🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (18th May 2026 - 76th Edition)
“I have a sloppy primal that I update every once in a while for fun. There’s now stories, reels, an electric zap button, and a shop.
I want to see a future where we control what we see (algo choice)
And a future where we control
how we see it. Nostr enables both.
And no, none of this slop is coming any time soon. We’re working on something bigger :)”
1. An awesome Bitcoin culture event is gonna happen this June in Warsaw 😍
2. These supports help a lot for the growth of Nostr 👏🏻
3. Congrats to these love birds ❤️
4. Let’s listen to some nice songs 🎧
5. The Nostr promo effort of a Birthday nostrich 🎁
6. What do you think about his opinion nostriches? 🤔
7. Great! His vision is so powerful 👌🏻
8. Let’s get together and help for his good effort 🫱🏻🫲🏿
9. Nostrich couple celebrate the decade of their love ❤️
10. Vanished a while from Nostr to write a Bitcoin book 📙
11. Great news from Miljan about Pirmal Android 🤩
12. As always, Derek tries to grow Nostr 👇🏻
13. A Pretty lady musician becomes a nostrich 🎵
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):
👉🏻 Amethyst - 796 Users - 12.7k Notes
👉🏻 Primal Android - 652 Users - 7.4k Notes
👉🏻 Primal Web - 604 Users - 3.8k Notes
Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):
👉🏻 http://relay.damus.io/ - 217.0k Users
👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 211.2k Users
👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net/ - 180.2k Users
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 703.7K (+34.3%)
👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 993.1K (+124.1%)
👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.79M
👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 42.69 BTC
👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 176.6K
According to https://npub.world/stats,
During last week:
👉🏻 Total Users: 4,863, compared to 9,851 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.
1. Nostr Mail: the email that doesn’t kneel to Big Tech
2. Decentralise or get censored - Lessons for Musicians & Artists
1. Murcia Meetup 2140 - May 2026
📅 Date: Thursday, May 21, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 7.30 PM CEST 📍 Location: Montessori British School Murcia, C. Ermita Vieja, 26B, 30006 Murcia, Spain
🤹♀️ Organizers: Void
🔗 Event:
https://www.satlantis.io/events/2204/murcia-meetup-2140
2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - June 2026
📅 Date: Sunday, June 07, 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/mlcdqtyjcjbkb/
1. Protocol vs Platform: Nostr’s Utility Beyond Social Media
2. How Bitcoin & Nostr Fix Life & Death Problems
3. GMONEY: Bitcoin, Soft War, Nostr, AI, and Digital 1776
4. Why Nostr relays can change the artist-audience relationship
5. Divine App Direct Access
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
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Name: Fountain Boost Bot
- Zaps Received: 400
- Sats Earned: 1M
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Name: utxo the webmaster 🧑💻
- Zaps Received: 361
- Sats Earned: 73k
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Name: FLASH
- Zaps Received: 291
- Sats Earned: 94k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: AQSTR
- Zaps Sent: 2522
- Sats Spent: 86k
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Name: Piotr
- Zaps Sent: 174
- Sats Spent: 57k
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Name: TheGrinder
- Zaps Sent: 138
- Sats Spent: 47k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: Fountain Boost Bot
- Sats Earned: 1M
- Zaps Received: 400
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Name: craigraw
- Sats Earned: 152k
- Zaps Received: 50
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Name: Vitor Pamplona
- Sats Earned: 151k
- Zaps Received: 157
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: “The name is not visible”
- Sats Spent: 190k
- Zaps Sent: 2
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Name: Kieran
- Sats Spent: 145k
- Zaps Sent: 12
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Name: JCube
- Sats Spent: 121k
- Zaps Sent: 2
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- Sats Earned: 350k
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- Sats Earned: 23k
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1. Divine Mobile - 1.0.13
Divine Mobile is a social media mobile application built on the Nostr protocol that focuses on short-form video creation, discovery, and interaction with features like feeds, messaging, and video editing. This release improves content discovery with better Explore filters and recommendations, enhances feed personalization, upgrades the video editor with better metadata handling and audio extraction, improves messaging and notifications reliability, adds clearer moderation and reporting flows, expands localization support, and includes multiple performance, UI, and stability improvements across playback, profiles, and caching systems.
Contributed by: rabble
2. Amethyst - v1.10.0
Amethyst is a Nostr client for Android focused on social networking, messaging, and Bitcoin-native interactions on the decentralized Nostr ecosystem. This release adds support for NIP-BC onchain Bitcoin zaps, enabling users to send, receive, and display onchain zaps, while also improving UI rendering, call permission handling, and Linux AppImage packaging. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v1.09.2, v1.09.1, and v1.09.0 last week.
Contributed by: Vitor Pamplona
3. Jumble - v26.5.5
Jumble is a user-friendly Nostr client for exploring relay feeds. This release adds recent search history to improve navigation, fixes QR code scan button positioning and video metadata extraction issues, and refactors settings pages for a more consistent user experience. This was the biggest release, and v26.5.6 was the latest last week.
Contributed by: Cody
4. Aegis - v0.5.1
Aegis is a cross-platform Nostr signer that manages event signing through multiple connection methods with a focus on security and control over permissions. The v0.5.1 release adds an app log viewer with filtering, TTL-based permission approvals, relay status management with quick reconnect, PIN-based secure access, and improved activity filtering and search, along with upgrades to NIP-46 validation, logging, and overall UI and settings refactoring.
Contributed by: Zzzz
5. Primal Android App - 3.5.9
Primal Android App is a mobile client for the Nostr protocol that lets users browse feeds, interact with posts, manage profiles, and use features like notifications, search, and media playback. This release introduces a redesigned app shell with updated navigation and Explore screen, improved feed and notification filtering, audio playback for links, NIP-05 verification display, enhanced search editing, performance improvements, better event-link handling in the editor, and fixes for layout and database stability issues.
Contributed by: Aleksandar Ilic
6. YakiHonne Mobile App - 2.0.5
YakiHonne mobile app is a decentralized social media mobile client built on the Nostr protocol that enables users to browse, publish, and interact with content in a privacy-focused and censorship-resistant environment. The 2.0.5 release improves feed customization by moving nested comments into feed settings, disables following notifications by default, enhances Blossom media management with better internal navigation and mirror handling, optimizes video prefetching, and includes fixes for video thumbnails, quote functionality, and overall performance improvements.
Contributed by: Boukhalfa Seddik
7. YakiHonne Web App - v5.9.1
YakiHonne is a decentralized social media client built on the Nostr protocol that allows users to create, browse, and interact with content in a censorship-resistant and privacy-focused environment. The v5.9.1 release fixes an image pasting issue in note creation, resolves content fetching for articles, videos, and curations via Yakihonne NIP-05 URLs, and improves the Blossom options interface by adding clearer icons for better usability.
Contributed by: Moos
8. NymChat - v3.63.337
Nymchat is a lightweight Nostr-based ephemeral chat client, also bridged with Bitchat, designed for anonymous and temporary messaging. This release adds typing indicators and read receipts in public channels, improves default channel sorting by activity, and fixes several UI and moderation issues including group owner/mod visibility, avatar display after blocking, and message bubble layout behavior. This was the biggest one, and there were also a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: Luxas
9. Ridestr - v0.2.7
Ridestr is a decentralized ridesharing application built on the Nostr protocol that uses Cashu payments to enable peer-to-peer ride matching and settlement between riders and drivers. This release improves core ride reliability and pricing accuracy, adds features like ride request pings for drivers, payment method reordering and better address search for riders, introduces per-follower mute and improved profile sharing for drivers, and fixes multiple stability issues including fare inconsistencies, ride state bugs, and notification and key-sync edge cases.
Contributed by: VariableFate
10. Clave - v0.2.0-build79 — Connect tab + picker (Phase 1) - (Pre release)
Clave is an iOS remote signer built on NIP-46 that securely stores Nostr private keys in the iPhone Keychain and allows external apps to sign events via encrypted NostrConnect or bunker flows without needing the app to stay open. This pre-release introduces a redesigned Connect tab as a top-level navigation entry, adds a unified multi-account pairing system with an account picker for NostrConnect and bunker flows, improves per-account URI handling and onboarding clarity, and includes internal refactoring of the handshake system along with expanded test coverage while keeping the underlying protocol unchanged.
Contributed by: ⚡️ᗪㄖ匚⚡️
1. Mostro Core - v0.11.3
Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides the peer-to-peer foundation for the Mostro decentralized exchange ecosystem. The v0.11.3 release adds a new BondPayoutRequest payload for AddBondInvoice actions, improves validation and rejection handling for unsupported actions, updates the changelog, and includes formatting, testing, and maintenance improvements. This was the latest, and there were also 2 more releases last week (v0.11.2, v0.11.1).
Contributed by: negrunch
2. Mostro CLI - v0.15.2
Mostro CLI is a command-line client for the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin and Lightning exchange built on Nostr. This release fixes dispute filtering by correctly using NOSTR_DISPUTE_EVENT_KIND, improving dispute listing reliability, while also including changelog, README, and maintenance updates. Although this was the latest release, there were also the releases of v0.15.1 and v0.15.0 last week.
Contributed by: negrunch
3. Nostr VPN - v4.0.26
Nostr VPN is a developer-focused networking system that provides a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN built on a FIPS-backed data plane, including a CLI/daemon, shared core libraries, and cross-platform native shells. The v4.0.26 release adds an iOS privacy manifest declaring required system permissions for storage and networking-related APIs, improves TestFlight tooling with the ability to expire specific builds before publishing replacements, and includes updated signed and packaged builds across macOS, Linux, Windows, and Android platforms. This was the latest, and there were also a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: Sirius
No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.
1. Angor - v0.2.25
Angor is an alpha-stage decentralized peer-to-peer funding protocol built on Bitcoin and Nostr, enabling project creation and funding flows in a trust-minimized way. This release improves app stability and funding UX by fixing share links and Android startup UI issues, adding support for resuming pending Lightning swaps when the app reopens, and refining project configuration behavior for better network and identity handling in test environments. This was the latest, and there were also two more releases last week (v0.2.24, v0.2.23).
Contributed by: dangershony TheDude
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I’m 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-sixth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.
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