=============================== #6 📰 Nostr in the Media =============================== 1. How Nostr Empowers You to SPEAK YOUR TRUTH! @₿en Wehrman, @Reverend Hodl 2. Nostr is Revolutionizing the healthcare industry. @Jake Woodhouse, @Avi Burra 3. Using AI and Nostr to Build Free Speech Social Media @Alex Gleason 4. The importance of #Nostr & #Bitcoin working together @The Ben Gunn 5. Redefining Social Travel with Bitcoin and Nostr Integration 6. A Million sats worth pic @nostrnaut https://x.com/nostrnaut/status/1944546574253674747 7. Well said @jack #media_nostr_recap
======================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ======================================== 1. Plebs app - New Tool Plebs App is a decentralized video platform built on the Nostr protocol. It allows users to share and watch videos without censorship or central control. Content is distributed through Nostr relays, ensuring resilience and freedom of expression. Developed by: @Luxas Source: 2. Nostr Polls - New Tool Nostr Polls is a simple, decentralized polling tool built on the Nostr protocol. It lets users create, share, and vote on polls without relying on centralized platforms. Votes and results are recorded via Nostr events, ensuring transparency and censorship resistance. Developed by: Sandeep Pandey Source: 3. Yumyume - 0.9.0 - Steamed Fish in Banana Leaf with Coconut Rice Yumyume is a decentralized, open-source social bookmarking tool on Nostr, inspired by del.icio.us, offering censorship-resistant, user-owned bookmark sharing. In the release, “Steamed Fish in Banana Leaf with Coconut Rice,” Yumyume introduces private bookmarking via NIP-44, letting users choose which bookmarks stay personal and encrypted. It also adds a tag search box for easier discovery and improves link responsiveness during loading. This release blends privacy and usability, offering a thoughtful, secure bookmarking experience on Nostr. The concept is from @Jurjen de Vries. To support its growth, contributions to the @Geyser campaign are encouraged, with rewards available for even less than the cost of a yearly Pinboard subscription. Developed by: @Iftakhar Hasnayen Abir Source: 4. Amber - v3.4.3 Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android, enabling users to securely manage and sign with their nsec keys in a dedicated, isolated app. In this version, Amber fixes a crash when sending multiple intents, restructures profile fetching into its own module, and improves log handling by using WorkManager to clear logs only after 5 minutes. This update enhances stability and background task efficiency for mobile key management on Nostr. This is the latest release, and there were also the releases v3.4.2 and v3.4.2-pre4 last week. Developed by: @greenart7c3 Source: 5. Runstr - v0.6.0 Runstr is a fitness tracking app powered by the Nostr protocol, blending social competition, workout logging, and decentralized identity. In v0.6.0, Runstr launches Season 1, a 3-month competition with 200k in prizes and rewards across all activity types. The new Goals system lets users set and track distance targets, while the revamped rewards structure introduces weekly payouts, streak bonuses, and achievement-based rewards. The Badge system adds claimable perks that boost weekly and streak rewards. Additional improvements include Amber integration fixes, monthly stats grouping, Kind 1 note auto-posting, and a sleeker UI — pushing Runstr toward a more competitive and rewarding decentralized fitness experience. Developed by: @TheWildHustle Source: 6. Primal Android App - 2.3.6 Primal is a Nostr-powered social app for Android, offering a clean and feature-rich interface for decentralized communication. In v2.3.6, the app delivers several important bug fixes and stability improvements: issues with muted hashtags, media saving, and scrolling in feeds and side menus have been resolved. It also fixes a video thumbnail bug that caused crashes, corrects thumbnail aspect ratios, and improves the video playback experience in the gallery. These changes enhance the app’s performance and media reliability for daily Nostr users. Developed by: Aleksandar Ilic Source: #tools_nostr_recap
=============================================== #10 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases =============================================== 1. Shakespeare - New Developer Tool Shakespeare is a revolutionary AI-powered website builder built on the Nostr protocol. It allows users to create and publish websites directly to Nostr relays, without relying on centralized hosting. Designed for simplicity and decentralization, Shakespeare empowers anyone to build censorship-resistant websites with ease. Developed by: @Alex Gleason Source: 2. Grain - v0.4.1-pre-release GRAIN (Go Relay Architecture for Implementing Nostr) is a modern Nostr relay framework built in Go, offering a full-stack architecture for relay deployment, development, and testing. In this release, GRAIN ships a complete documentation suite, CI/CD-ready build system, integration test framework, and an improved relay dashboard. It also includes client libraries and reference implementations to help developers build on GRAIN easily. This pre-release lays the foundation for a production-grade, developer-friendly relay ecosystem, designed for scalability and simplicity. Developed by: @OceanSlim Source: 3. Noscrypt - v0.1.11 Noscrypt is a Nostr-specific cryptography library written in C, designed to provide low-level, high-performance cryptographic functionality for Nostr-related applications. In this release, Noscrypt improves developer convenience by adding a nuget.config file for easier access to vnlib packages. It also updates mbedTLS to v3.6.4, OpenSSL headers to v3.5.1, and vnlib.core to v0.1.2-rc.6. Additionally, manual configuration steps for builds have been removed, streamlining setup for developers integrating Noscrypt into their projects. Developed by: @ChipTuner Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @Vitor Pamplona “Devs on nostr are all rockstars. But do you know who is the real rockstar? You. Thank you for putting up with us.” #quote_nostr_recap