Nostr Biweekly Review ( 15-30 Nov 2025)

The Nostr Review

8. Dezember 2025December 8, 2025 · 11 Min. Lesezeit11 min read

GM, Nostriches! The Nostr Review is a biweekly newsletter focused on protocol updates, exciting programs, the long-form content ecosystem, and key events happening in the Nostr-verse. If you’re interested, join me in covering updates from the Nostr ecosystem!

Quick review:

In the past two weeks, daily active pubkeys reached 223,508. New user growth decreased, and profiles with bios decreased over 79.53%. Note events totaled 8.1 million and zap volume had decreased to 23.8 million sats. Additionally, 11 pull requests were submitted to the Nostr protocol, with 5 merged. A total of 100 Nostr projects were tracked, with 12 releasing product updates. During this period, 2 notable events took place, and 3 significant events are upcoming.

Nostr Statistics#

Based on user activity, the total daily active pubkeys reached 223,508, reflecting an increase of 8.62% compared to the previous period. The highest daily activity was recorded on November 18th, with 15,440 active users, representing a 1.24% increase compared to the previous record of 15,251.

The number of new users overall has decreased from the last period. In particular, the number of profiles with bios dropped to 65,207 marking a significant decrease of about 79.53% compared to the previous record of 318,518. The number of new profiles with contact lists dropped to 30,526 and pubkeys writing events also dropped to 209,280 within this period.

In terms of content publishing, approximately 8.1 million note events were published during this period, representing an increase of about 26.56% compared to the previous cycle. Among them, Repost reached a total of 331,788 within this period.

For zap activity, the total zap amount is about 23.8 million, showing a decrease of over 9.51% compared to the previous period.

Data source: https://stats.nostr.band/

NIPs#

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The PR aims to update NIP-73 (which deals with canonical URL normalization for linking or commenting on external resources).

Complete removal of hashtag and url tags from bookmarks #2141 KotlinGeekDev

The purpose of the pull request is to fully remove the use of hashtag (t) and URL (r) tags from kind 10,003 bookmarks in NIP-51 (Lists).

The author proposed a simpler scheme for key migration in Nostr. Key migration is the process of a user switching to a new public key while maintaining continuity of their identity established by the old key.

Key migration #2137 staab

⁠hodlbod The NIP proposes a standardized method for key migration (switching from an old key to a new key while maintaining identity continuity) for users who are leaving an old key (e.g., due to loss, compromise, or a desire for better security).

nip34: personal fork tag change #2136 fiatjaf

⁠fiatjaf NIP-34 defines a way to announce a personal fork of a software repository on Nostr. This is crucial when a user wants to submit a Pull Request (PR) to a main repository that may not have its own Grasp servers (Nostr-based Git servers) or if those servers are offline/unresponsive. The personal fork acts as a temporary holding place for the PR branch.

This pull request addresses how to handle Kind 6 (Generic Reposts) for Replaceable Events (events with Kinds 10000-19999 and 30000-39999, which are often constantly updated).

Source: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pulls

Notable Projects#

⁠YakiHonne

YakiHonne latest hot fixes and improvements:

⁠fiatjaf

Coracle - 0.6.27

⁠Coracle

⁠Amber

⁠Nostria

⁠Keychat

⁠JSKitty

⁠sana

⁠White Noise

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⁠dluvian

⁠Luxas

Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay, built specifically for Cloudflare’s stack using a custom “Cloudflare Nostr Database” (CFNDB), which leverages Workers, Durable Objects, Queues, and R2 storage to deliver a scalable, low-maintenance relay. In this version, Nosflare has been fully refactored to remove all SQL and Cloudflare D1 usage, now relying exclusively on Durable Objects and Queues, making the relay faster, simpler, and more efficient to operate.

Long-Form Content Eco#

In the past two weeks, more than 367+ long-form articles have been published, with over 43% being Bitcoin related articles and 57% related to Nostr and other topics across the Nostr Ecosystem.

The core discussion around decentralized technologies has shifted from institutional adoption to grassroots innovation, privacy, and foundational knowledge, focusing on truly self-sovereign tools. The central focus on The Nostr Ecosystem has moved from platform comparisons (like Dorahacks) to celebrating hackathons as the primary engine for application development.

Key topics now emphasize:

Discussions about Bitcoin have shifted to reinforcing its core principles and achieving financial sovereignty through direct control over assets, moving away from broad institutional narratives.

Focus areas include:

Broader topics continue to connect technology with personal and global well-being:

Thank you,

and others, for your work. Enriching Nostr’s long-form content ecosystem is crucial

Nostriches Global Meet Ups#

Recently, five (2) Notable Nostr and Bitcoin events have been hosted.

And many others.

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Here are the upcoming Nostr and Bitcoin events that you might want to check out.

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Thanks for reading! If there’s anything I missed, feel free to reach out and help improve the completeness and accuracy of my coverage.

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Contents

5 sections

  1. Nostr Statistics
  2. NIPs
  3. Notable Projects
  4. Long-Form Content Eco
  5. Nostriches Global Meet Ups