🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (13th July 2026 - 84th Edition)

• “I am grateful for the time, sacrifice, and dedication of all the Bitcoin / Nostr developers and plebs around the world. That certainly deserves to be said. It is sometimes thankless work, but keep pushing forward and hang in there. Thank you for the time and effort you put into this open space. I appreciate you 🫡 Thanks!!”
• 1. A great suggestion that should concentrated by Nostr devs 👇🏻
• 2. That’s so nice, sharing these kinds of life lessons on Nostr 👌🏻
• 3. A GypsyVibe mashup by MadMunky? 😱
• 4. This is so true 👇🏻
• 5. We don’t let Nostr die 💪🏻
• 6. This is so funny 😂
• 7. A grateful birthday note from a Nostrich to his lovelies 💜
• 8. Nostr needs these type of non-technical notes too for its growth 🫶🏻
• 9. A lady wildlife photographer is ready to join us 🤝🏻
• 10. We must improve Nostr DMs 👈🏻
• 11. They deserve this kind of admiration indeed 👏🏻
• 12. A lady boxing champion celebrated her 41st birthday 🎂
• Nostr was not growing, and it has had a recession for the last week.
• According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics,
• Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):
• Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):
• According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
• According to https://npub.world/stats,
• During last week:
• 1. Nostr: Quando il Web diventa tuo (e non delle Big Tech)
• 2. The Coming Sovereign Tech Revolution
• 3. How Nostr VPN Reimagines Private Networks
• 4. How Nostr Protocol Frees Your Data
• 5. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To NOSTR
• 1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - August 2026
• 1. Nostr Zaps — How Bitcoin Lightning Rewards Creators Directly
• 2. Block’s Buzz: Claude and Codex Can Now Code Together
• 3. What is Nostr, and why should you care?
• 4. A nice tool to the Nostr protocol
• 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
• 🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
• 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
• 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
• 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
• 🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
• 1. OpenDiscord - New Tool
• 2. Divine Mobile - 1.0.16
• 3. Jumble - v26.7.1
• 4. Bitchat - v1.7.0
• 5. Nymchat - v3.73.519
• 6. Manent - v1.4.1
• 7. Nostrord - v2.2.0
• 8. Nostr WoT Extension - v0.3.86
• 9. NoorNote - v1.2.7
• 10. Sidecar - v1.3.0
• 11. Kubo - v2026.07.05
• 1. SNSTR (Secure Nostr Software Toolkit for Renegades) - v0.3.4
• 2. Routstr Core - v0.4.4
• No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.
• 1. Buzz - v0.4.0
• 1. Lightning.Pub - v0.0.30

@Mickey

§“I am grateful for the time, sacrifice, and dedication of all the Bitcoin / Nostr developers and plebs around the world. That certainly deserves to be said. It is sometimes thankless work, but keep pushing forward and hang in there. Thank you for the time and effort you put into this open space. I appreciate you 🫡 Thanks!!”

§1. A great suggestion that should concentrated by Nostr devs 👇🏻

§2. That’s so nice, sharing these kinds of life lessons on Nostr 👌🏻

§3. A GypsyVibe mashup by MadMunky? 😱

§4. This is so true 👇🏻

§5. We don’t let Nostr die 💪🏻

§6. This is so funny 😂

§7. A grateful birthday note from a Nostrich to his lovelies 💜

§8. Nostr needs these type of non-technical notes too for its growth 🫶🏻

§9. A lady wildlife photographer is ready to join us 🤝🏻

§10. We must improve Nostr DMs 👈🏻

§11. They deserve this kind of admiration indeed 👏🏻

§12. A lady boxing champion celebrated her 41st birthday 🎂

§Nostr was not growing, and it has had a recession for the last week.

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

§According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics,

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

§👉🏻 Amethyst - 820 Users - 13.8k Notes

§👉🏻 Primal iOS - 817 Users - 8.2k Notes

§👉🏻 Primal Android - 588 Users - 4.9k Notes

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

§👉🏻 relay.momostr.pink - 309.5k Users

§👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 240.0k Users

§👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 204.8k Users

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

§👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 8.03M (-14.5%)

§👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 7.41M (-11.0%)

§👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.95M

§👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.19 BTC

§👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 179.3k

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

§During last week:

§👉🏻 Total Users: 2,747 users, compared to 5,630 users the week before

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.

§1. Nostr: Quando il Web diventa tuo (e non delle Big Tech)

@Alanbimbati

§2. The Coming Sovereign Tech Revolution

@kw6g…msqx

§3. How Nostr VPN Reimagines Private Networks

§4. How Nostr Protocol Frees Your Data

§5. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To NOSTR

§1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - August 2026

📅 Date: Sunday, August 02, 2026
⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT
📍 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/mlcdqtyjclbdb/?eventOrigin=group_events_list

§1. Nostr Zaps — How Bitcoin Lightning Rewards Creators Directly

@tpgh…uhzp

§2. Block’s Buzz: Claude and Codex Can Now Code Together

§3. What is Nostr, and why should you care?

@efenigson

https://www.facebook.com/efenigson/videos/what-is-nostr-and-why-should-you-careespecially-in-todays-reality-of-growing-sup/1073572805233904/

§4. A nice tool to the Nostr protocol

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 the creators who received/sent the most engagement:

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1. Name: @flash

   • Zaps Received: 408
   • Sats Earned: 60k

2. Name: @fountainboostbot

   • Zaps Received: 287
   • Sats Earned: 494k

3. Name: @Noshole

   • Zaps Received: 269
   • Sats Earned: 18k

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

1. Name: nostr;@aqstr

   • Zaps Sent: 1702
   • Sats Spent: 60k

2. Name: @BTCOGMAXI

   • Zaps Sent: 133
   • Sats Spent: 12k

3. Name: @Noshole

   • Zaps Sent: 103
   • Sats Spent: 38k

§💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

1. Name: @fountainboostbot

   • Sats Earned: 494k
   • Zaps Received: 287

2. Name: @Jor

   • Sats Earned: 192k
   • Zaps Received: 57

3. Name: @RabbitHoleRecap

   • Sats Earned: 177k
   • Zaps Received: 23

§💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

1. Name: @deeznuts

   • Sats Spent: 126k
   • Zaps Sent: 27

2. Name: @Adrian M Lopez

   • Sats Spent: 115k
   • Zaps Sent: 3

3. Name: Steve R

   • Sats Spent: 89k
   • Zaps Sent: 1

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

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1. amethyst

   Jun 16, 2026 18:35

   • New Features
     • Payments
     • Posting & Privacy
     • Chat & DMs
     • Reading & Feeds
   • Improvements and Bug fixes
   • Desktop
   • Cli
   • Quartz
   • Build & Documentation
   • Contributors
   • Translations

   #Amethyst v1.12.0: Cashu, CLINK, Private Posts, Music, Podcasts, Apps & Workouts

   Highlights:

   • Adds Cashu wallet: in-app NIP-60 wallet.
   • Adds CLINK payments: a new Lightning rail
   • Adds App Store Feed form ZapStore
   • Adds Private posts: post, reply, react, and zap privately via NIP-59.
   • Adds Workout Feed: record and browse NIP-101e workouts in a dedicated feed.
   • Adds Reaction cards: likes, zaps, and nutzaps render as rich gradient cards.
   • Adds Music Feed: publish and browse music tracks and playlists.
   • Adds Podcasts Feed: a new NIP-F4 podcast feed with favorites and an inline player.
   • Adds support for hashtag labels to posts after they’re published.
   • Adds AppFunctions to allow Gemini to call Amethyst locally.

   §New Features

   §Payments

   • Adds unified zap popup for lightning, CLINK, on-chain, and Cashu in one place
     • Quick 3-state toggle to quickly pick the source of your zap
     • Defaults to options that both receiver and sender can use
     • The payment rails now appear live as they resolve.
   • Adds full Cashu support (NIP-60/61)
     • A full in-app ecash wallet, beyond the previous redeem-only support.
     • Create and add a Cashu wallet, with its own screen and settings.
     • Browse and pick mints from a mint directory.
     • Mint ecash from Lightning and melt it back to Lightning.
     • Send and receive ecash tokens.
     • Top up a mint from a standalone screen.
     • See per-mint balances on the wallet.
     • Send NIP-61 nutzaps from the wallet, with a Lightning-style send progress bar.
     • Cashu top-up is crash-safe on retry.
     • Funds are checkpointed the instant they leave the wallet.
   • Adds full CLINK support
     • Pay and get paid through CLINK Offers and Debits.
     • Render all schemas inside of Notes
     • Profiles can show a tappable CLINK Offer chip.
     • Set one-time or recurring limits.
     • Resolve a person’s payment offer by NIP-05.
     • A debit connection pulls funds only up to the cap you set.
   • Adds Unified Send Payment screen.
     • Long-press any chip in the Profile or this screen to copy that destination.
     • Use Lightning, CLINK, on-chain Bitcoin, and Cashu/nutzaps from one place.
     • A “Pay from” selector chooses which wallet the money leaves.
     • Pay Bitcoin payment targets from the in-app on-chain wallet.

   §Posting & Privacy

   • Adds private posts and private replies
     • Create and view private posts, replies, and reactions.
     • Customize who the receivers are for posts and replies.
   • Adds support for Private reactions to all feeds
     • React and un-react privately automatically.
     • Safeguards prevent private content from leaking publicly.
   • Enhances support for Private zaps
     • Zaps on private notes are forced private.
     • Replies to a private zap route into the sender’s DM room.
   • Adds support for NIP-32 hashtag labels.
     • Add first-class hashtag labels to posts.
     • Follow-hashtag labels publish through your outbox relays.
     • They surface in the hashtag feed.
   • Enhances post’s compose screen
     • Richer notify chips in the new-post screen.
     • Modernized inline payment cards that show their descriptions.
   • Enhances hidden words screen
     • A per-row unblock button on the Hidden Words screen.
     • Remove a single muted word without clearing the whole list.

   §Chat & DMs

   • Re-engineers DM bootstrapping with dynamic loading
     • Only loads the last 7 days worth of DMs.
     • Per-relay download windows realign when DMs are pruned.
     • A slow Tor connect is no longer mislabeled as “stalled”.
     • The paused-history card shows parked relays.
     • The sync marker is now tappable.
   • Adds support for pinning DM conversations
     • Pins sync across devices via a NIP-78 app-data event.
   • Adds support for @-mention search in Marmot (MLS) group chats
     • Search and tag users in the group composer.
     • Conversation participants rank first.
     • They are marked with an “In this chat” chip.
   • Fixes quoted chat messages being rendered as posts
     • Quotes render inside chat bubbles with the proper chat-reply design.
     • The redundant reply row is skipped when the quote is already inline.
   • Fixes MLS reliability
     • Unread state now persists across app restarts.
     • The kind:445 backlog is no longer refetched on every launch.
   • Adds Share to DM (“Send as DM”) flow
     • A new Android share-sheet target, alongside “New Post”.
     • Share text, an image, or a video from another app into a DM.
     • Pick a recent conversation; the chat composer opens pre-filled and editable.

   §Reading & Feeds

   • Enhances Tor reliability and connection speed
     • Connects faster by reusing the network directory between launches (about 3× quicker on warm starts).
     • Watchtower rebuilds Tor automatically when it looks connected but no relay traffic is flowing.
     • Recovers from stuck entry guards that could leave Tor unable to connect across app restarts.
     • No longer hangs on a hostile network — bootstrap gives up after 60s and retries instead of wedging.
     • Holds Tor-routed relays until the proxy is ready, cutting wasted battery and network on launch and Wi-Fi/cellular switches.
     • Stays stable through self-heal resets and network changes.
   • Adds new Notifications top nav filter
     • The old “Global” tab is split into “Curated” and a raw “Global”.
     • Curated is the current system that requires your involvement on a thread to notify you.
     • Global shows everything, including all hell threads.
     • Replies to likes/zaps now reach the notifications feed.
   • Adds Reply to zaps and reactions from the notification screen
   • Pre-loads reply threads from the feed so opening a thread is faster.
   • Adds support for LaTeX math in notes.
     • Use $...$ for inline equations.
     • Use $$...$$ for block equations.
   • Adds support for first-class reaction rendering
     • Reactions and zaps anchor their own thread view.
     • Reactions, zaps, likes, and nutzaps render as gradient cards.
     • Each card embeds the post it’s about.
     • A single tap on a like/zap chip opens that event’s thread.
   • Adds support for Workouts (new, NIP-101e)
     • Create and publish workout records (kind 1301), interoperable with the RUNSTR dialect.
     • Browse a dedicated Workouts feed.
     • Filter by exercise type, author, community, or hashtag.
     • Richer workout cards: a hero metric, a fixed stats grid, splits-style breakdowns, and the source app.
   • Adds support for Music (new)
     • First-class support for tracks (kind 36787) and playlists.
     • Browse Music Tracks and Music Playlists feeds.
     • Publish a new track and create playlists.
     • Add a track to a playlist from a bottom sheet.
   • Adds support for Software Apps directory (new, NIP-82).
     • Browse software applications (kind 32267).
     • Filter by follows, author, hashtag, or global.
     • An app detail screen shows screenshots and the author.
     • Tap a screenshot to open it fullscreen.
   • Enhances support for App recommendations (NIP-89).
     • Editable recommendations on your profile.
     • Tiered ordering in the recommendations editor.
     • Richer app cards with author attribution.
   • Adds support for Birdex species collections (kind 12473).
   • Adds support for Agora fundraiser campaigns (kind 33863).
   • Adds Audio visualizer picker
     • A live visualizer for audio-only notes.
     • Real-time FFT spectrum from the track’s decoded audio (no mic, no new permission).
     • Styles: Classic (default), Spectrum Bars, Color Waves, Radial Ring, Aurora Glow, Static, and Off.
     • Each style has a live preview in the settings picker.
     • Your choice syncs across devices via NIP-78.
     • Fills the art area in fullscreen and shows a fixed strip in the feed.
   • Adds support for Podcasts (new, NIP-F4)
     • Dedicated podcast and episode feeds, filterable by follows, authors, communities, or hashtags.
     • Mark podcasts as favorites.
     • Tap a podcast to open a show screen with all its episodes and an inline player.
     • Translatable show and episode descriptions on the feed cards.
     • The episode audio player is squared so the controls get room.

   §Improvements and Bug fixes

   • Adds Searchable settings.
     • A search box filters rows by title and curated keywords.
     • Supports prefix matching and an empty-state.
   • Adds Swipe for brightness and volume in fullscreen video.
   • Fixes Quote-reposts (NIP-18) not counting in the repost counter.
   • Hides reposts of unsupported kinds instead of showing blank cards.
   • Fixes URLs glued to other words: the “fix missing spaces” pass now indexes URLs by their first character.
   • Search no longer matches text in p, e, a, alt, or client tags.
   • Media uploads in anonymous posts use the ephemeral signer.
   • Fixes anonymous profile zaps being encrypted as private zaps.
   • The Cashu wallet row shows the Cashu logo instead of a generic icon.
   • On-chain zaps highlight the bolt and show as pending in the counter.
   • Removed the wallet options reordering drag-and-drop UI.
   • De-duplicates preset amounts in Zap Settings
   • Fixes the chip-drag interaction in Zap Settings.
   • Fixes the live-stream chat relay fallback
   • Zap and non-zap polls now share the same option text when composing a post
   • Fixes Legacy NIP-71 videos to resolve their address from the real d tag.
   • Fixes the default media server resetting on every launch.
   • Fixes account cache: Deleting an account now clears its cached entry.
   • Adds support for birthdays on profile
   • Fixes cache child back-references when deleting notes
   • Detaches on-chain-zap, nutzap, and channel sources on cache deletion
   • Honors relay connection backoff during Tor bootstrap.
   • Heals sockets opened on the wrong transport by rebuilding them.
   • Recovers relay connections after the device wakes from sleep.
   • Keeps a relay’s reconnect backoff from resetting on a momentary connection.
   • Honors the “Money operations via Tor” setting for payments and wallet relay connections
   • Reduces runtime log noise.
   • Fixes several edge-case crashes.
   • Fixes IPv6-literal URLs in posts
   • Reorganizes changelog into versioned files
   • Audit fixes across the private-posts, CLINK, and MLS paths.
   • Adds off-main-thread crypto and leak prevention.
   • Hides share/bookmark on private notes.

   §Desktop

   • Adds image compression on upload:
     • An Image Compression settings panel.
     • Per-post quality presets.
     • Batch progress in the composer.
     • A preview-then-publish gate.
     • A fail-loud dialog if compression fails.
   • Adds new media player.
     • Replaced vlcj with kdroidFilter’s ComposeMediaPlayer.
     • Uses a JCodec/FFmpeg backend.
   • Adds Group DM parity with Android.
     • Set and update a group name (subject) on encrypted group chats.
     • Create a group by selecting multiple recipients in the New DM dialog.
     • Rooms are marked read when opened.
     • Messages from muted authors no longer mark a room unread.
     • Desktop now handles group direct messages the same way.
   • Adds Replies tab on the user profile.
     • Feeds also show reply context (parent embed plus label) inline.
   • Adds Feed refresh.
     • Inline card expansion.
     • A “New posts” chip that slides in from the top.
     • Stick-to-top on prepend.
     • Wired-up like/zap/comment actions.
   • Smaller fixes.
     • Copy a Blossom image URL on click, with a hover tooltip and snackbar.
     • Collapsed-sidebar polish: tighter ripple and hover tooltips.
     • Amethyst logo on the Tor and account-loading splashes.
     • Restored inter-word spacing in rich text with mentions/hashtags.
     • Fixed parent-author metadata loading.
   • Adds Unhealthy-relay review.
     • A banner and popup that flag relays behaving poorly.
   • Adds Namecoin diagnostics.
     • The diagnostics card was ported from the Android settings.

   §Cli

   • Adds amy offer — CLINK offer info and request, including --payer-data.
   • Adds amy debit — CLINK debit info, pay, and budget.
   • Adds amy zap --with <ndebit> — settle a zap invoice via a CLINK debit.
   • Adds amy offer discover <nip05> — resolve a profile’s offer through NIP-05.
   • Closed CLINK parity gaps (profile offer, follow, offer pay, GFY detail).
   • Adds a clink-headless interop harness.

   §Quartz

   • Adds Relay-server toolkit.
     • Added a Flow<Event> REQ-responder SPI with a storage-free dispatch engine.
     • Added NIP-50 search parsing.
     • Added suspendable auth hooks.
     • Split engine/backend/policy packages.
   • Adds NIP-45 approximate COUNT
     • Added HyperLogLog with wire support.
   • Enhances NIP-11 documents.
     • Added the missing banner field.
     • Relay limits are now a single source of truth served over NIP-11.
   • Adds Relay Connection observability.
     • Stable per-connection ids.
     • A per-connection RequestContext threaded into the event source.
     • Auth identity moved from policy into connection scope.
   • Fixes NIP-46 double-resume and retry id-reuse race
   • Fixes NIP-46 error serialization issues
   • Fixes q (quote) tags being dropped by an inverted guard.
   • Fixes CommunityRulesEvent and CLINK DTO serializers
   • Improves Relay failure logs
   • Fixes disk cache to recreate cache dir if cleared at runtime

   §Build & Documentation

   • Dependency updates.
     • Bumped Kotlin, Compose Multiplatform 1.11.1, Coil 5, OkHttp 5, Jackson, AndroidX, Firebase, and more.
     • Adapted the Blossom interceptor test to OkHttp 5’s Interceptor.Chain.
   • iOS CI.
     • commons commonTest now compiles and runs on iOS targets.
     • CI runs the shared commonTest on iOS for :commons.
   • Amethyst → commons migration (KMP/iOS).
     • Moves shared, CLI-safe code out of the Android app into commons.
     • Decryption caches (Mute/People/Community, Hashtag, Favorite-algo, Trust-provider).
     • Models: InterestSet, LabeledBookmarkList, NwcWalletEntry, CashuToken, OwnedEmojiPack.
     • The link-preview fetcher, relay broadcast tracker, and CLI-safe util extensions.
     • HtmlParser made KMP (dropped its Java Charset dependency).
     • A consolidated package taxonomy with a new architecture doc.
   • Licensing.
     • Replaced the GPLv3 TarsosDSP dependency with an in-house pitch shifter for the voice anonymizer.
     • Keeps the project MIT-clean.
   • Misc.
     • Added a monochrome outline Cashu icon to the Material Symbols set.
     • Renamed ReplaceableVideoEvent to AddressableVideoEvent for spec accuracy.
     • Split the monolithic CHANGELOG into per-version files under docs/changelog/.
     • versionName branch detection sets the git cwd, so it works inside git worktrees.
   • SonarQube cleanup (S1871).
     • Merged duplicate when/if arms across the codebase.
     • Migrated Log calls to the lambda overload.
   • Documentation.
     • Updated Privacy Policy to the new requirements from the PlayStore
     • Documented an Amethyst→commons migration plan and target package hierarchy.
     • Refreshed several Claude skills, documentation and the Namecoin design doc.
     • Added a rule requiring a license check when adding any new dependency.

   §Contributors

   • @460c2...5065c
   • @ca89c...4b78b
   • @56132...576d6
   • @75790...fcb19
   • @ec566...dd2a4
   • @6cdeb...8667d

   §Translations

   • Czech, German, Swedish, and Portuguese by @ca89c...4b78b
   • Hungarian by @6cd90...d4ee2
   • Dutch by @757fd...83c53
   • Polish by @d2244...c4239
   • Hindi by @73b57...f9c2b
   • Slovenian by @00000...d6927
   • Spanish by @ff2e4...b9ecd
   • Chinese by hypnotichemionus4 and @434f9...48c15

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   • Zaps Received: 120
   • Sats Earned: 17k

2. Gigi

   Jul 10, 2026 06:36

   GM

   Change is the only constant. So the art of life, or at least a large part of it, is how to deal with change. Or maybe more accurately: how to get better at dealing with change.

   The Buddhist’s answer is non-attachment. The Christian’s answer is trusting God’s plan, I guess.

   Gardening is goated because you’ll be forced to deal with and participate in change. The seeds you’ve put in the ground just now are already compost, no matter how beautiful the flowers inbetween, or how tasty the fruits and vegetables.

   You’ll have to deal with change, period. And death. And transformation.

   But it’s all good in the end, because you know that winter won’t last forever and spring will come again.

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   • Zaps Received: 43
   • Sats Earned: 3k

3. Jul 12, 2026 09:23

   Progress…

   https://image.nostr.build/14c1a6f13df3e0fbd37153f268a8403a29d056e5f0df95b0966dcd037682b3e1.jpg

   Jul 2, 2026 19:46

   New Project!

   Excited to bring this place back to life. This deck has hosted weddings and witnessed countless memories. It deserves many more.

   https://image.nostr.build/966932d7781aa650cf14e419b9cbf950be32bfb1e520f0873d93fa2894e00b87.jpg

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   • Zaps Received: 28
   • Sats Earned: 2k

§🔥 Top 3: Most Sats

1. josebitcoiner

   Jul 11, 2026 21:07

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   • Sats Earned: 115k
   • Zaps Received: 5

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   Jul 10, 2026 14:26

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3. Malos10

   Jul 12, 2026 12:28

   This was the last set of donations i did with the money received

   Food for kids in a refugee

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   Bought A tent for a family that needed It in a camp

   This mother needed medicines and baby food

   

   More food for the people affected

   For our team has been increasing harder to gather donations so that’s why i havent posted about this frequently as before, all the money collected already run out so we doing what we can

   Thanks you for everything you did for venezuela

   Thanks you for helping

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1. DuneMessias

   Jul 10, 2026 04:53

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   Jul 6, 2026 06:40

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§1. OpenDiscord - New Tool

OpenDiscord is a Nostr-based decentralized communication platform that combines Discord’s intuitive server/channel organization and real-time voice lobbies with the open, censorship-resistant nature of the Nostr protocol.

Developed by: Sofi Gros

• Source: https://github.com/sofia-gros/open-discord

§2. Divine Mobile - 1.0.16

Divine Mobile is a decentralized short-form video mobile app built on Nostr that brings back Vine’s 6-second looping video format while keeping content human-made and giving users ownership of their content, followers, and identity. This release improves app reliability, security, performance, moderation, localization, and user experience across feeds, video creation, messaging, authentication, storage, notifications, and Nostr integrations. It also adds enhancements to the video editor, camera features, DM capabilities, content protection, database encryption, and platform support for iOS, Android, macOS, and web.

Contributed by: @rabble @dcadenas @untreu @Liz matthew bradley, Alex Frei, Meylis

• Source: https://github.com/divinevideo/divine-mobile/releases/tag/1.0.16

§3. Jumble - v26.7.1

Jumble is a Nostr client for browsing relay feeds, messaging, and interacting with decentralized social content. In v26.7.1, the release adds Linux ARM64 support, enhances direct messaging with new message menus and a “scroll to latest” button, redesigns media uploads with Blossom as the default service, improves emoji management and notification filtering, and fixes numerous issues affecting DMs, media handling, the post editor, image orientation, and scrolling behavior.

Contributed by: @Cody

• Source: https://github.com/CodyTseng/jumble/releases/tag/v26.7.1

§4. Bitchat - v1.7.0

Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that combines Bluetooth mesh networking with Nostr for offline and online communication without accounts or central servers. This release adds live push-to-talk voice for DMs and mesh channels, improves mesh connectivity with peer healing and internet bridging, adds store-and-forward messaging for unreachable peers, strengthens signed media/file transfers, and improves reliability across voice, media, geo notes, testing, and app experience. Although this was the latest, there were also the releases of v1.6.0 & v1.5.4 last week.

Contributed by: @jack

• Source: https://github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat/releases/tag/v1.7.0

§5. Nymchat - v3.73.519

Nymchat is a privacy-focused ephemeral chat client built on Nostr, with integration for Bitchat-style pseudonymous temporary messaging. This release adds full app localization support and introduces automatic message translation into the user’s preferred language, improving accessibility for global users. This was the latest, and there was another release last week (v3.72.519).

Contributed by: @Luxas

• Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/NYM/releases/tag/v3.73.519

§6. Manent - v1.4.1

Manent is a private, encrypted notes and file storage app built on Nostr that allows users to securely store and manage their personal information with data ownership and privacy in mind. This release improves usability and reliability by enhancing toolbar interactions, adding a clearer logout warning flow, fixing sensitive note decryption issues, handling interrupted publishes correctly, resolving Android signer login problems with Amber, and improving scrolling in the bunker login interface. This was the latest release, and there was also v1.4.0 last week.

Contributed by: @dtonon

• Source: https://github.com/dtonon/manent/releases/tag/v1.4.1

§7. Nostrord - v2.2.0

Nostrord is a NIP-29 compatible Nostr client focused on group communication and direct messaging, enabling users to interact with decentralized communities and conversations. In v2.2.0, the release adds a master toggle to disable all direct-message features, improves direct messaging capabilities with richer interactions, and fixes desktop-related issues, including the Windows app icon and nostrord:// deep links. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v2.1.1 & v2.1.0 last week.

Contributed by: @Anjhc @hzrd149

• Source: https://github.com/nostrord/nostrord/releases/tag/v2.2.0

§8. Nostr WoT Extension - v0.3.86

Nostr WoT Extension is a browser extension that manages Nostr identities, signs events, and enables Lightning payments directly from the browser while keeping user keys encrypted locally. This release redesigns the home screen with a unified Account card, strengthens security through spending cap enforcement for Lightning approvals, identity protection during account switching, signature verification for relay data, NIP-49 encrypted key backups, and clearer signing prompts. It also improves privacy by removing unnecessary browser permissions.

Contributed by: Leon Acosta

• Source: https://github.com/nostr-wot/nostr-wot-extension/releases/tag/v0.3.86

§9. NoorNote - v1.2.7

NoorNote is a Nostr client that provides access to the decentralized social protocol with features focused on identity, messaging, and community experiences. This release improves profile recognition by ensuring names and pictures display consistently, fixes false unread direct message indicators, preserves dismissed prayer reminders in Nostr-Majlis, and adds a clearer onboarding relay preview showing which relays will be configured before setup. This was the latest release of the week, and there were also a few more releases last week.

Contributed by: @alp

• Source: https://github.com/77elements/noornote/releases/tag/v1.2.7

§10. Sidecar - v1.3.0

Sidecar is a browser-based Nostr keystore and signer that securely manages identities, keys, wallet connections, and event signing through a convenient sidebar interface. In v1.3.0, the release adds encrypted vault backups, NIP-49 key import/export, NIP-05 verification, improved signing prompts, multi-account safety, and enhanced site activity management. It also strengthens security with wallet spending limits, protected extension messaging, automatic keystore lockout after failed unlock attempts, and smoother account switching, approvals, notifications, and overall usability.

Contributed by: @daniel

• Source: https://github.com/dmnyc/sidecar/releases/tag/v1.3.0

§11. Kubo - v2026.07.05

Kubo is a child-safe video platform built on Nostr that allows parents to curate their children’s content experience using Web of Trust filters and trusted communities. This release adds a new tablet mode for child feeds with a customizable video grid layout, introduces photo sharing in group chats, and improves usability by keeping important buttons accessible above the keyboard on Android and ensuring parent navigation remains available on tablets and larger screens.

Contributed by: @Jeroen ✅

• Source: https://github.com/JeroenOnNostr/kubo/releases/tag/kubo-v2026.07.05

§1. SNSTR (Secure Nostr Software Toolkit for Renegades) - v0.3.4

SNSTR is a lightweight TypeScript library for building applications that interact with the Nostr protocol. In v0.3.4, the release centralizes NIP-01 event validation, strengthens relay security by enforcing stricter validation of signed events and tag formats, adds configurable timestamp drift settings for relays, and improves reliability through better timestamp validation and more robust asynchronous validation testing.

Contributed by: @bitcoinplebdev

• Source: https://github.com/AustinKelsay/snstr/releases/tag/v0.3.4

§2. Routstr Core - v0.4.4

Routstr Core is a FastAPI-based reverse proxy that sits in front of OpenAI-compatible APIs and handles pay-per-request billing. In v0.4.4, the release improves payment configuration, Lightning and Cashu handling, API compatibility, provider forwarding, streaming support, pricing accuracy, security protections, key management, rate limiting, and Docker/deployment reliability.

Contributed by: @Bilthon @Jeroen Ubbink @shroominic @redshift 9qeklajc

• Source: https://github.com/Routstr/routstr-core/releases/tag/0.4.4

§No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.

§1. Buzz - v0.4.0

Buzz is a collaborative workspace where humans and AI agents build together on a relay you control, combining decentralized communication, agent management, and shared project workflows. In v0.4.0, the release introduces relay invite links, improved global agent configuration, enhanced project and workspace management, and better agent lifecycle handling. It also improves performance, fixes workspace switching, drafts, inbox threads, identity persistence, moderation tools, deep linking, and desktop reliability across supported platforms. This was the latest of the week, and there were also a few more releases last week.

Contributed by: Tyler, klopez4212, Aaron Goldsmith, Atish Patel, Taylor Ho, thomaspblock, Yoav Amit, Mat Balez, Will Pfleger, Tom Brow, Bradley Axen, Noah, Matt Toohey, Cameron Hotchkies, Wes, Jordan Mecom, Kalvin C

• Source: https://github.com/block/buzz/releases/tag/v0.4.0

§1. Lightning.Pub - v0.0.30

Lightning.Pub is a Nostr-native Lightning node that lets users share and manage their Lightning node through Nostr while connecting easily to compatible web applications. This release improves reliability by fixing crashes during LND invoice payments with automatic fallback and retry logic and strengthens storage consistency by running transaction startup inside database transactions. This was the latest, and there were 2 more releases last week. (v0.0.29 & StartOS v0.0.28)

Contributed by: Justin (shocknet)

• Source: https://github.com/shocknet/Lightning.Pub/releases/tag/v0.0.30

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