🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (06th July 2026 - 83rd Edition)

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⁠Laeserin

“The people who are here to be groupies or to get rich quick have been slowly, steadily exiting. There are simply more riches and more famous people, elsewhere.#

Those of us who have made close friendships here and who genuinely want to build a place for resisting both government censorship and corporate capture for ourselves and for our friends and family, are still here.#

The signal continues to rise. The network continues to strengthen. This open protocol is spilling over into our real lives and is becoming a living, loving thing.”#

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1. Which version is your favorite nostriches? 👇🏻#

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2. A nice creation from a DJ specialist 🤩#

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3. A bunch of companies that censor you 🤮#

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4. A happy nostrich about becoming a father 👨🏻‍🍼#

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5. He is grateful for the freedom and celebrates the US Independence Day 💜#

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6. What do you think nostriches? 👇🏻#

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7. Is this true? 🤨#

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8. You also received this? 👇🏻#

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9. There are some fixed users who never leave Nostr and they are the ones who protect the protocol 💜#

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10. Wisp creator is planning the future during the bear 🤔#

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11. A warm birthday wish to a legend 🎉#

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Nostr is growing!#

According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe.

According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics,#

Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):#

👉🏻 Amethyst - 832 Users - 14.5k Notes

👉🏻 Primal iOS - 663 Users - 5.0k Notes

👉🏻 Primal Android - 605 Users - 5.3k Notes

Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):#

👉🏻 relay.momostr.pink - 307.8k Users

👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 236.8k Users

👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 202.0k Users

According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,#

👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 9.39M (-6.0%)

👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 8.32M (+0.3%)

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.93M

👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.15 BTC

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 179.0K

According to https://npub.world/stats,#

During last week:#

👉🏻 Total Users: 5,630 users, compared to 3,308 users the week before

Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by ⁠JeffG https://npub.world/stats by ⁠Pip the WoT guy and all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr for providing these insights.

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1. Why Your Nostr Private Key Matters#

2. What Is Nostr? The Internet Without One Company Owning Your Identity#

3. Decentralized Social Protocols, Moderation, and Governance Comprehensive Guide#

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1. Nostr London Meetup (2140) - July 2026#

📅 Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 9.00 PM BST 📍 Location: TBA

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: ⁠2140.wtf

🔗 Event:

https://www.meetup.com/nostr_london/events/310267061/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - July 2026#

📅 Date: Sunday, August 02, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: ⁠fractalchris

🔗 Event:

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjclbdb/?eventOrigin=group_events_list

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1. The story of selling handmade goods using Nostr and Bitcoin#

2. How Bitcoin Helps Creatives Build Differently#

• Derek Rossderekross@nostr4.social
• Roger 9000roger9000@pubpay.me
• Avi Burraavi@nip21.media

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Nostr’s Value4Value (V4V) model is all about plebs directly rewarding creators for the value they receive, no middlemen fees, no ads, just pure community-driven support using sats via the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

Thanks to https://zaplife.lol by ⁠PABLOF7z for providing this data.

Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing the creators who received/sent the most engagement:

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped#

1. Name: ⁠FLASH

   • Zaps Received: 298
   • Sats Earned: 149k

2. Name: ⁠utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻🍁

   • Zaps Received: 232
   • Sats Earned: 20k

3. Name: ⁠corndalorian

   • Zaps Received: 205
   • Sats Earned: 24k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers#

1. Name: ⁠AQSTR

   • Zaps Sent: 1944
   • Sats Spent: 60k

2. Name: ⁠Yarnlady 🧶

   • Zaps Sent: 150
   • Sats Spent: 5k

3. Name: ⁠FL Justin

   • Zaps Sent: 121
   • Sats Spent: 60k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received#

1. Name: ⁠Beck & Bulow

   • Sats Earned: 925k
   • Zaps Received: 61

2. Name: ⁠Fountain Boost Bot

   • Sats Earned: 768k
   • Zaps Received: 183

3. Name: ⁠Burgos

   • Sats Earned: 423k
   • Zaps Received: 105

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent#

1. Name: ⁠El Gorila 🇦🇷

   • Sats Spent: 1M
   • Zaps Sent: 6

2. Name: ⁠Greeny

   • Sats Spent: 460k
   • Zaps Sent: 1

3. Name: ⁠Ben Justman🍷

   • Sats Spent: 458k
   • Zaps Sent: 3

Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped#

1. 💬Quoted note

   • Zaps Received: 51
   • Sats Earned: 249k

2. 💬Quoted note

   • Zaps Received: 47
   • Sats Earned: 12k

3. 💬Quoted note

   • Zaps Received: 32
   • Sats Earned: 10k

🔥 Top 3: Most Sats#

1. 💬Quoted note

   • Sats Earned: 919k
   • Zaps Received: 9

2. 💬Quoted note

   • Sats Earned: 249k
   • Zaps Received: 51

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   • Sats Earned: 87k
   • Zaps Received: 7

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1. Amber - v6.2.3#

Amber is an Android Nostr event signer used to securely sign requests from other Nostr apps without exposing private keys directly. In this release, it adds a configurable profile fetch interval (including a “never” option), improves account switching with profile pictures and scoped subscriptions per account, strengthens bunker permission parsing, reduces main-thread StrictMode violations by moving key and account operations off-thread, trims locale support, and fixes several UI and localization issues including theme contrast, translation errors, and settings text formatting.

Contributed by: ⁠greenart7c3

• Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v6.2.3

2. Nostrord - v2.0.1#

Nostrord is a Nostr NIP-29 group chat client for desktop and web, focused on real-time group messaging over relays. In v2.0.1, the release fixes desktop packaging crashes and improves message sending and overall UX stability, along with routine version updates. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v2.0.0 last week.

Contributed by: ⁠Anjhc

• Source: https://github.com/nostrord/nostrord/releases/tag/v2.0.1

3. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.3.0#

Mostro Mobile Client is a mobile app for the Mostro P2P Bitcoin trading platform, enabling users to trade Bitcoin over Nostr-based transport with non-custodial workflows. In v1.3.0, the release completes transport v2 migration with protocol auto-detection and dual-send/dual-receive support for NIP-44 direct messages, upgrades to Riverpod 3.x, improves node connectivity handling, expands fiat payment methods across multiple African currencies, and enhances bond-slashed handling with clearer dispute vs timeout classification.

Contributed by: ⁠Catrya

• Source: http://github.com/MostroP2P/mobile/releases/tag/v1.3.0

4. NoorNote - v1.2.2#

NoorNote is a Nostr social client for browsing posts, interacting with notes, and managing social graphs with privacy-focused features. In this release, it improves security by blocking relay connections to local/private network addresses from imported relay lists, adds a “Has muted you” profile indicator, and enhances reply threads with visual follower/mute indicators using colored avatar rings. While this was the latest, there were also the releases of v1.2.1 and v1.2.0 last week.

Contributed by: ⁠alp

• Source: https://github.com/77elements/noornote/releases/tag/v1.2.2

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1. Mostro Core - v0.14.1#

Mostro Core is a Rust-based peer-to-peer library that provides the core networking and protocol logic for building Mostro-based decentralized applications and daemons. In v0.14.1, the release deprecates the legacy gift-wrap (protocol v1) transport in favor of newer approaches and includes routine maintenance updates such as changelog updates and version release tasks.

Contributed by: ⁠negrunch

• Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-core/releases/tag/v0.14.1

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1. Nostr Relay - v0.0.244#

Nostr Relay is a backend Nostr relay implementation built on the relayer framework for storing and forwarding Nostr events between clients. In v0.0.244, the release adds support for a Firestore storage backend, expanding the available persistence options for relay operators.

Contributed by: ⁠mattn

• Source: https://github.com/mattn/nostr-relay/releases/tag/v0.0.244

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1. Mostro - v0.18.0#

Mostro is a non-custodial, peer-to-peer Lightning Network exchange built on Nostr that enables censorship-resistant Bitcoin trading using protocol-based messaging, pricing, and escrow logic. This release advances transport v2 integration with NIP-44 direct messaging, adds anti-spam gates, improves live price handling with caching and staleness controls, introduces new fiat pricing support (including El Toque), enhances bond/dispute notifications, and strengthens CI, documentation, and Cashu escrow safety while continuing cleanup and deprecation of older transport versions.

Contributed by: ⁠Pinball Wizard ⁠negrunch ⁠Andrea Díaz Correia ⁠Catrya

• Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro/releases/tag/v0.18.0

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1. Buzz - v0.3.42#

Buzz is a self-hosted Nostr-based workspace platform where humans and AI agents collaborate over relay-hosted channels, treating all activity as signed event data with optional agent workflows and git-integrated project spaces. In v0.3.42, the release improves stability and performance with better relay reconnect handling, bounded storage usage, faster channel switching, and optimized fan-out and query execution, while also adding repository-first project workflows, contribution heatmaps, agent catalog and configuration improvements, workspace branding via NIP-11 icons, and stronger reliability for agent execution, messaging, and state consistency. This was the latest and there were also a few more releases last week.

Contributed by: Tyler

• Source: https://github.com/block/buzz/releases/tag/v0.3.42

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