#9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases 1. Amber - v4.1.0-pre1 Amber is an Android Nostr event signer that lets users securely approve and sign Nostr actions for apps and services. This pre-release introduces a refreshed UI for login, event handling, and permission screens, refactors relay counters to use the updated Quartz library methods, and fixes an issue where relay connections were not properly closed when adding unsupported relays. These changes improve usability, visual clarity, and connection reliability, resulting in a smoother and more robust signing experience for users. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 Source: 2. Mostro - v0.16.0 Mostro is a production-ready, censorship-resistant, non-custodial peer-to-peer exchange that uses the Lightning Network for payments and Nostr for coordination and messaging. This release refines Mostro’s event model by introducing separate Nostr event kinds for orders, ratings, informational messages, and disputes, and by explicitly including the dispute initiator in dispute events. Alongside documentation updates, these changes improve protocol clarity, interoperability, and auditing, making exchanges easier to reason about for developers and more transparent and reliable for end users participating in Lightning-based P2P trades. Contributed by: @npub1qqpn...l2ng, @negrunch Source: 3. Mostro CLI - v0.14.5 Mostro CLI is a command-line tool for end users and operators that connects to the Mostro ecosystem and displays new replaceable events, such as orders, directly from Nostr in a simple, text-based interface. This release adds premium information to the listorders table, making order listings more informative, removes unnecessary dependencies like dotenv to simplify setup, updates documentation to clarify that running a Lightning node is not required, and includes several internal fixes. Together, these changes make Mostro CLI easier to install, clearer to use, and more useful for quickly monitoring Mostro activity and order data from the terminal. Contributed by: @npub1qqpn...l2ng, @negrunch Source: 4. Alby Lightning Browser Extension - v3.14.1 : 🧹✨🌌 The Witch’s Broom Nebula Alby Lightning Browser Extension acts as a Bitcoin Lightning wallet and a Nostr key signer, providing deep integration with Lightning, Nostr, Liquid, and on-chain services. This release fixes the extension on Firefox for Android, ensures the correct icon displays in Chrome dark mode, disables context menus on Android, and detects the browser theme for proper icon updates, improving usability, visual consistency, and cross-browser compatibility for end users. Contributed by: Pavan Joshi Source: 5. Bitchat - v1.5.0 Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that uses both local Bluetooth mesh networks for offline messaging and the Nostr protocol for global communication. This release adds support for voice notes and images over the mesh, introduces a new mesh routing algorithm, integrates a Tor framework for improved privacy, and implements security audit fixes. These updates enhance user experience by enabling richer media messaging, improving offline and global message delivery, and increasing overall security and reliability of communications. Contributed by: @jack, @npub12rv5...85vg, Islam, a1denvalu3, Jithin Renji, Vinicius Moreira, Nadim Kobeissi, Will Han, Mike A., A, chernomortsev evgeny, Chris Source: 6. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.26.69 Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight chat client built on the Nostr protocol that supports both ephemeral and persistent messaging, bridging with Bitchat for anonymous, temporary communication. This release introduces peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, allowing users to exchange files directly without relying on central servers. This improves privacy, decentralization, and convenience, giving users more control over how their data is shared. This was the one and only release of the week that adds a feature and there were also some multiple hotfix releases last week. (v2.26.73, v2.26.72, v2.26.71, v2.26.70, v2.25.69, v2.25.68, v2.25.67, v2.25.66, v2.25.65) Contributed by: @Luxas Source: 7. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.0.7 Mostro Mobile Client is a secure mobile app for the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform, enabling decentralized trading and encrypted communication. This release adds an in-app logging system for easier debugging, a push notification system with encrypted token registration for real-time alerts, and encrypted file messaging for secure attachments. It also introduces a backup account reminder, fixes issues with order creation times and background notifications, unifies brand colors, improves UI elements, and updates trade and info event handling. These changes make the app more reliable, secure, and user-friendly, enhancing the trading and messaging experience on mobile. Contributed by: @negrunch Source: 8. Angor - 0.2.3 Angor is a decentralized peer-to-peer funding protocol built on Bitcoin and Nostr that enables trust-minimized project funding and investment without intermediaries. This release enhances real-world usability by adding automatic monitoring of Bitcoin addresses to invest incoming funds, clearer handling of unconfirmed and reserved balances, and support for Liquid mainnet, while significantly improving the project creation experience with a revamped Create Project v2 flow, new wizard stages, better visuals, and added business logic. Performance and maintainability are improved through deferred loading of project statistics, cleanup of unused investor and founder classes, minor type fixes, and better subscription handling, resulting in a smoother, more robust, and more scalable funding experience for both founders and investors. Contributed by: @dangershony, José Manuel Nieto, TheDude, RITANKAR SAHA Source: #tools_nostr_recap
#10 🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases 1. Pomade - New Developer tool Pomade is a recovery protocol and implementation designed for Nostr multisig signers, enabling secure coordination and restoration of access when signers are lost, unavailable, or compromised, without weakening the multisig security model. Developed by: @hodlbod Source: 2. Mostro Core - v0.7.0 Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides the peer-to-peer and Nostr event primitives used to build decentralized exchange applications, serving as the core foundation for the Mostro daemon. This release fixes order data handling by correctly including created_at and expires_at fields, and introduces a breaking change that separates distinct Nostr event kinds for orders, ratings, and related actions. These updates improve protocol correctness, clarity, and long-term extensibility, making it easier and safer for developers to build, maintain, and evolve applications on top of the Mostro ecosystem. Contributed by: @negrunch, @Catrya Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
#11 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases 1. Citrine - v1.0.1 Citrine is an Android Nostr relay that allows users to host and relay Nostr events on mobile devices. This release improves performance in the content resolver, fixes a potential SQL injection vulnerability, and adds proper error handling, making the relay more secure, reliable, and efficient for end users. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 Source: #relays_nostr_recap
#1 🧠 Quotes of the Week @Pegah “Nostr wins when we support each other. 🧡🤝” @Vitor Pamplona “Nostr is unstoppable.” #quote_nostr_recap
#3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth Nostr is growing fast! According to , 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 950 relays online in around 50 countries at the moment. According to , During last week: 👉🏻 Total Users: 1,536, compared to 5,288 users the week before image According to , During last week: 👉🏻 Total Zaps: 40,400, compared to 35,015 zaps the week before image 👉🏻 Total Zap Senders: 2,749, compared to 2,721 plebs the week before image 👉🏻 Total Zap Amount: 6,454,048, compared to 6,611,280 sats the week before image 👉🏻 Total Events: 2,774,852, compared to 3,215,438 events the week before image Many thanks to by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap, by @npub1xdtd...ntxy, all the contributors of and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
#5 📅 Upcoming Events 1. POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr at FOSDEM 2026 - January 2026 📅 Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026 ⏰ Time: 5.35 PM - 6.00 PM CET (UTC+1) 📍 Location: Room: K.3.401 Track: Collaboration and Content Management Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles / Brussels, Belgium 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: FOSDEM, @Sebastix 🔗 Event: 2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026 📅 Date: Sunday, February 1, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris 🔗 Event: 3. Nostr Nights #1 - February 2026 📅 Date: Monday, February 2, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CST 📍 Location: 1910 21st Ave S Nashville, TN, USA 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Derek Ross, @Shawn, @OpenMike, @ajdav21, @npub1atn7...h4x3 🔗 Event: #events_nostr_recap
#6 📰 Nostr in the Media 1. Soapbox Sessions Episode 19: Doin’ It In Bed @heatherlarson 2. Make Bitcoin (and NOSTR) BETTER! 3. Vibe Coding On-Demand Replay from January 5, 2026 @npub10qdp...arpj #media_nostr_recap
#9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases 1. Amethyst - v1.05.0: Bookmark Lists, Voice Notes, and WoT Scores Amethyst is an Android Nostr client designed for social networking and communication, enabling users to post, follow, bookmark, zap, and exchange messages over Nostr relays in a mobile-first experience. This release adds full bookmark list management, a redesigned voice notes and replies system, and introduces Web of Trust (WoT) scores via trusted providers to help surface reputable accounts, while significantly improving relay information visibility, database performance, caching, and event parsing. Together, these changes make Amethyst faster, more expressive, and safer to use, helping users better organize content, communicate more naturally, and navigate Nostr with greater confidence. This was the biggest release and the latest release was v1.05.1 of the week. Contributed by: @Vitor Pamplona, @npub1a3tx...kq4k, @⚡ Dee Kay ⚡🇸🇪🇬🇧🇨🇿🇧🇷🇦🇹, @Purple Painter, @npub1lu4l...xa32, @StellarStoic, @Robert, @Derek Ross, @greenart7c3, @npub16gjy...wyrm, @Zoltan ⚡️, @summoner, @npub1ww6h...w5e6, @npub1luhy...q903, @ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝, @npub1w4la...txcd, @Anthony 🇫🇷, @CXPLAY Source: 2. Amber - v4.0.7 Amber is an Android Nostr event signer that allows users and apps to securely create and sign Nostr events without exposing private keys. This release focuses on stability and usability by fixing several crashes, separating relay notifications from service-related notifications for clearer messaging, and preserving screen state on the login screen, resulting in a more reliable and smoother signing experience for both end users and developers integrating Nostr authentication and event signing into their apps. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 Source: 3. Primal Android App - 2.6.18 Primal Android App is a mobile Nostr client designed for end users, offering a fast, full-featured social experience on Android with strong performance and native Nostr integrations. This release adds support for Remote Signer (NIP-46) and Android Signer (NIP-55), giving users more secure and flexible ways to manage keys and sign events, while numerous performance improvements such as avatar and media pre-caching, faster thread loading, smoother scrolling, and better image rendering make the app feel noticeably more responsive. Bug fixes and UX enhancements, including improved notifications behavior, deep link handling, and richer media metadata, result in a more stable, polished, and seamless daily Nostr experience. Contributed by: Aleksandar Ilic Source: 4. Nostr Polls - v1.0.0: Pollerama Now on Android! Nostr Polls (Pollerama) is an application focused on creating, sharing, and participating in polls in a decentralized way. This release marks Pollerama’s debut as a native Android app, bringing the pollerama.fun experience to mobile with Android-specific features such as direct login via Amber and Nsec. This makes it easier and faster for users to authenticate, vote, and create polls on the go, while benefiting from smoother performance and tighter integration with the Android Nostr ecosystem. Contributed by: @ABH3PO Source: 5. Nostr Ynstant Messenger (NYM) - v2.25.63 Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a chat application designed for both ephemeral and persistent messaging, with optional anonymous, temporary chats bridged through Bitchat. This release improves internal handling by separating file types, which reduces processing overhead and boosts performance. As a result, users get faster message handling, smoother media interactions, and a more responsive chat experience, especially in conversations that include shared files. This was the latest and there was also the release of v2.24.63 last week. Contributed by: @Luxas Source: 6. Nostur - v1.25.3 Nostur is a Nostr client for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, designed for manage feeds, DMs, and interactions across multiple accounts. This release adds “time ago” indicators in DMs, enables viewing other users’ feeds in new desktop columns, restores DM functionality on iOS 15/16, fixes message ordering and notification delays, improves DM fetching, and adds options for publishing DM relays, remote signer checks, and retrying failed signings. These updates enhance usability, reliability, and cross-device messaging consistency for users. Contributed by: @npub1n0st...lahe Source: #tools_nostr_recap
#6 📰 Nostr in the Media 1. Soapbox Sessions Episode 18: 2026, Year of the Builder @heatherlarson 2. Freedom Tech vs the Surveillance State: White Noise, Bitcoin & Nostr @JeffG 3. Take back control of your digital life with nostr @npub1er77...q74t 4. How Nostr works as censorship resistant social 5. Introducing Pidgeon, a privacy‑first Nostr scheduler @Car, @k00b #media_nostr_recap