Nostr Biweekly Review ( 1-14 Sep 2025)

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 185,643. New user growth decreased, and profiles with bios decreased over 20%. Note events totaled 4.9 million, zap volume slightly decreased to 16 million sats. Additionally, 11 pull requests were submitted to the Nostr protocol, with 5 merged. A total of 88 Nostr projects were tracked, with 12 releasing product updates. During this period, 1 notable event took place, and 2 significant events are upcoming.

Nostr Statistics#

Based on user activity, the total daily active pubkeys reached 185,643, reflecting a decrease of 7.5% compared to the previous period. The highest daily activity was recorded on September 4th, with 15,513 active users, representing an 11% decrease compared to the previous peak of 17,429.

The number of new users overall is declining. In particular, the number of profiles with bios reached 35,550, marking a significant decrease of about 20% compared to the previous period. The number of profiles with contact lists and pubkeys writing events both decreased by about 10%.

In terms of content publishing, approximately 4.9 million note events were published during this period, representing a decrease of about 7.2% compared to the previous cycle. Among them, Repost showed a notable decrease of about 28%.

For zap activity, the total zap amount is about 17 million, showing a decrease of over 10% compared to the previous period.

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

NIPs#

NIP-34: send patches and issues to repos not yet on Nostr #2050

⁠DanConwayDev is proposing a NIP which allow contributors to share patches and issues without requiring maintainers to first create a Nostr repository announcement.Once this community support is achieved and demonstrated and the repo moves to Nostr, the first issues / patches shouldn't be disconnected or unavailable. The retired-clone tag is intended to make it easier for clients to find and display this content.

Deprecates NIP-31 alts #2060

⁠Vitor Pamplona propose deprecates NIP-31 alts. The main reason is that relying on the writing client to create a text that will look good on all types of receiving clients is the wrong solution. It's impossible to do a good job given the variety of clients today.Other Reasons is Nobody is displaying this; Current alts are generally not descriptive enough and don't really help the user; Clients still need to allow users to easily open the event in a separate client (or njump) to see what it is about; Alts have exposed private information (mostly metadata) before; It leads devs towards unsatisfactory levels of interoperability.

NIP-PO: podcast episodes #2061

⁠dhalsim is proposing a NIP which a new kind 30025 to have metadata like audio file URL, episode number, transcript file URL, chapters file URL etc. that would help discover podcast content and create specific podcast clients native to Nostr.

feat: add metadata to NIP-47 make_invoice and payment commands #2063

⁠Roland is proposing a NIP which allows storing metadata to give more context for sent/received payments, for example to display zaps, payment or recipient data. This is implemented in Alby Go,Alby Hub,Damus,Rizful,CoinOS (TBC)

Notable Projects#

Amethyst v1.03.0 ⁠Amethyst

New Features:

Adds "record and post video" button to new Post Screens by
Updates the User Profile's Relay List to an outbox version
Activates live streams to the top feed bubble
Enables the use of custom TextToSpeech Engines
Updated Polish and Hungarian Translations

Improvements:

Improves the list of visible authors on live stream bubbles
Adds the error status to the URL normalizer to avoid checking it again
Adds a follow list state from kind 3 to keep following users in memory.
Moves from RelationshipStatus to ContactCard as per NIP update

Fixes:

Removes crashing relay URIs with null-encoded bytes (%00)
Reverts to using androidLibrary plugin for Quartz until KMP publishing guidance is updated. by
Fixes product title when in a quoted post
Fixes live flag for streaming when the URL is not available anymore.
Fixes bug on opening the Relay Settings page with duplicated Trusted and Blocked relays.
Avoids NPEs in the maxOfOrNull iterator with concurrent lists
Assemble NIP-17 Crash Report properties as a table and crash as a code block
Improves the design of the Crash Report permission screen with a cancel button.
Adds basic support for expirations in DMs

Primal ⁠primal

Live stream notifications (see example below)
Live banners now respect your per-streamer settings
iOS 2.5.35: commenting on streams fixed

0xchat ⁠0xchat

Released new versions of 0xchat and XChat. To avoid confusion, 0xchat will focus on NIP-17 DMs and NIP-29 groups, while XChat will focus on MLS groups. 0xchat v1.4.11 release

Removed MLS group feature
Added support for Urdu language
Fixed several bugs

XChat v0.2.2 release

iOS now supports sharing images and text directly to XChat
Expanded internationalization support
Improved system messages
Added support for copying images
Optimized push notifications

DTAN.XYZ ⁠Kieran

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Nostur ⁠Nostur

Nostur update (TestFlight build 433)

Publishing Picture-first/Olas posts is now compatible with more clients
Improved visual preview for own recorded voice messages
Show viewers count in live stream pill and audio only bar
Post context menu overhaul
Added 1 tap relay preview
Pin relay feed as tab from relay preview
New 'Republish to relays' screen
Improved support of audio formats for voice messages
Already-seen filter repost improvements
Improved live event fetching/refreshing
Fixed long quoted posts missing expand button
Fixed background theme colors on some sheets
Fixed can't add multiple images to Picture-first post
Fixed top zaps clipping
Fixed tap to zoom on profile picture if there is no profile picture

Formstr ⁠Form*

You can now add background images to your forms, and also choose from an existing preset

Amber 4.0.1 ⁠Amber

Fix reproducibility and added instruction in the README
Fix the validation of the current logged in user when sending a event from another user
When using intents send a reject response
Fix the edit permissions screen not updating correctly the fields when rejecting/accepting a permission
Update to gradle 9

Zap.store ⁠Zapstore

Achieved feature parity with the latest 0.2.7 release
Fixed the issue where apps were not refreshing to the latest version
Add Comments on releases
Add Silent updates – Phase 1

WasabiWallet ⁠Wasabi Wallet

New release 2.7.0 is here! v2.7.0 is a stabilization update that boosts reliability while bringing a fresh look & smoother performance.

Enhanced Node Integration
Refreshed UI
1 Config/Network
Smarter Coordinators
Many Bug Fixes

ZEUS ⁠ZEUS

ZEUS v0.11.5-alpha2 is now available for testing. In this build:

fix: errant on-chain balance calls to LNDHub, causing error screens
feat: Donate a percentage of each payment to ZEUS
fix: Payment duration display in Cashu payment
fix: BOLT 12 withdrawal request display

Stacks ⁠Team Soapbox

Sats Tracker 0.5.0 is out now! This version brings new UX/UI improvements to the app to make it simpler to use.

Added possibility to navigate between expense and income transactions in the wallet details tab.
Fixed options in transaction details that reported 'wallet' instead of 'transaction'.
Excluded 'Swap In', 'Swap Out', 'Consolidation' and 'Adjust Balance' from monthly expenses review.
Improved UX/UI of Wallets tab.
Modified TransactionForm to use the new modal WalletChoice.
Improved number formatting for monthly balance.

PurrMint ⁠npub1qr0my…f5vh

Purrmint v0.1.0 is now live on Zapstore

Provide an address type selector: local address, network address (http), network address (https)
Some small UI optimizations

Nostriches Global Meet Ups#

Recently, one Nostr event has been hosted in different countries.

The Bitcoin Indonesia Conference 2025 & Bitcoin Week Bali successfully took place on September 5, 2025, at Bitcoin House Bali in Canggu, accompanied by a full week of Bitcoin-themed activities from September 1–8. YakiHonne joined as a sponsor, alongside speakers and participants dedicated to advancing Bitcoin education and adoption in Indonesia and across Asia. Speakers included ⁠Dusan Matuska ⁠Jimmy Kostro ⁠Jeff Booth ⁠Efrat Fenigson ⁠npub1h88z7…hqta ⁠Win Ko Ko Aung ⁠Piriya ⚡🟧 ⁠npub1dg93k…du3h ⁠npub1l65a5…sfth ⁠Shaun ⁠SondreB ⁠Wingman and others. Here is the upcoming Nostr event that you might want to check out.
The Korea Blockchain Week 2025 (KBW2025) will take place from September 14 to 22 in Seoul and Busan, featuring a diverse range of activities including startup showcases, hackathons, industry forums, as well as art, cultural, and leisure events. With a strong focus on entrepreneurship, technology development, industry trends, and social culture, the program combines formal conferences with casual parties, offering participants a comprehensive blockchain ecosystem experience.
TOKEN2049 Singapore 2025 will take place on October 1–2 at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. As Asia’s largest crypto and Web3 conference, it will feature keynote speeches, panel discussions, the Nexus Startup Competition, a 36-hour Origins Hackathon, and immersive on-site experiences, covering topics such as DeFi, blockchain infrastructure, token economics, and regulatory trends.