#1 🧠 Quote of the Week
@fiatjaf
“Instead of ‘protocol’ we should call Nostr a ‘system’.”
#quote_nostr_recap
Nostr Recap
Nostr Recap
recap@nostr.eco
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#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: 1,629, compared to 1,690 users the week before
According to https://stats.nostr.band,
During last week:
- Total Zaps: 29,803, compared to 33,052 zaps the week before
- Total Zap senders: 3,118, compared to 2,589 plebs the week before
- Total Zap Amount: 7,097,192, compared to 7,961,647 sats the week before
- Total Events: 3,702,272, compared to 3,536,158 events the week before
Many thanks to by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap, https://stats.nostr.band by @brugeman, all the contributors of and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights.
#eco-growth_nostr_recap
GitHub
GitHub - aljazceru/awesome-nostr: nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things
nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things - GitHub - aljazce...
statistics - npub.world
According to https://stats.nostr.band,
During last week:
- Total Zaps: 29,803, compared to 33,052 zaps the week before
- Total Zap senders: 3,118, compared to 2,589 plebs the week before
- Total Zap Amount: 7,097,192, compared to 7,961,647 sats the week before
- Total Events: 3,702,272, compared to 3,536,158 events the week before
Many thanks to statistics - npub.world
GitHub
GitHub - aljazceru/awesome-nostr: nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things
nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things - GitHub - aljazce...
#4 🎓 Educational Guides
1. Nostr Start Guide for Beginners | Account setup & wallet connect for Zaps
@ForrestHODL
2. Nostr Basics
@Cahlen
#education_nostr_recap
#5 📅 Upcoming Events
1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026
📅 Date: Sunday, January 4, 2026
⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST
📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge
16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: Chris Curran
🔗 Event: 
2. 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, @npub1qe3e...zefe
🔗 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
1910 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN, USA
🤹♀️ Organizers: @Derek Ross, @Shawn, @OpenMike, @ajdav21, @Rod
🔗 Event: 
#events_nostr_recap
Meetup
Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin, Sun, Jan 4, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Newbies welcome -- we will discuss Nostr and Bitcoin. Also, we can help you set up your free Nostr account, free Bitcoin Lightning wallet, etc.
Ho...
FOSDEM 2026 - POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr
Meetup
Nostr Nights #1, Mon, Feb 2, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Date: February 2, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM CT
Please RSVP — Space is Limited
Overview:
Nostr Nights is a quarterly meetup for anyone passi...
#6 📰 Nostr in the Media
1. Soapbox Sessions Episode 16: Dumbin’ Down the Tech
@Ditto by Soapbox,
@MAKE SONGS LONGER
2. Hivetalk Vibe Coding Session Replay: December 16, 2025
3. Exploring the Pyramid Relay for Nostr
4. Deep Dive: Nostr as Freedom Tech, Purple Pilling, Government Role & Bitcoin Politics
@npub1mrmu...eyr9
#media_nostr_recap
#9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
1. Snort - v0.4.0
Snort is a high-performance Nostr client built with React, focused on fast content discovery, media handling, and social interactions. This update adds a Discover page for trending content, a media tab for multiple media note types, and a Follow Sets page for browsing connections. It integrates Nests audio rooms, replaces NIP-96 with Blossom storage, and upgrades the build system to Bun. Other improvements include better profile caching, query handling, auto-translation, and WoT filtering, making content loading faster, media management smoother, and social interactions more seamless.
Developed by: @Kieran, @sandwich
Source: 
2. Amber - v4.0.6-pre2
Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that securely manages and signs Nostr events. In this release it improves stability and performance by fixing crashes on permission and app editing screens, handling decryption parsing errors gracefully, adding a signer cache for faster operations, and optimizing screen recomposition and task finishing, enhancing reliability and responsiveness for end users. This was the latest and there was also the releases of v4.0.6-pre1 and v4.0.5 last week.
Developed by: @greenart7c3
Source: 
3. Nostria (Android) - v1.0.8
Nostria is a decentralized social networking app that lets users fully control their profiles and data while exploring a censorship-resistant network. In this release, it fixes the “Share to Nostria” feature, enabling users to seamlessly share photos and videos directly from their devices, improving usability and content sharing for end users. This was the latest release and there was also the release of v1.0.7 last week.
Developed by: @npub1zl3g...jajh
Source: 
4. 0xchat App - v1.5.2
0xchat is a secure chat app built on the Nostr protocol. In this release it introduces major usability improvements such as an updated image picker, Markdown support in posts, GIF uploads, custom emojis, and global posts with relay-based filtering. It also integrates new Napps (Mutable, Grimoire, Nym, Nostube) and Filedrop file server support, while fixing bugs related to contact sorting, account switching, login splash screens, and language translation, enhancing both functionality and user experience.
Developed by: @water783
Source: 
5. Plebs App - v2.7.12
Plebs is a censorship-resistant, decentralized video platform built on the Nostr protocol. This release features a complete redesign and refactor, adding a following list, watched history, live and shorts videos, draft-saving before publishing, content filter packs, multiple language support, profile editing, zaps in comments, mute and reporting features, and a real watched count for videos. It also introduces an analytics dashboard and fixes light/dark mode issues and page-loading bugs, significantly improving usability, content management, and user experience. This was the biggest release of the week and there was also some more releases last week. (v2.7.31, v2.7.30, v2.7.28, v2.7.27, v2.7.26, v2.7.25, v2.7.24, v2.7.23, v2.7.22, v2.7.21, v2.7.20, v2.7.18, v2.7.15, v2.7.14, v2.7.13)
Developed by: @Luxas
Source: 
6. Vector - v0.2.3
Vector is a decentralized communication platform on the Nostr Protocol, offering end-to-end encryption, zero metadata leakage, and plausible deniability. This release adds Web Profiles, redesigned voice messaging, file previews, image compression, window persistence, and a polished UI with animated headers and mini-avatars. On-demand decryption improves performance, while bug fixes address startup flash, logout issues, unread markers, download stability, and emoji search, giving users a smoother, faster, and more reliable chat experience.
Developed by: @JSKitty
Source: 
#tools_nostr_recap
GitHub
Release v0.4.0 · v0l/snort
Highlights
Discover Page: New discover page with DVM-powered trending posts and content suggestions
Media Posts: Support for kind 20, 21, 22 media...
GitHub
Release Release v4.0.6-pre2 · greenart7c3/Amber
Amber 4.0.6-pre2
Remove get_public_key from content provider
Handle parsing errors when trying to decrypt content to show the content for the user...
GitHub
Release Nostria (Android) v1.0.8 · nostria-app/nostria
Fixes Share to Nostria, allowing you to share photos and videos directly from your device.
Full Changelog: android-v1.0.7...android-v1.0.8
GitHub
Release v1.5.2 release · 0xchat-app/0xchat-app-main
Improvements & New Features
Updated the image picker implementation
Renamed Moments to Posts
Improved note search performance
Added support for gl...
GitHub
Release v2.7.12 · Spl0itable/plebs-app
New: complete refactor and redesign
New: show following list
New: show watched history
New: disable warning popups from settings
New: mute and repo...
GitHub
Release Vector v0.2.3 · VectorPrivacy/Vector
The new era of communication begins.
New:
🪪 Vector Web Profiles: you can now share your profile "Contact Card" over the web, with one...
#10 🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases
1. Mostro Core - v0.6.57
Mostro Core is a Rust-based library providing peer-to-peer functionality for decentralized applications, forming the foundation for the Mostro daemon. This update reverts previous protocol changes, adds optional user info fields to the Order payload, and introduces three new fields in the Order struct. It also updates crypto dependencies, fixes Clippy issues with older dependencies, and updates the Rust toolchain to 1.90.0. These changes improve compatibility, enable richer order data, and ensure the library is more stable and easier to maintain for developers building decentralized applications.
Developed by: @Pinball Wizard, @negrunch
Source: 
2. Gitplaza - v0.26.0
Gitplaza is a desktop Nostr client focused on managing Git-related activity. This release adds support for rendering patch diffs and revisions, displays Markdown in patch views and comments, includes patches in activity and inbox filters, differentiates patch revisions from root patches, and shows e-tag or a-tag Git references in the event view. Performance improvements reduce unnecessary Git status queries, and bug fixes ensure comments and self-referencing tags are properly handled, making code review, collaboration, and tracking more efficient for users.
Developed by: @dluvian
Source:
#dev-tools_nostr_recap
GitHub
Release Release v0.6.57 · MostroP2P/mostro-core
Verifying the Release
In order to verify the release, you'll need to have gpg or gpg2 installed on your system. Once you've obtained a copy (and ho...
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#1 🧠 Quotes of the Week
@Gigi
“nostr is now more important than ever. True pseudonymity is possible here. It isn't on X, or any other centralized platform.”
@Ben Justman🍷
“I get way more engagement on Nostr than Twitter with the same content since the algo change.
Feels like I got rugged there and rescued here.”
#quote_nostr_recap
#2 🔥 Community Highlights
1. Surely this meeting will get many benefits to the Nostr world 🔥
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2. These suggestions are great for a Nostr project 😍
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3. This is well said by Gigi 💯
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4. An amazing solution for the Nostr login system 👌-
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5. It includes Nostr login too 😍
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6. A Nostr legend is celebrating his birthday 🎂
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7. Beware of these kind of scams on Nostr ⚠️
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8. Nostr is the best social media protocol ✌️
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9. This pleb loves Nostr a lot 🫶
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10. Let’s help him to find a job 🚨
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11. Let’s enjoy an impressive Nostr song 🎧
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12. Nostr is the solution for most of the things 👇
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13. Primal member proposes his thoughts to Jack 👇
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14. This is a great work 👍
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15. Don’t let the social media corps to own your data. The freedom is here 👈
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16. Nostr is always better than X 😉
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