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🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (24th August 2026)

By Nomishka August 23, 2026 · Edited August 23, 2026
The 90th edition of your weekly Nostr newsletter.
🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (24th August 2026)

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@rabble

“A year ago when we started And Other Stuff, @jack asked me how to take Nostr mainstream, how do we get normies on here, an open protocol. Today I’m really excited to announce that @npub1cj3e7y539yw52fq9ekxa67vvfg568pvv2txsmpplra599nchdqhqjrklr7 has a brand partnership with @e025…mxz4

They’re posting on Nostr, videos, and they’re sending out 40 million invite codes to the divine app, plus running tv and streaming ads for the app when we drop invite codes on the 20th. Divine is part of Nostr and you’ve always been able to do use the app and our relays with any Nostr nsec and app, but we’re building something which makes it accessible to people who never have heard of the idea of open source or protocols.”

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1. Rabble announces a great milestone of Divine 🔥

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2. A must-watch episode of the “You’re The Voice” podcast 👀

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3. Ivy Lumi featured on Amplified Tunes magazine 😍

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4. Freedom is the most important thing 👇🏻

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5. A popular nostrich is on crutches for a few weeks 🥹

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6. A life lesson from a popular Nostrich 👨🏻‍🏫

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7. Eventually, the Nostrich nest is filled with love after a painful period ❤️

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8. An emergency notice from Alex Gleason 🚨

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9. What do you think about this statement, Nostriches? 🤔

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10. Nostr featured in BBC Divine article 😍

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11. This is a great decision 👌🏻

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12. Yeah, we are winning 🏆

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13. A nice suggestion from Nostr founder to think twice 🤔

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14. This is 100% true 👇🏻

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The Nostr growth indicates differently in several sources!

According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe now.

According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics

Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):

👉🏻 Primal iOS - 848 Users - 8.9k Notes

👉🏻 Amethyst - 796 Users - 13.1k Notes

👉🏻 Primal Android - 561 Users - 4.7k Notes

Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):

👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 264.8k Users

👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 256.9k Users

👉🏻 nos.lol - 239.0k Users

According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/

👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 4.43M (-10.3%)

👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 4.56M (+8.0%)

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 7.04M

👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.47 BTC

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 180.8k

According to https://npub.world/stats

During last week:

👉🏻 Total Users: 10,741 users, compared to 17,262 users the week before

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Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @jeffg https://npub.world/stats by @pip and all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr for providing these insights.

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1. What Is a Nostr Client? The App Is Not Your Account

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2. What is NOSTR and how to use it

@jtrn

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3. How NPUB and NSEC keys work in Nostr (Lesson 2)

@3zpe…p5ww

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4. What are relays, how do they work, and why do they make Nostr unstoppable? (Lesson 3)

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5. Nostr in practice! Discover Primal, Nostr Apps, Nostr Watch, Zapstore, and Nostr Stats (Lesson 4)

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6. What is Nostr? Bitcoin’s sister protocol

@Huszonegy

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1. Munich Nostr Meetup (newbies & nerds welcome) - September 2026

📅 Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 PM - 2:00 AM (Event timezone is not specified)
📍 Location: Munich
🤹‍♀️ Organizers: Munich Nostr Meetup

🔗 Event:

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https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqhqmqsq4yn3q08xvk94w75spay4c0p9fzu290p8d5nwkpwgn3f98qqex6atwd93ksttwdaehgu3dd4jk2ar4wqkkuethvf5k2ueddejhyern94mk2mrrdakk2tf3xycxzeryxycqekle0a

2. NOSTRSHIRE - November 2026

📅 Date: Friday, November 20, 2026
⏰ Time: 9.00 AM - 6.00 PM (GMT)
📍 Location: Pendulum Hotel, Sackville St, Manchester M1 3BB, United Kingdom
🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Nostrshire @Nathan Day

🔗 Event:

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https://bitfest.uk/#nostrshire

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1. Divine App Goes Public

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https://www.techtimes.com/articles/325111/20260820/divine-app-goes-public-its-cryptographic-ai-ban-cannot-catch-screen-recorded-ai-video.htm

2. If you’re interested in censorship-resistant social media, take a look at Nostr.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/DcT0v7CDbQD/

3. Nostr has no central server

@Derek Ross

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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/derekross_nostr-has-no-central-server-your-posts-live-share-7497262128525942784-TOca/

4. How are people growing on Nostr?

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https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/1vrlnd5/how_are_people_growing_on_nostr/

5. What is NOSTR?

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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jrihan_nostr-decentralization-bitcoin-share-7495251581278474240-N0lL/

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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 these insights.

Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing the creators who received/sent the most engagement:

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

  1. Name: @flash

    • Zaps Received: 454
    • Sats Earned: 121k

  2. Name: @fountainboostbot

    • Zaps Received: 300
    • Sats Earned: 601k

  3. Name: @Contra

    • Zaps Received: 235
    • Sats Earned: 29k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

  1. Name: @aqstr

    • Zaps Sent: 1532
    • Sats Spent: 28k

  2. Name: @piotr

    • Zaps Sent: 192
    • Sats Spent: 46k

  3. Name: @

    • Zaps Sent: 144
    • Sats Spent: 6k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

  1. Name: @fountainboostbot

    • Sats Earned: 601k
    • Zaps Received: 300

  2. Name: @aaep…3xy5

    • Sats Earned: 210k
    • Zaps Received: 1

  3. Name: @Turiz

    • Sats Earned: 194k
    • Zaps Received: 41

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

  1. Name: @Greeny

    • Sats Spent: 337k
    • Zaps Sent: 4

  2. Name: @bitcoinekasi

    • Sats Spent: 210k
    • Zaps Sent: 1

  3. Name: @653c…y7uw

    • Sats Spent: 123k
    • Zaps Sent: 5

Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

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    • Zaps Received: 154
    • Sats Earned: 13k

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    • Zaps Received: 64
    • Sats Earned: 10k

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    • Zaps Received: 52
    • Sats Earned: 12k

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    • Sats Earned: 210k
    • Zaps Received: 1

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    • Sats Earned: 155k
    • Zaps Received: 2

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    • Sats Earned: 150k
    • Zaps Received: 1

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1. Divine Mobile - 1.0.20

Divine Mobile is a decentralized short-form mobile video app that revives Vine’s 6-second looping format with human-made content only. This release adds Light Mode, in-app Nostr badge creation and management, improved stop-motion editing with crop/rotate/flip tools, better draft and clip library controls, synchronized captions, smarter feed recommendations based on watched content, account and profile management improvements, cross-device sound saving, improved accessibility and reduced-motion support, plus fixes and improvements to uploads, deleted videos, bookmarks, notifications, localization, privacy, and security. This was the latest release, and there was also a pre-release (1.0.22) last week.

Contributed by: @rabble @dcadenas @Liz Alex Frei, Meylis

2. Amethyst - v1.14.0 (New Share Intents, Faster Start)

Amethyst is a full-featured Nostr client for Android, with support for social feeds, chats, channels, media, zaps, relays, and many NIPs. This release significantly expands its functionality with NIP-84 highlights, new media feed types, improved NIP-29 community support, better relay authentication and monitoring, discoverable key backups, Trusted Lists, and faster startup performance. It also includes extensive reliability, security, and performance improvements across messaging, relays, media handling, wallets, and account management.

Contributed by: @VitorPamplona @sandwich @daniel @Alex Gleason Róbert Nagy, David Kaspar

3. Earthly - v0.1.5

Earthly is a Nostr-based collaborative map editor designed for turning local, community-sourced knowledge into shared maps. Rather than being just a conventional mapping tool, it uses Nostr to coordinate and publish map-related information in a decentralized way, allowing users to contribute and discover geographic data without relying entirely on a centralized mapping platform. The v0.1.5 release adds Discover functionality and support for large NIP-46 signing, making it easier to discover content and interact with remote signers for Nostr authentication.

Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab

4. Amber - v6.5.2

Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that securely manages Nostr keys and allows other apps to request event signing without exposing private keys. This release improves performance and reliability by speeding up the Applications screen, restoring complete account lists when switching accounts, fixing a crash in activity history, and improving relay-status notifications during bursts of network activity.

Contributed by: @greenart7c3

5. Mostro - v0.18.5

Mostro is a production-ready, censorship-resistant, non-custodial peer-to-peer exchange built on Nostr and the Lightning Network, enabling users to trade without giving custody of their funds to a centralized exchange. This makes NIP-44 the default transport, improves orderbook and payout reliability, prevents duplicate buyer payouts, and fixes issues around maker bonds, timeout handling, and settled orders.

Contributed by: @negrunch @Catrya @Pinball Wizard

6. Jumble - v26.8.2

Jumble is a user-friendly Nostr client for exploring relay feeds, interacting with Nostr content, and communicating through features such as DMs and reactions. This release adds customizable notification tabs and filters, desktop Google sign-in, and text copying, while improving DM attachments, Blossom uploads, link previews, image downloads, embedded-content security, and startup reliability; it also fixes disappearing desktop sessions and preferences, missed relay interactions, touch-menu issues, and mention deletion bugs.

Contributed by: @Cody

7. YakiHonne Mobile - 2.0.6

YakiHonne Mobile is a decentralized Nostr-based social mobile platform for publishing and discovering content, with a focus on censorship resistance, privacy, and long-form writing. This adds AI-powered writing tools including Ask AI, Second Reader, and Energy Mapper, along with creator subscriptions, in-app plans, encrypted key backup and recovery, Google sign-in, gift-code redemption, and a new Fluid visual mode; it also redesigns navigation and improves search, discovery, profiles, note statistics, performance, and onboarding.

Contributed by: Boukhalfa Seddik

8. Yakihonne Web - v6.0.0

YakiHonne is a Nostr client focused on social networking and long-form publishing, allowing users to create, discover, and monetize content on Nostr. This release delivers a major redesign with a new interface, premium plans payable by card or Lightning, a revamped Yaki Points rewards system, a rebuilt article editor with Nostr embeds and PDF-to-Markdown import, AI writing and Second Reader tools, Google login and key recovery, improved publishing and mobile experiences, content statistics, faster performance, and new language and translation options.

Contributed by: @Moos

9. Nymchat - v3.73.533

Nymchat is an ephemeral Nostr chat client that combines geohash-based and Bluetooth mesh communication with Bitchat bridging for pseudonymous, temporary messaging. This release adds a WYSIWYG text editor for easier message composition and introduces image and video previews, making multimedia communication more convenient. This was the latest release and there were also a lot more releases last week.

Contributed by: @Luxas

10. Mostro Mobile - v1.3.3

Mostro Mobile Client is a secure mobile app for trading Bitcoin peer-to-peer through the non-custodial Mostro platform over Nostr and Lightning. This version adds taker reputation visibility, migrates peer-to-peer chats to the newer kind-14 chat envelope with improved security, adds clearer order-book filter indicators and new EUR payment methods, and introduces a Mortsom automation contract, while fixing chat persistence, subscription backlogs, authentication, reputation handling, and several UI and order-state issues.

Contributed by: @Catrya

11. Nostrord - v2.9.0

Nostrord is an NIP-29 Nostr client focused on group-based communication, forums, and direct messaging. This release adds synced group muting, improved NIP-46 login, NIP-4e encrypted DM key management and device pairing, chat-history backup, DM attachments/reactions/replies, better group and relay handling, forum-style threads, and improved notifications, while fixing several connection, signing, and rendering issues.

Contributed by: @Anjhc

12. NoorNote - v1.3.6

NoorNote is a Nostr client for interacting with the decentralized social protocol, with support for profiles, statuses, notes, and classified listings. This release adds NIP-38 user statuses to profiles and NIP-99 classified listings throughout the app, improves the visibility of private petname notes with clearer warning indicators, and fixes sideways scrolling for long draft text so the delete button remains accessible. This was the latest of the week, and there were also two more releases (v1.3.5 & v1.3.4) last week.

Contributed by: @alp

13. Sidecar - v1.9.1

Sidecar is a browser-sidebar Nostr keystore and signer that securely manages Nostr identities, keys, wallets, relays, and site permissions while providing tools for signing, backups, account management, and privacy. Release v1.9.1 adds printable and scannable key backups, encrypted key recovery, an account overview, per-account relay settings, “Forget all sites,” improved payment handling, and a NIP-65 relay auditor, while strengthening wallet recovery, WebLN permission prompts, global name search privacy, and encrypted local drafts and payment notes.

Contributed by: @daniel

14. Workstr Web - v1.3.0

Workstr Web is a static, local-first Nostr workout tracker PWA for recording and managing fitness sessions directly in the browser. Release v1.3.0 adds a monthly workout calendar with training statistics and accessibility improvements, introduces a Repeat Workout feature that recreates completed sessions while preserving their original structure and recorded weights, and reorganizes workout history by day with calendar-based filtering. It also fixes training streak calculations and ensures workout history and statistics correctly use the device’s local date. Although this was the latest, there were also the releases of v1.2.0 & v1.1.0 last week.

Contributed by: Workstr7blo, sette7blo

15. Flotilla - 1.9.1

Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client built around the concept of “relays as groups,” providing group chats, threads, voice chat, pinned messages, and content sharing in a decentralized environment. This release adds long-form articles for content libraries and pinned resources, improves quote handling and comments, adds thread creation from chat messages, and includes fixes and improvements for voice chat, notifications, storage, synchronization, video tiling, themes, and native sharing.

Contributed by: @hodlbod

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1. Nostr Java - v2.0.8

Nostr Java is a Java SDK for the Nostr protocol that provides tools for creating, signing, encrypting, and publishing Nostr events to relays. This release fixes relay subscription routing so EVENT, EOSE, and CLOSED messages are delivered to the correct listeners, removes NIP-44’s dependency on JCE provider registration by using BouncyCastle’s lightweight ChaCha20-Poly1305 implementation, and adds NIP-44 v2 test-vector verification to prevent encryption regressions.

Contributed by: Eric T

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1. RSSNOTES - v0.1.3

RSSNOTES is a Nostr relay and RSS-to-Nostr bridge that turns RSS feeds into Nostr profiles and notes, making external content available within the Nostr ecosystem. This release adds collapsible instructions, Nostr profile editing, and an import detail modal for a clearer and more manageable feed-import experience. This was the biggest release of the week, and the latest one was v0.1.4.

Contributed by: trinidz

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No Protocol Updates and Releases for last week.

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1. Buzz - v0.5.18

Buzz is a Nostr-based collaborative workspace where humans and AI agents build together on a relay you control, combining messaging, project workspaces, workflows, repository-aware collaboration, agent management, and shared tools. This release improves Projects navigation and collaboration, adds a workflow editor and in-thread workflow replies, enhances agent discovery and handling, improves notifications, relay reconnection, channel sorting, message links, and mobile interactions, and includes numerous performance, reliability, and UI fixes across desktop, mobile, and shared functionality. This was the latest release of the week and there was also another one (v0.5.17) last week.

Contributed by: Salman Mohammed, Wes, klopez4212, Taylor Ho, Will Pfleger, Tyler, Taksh Kothari, morgmart, thomaspblock, Luke Tornquist, Logan Johnson, Jude Edwards, Evan Chen, Matt Kursmark, Diem Nguyen, Matt Krueger, Matt Toohey

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1. Iris Drive - New Infrastructure Tool

Iris Drive is a decentralized file-sync platform that uses htree for local, content-addressed storage and Nostr for identity, enabling peer-aware file synchronization across desktop and mobile devices without relying on traditional DNS, SSL, or CDN infrastructure.

Developed by: @Sirius

2. Lightning.Pub - v0.0.38

Lightning.Pub is a Nostr-native Lightning node that lets users connect and share their Lightning nodes through Nostr identities with compatible applications. This release is a reliability-focused patch that fixes outgoing invoice payments getting stuck when LND does not provide a payment index, improving payment reconciliation, reducing premature refunds, and handling unknown or uninitiated payments more cleanly, with no API, configuration, or migration changes. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v0.0.37 last week.

Contributed by: Justin (shocknet), boufni95

3. Nostr VPN - v4.1.8

Nostr VPN is a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN built around a FIPS-backed data plane. Release v4.1.8 improves cross-platform reliability by making paid-exit and peer discovery more resilient through public WebSocket bootstrap peers, and restores authenticated private-mesh sessions automatically after complete network path loss without requiring an app or daemon restart.

Contributed by: @Sirius @PABLOF7z @icaruswings

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1. Napstr - New Exploration Tool

Napstr is a privacy-focused music-sharing platform that uses Nostr for decentralized, searchable music discovery and Tor onion services for private, temporary audio transfers, without relying on a central tracker or file server.

Developed by: @Ben Arc

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Nostr is built by plebs, for the plebs. If you found this Nostr 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 Ninetieth Nostr Recap & share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.

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Thank you @Jurjen de Vries for this amazing idea!

A big shoutout to @rabble for your generous patronage for my Nostr Recaps!

Thank you, my younger brother @samalka for helping me with the content and graphic stuff for my Nostr Recaps!

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