🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (23rd March 2026 - 68th Edition)
- “The purple pill doesn’t spread by going viral. We spread it through conviction. One person, one conversation, one ‘wait, I own my identity?’ moment at a time.
- It’s not a meme. We ARE early.”
- “Ever notice how everyone on X is a loser and everyone on Nostr is really hot and also cool?”
- 1. Great news from Miljan to us 😍
- 2. Nostriches, what is your opinion about this? 🫵🏻
- 3. We are still early and our method of spreading Nostr is through persuasion 🔥
- 4. You still need to be on centralized platforms? 👇🏻
- 5. Primal team is reacting so quickly to the bugs 💪🏻
- 6. The very first day of an UK music artist on Nostr 👩🏻🎤
- 7. A decisive statement from Rizful 👇🏻
- 8. A note of thanks and gratitude 🫡
- 9. Have you noticed what she’s asking? 👇🏻
- 10. A real-life example that schools pushes students to centralization 🤮
- 11. Are you jumping in with him? 🫵🏻
- According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics,
- Top 3 Popular Clients:
- Top 3 Popular Relays:
- According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
- According to https://npub.world/stats,
- 1. HandyCon White 2026 | Building for Freedom on Nostr
- 1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - April 2026
- 2. NosVegas 2026 - April 2026
- 1. More sauce more Nostr
- 2. Social Media Is Ruining Your Life (Here’s the Solution)
- 3. Building Private Messaging on Nostr
- 4. Soapbox Sessions Episode 29: How Can AI Help?
- 🔥 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. Bloom - New Tool
- 2. Nostrord - New Tool
- 3. Amber - v5.0.1
- 4. Mostro - v0.17.0
- 5. Alby Lightning Browser Extension - v3.14.2
- 6. Notedeck - v0.8.0-rc2
- 7. Comet - alpha-d1a7278
- 8. Primal Android - 3.0.7
- 9. Shosho - v0.14.0
- 10. Nostr Polls - v1.6.1
- 11. Nymchat - v3.52.217
- 12. Angor - v0.2.7
- 13. Divine - 1.0.7
- 14. Wisp - v0.12.1-beta
- 15. Manent - v1.2.0
- 1. Nostr VPN - New Developer Tool
- 2. Bunker46 - New Developer Tool
- 3. Trusted Relays - New Developer Tool
- 4. Mostro Core - v0.8.0
- 5. ZSP - v0.4.4
- 1. Nosflare - v7.9.39
“The purple pill doesn’t spread by going viral. We spread it through conviction. One person, one conversation, one ‘wait, I own my identity?’ moment at a time.
It’s not a meme. We ARE early.”
“Ever notice how everyone on X is a loser and everyone on Nostr is really hot and also cool?”
1. Great news from Miljan to us 😍
2. Nostriches, what is your opinion about this? 🫵🏻
3. We are still early and our method of spreading Nostr is through persuasion 🔥
4. You still need to be on centralized platforms? 👇🏻
Bitcoin account on X with over 250k followers gets banned from monetization.
You hate to see it.
5. Primal team is reacting so quickly to the bugs 💪🏻
6. The very first day of an UK music artist on Nostr 👩🏻🎤
7. A decisive statement from Rizful 👇🏻
8. A note of thanks and gratitude 🫡
9. Have you noticed what she’s asking? 👇🏻
10. A real-life example that schools pushes students to centralization 🤮
11. Are you jumping in with him? 🫵🏻
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://nostrarchives.com/analytics,
Top 3 Popular Clients:
👉🏻 Nostur (513 Users)
👉🏻 Yakihonne (458 Users)
👉🏻 Primal Web (439 Users)
Top 3 Popular Relays:
👉🏻 http://relay.damus.io/ (181.4K Users)
👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink/ (167.8K Users)
👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net/ (150.3K)
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 254.2K (-34.8%)
👉🏻 New Users Last week : 228.6K (+27.0%)
👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.62M
👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount : 42.22 BTC
👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 173.9K
According to https://npub.world/stats,
During last week:
👉🏻 Total Users: 3,369, compared to 2,960 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. HandyCon White 2026 | Building for Freedom on Nostr
1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - April 2026
📅 Date: Sunday, April 05, 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/mlcdqtyjcgbhb/
2. NosVegas 2026 - April 2026
📅 Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2026 ⏰ Time: 7.00 PM - 1.00 AM PDT 📍 Location: We All Scream Night Club, 517 Fremont St, Las Vegas, NV 89101, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: @Derek Ross
🔗 Event:
1. More sauce more Nostr
2. Social Media Is Ruining Your Life (Here’s the Solution)
3. Building Private Messaging on Nostr
4. Soapbox Sessions Episode 29: How Can AI Help?
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
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Name: @Bugle_News
- Zaps Received: 642
- Sats Earned: 244k
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Name: @flash
- Zaps Received: 497
- Sats Earned: 30k
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Name: @utxo the webmaster 🧑💻
- Zaps Received: 295
- Sats Earned: 126k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: @aqstr
- Zaps Sent: 2031
- Sats Spent: 118k
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Name: @BitBees
- Zaps Sent: 150
- Sats Spent: 3k
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Name: @Yarnlady 🧶
- Zaps Sent: 123
- Sats Spent: 3k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: @Bugle_News
- Sats Earned: 244k
- Zaps Received: 642
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Name: @utxo the webmaster 🧑💻
- Sats Earned: 126k
- Zaps Received: 295
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Name: @RabbitHoleRecap
- Sats Earned: 126k
- Zaps Received: 26
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: @mcshane
- Sats Spent: 157k
- Zaps Sent: 28
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Name: @aqstr
- Sats Spent: 119k
- Zaps Sent: 2038
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Name: @Lysergic4cid
- Sats Spent: 60k
- Zaps Sent: 42
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: 109
- Sats Earned: 39k
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- Zaps Received: 69
- Sats Earned: 38k
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- Zaps Received: 69
- Sats Earned: 9k
🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
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- Sats Earned: 40k
- Zaps Received: 27
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- Zaps Received: 69
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Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr #zapzide
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Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr #zapzide
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1. Bloom - New Tool
Bloom is a privacy-focused file manager for Blossom and NIP-96 servers, enabling users to store, organize, and share files across the Nostr ecosystem without passwords.
Developed by: @Geek
2. Nostrord - New Tool
Nostrord is a Kotlin Multiplatform NIP-29 client that runs across Android, iOS, web, and desktop, offering a cross-platform experience for interacting with Nostr.
Developed by: @Anjhc
3. Amber - v5.0.1
Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android. This release removes internet permissions from offline builds with CI enforcement, adds optional built-in Tor support, introduces activity content search, implements granular encryption/decryption by data type, migrates PIN storage to encrypted DataStore, fixes offline build crashes, and improves crash report visibility before submission. This was the latest, and there was another release (v5.0.0) also last week.
Contributed by: @greenart7c3
4. Mostro - v0.17.0
Mostro is a production-ready, censorship-resistant, non-custodial Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange built on Nostr. The v0.17.0 release continues a major architectural refactor by removing global state access, fully migrating to explicit AppContext dependency injection (including keys and scheduler), simplifying the dispatcher and handler system, cleaning up legacy DI wrappers, and updating architecture documentation to reflect the new design.
Contributed by: @qqqq…rfkq
5. Alby Lightning Browser Extension - v3.14.2
Alby Browser Extension is a Bitcoin Lightning browser extension that brings deep Lightning and Nostr integration to the web. This release adds LN address QR support for Galoy instances, introduces Schnorr signing and hashing functions, improves German translations, and includes security updates and dependency maintenance.
Contributed by: Pavan Joshi
6. Notedeck - v0.8.0-rc2
Notedeck is a modern, multiplatform Nostr client built with Rust. This release introduces a Nostr-based auto-update system with SHA256 verification, follows view and follows-list columns, “View As User” profile mode, giftwrap support (NIP-59), realtime note stats, clipboard image pasting, and NIP-11 relay limitation support, along with multiple cross-platform bug fixes and stability improvements.
Contributed by: @xtsc…kk5s
7. Comet - alpha-d1a7278
Comet is a note-taking app for Nostr. This release fixes an issue where bare # and ## were incorrectly rendered as empty headings on note reload, increases the Blossom database pool to 100, and improves reliability by logging S3 upload errors. This was the latest, and there were a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: Christian Chiarulli
8. Primal Android - 3.0.7
Primal is a social Nostr client, and this is Primal’s Android app. This release introduces a Spark wallet, support for polls (including zap-based polls), a GIF button, a smoother onboarding experience, and faster feed performance for improved usability and responsiveness.
Contributed by: Aleksandar Ilic
9. Shosho - v0.14.0
Shosho is a mobile live streaming app with RTMP support and Nostr integration, enabling creators to broadcast and interact in real time. The v0.14.0 release introduces “Shosho Shop” for linking and selling Nostr products directly from streams and clips (via Plebeian Market), adds streamer follow and live notifications, improves relay subscriptions for chat reliability, and enables auto-reconnection during long streams. It also enhances browsing performance with a Shop tab and in-live shop button, removes Nostr.Band from default relays, and fixes audio, mute, and featured streamer display issues across Android and iOS.
Contributed by: @Rod
10. Nostr Polls - v1.6.1
Nostr Polls is a polling app built on the Nostr protocol for creating and participating in decentralized polls. This release introduces Follow Packs, quote polls, relay analysis tools, gossip features, and multiple mobile optimizations to improve usability and performance. This was the biggest release of the week, and there were also the releases of v1.6.2, v1.6.3, and v1.6.4 last week.
Contributed by: @ABH3PO
11. Nymchat - v3.52.217
Nymchat is a lightweight, feature-rich ephemeral chat client built on the Nostr protocol, bridged with Bitchat for anonymous, temporary messaging. This release is a hotfix that adjusts nymbot context handling to improve chat behavior and stability. This was the latest release, and there were a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: @Luxas
12. Angor - v0.2.7
Angor is a decentralized peer-to-peer funding protocol built on Bitcoin and Nostr. The v0.2.7 release introduces a funded projects section (Stage 2), adds Lightning support for one-click investing, improves funding and investment flows, refactors core funding state logic, enhances wallet and recovery handling, and fixes multiple UI, scheduling, and investment state issues across the application, along with general GUI and backend stability improvements. This was the biggest release, and the latest release was v0.2.8 of the week.
Contributed by: José Manuel Nieto, NIKUNJ KUMAR GOND, TheDude, @dangershony
13. Divine - 1.0.7
Divine is a dark-mode-only short-form video app built on the Nostr protocol, designed for creation, sharing, and discovery of decentralized video content. The 1.0.7 release introduces playback reliability improvements with watchdog auto-resume and smoother scrolling, better feed and explore performance, enhanced notifications, share-sheet download actions, and stronger moderation and content labeling systems. It also adds new video tools such as ghost frame clips, audio adjustments, improved video editing workflows, and playback format selection, alongside major backend and UX upgrades including DM inbox support, NIP-17 encrypted messaging, invite-based onboarding, and extensive bug fixes and performance optimizations across Android, iOS, and web.
Contributed by: @rabble Nathan Freitas, John Weidner, matthew bradley, Oscar, Alex Frei, Josh-Sanford, Meylis, Liz Sweigart, @dcadenas @mmfa…xvtp @nikitawvi
14. Wisp - v0.12.1-beta
Wisp is a minimal, high-performance Android client for the Nostr protocol. This release fixes notification reliability by restoring notifications across app restarts through ObjectBox seeding, improving consistency and background state handling. This was the latest release, and there were a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: Barry Deen
15. Manent - v1.2.0
Manent is a private, encrypted notes and file storage app built on the Nostr protocol. This release adds camera support, image resizing and zooming, performance optimizations, and minor bug fixes while introducing a breaking change to internal file and image handling that requires all devices to be updated to ensure compatibility with newly created notes.
Contributed by: @dtonon
1. Nostr VPN - New Developer Tool
Nostr VPN is a privacy-focused mesh VPN platform that uses Nostr for decentralized signaling and userspace WireGuard for secure connections. Built as a Rust workspace, it includes both a CLI daemon and a Tauri desktop app that operate on a shared configuration and runtime, enabling seamless and flexible peer-to-peer networking without centralized control.
Developed by: @Martti Malmi
2. Bunker46 - New Developer Tool
Bunker46 is a modern NIP-46 nsec bunker management tool built with TypeScript, designed to securely handle remote signing and key delegation for Nostr apps.
Developed by: @Djuri
3. Trusted Relays - New Developer Tool
Trusted Relays is a tool for computing and publishing trust scores for Nostr relays using Trusted Relay Assertions (kind 30385 events).
Developed by: @Geek
4. Mostro Core - v0.8.0
Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides peer-to-peer functionality for decentralized applications and serves as the foundation for building the Mostro daemon. This release removes the entire database encryption/crypto module, refactors internal architecture to eliminate encryption-related machinery, cleans up unused dependencies, and includes minor documentation and maintenance updates to improve simplicity and maintainability.
Contributed by: @qqqq…rfkq @Pinball Wizard
5. ZSP - v0.4.4
ZSP is a fast CLI tool for publishing Android apps to Nostr relays, used by Zapstore. This release adds support for printing Terms of Service (for Zapstore builds) and sets the default h-tag to the community’s pubkey, improving publishing consistency and metadata handling. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v0.4.3 and v0.4.2 last week.
Contributed by: @franzap
1. Nosflare - v7.9.39
Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay built for Cloudflare Workers and a Cloudflare D1 database. This release includes a hotfix to enforce payment requirements correctly, improving reliability and access control.
Contributed by: @Luxas
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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 Sixty-Eighth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.
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