🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap - 01st September 2025 🚀
- 🧠 Quote of the Week
- 🔥 Community Highlights
- 🌱 Ecosystem Growth
- 🎓 Educational Guides
- 📅 Upcoming Events
- 📰 Nostr in the Media
- ⚡ Most Zapped Last Week
- 😂 Nostr Memes
- 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
- 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases
- 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
- 👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
- 🙌 Credits
🧠 Quote of the Week
“Community and culture is so much more palpable and soulful here than x.
Sentiment doesn’t go down.”
🔥 Community Highlights
1. A popular Nostr pleb became a dad. Congratulations!
2. This is 100% true
3. A lady starts vlogs on Nostr
4. Another one in the Nostr series
5. The latest vlog of a popular Nostr pleb
6. Great news from Damus
7. Yes we should solve those issues on Nostr
8. A pleb onboards to Nostr to promote his music
9. A devoted wife is on Nostr
10. Is this true? What is your opinion?
11. Looking forward till Nostr wins
12. You should choose Nostr and #Bitcoin
13. 100% agree for this
🌱 Ecosystem Growth
Nostr is growing fast!
Overview
- Pubkeys: 44388224
- Users: 1191928
- Trusted users: 194499
- Events: 603995216
- Posts: 160059334
- Zaps: 5383097
- Zap amount: 2510343081 sats
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 900 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment.
During last week:
- Total zaps: 38,343, compared to 41,801 zaps the week before
- Total zap senders: 1,114, compared to 992 plebs the week before
- Total zap receivers: 293, compared to 302 plebs the week before
- Total zap amount: 9,592,827, compared to 9,043,018 sats the week before
- Total events: 2,503,464, compared to 3,008,168 events the week before
Many thanks to 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. How to Import Nostr Content for Your Shakespeare Project
📅 Upcoming Events
1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - September 2025
- 📅 Date: Sunday, September 7, 2025
- ⏰ Time: 12:00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT
- 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct · Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- 🤹♀️ Organizers: Chris Curran
- 🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyhcmbkb/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events
2. Berlin Nostr Hub - November 2025
- 📅 Date: Saturday, November 22, 2025
- ⏰ Time: 7.00 PM - 9.00 PM CET
- 📍 Location: NOSTR HUB in Vettert Bar Hobrechtstraße 61, 12047 · Berlin, Germany
- 🤹♀️ Organizers: @DVADTZYATODIN
- 🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/bitcoin-lab-berlin/events/cwhmqtyhcpbdc/
📰 Nostr in the Media
1. Will Casarin (jb55) on Nostr, Bitcoin, & Freedom
2. How Shakespeare & Nostr Offer an Alternative to AI Website Builders
3. Bitcoin, AI, Nostr, ECash, Austrian Economics, FreeMarket & Government
4. Damus Announcement w/ Will Casarin
⚡ 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: 749
- Sats Earned: 91k
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Name: @HODL
- Zaps Received: 530
- Sats Earned: 136k
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Name: @corndalorian
- Zaps Received: 443
- Sats Earned: 30k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: @LeviticusMathew
- Zaps Sent: 272
- Sats Spent: 8k
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Name: @FLjustin
- Zaps Sent: 205
- Sats Spent: 9k
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Name: @bitcoinpoorguy
- Zaps Sent: 175
- Sats Spent: 2k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: @GoldfishThumb1
- Sats Earned: 2M
- Zaps Received: 25
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Name: @Faddy
- Sats Earned: 927k
- Zaps Received: 204
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Name: @paulinthejungle
- Sats Earned: 691k
- Zaps Received: 318
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: @straycat
- Sats Spent: 2M
- Zaps Sent: 2
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Name: @Rizful.com
- Sats Spent: 321k
- Zaps Sent: 74
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Name: @mrjele
- Sats Spent: 250k
- Zaps Sent: 1
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: 146
- Sats Earned: 88k
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- Zaps Received: 77
- Sats Earned: 230k
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- Zaps Received: 76
- Sats Earned: 7k
🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
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- Sats Earned: 275k
- Zaps Received: 3
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- Sats Earned: 230k
- Zaps Received: 77
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- Sats Earned: 144k
- Zaps Received: 3
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🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
1. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v1.5.5 - New Tool
Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight, ephemeral chat client built on the Nostr protocol. It enables anonymous, temporary messaging and integrates with Bitchat for seamless communication. The latest release is v1.5.5, and it introduces NSEC login for easier identity access and a new /zap command for quick interactions. We’ve also improved stability with better handling of failed relay connections and fixed a bug where saving settings could accidentally wipe your persistent identity profile. This is the latest release, and there were some more multiple releases last week.
Developed by: @Luxas Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/NYM/releases/tag/v1.5.5
2. Primal iOS App - v2.5
A sleek and user-friendly Nostr client for iOS, offering a smooth way to explore, post, and connect on the decentralized network. The new release introduces a built-in streaming video player for a richer media experience, with matching updates for web and Android arriving soon.
Developed by: @miljan Source: nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp4sl80zm866yqrha4esknfwp0j4lxfrt29pkrh5nnnj2rgx6dm62qyvhwumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshszymhwden5te0wp6hyurvv4cxzeewv4ej7qpq6c6q3zwxtrs0uy7wq830xghlv0wtlrcr729jpxa0m002nuy2pueqhruz8a
3. Amethyst - v1.02.1
A Nostr client for Android focused on reliability and smooth user experience. This release upgrades AGP to 8.12.2, sets Quartz to Java 1_8, and adds a bootstrap relay list for inbox relays. It also improves account management by registering lists as account fields and fixes issues with deleting relays from certain relay lists. This is the latest release, and there were also releases of v1.02.0 and v1.01.0 last week.
Developed by: @VitorPamplona Source: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/tree/v1.02.1
4. Amber - v4.0.0
Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that keeps users’ nsec keys secure in a dedicated app. The latest v4.0.0 release refactors the app to use the new Quartz update, fixes reconnection issues, and introduces a kill switch feature for enhanced security. There was also the release of v4.0.0-pre2 last week.
Developed by: @greenart7c3 Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/tree/v4.0.0
5. Coracle - 1.2.3
Coracle is a Discord-like Nostr client built around the concept of “relays as groups.” This release adds event creation timestamps, signer status on profiles, a reworked bunker login flow, in-app onboarding, improved publish status indicators, mobile deep linking, and better local storage handling for rooms, along with various fixes and enhancements for encrypted content and global chat filtering.
Developed by: @hodlbod, @mattremmel Source: https://github.com/coracle-social/flotilla/releases/tag/1.2.3
6. Bitchat - 1.3.3
Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app with dual transport: Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication and the Nostr protocol for global messaging. No accounts, phone numbers, or central servers are required. This release adds cryptographic signing for all Bluetooth mesh public chats to prevent spoofing, geohash bookmarks for favorite location chats, improved mesh robustness and relaying, and various crash and bug fixes. This is the latest release, and there was the release of 1.3.2 also last week.
Developed by: @jack Source: https://github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat/releases/tag/v1.3.3
🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases
1. Nostr Key Generator - New Developer Tool
Nostr Key Generator is a minimal Python script for generating and managing Nostr identities without relying on external libraries or dependencies.
Developed by: DoktorShift Source: https://github.com/Buho-Ecosystem/Nostr_Key_Generator
🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.
👋 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 thirty-ninth 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
