Thanks to OpenSats and its generous donors, Damus has been able to continue building open source freedom tech without influence from external parties. Damus' mission is to build the best nostr and bitcoin tech without compromise on decentralization, and this will continue to be our mission going forward. This wouldn't be possible without OpenSats and other organizations that continue to help make this vision a reality!

As per our OpenSats agreement, we are required to publish quarterly reports on our progress. We submit this report to nostr for full transparency. If you're curious what we've been working on this past quarter, check it out:

Damus OpenSats Q2 Progress Report

The second quarter of the Damus OpenSats grant has been very productive and encompasses the 1.7 release of Damus, soon to be released to the appstore.

Notable new features in Damus iOS 1.7#

• Damus purple subscriptions which includes the DeepL Universal Translator 🖖
• Local-first full-text search engine for privacy preserving searching powered by nostrdb4
• Add NIP-42 relay auth support
• Added regional relay recommendations for Germany, Japan, Thailand
• Add naddr link support

New tech built in this quarter#

• A new nostr share-link opengraph renderer in rust called notecrumbs2, powered by egui and nostrdb4
• Added query and subscription support to nostrdb{,-rs}
• Added fulltext search query support nostrdb, which powers the search in Damus iOS v1.7
• Working prototype of Damus Android and Damus NoteDeck, a rust-powered multiplatform nostr client3 powered by egui and nostrdb4

How money was used#

• Paying individual contributors via patch submissions on the damus dev mailing list (patches@damus.io)
• relay.damus.io server costs
• deepl translation costs
• Living expenses, nostr/bitcoin conferences, travel, etc

Contributions#

Damus-iOS#

name                                                       added  removed  commits
Daniel D’Aquino <daniel@daquino.me>                        +7655  -2989    46
William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>                            +3753  -2396    132
kernelkind <kernelkind@gmail.com>                          +1513  -273     27
Charlie Fish <contact@charlie.fish>                        +1386  -331     12
Terry Yiu <git@tyiu.xyz>                                   +1018  -102     3
ericholguin <ericholguin@apache.org>                       +509   -65      3
Transifex <transifex@transifex.com>                        +464   -67      80
Suhail Saqan <suhail.saqan@gmail.com>                      +347   -27      2
ericholguin <eric.holguinsanchez@gmail.com>                +202   -101     6
alltheseas <64376233+alltheseas@users.noreply.github.com>  +51    -24      5
Kieran <kieran@harkin.me>                                  +33    -0       1
kunigaku <kunigaku@gmail.com>                              +13    -2       1
vuittont60 <81072379+vuittont60@users.noreply.github.com>  +3     -3       1
Jing维 <zhjw43@163.com>                                    +1     -1       1
hakkadaikon <hakkadaikon@yahoo.co.jp>                      +1     -1       1

notecrumbs#

name                             added  removed  commits
William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>  +6079  -819     68

Damus Android/NoteDeck#

name                                                       added  removed  commits
William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>                            +5205  -2870    86
0xb10c <b10c@b10c.me>                                      +6     -2       1
alltheseas <64376233+alltheseas@users.noreply.github.com>  +5     -0       1

nostrdb#

name                                                    added   removed  commits
William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>                         +88175  -3758    186
kernelkind <kernelkind@gmail.com>                       +50     -3       1
Yasuhiro Matsumoto <mattn.jp@gmail.com>                 +26     -3       1
Charlie Fish <contact@charlie.fish>                     +12     -0       1
shuoer86 <129674997+shuoer86@users.noreply.github.com>  +3      -3       1
hakkadaikon <hakkadaikon@yahoo.co.jp>                   +2      -2       1

nostrdb-rs#

name                             added  removed  commits
William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>  +8181  -248     50

iOS Changelog#

Added#

• Damus Purple membership! (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Improved damus.io share links (William Casarin)
• Add local, privacy-preserving fulltext search engine (William Casarin)
• Add NIP-42 relay auth support (Charlie Fish)
• Add ability to hide suggested hashtags (ericholguin)
• Add ability to mute hashtag from SearchView (Charlie Fish)
• Add ability to preview media taken with camera (Suhail Saqan)
• Add ability to search for naddr, nprofiles, nevents (kernelkind)
• Add experimental push notification support (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Add naddr link support (kernelkind)
• Add regional relay recommendations to Relay configuration view (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Add regional relays for Germany (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Add regional relays for Japan (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Add regional relays for Thailand (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Add support for Apple In-App purchases (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Always convert damus.io links to inline mentions (William Casarin)
• Notification reminders for Damus Purple impending expiration (Daniel D’Aquino)

Changed#

• Disable inline text suggestions on 17.0 as they interfere with mention generation (William Casarin)
• EULA is not shown by default (ericholguin)
• Generate nprofile/nevent links in share menus (kernelkind)
• Improve push notification support to match local notification support (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Move mute thread in menu so it's not clicked by accident (alltheseas)
• Prioritize friends when autocompleting (Charlie Fish)

Fixed#

• Add workaround to fix note language recognition and reduce wasteful translation requests (Terry Yiu)
• Allow mentioning users with punctuation characters in their names (kernelkind)
• Fix broken mentions when there is text is directly after (kernelkind)
• Fix crash on very large notes (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Fix crash when accessing cached purple accounts (William Casarin)
• Fix crash when logging out and switching accounts (William Casarin)
• Fix duplicate notes getting written to nostrdb (William Casarin)
• Fixed bug where sometimes notes from other profiles appear on profile pages (Charlie Fish)
• Fixed previews not rendering (ericholguin)
• Fix issue where adding relays might not work on corrupted contact lists (Charlie Fish)
• Fix load media formatting on small screens (kernelkind)
• Fix many nostrdb transaction related crashes (William Casarin)
• Fix onboarding post view not being dismissed under certain conditions (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Fix performance issue with gifs (William Casarin)
• Fix persistent local notifications even after logout (William Casarin)
• Fix profile not updating bug (William Casarin)
• Fix shared nevents that are too long (kernelkind)
• Fix welcome screen not showing if the user enters the app directly after a successful checkout without going through the link (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Remove extra space at the end of DM messages (kernelkind)
• Save current viewed image index when switching to fullscreen (kernelkind)

Removed#

• Removed copying public key action (ericholguin)
• Removed old nsec key warning, nsec automatically convert to npub when posting (kernelkind)