โ โI think Nostr would be probably 200% better if we had someone to test apps reliably.#
I'm not talking about a "QA engineer" whatever, just someone that isn't a programmer but can install things, click buttons and report bugs.#
I have the impression that this is a role that died in the industry of software development, but it is much needed now, and much more in the age of AI code.โ#
1. The Bitcoin FilmFest 2026 was held with more than 200 attendees around the world ๐#
2. Letโs watch that why he built Divine ๐#
3. An awesome conversation at Oslo Freedom Forum ๐๐ป#
4. This kind of conversations really matters ๐๐ป#
5. Letโs play Nostr games ๐ฎ#
6. This is so true โ๏ธ#
7. Some good advice from Derek to make Nostr better ๐๐ป#
8. A popular Nostr client passes a milestone of followers ๐ฅณ#
9. Finally, Nostr will be the destination of everyone ๐ช๐ป#
10. Letโs cure our mind with a nice song ๐ง#
11. Life is beautiful. The key to making it beautiful or not is within you ๐ซต๐ป#
12. These onboardings are so important ๐๐ป#
Nostr is growing fast!#
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):#
๐๐ป Amethyst - 859 Users - 13.7k Notes
๐๐ป Primal Android - 689 Users - 7.7k Notes
๐๐ป Primal Web - 611 Users - 3.8k Notes
Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):#
๐๐ป http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 300.2k Users
๐๐ป http://relay.damus.io/ - 226.5k Users
๐๐ป http://relay.primal.net/ - 190.8k Users
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,#
๐๐ป Publishing Users last week: 10.10M (+196.1%)
๐๐ป New Publishing Users Last week: 12.13M (+32.2%)
๐๐ป All-time Zap Count: 6.85M
๐๐ป All-time Zap BTC Amount: 42.87 BTC
๐๐ป All-time Zap Senders: 177.8K
According to https://npub.world/stats,#
During last week:#
๐๐ป Total Users: 4,571 users, compared to 9,126 users the week before
Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by 
โ JeffG https://npub.world/stats by 
โ Pip the WoT guy and all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr for providing these insights.
1. Complete NOSTR Setup & Onboarding Tutorial#
โ 
2. Meet JUMBLE - NOSTR Client#
3. Sign Nostr events from any device, 24/7, without exposing your key#
โ 
1. Nostr London Meetup (2140) - June 2026#
๐ Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026 โฐ Time: 6.00 PM - 9.00 PM BST ๐ Location: TBA
๐คนโโ๏ธ Organizers: 
โ 2140.wtf
๐ Event:
https://www.meetup.com/nostr_london/events/308639465/
2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - July 2026#
๐ Date: Sunday, July 05, 2026 โฐ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT ๐ Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
๐คนโโ๏ธ Organizers: 
โ fractalchris
๐ Event:
https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjckbhb/
1. Nostr Relay, Umbrel OS and music publishing#
2. Nostr Protocol Brings Free Social Networks#
โ 
3. How is Nostr different from X/Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon?#
โ 
Nostrโs 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 
โ PABLOF7z for providing this data.
Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing the creators who received/sent the most engagement:
๐ฅ Top 3: Most Zapped#
Name:
โ utxo the webmaster ๐งโ๐ป๐- Zaps Received: 461
- Sats Earned: 57k
Name:
โ FLASH- Zaps Received: 427
- Sats Earned: 111k
Name:
โ corndalorian- Zaps Received: 331
- Sats Earned: 41k
๐ฅ Top 3: Most Zappers#
Name:
โ AQSTR- Zaps Sent: 1859
- Sats Spent: 96k
Name:
โ FL Justin- Zaps Sent: 178
- Sats Spent: 50k
Name:
โ Turkey- Zaps Sent: 158
- Sats Spent: 9k
๐ฐ Top 3: Most Sats Received#
Name:
โ Fountain Boost Bot- Sats Earned: 840k
- Zaps Received: 324
Name:
โ RABBIT HOLE RECAP- Sats Earned: 259k
- Zaps Received: 36
Name:
โ Dr. The Daniel ๐- Sats Earned: 223k
- Zaps Received: 131
๐ฐ Top 3: Most Sats Sent#
Name:
โ utxo the webmaster ๐งโ๐ป๐- Sats Spent: 310k
- Zaps Sent: 129
Name: a-a-ron
- Sats Spent: 250k
- Zaps Sent: 1
Name:
โ ODELL- Sats Spent: 139k
- Zaps Sent: 46
Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:
๐ฅ Top 3: Most Zapped#
-
- Zaps Received: 85
- Sats Earned: 22k
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- Zaps Received: 42
- Sats Earned: 10k
-
- Zaps Received: 40
- Sats Earned: 2k
๐ฅ Top 3: Most Sats#
-
- Sats Earned: 212k
- Zaps Received: 2
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- Sats Earned: 168k
- Zaps Received: 21
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- Sats Earned: 74k
- Zaps Received: 14
1. Divine Mobile - 1.0.15 (Pre-release)#
Divine Mobile is a mobile social/video application built on Nostr, focused on creating, editing, and sharing short-form video content. In this pre-release, the update delivers a large set of improvements, including major video editor upgrades (timeline markers, hold-to-record, playback and audio fixes), improved feed stability and engagement tracking, enhanced DM features (multi-line composer and emoji reactions), notification and authentication reliability fixes, UI/design system refactors, and multiple performance, CI, and crash fixes across the app.
Contributed by: 
โ rabble 
โ Daniel Cadenas 
โ untreu 
โ Liz Alex Frei, Meylis, Meylis,
2. Vanilla HiveTalk - v0.0.5 Summer breeze#
Vanilla HiveTalk is a real-time communication tool (video conferencing / streaming app) built as a fork of MiroTalk SFU with added Nostr and Bitcoin Lightning integration. In v0.0.5 (โSummer breezeโ), the release focuses heavily on security and stability improvements, including removal of vulnerable ngrok integration, fixes for multiple dependency-related security issues (such as serialize-javascript and uuid CVEs), major dependency upgrades, and CI/CD fixes, along with code changes like optional server tunneling, adjusted API defaults, branding updates, and removal of unsafe or deprecated services to improve overall system safety and reliability.
Contributed by: 
3. Amber - v6.2.0#
Amber is a mobile signing app used to securely approve and sign Nostr events on Android. In v6.2.0, the release adds NIP-44 v3 encryption support with a new approval and preview flow, improves NIP-46 connection handling with auto-accept ping requests, enhances intent validation and history logging, introduces UI improvements like segmented option pickers, and removes legacy signing methods and older auto-approval options for a cleaner and more secure signing experience.
Contributed by: 
โ greenart7c3
4. Jumble - v26.6.1#
Jumble is a Nostr client focused on exploring relay feeds and social interactions across the Nostr network. In v26.6.1, the release adds the ability to post from another account without switching active logins, introduces configurable Blossom cache server support, improves DM reliability and user experience, adds management for standalone emojis and emoji sets, and includes various translation updates and UI polish.
Contributed by: 
5. Nostria - v3.1.45#
Nostria is a social networking platform built on Nostr, focused on human connections and noise-free social interaction. This release improves profile loading for accounts with large follow lists, optimizes memory usage through local thumbnail generation in the native app, fixes Lightning and QR-code split payment issues, updates the codebase for compatibility with the latest Angular release, and officially drops the previously planned translucent UI redesign. This was the latest and there was also the release of v3.1.44 last week.
Contributed by: 
โ SondreB
6. Primal Android App - 3.5.10#
Primal Android App is a mobile Android client for the Nostr network focused on social interaction, content discovery, and Bitcoin-enabled experiences. In v3.5.10, the release delivers two stability fixes: improved NIP-05 verification support for domain-only identifiers and a fix for a wallet creation race condition that could occur during onboarding.
Contributed by: Aleksandar Ilic
7. Nymchat - v3.68.445#
Nymchat is a messaging client built on the Nostr protocol for pseudonymous and temporary communication, with Bitchat bridging support. This release introduces Panic Mode for quickly encrypting data with throwaway keys and rapidly exiting the app, adds stronger identity encryption options using passwords, PINs, passkeys, and biometrics, fixes fullscreen video playback issues, and includes additional security hardening improvements. This was the biggest release, and there were a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: 
โ Luxas
8. Wisp - v1.1.1#
Wisp is a mobile client for the Nostr social protocol, designed for browsing feeds, posting notes, and interacting with wallets and zaps. In v1.1.1, the release introduces improved post composition with countdown and preview behavior, expanded wallet features (Spark integration, Connect screen redesign, balance display modes, and NWC fixes), stronger security protections like nsec paste blocking, improved login and profile UX, enhanced theme and UI polish, zap message rendering improvements, and thread filtering via web-of-trust, along with various bug fixes and cross-platform parity improvements.
Contributed by: โ utxo the webmaster ๐งโ๐ป๐
9. Nostrord - v1.4.0#
Nostrord is a chat client for the Nostr protocol (NIP-29 groups), focused on messaging, group communication, and multi-platform chat experience. In v1.4.0, the release improves feature parity between web and native apps by aligning composer, uploads, replies, and quoted-event cards, adds in-chat message search across platforms, introduces a native desktop file picker, fixes notification routing through service workers and browser history handling, and ensures group messages are correctly routed through each groupโs relay instead of the primary relay. This was the latest release, and there was also another one (v1.3.0) last week.
Contributed by: 
โ Anjhc
10. VaultChat - v1.2.0#
VaultChat is a peer-to-peer encrypted messaging app built on the Nostr protocol, focused on private communication without phone numbers, email registration, or centralized servers. This release introduces Remote Panic Wipe functionality that allows users to remotely erase identities from the web using their private key, including support for wipes triggered while the app is closed and executed on next launch, adds a private-key visibility option in Settings for remote wipe usage, upgrades Panic Wipe commands to NIP-44 v2 encryption, and fixes relay handling, instant wipe triggering, and panic-command deduplication issues.
Contributed by: blejusca
1. Grantless - New Developer Tool#
Grantless is a decentralized, community-funded grants platform for supporting open-source projects. Built on the Catallax protocol and powered by Nostr, it enables transparent crowdfunding, collaboration, and funding distribution without centralized control.
Developed by: 
โ vinney...axkl
2. Mostro Core - v0.12.1#
Mostro Core is a developer library (SDK/core infrastructure component) used to build decentralized applications and power the Mostro daemon. This release adds a new WaitingMakerBond order status, fixes ABI preservation for Wasm compatibility, and updates internal order-state handling while keeping the release focused on compatibility and stability improvements rather than user-facing features.
Contributed by: 
โ negrunch
3. Nostrame - v1.1.1#
Nostrame is a browser extension (NIP-07 signer tool) used to securely sign Nostr events from web applications without exposing private keys. It's a signing utility that enables web apps to interact with Nostr. In v1.1.1, the release mainly fixes compatibility issues with nostr-tools v2 and improves Brave extension context handling to ensure more stable signing behavior across Chromium-based browsers. There was another release of the month, which is v1.1.2 (latest).
Contributed by: toxicafunk
4. Nostr VPN - v4.0.70#
Nostr VPN is a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN using a FIPS-backed data plane for secure peer-to-peer networking. In v4.0.70, the release updates FIPS components (fips-core 0.3.52 and fips-endpoint 0.3.28), improves performance testing and CI validation under heavy encryption and TCP load, strengthens throughput and latency checks with better queue-pressure simulation and recovery validation, and fixes a major issue where sustained bulk traffic could starve handshake and control packets, along with a macOS installer fix for resolving Cargo output paths correctly during binary swaps. This was the latest, and there were a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: 
โ Sirius
1. Grain - v0.7.1#
GRAIN is primarily a powerful relay and infrastructure platform for relay operators, while also providing a Go client library for developers building Nostr applications. This release focuses entirely on stability and memory-leak fixes, resolving several long-running relay issues including leaked authentication state tied to closed connections, background goroutines persisting after config reloads, upstream relay disconnect leaks, and unbounded backup-relay forwarding processes. The update introduces proper cleanup, bounded forwarding behavior, and improved connection lifecycle management to keep long-running relays stable and memory usage flat under heavy or prolonged operation.
Contributed by: 
โ OceanSlim
1. Angor - 0.2.29 (Unstable Release)#
Angor is a decentralized protocol (in alpha stage) built on Bitcoin and Nostr, used to enable peer-to-peer funding workflows rather than serving as a user-facing app or simple SDK. This Unstable Release adds early CLI and MCP server implementation planning, improves CLI tooling for testing workflows, introduces multi-user UAT funding test scenarios, fixes Lightning invoice network switching issues, improves wallet recovery and data-wipe behavior, and includes several stability fixes and UI/layout improvements while explicitly remaining in an experimental/unstable phase.
Contributed by: 
โ dangershony TheDude, Zaza
Nostr is built by the plebs, for the plebs. If you found this Nostr recap helpful, consider supporting me, Nomishka, with a zap.
Iโm committed to supporting Nostr, and I split a part of the zaps I receive for this note with the plebs mentioned in this recap for all their great effort. Thank you so much for being part of this journey. Let me know your thoughts about this Seventy-Ninth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and letโs keep #GrowNostr together.
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โ Jurjen de Vries for this amazing idea!
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Thank you, my younger brother 
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