🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (27th October 2025 - 47th Edition)
- 🧠 Quote of the Week
- 🔥 Community Highlights
- 1. The signal is so high here. We need more meetups/presentations like this. Great work! 🤝
- 2. This time this tremendous character talking to Jeff Jarvis. Watchout who 👇
- 3. A good news from Miljan. Let’s get ready for Primal 3.0 🤟
- 4. There is no reason to be not 😉
- 5. Well said by the Nostr memes master 👌
- 6. Let’s listen to a Nostr speech of Matt Odell 👇
- 7. It is so nice to see plebs like this 💪
- 8. This is 100% true 👇
- 9. This is the power of Nostr 😍
- 10. We must fight for the privacy 🤝
- 11. Alby adds an another security layer to protect users from attackers 🔏
- 12. Do you agree Nostriches? 🫵
- 13. The macro discussion summary of Lyn Alden with her favorite macro analyst 🗒️
- 14. An impressive drone show in Lugana, Switzerland 😍
- 15. A new Nostr based voice and video calling app announced 📲
- 16. These things can be happen to a tremendous person 🫂
- 🌱 Ecosystem Growth
- Nostr is growing fast!
- According to https://npub.world/stats,
- During last week:
- - Total Users: 3,851, compared to 2,580 users the week before
- According to https://stats.nostr.band,
- During last week:
- - Total zaps: 47,962, compared to 40,668 zaps the week before
- - Total zap senders: 3,865, compared to 2,668 plebs the week before
- - Total zap amount: 7,656,984, compared to 8,246,204 sats the week before
- - Total events: 10,170,316, compared to 2,771,870 events the week before
- 🎓 Educational Guides
- 📅 Upcoming Events
- 1. Nostrclass by Aza - Bitplebs summit - October 2025
- 2. Nostr Vancouver meetup - October 2025
- 3. Bitcoin Culture Festival - Purple Day Stream - October 2025
- 4. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - November 2025
- 5. Nostrshire - November 2025
- 6. Nostrasia - November 2025
- 📰 Nostr in the Media
- 1. How to Build Something New on Nostr
- 2. Nostr For Content Creators
- 3. Nostr For Social Apps
- 4. Nostr Events in PNG
- 5. Hivetalk: The Nostr-enabled video conferencing tool
- 6. Nostr & Zaps Explained
- ⚡ 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
- 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases
- 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
- 👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
- 🙌 Credits
🧠 Quote of the Week
“We have the freest free speech in the world here on Nostr.”
🔥 Community Highlights
1. The signal is so high here. We need more meetups/presentations like this. Great work! 🤝
2. This time this tremendous character talking to Jeff Jarvis. Watchout who 👇
3. A good news from Miljan. Let’s get ready for Primal 3.0 🤟
4. There is no reason to be not 😉
5. Well said by the Nostr memes master 👌
6. Let’s listen to a Nostr speech of Matt Odell 👇
7. It is so nice to see plebs like this 💪
8. This is 100% true 👇
9. This is the power of Nostr 😍
10. We must fight for the privacy 🤝
11. Alby adds an another security layer to protect users from attackers 🔏
12. Do you agree Nostriches? 🫵
13. The macro discussion summary of Lyn Alden with her favorite macro analyst 🗒️
14. An impressive drone show in Lugana, Switzerland 😍
15. A new Nostr based voice and video calling app announced 📲
16. These things can be happen to a tremendous person 🫂
🌱 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 860 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment.
According to https://npub.world/stats,
During last week:
- Total Users: 3,851, compared to 2,580 users the week before
According to https://stats.nostr.band,
During last week:
- Total zaps: 47,962, compared to 40,668 zaps the week before
- Total zap senders: 3,865, compared to 2,668 plebs the week before
- Total zap amount: 7,656,984, compared to 8,246,204 sats the week before
- Total events: 10,170,316, compared to 2,771,870 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
No Educational Guides for last week.
📅 Upcoming Events
1. Nostrclass by Aza - Bitplebs summit - October 2025
📅 Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 ⏰ Time: 5.45 PM - 6.30 PM IST 📍 Location: Paloma de Goa Resort Novo vaddo, Sernabatim, Colva, Goa 403708, India 🤹♀️ Organizers: @34d6…yggk
🎟️ Registration: Open to all @bitplebs_in Pass holders. No registration required. Just show up!
🔗 Event: https://cream-bellflower-e9a.notion.site/Nostrclass-2824c5c745c28058815fdff7b05f56c9
https://www.satlantis.io/events/1133/NOSTR-Beyond-Social-Media
2. Nostr Vancouver meetup - October 2025
📅 Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 ⏰ Time: 6.30 PM - 8.30 PM PDT 📍 Location: DCTRL 436 W Pender St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1T5, Canada
🤹♀️ Organizers: Martin Montero
🔗 Event: https://luma.com/3tpxlv3k
3. Bitcoin Culture Festival - Purple Day Stream - October 2025
📅 Date: Friday October 31, 2025 ⏰ Time: 12:14 PM GMT 📍 Location: Online via @2140.wtf #blockworkgallery
🤹♀️ Organizers: @2140.wtf #blockworkgallery 🔗 Event:
4. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - November 2025
📅 Date: Sunday, November 02, 2025 ⏰ Time: 12:00 PM - 1.00 PM MST 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, USA 🤹♀️ Organizers: Chris Curran
5. Nostrshire - November 2025
📅 Date: Friday, November 21, 2025 ⏰ Time: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM 📍 Location: Pendulum Hotel Sackville St, Manchester M1 3BB, United Kingdom
🤹♀️ Organizers: @Bitfest
🔗 Event: https://bitfest.uk/#nostrshire
6. Nostrasia - November 2025
📅 Date: Saturday, November 22, 2025 ⏰ Time: 1:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT+9 (Doors open at 12:30 PM) 📍 Location: Crypto Lounge GOX 6F Tenam Town Building, 2-19-15 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0021, Japan
🤹♀️ Organizers: @Nostrasia
🎟️ Admission: Free
🔗 Event: https://nostrasia.com/
📰 Nostr in the Media
1. How to Build Something New on Nostr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP49WpdBecs
2. Nostr For Content Creators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74wJ3NeKC3E
3. Nostr For Social Apps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqBH7IzrC4g
4. Nostr Events in PNG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js1iuCgeKoE
5. Hivetalk: The Nostr-enabled video conferencing tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTkcP5Y-10
6. Nostr & Zaps Explained
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4K48J8wNOO8
⚡ 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: @Rizful.com (zap tester)
- Zaps Received: 1003
- Sats Earned: 1k
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Name: @flash
- Zaps Received: 824
- Sats Earned: 127k
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Name: @fountainboostbot
- Zaps Received: 383
- Sats Earned: 684k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: @aqstr
- Zaps Sent: 1280
- Sats Spent: 55k
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Name: @HardCap
- Zaps Sent: 747
- Sats Spent: 7k
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Name: @piotr
- Zaps Sent: 260
- Sats Spent: 103k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: @fountainboostbot
- Sats Earned: 684k
- Zaps Received: 383
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Name: @tunestr
- Sats Earned: 484k
- Zaps Received: 76
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Name: El notas
- Sats Earned: 266k
- Zaps Received: 27
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: @BitBetBot
- Sats Spent: 537k
- Zaps Sent: 91
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Name: MattMC
- Sats Spent: 210k
- Zaps Sent: 1
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Name: @Leathermint
- Sats Spent: 175k
- Zaps Sent: 3
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: 78
- Sats Earned: 8k
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- Zaps Received: 56
- Sats Earned: 62k
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- Zaps Received: 52
- Sats Earned: 3k
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- Sats Earned: 62k
- Zaps Received: 56
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- Sats Earned: 49k
- Zaps Received: 18
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- Sats Earned: 23k
- Zaps Received: 30
😂 Nostr Memes
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🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
1. Noscall - v0.1.0 - New tool
NosCall is a secure audio and video calling application built on the Nostr protocol, offering end-to-end encrypted communication with full cross-platform support. This first release introduces compatibility with NIP-100 clients like 0xchat, along with Bunker/Amber login support, call history management, voice and video calling features, and a contact list for seamless connection.
- Developed by: @sana
- Source: https://github.com/sanah9/noscall/releases/tag/v0.1.0-release
2. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.16.39
Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight ephemeral and persistent chat client built on the Nostr protocol, integrating with Bitchat for anonymous and temporary messaging. This release introduces forward secrecy for disappearing private messages, which can be enabled from settings, and includes a hotfix to ensure messages are correctly routed to the right threads. This was the latest release and there were also some few more releases last week.
- Developed by: @Luxas
- Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/NYM/releases/tag/v2.16.39
3. Primal Android App - 2.5.20
Primal Android App is Primal’s official Android application for Nostr, providing users with a full-featured interface for live streams, notifications, and content interaction. This release adds a replay button for streams, new notification settings for live streams and reply-to-reply messages, and improves the article content parser for images and notes. It also fixes issues with zap receipts, timestamps, stream rewinding, keyboard dismissal, player controls, and wallet display, while upgrading acinq libraries to resolve a 16KB issue on Google Play. This was the biggest release of the week and the latest release was 2.5.21.
- Developed by: Aleksandar Ilic
- Source: https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-android-app/releases/tag/2.5.20
🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases
1. Nostr Web Publisher (nw-publisher) - New Developer tool
Nostr Web Publisher (nw-publisher) is a full-featured command-line interface (CLI) tool for managing static websites on Nostr. It allows developers and creators to deploy sites as signed Nostr events, track versions, monitor relay status, synchronize content across multiple relays, and clean up outdated deployments, all through a single, streamlined interface. This tool empowers users to efficiently maintain decentralized websites while ensuring authenticity, version control, and smooth multi-relay operation.
- Developed by: Karim Hassan
- Source: https://github.com/Shugur-Network/nw-publisher
2. Mostro CLI - v0.14.2
Mostro CLI is a command-line interface tool for Mostro, allowing users to view all new replaceable events from the Mostro platform. This release introduces automatic updates of child orders in the database to prevent errors in flow, a major cosmetic refactor that beautifies terminal output for better readability, and various bug fixes including corrections in the getdm command and GH Actions tests. Additional improvements include 78 new unit tests with documentation, clippy error fixes, race condition adjustments, and removal of OpenSSL dependency for cleaner builds, enhancing both usability and reliability.
- Developed by: @Pinball Wizard @qqqq…rfkq
- Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-cli/releases/tag/v0.14.2
3. Gitplaza - v0.16.0
GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client specialized in managing git-related content. This release adds a dropdown for copying event IDs, rebroadcasting events, and viewing event JSON, displays information toasts, allows opening events directly from Nostr URIs, highlights code syntax in markdown, and increases event title size. It also stops banning relays on event mismatch and improves performance by showing loaded events immediately. The release removes the buggy “Show more/less” toggle to simplify the interface and improve reliability. This was the latest release and there was also the release of v0.15.0 last week.
- Developed by: @dluvian
- Source: https://codeberg.org/dluvian/gitplaza/releases/tag/v0.16.0
🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
1. Nosflare - v7.4.11
Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay designed for Cloudflare Workers, utilizing a Cloudflare D1 database and R2 Object Storage for scalable, decentralized message handling. This release includes hotfixes addressing a critical bug that could cause runaway durable object billing and fixes to event tags in the archival process, ensuring stable and efficient relay operation.
- Developed by: @Luxas
- Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare/releases/tag/v7.4.11
👋 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 forty-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 giving me this idea!
A big shoutout to @rabble for his generous patronage!
Thank you, my brother @samalka for helping me to make the graphic stuff in this recap!
Recap by @Nomishka
