCloud Private Relay conflicts and event parsing issues. Together, these updates make Aegis more visually polished, more reliable across platforms, and smoother to use when signing and interacting with Nostr applications.

Contributed by: @ZharlieW

• Source: https://github.com/ZharlieW/Aegis/releases/tag/v0.3.5

§3. Plebs - v2.7.32

Plebs is a censorship-resistant, decentralized video platform built on the Nostr protocol, enabling users to publish, discover, and watch videos without relying on centralized intermediaries. This release delivers quick stability improvements by removing a non-functional nostr.band relay and adding the 24242.io Blossom host, resulting in more reliable content hosting, smoother playback, and a more dependable experience for viewers and creators alike.

Contributed by: @Luxas

• Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/plebs-app/releases/tag/v2.7.32

§4. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.24.62

Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight Nostr-based chat client that supports both ephemeral and persistent messaging, with interoperability with Bitchat for anonymous, temporary conversations. The v2.24.62 release is a hotfix that removes the dead nostr.band relay, improving reliability, reducing connection issues, and ensuring smoother message delivery for users.

Contributed by: @Luxas

• Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/NYM/releases/tag/v2.24.62

§🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases

§1. File Drop - New Developer tool

File Drop is a private, decentralized file-sharing system built for Nostr and the open web. It provides a single, flexible storage backend that can be integrated into any app or workflow, from Nostr clients and pastebin-style posts to screenshot tools, forums, and social platforms. File Drop enables durable, anonymous file hosting without relying on centralized services, giving users a simple way to share files while staying in control of their privacy.

Developed by: @besoeasy

• Source: https://github.com/besoeasy/file-drop

§2. nostr-spring-boot-starter - v0.5.0

nostr-spring-boot-starter is a Java/Spring Boot starter framework for building Nostr clients and custom relay software, providing ready-made components to create scalable, efficient Nostr applications with minimal setup. This release focuses on major dependency upgrades, including Spring Boot, Nostr protocol libraries, Lightning/Bitcoin components, and tooling along with added example applications and improved build, linting, and security tooling, resulting in better performance, long-term compatibility, and a smoother development experience for developers building production-ready Nostr services.

Contributed by: Thebora Kompanioni

• Source: https://github.com/theborakompanioni/nostr-spring-boot-starter/releases/tag/0.5.0

§3. Gitplaza - v0.26.1

Gitplaza is a desktop Nostr client focused on collaborative software development, using Nostr to manage git repositories, patches, releases, and related discussions in a decentralized way. The v0.26.1 release improves how comment threads are fetched using smarter gossip relay selection, updates release note tagging to match the latest spec, boosts performance through reduced allocations and data cloning, fixes several UI and caching bugs, and refines event labeling for better clarity, resulting in a faster, more reliable, and clearer experience when tracking and collaborating on git activity over Nostr.

Contributed by: @dluvian

• Source: https://codeberg.org/dluvian/gitplaza/releases/tag/v0.26.1

§🌐 Relay Updates and Releases

§1. Nosflare - v7.9.32

Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay built specifically for Cloudflare Workers and Cloudflare D1, enabling scalable, low-maintenance relay deployment without traditional servers. This release delivers a focused hotfix that improves tag handling in relay queries, ensuring more accurate event filtering and retrieval, which benefits users and client developers by making feeds more reliable and reducing inconsistencies when querying events by tags. This was the latest release and there were also more multiple releases last week. (v7.9.31, v7.9.29, v7.8.29, v7.7.29, v7.7.27, v7.7.26, v7.7.23, v7.7.22, v7.7.21, v7.7.20, v7.7.19)

Contributed by: @Luxas

• Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare/releases/tag/v7.9.32

§

§👋 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 Fifty-seventh 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