🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (1st December 2025 - 52nd Edition)
🧠 Quotes of the Week
“nostr wins if it stops trying to be a twitter clone and starts being the invisible layer underneath apps you actually want to use.”
“Why I love Nostr even more. It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure. Nostr gives me the agency to use the best filters. Platforms don’t.”
🔥 Community Highlights
1. Rabble invites Devs to make Nostr better
2. When the speaker combination is great, the discussion is so interesting 👇
3. This is 100% true 💯
4. This is why plebs love Nostr 💜
5. This is well said 👇
6. Seems interesting to check this out 🤔
7. This pleb has lovely ideas about life 👇
8. If you make a value, community comes to you 🫵
9. This is the reality of X 😏
10. What is your idea about this?
11. These kinds of signing offs of valuable plebs, doesn’t give positive effects to Nostr 😔
12. So happy to see these kind of notes ❤️
13. Schools is a place which teaches whole bunch of useless subjects that student doesn’t like to learn 👨🏫
14. This new pleb seems so ambitious here 👇
15. Nostr workshop at Bitcoin Amsterdam 👌
🌱 Ecosystem Growth
Nostr is growing fast!
According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 140 Nostr clients and over 450 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe.
According to https://nostr.watch, there are more than 870 relays online in more than 45 countries at the moment.
According to https://npub.world/stats,
During last week:
- Total Users: 2,559, compared to 2,516 users the week before
According to https://stats.nostr.band,
During last week:
- Total Zaps: 36,757, compared to 33,858 zaps the week before
- Total Zap senders: 2,462, compared to 3,379 plebs the week before
- Total Zap Amount: 10,041,432, compared to 9,838,060 sats the week before
- Total Events: 3,449,581, compared to 3,960,045 events the week before
Many thanks to https://npub.world/stats by Pip the WoT guy and franzap https://stats.nostr.band by brugeman all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights.
🎓 Educational Guides
No Educational Guides for last week.
📅 Upcoming Events
1. Nostr live talk radio - December 2025
📅 Date: Saturday, December 6, 2025
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM GMT
📍 Location: https://cornychat.com/nostrradio
🤹♀️ Organizers: Corny Chat
2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - December 2025
📅 Date: Sunday, December 7, 2025
⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST
📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: Chris Curran
🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyhcqbkb
📰 Nostr in the Media
1. alby community call - Recurrent cozy hour with developers, users and interesting projects in Bitcoin, Nostr & Lightning ecosystem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFU-q8EuFZk
2. Soapbox Sessions Episode 13: Nostr is diVine with the Vine app Reboot
Derek Ross MAKE SONGS LONGER Soapbox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_-euKOgFUc
3. How Nostr & Bitcoin are being used in Venezuela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu6t5Wjpg7M
4. Nostr Protocol: Take CONTROL of Your Online Audience!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipcyVieZiDY
5. Nostr: Secure Your Online Identity & Content Freedom
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TSWLQiuNjSs
6. Decentralizing Digital Identity & Encrypted Messaging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCr6U0vuqVY
7. Nostr is a Friendly, Collaborative Community
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fopU0lu8ESs
8. The Internet Just Split In Two: Which Side Are You On?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rGjQfU7rNU
⚡ Most Zapped Last Week
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 creators who received/sent the most engagement:
🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
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Name: Rizful.com (zap tester)
- Zaps Received: 1004
- Sats Earned: 1k
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Name: FLASH
- Zaps Received: 801
- Sats Earned: 71k
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Name: corndalorian
- Zaps Received: 397
- Sats Earned: 25k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: AQSTR
- Zaps Sent: 799
- Sats Spent: 71k
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Name: Azzamo
- Zaps Sent: 459
- Sats Spent: 4k
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Name: Benking
- Zaps Sent: 344
- Sats Spent: 1k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: Fountain Boost Bot
- Sats Earned: 726k
- Zaps Received: 344
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Name: Roy Merritt
- Sats Earned: 540k
- Zaps Received: 9
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Name: BitBetBot
- Sats Earned: 351k
- Zaps Received: 44
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: BitBetBot
- Sats Spent: 797k
- Zaps Sent: 71
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Name: Bryan
- Sats Spent: 250k
- Zaps Sent: 3
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Name: “The name not visible”
- Sats Spent: 218k
- Zaps Sent: 4
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🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
1. vnak - New Tool
vnak (Visual Nostr Army Knife) is a lightweight, visual version of the Nostr Army Knife (nak) designed to provide accessible, graphical tools for interacting with Nostr. While similar in purpose to nak, vnak is currently less feature-complete and focuses on core visual functionalities rather than the full range of capabilities.
Developed by: fiatjaf
- Source: https://github.com/fiatjaf/vnak
2. Coracle - 0.6.27
Coracle is a web-based Nostr client designed to explore advanced Nostr features such as intelligent relay selection, web-of-trust moderation, personalized content recommendations, and strong privacy protections. In this version, the update delivers a few small but important fixes: correcting imgproxy URL handling, preventing non-links from being incorrectly linkified, and fixing a minor typo.
Developed by: hodlbod
3. Amber - v4.0.3-pre1
Amber is a Nostr event-signing app for Android that keeps your nsec safely stored in one dedicated place while signing events for other Nostr apps. This release improves security, stability, and usability by fixing bunker shutdown issues, adding account export/import, separating relay requests per account, improving encryption/decryption behavior, supporting ping requests, and adding crash reporting. It also cleans up logs/history in separate databases, improves saved-account handling, and updates dependencies, resulting in smoother account management, safer key usage, and more reliable relay interactions.
Developed by: greenart7c3
4. Aegis - v0.3.2 iOS & Mac release
Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer that lets users securely sign events and connect via multiple methods. This release adds WSS support for local relays, fixes multi-account subscription issues and subscription failures after relay restarts, and improves overall user experience for smoother and more reliable operation.
Developed by: ZharlieW
5. Nostria - android-v1.0.6
Nostria is a decentralized social networking app built on Nostr, giving users control over their profile, data, and interactions while resisting censorship. This version adds support for Android share targets, integrates the NWC protocol handler for seamless connections, and introduces a maskable app icon for improved device compatibility and visual consistency.
Developed by: SondreB
6. Keychat - v1.37.2+6475
Keychat is a chat application built on Bitcoin Ecash, Nostr, Signal, and MLS protocols, enabling secure, encrypted messaging across platforms. This release improves message handling by fixing NIP-17 message sorting and allowing users to switch logged-in identities in the browser, while adding features like in-browser file downloads, special badges for NIP-04 and NIP-17 messages, replying to NIP-04 messages, and requesting device microphone permissions, enhancing usability, interactivity, and security for users.
Developed by: kcdev
7. NosCall - v0.4.0
NosCall is a secure, cross-platform audio and video calling app built on the Nostr protocol, offering end-to-end encryption for private communications. This release adds Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode for Android and iOS, redesigns the video call interface for a smoother user experience, and fixes Android auto-login issues, improving usability, multitasking, and reliability for users.
Developed by: sana
8. Vector - v0.2.2
Vector is a decentralized, end-to-end encrypted communication platform built on the Nostr protocol (NIP-17). This release adds the first Android APK, an encrypted SQLite database, Storage Manager, and Primary Device setting for Group Invites. It improves synchronization speed, file attachment and UI design, profile/message shortcuts, and settings polish, while fixing group chat bugs, media crashes, emoji panel jitter, and excessive UI re-renders, resulting in a faster, smoother, and more reliable user experience.
Developed by: JSKitty Source: https://github.com/VectorPrivacy/Vector/releases/tag/v0.2.2
9. White Noise - v0.2.1
White Noise is a secure, decentralized chat app built on the Nostr protocol using MLS encryption, designed to protect privacy while providing a smooth messaging experience. This release introduces enhanced notifications with deep linking, automatic clearing, unread counts, and localization support. Image handling is improved with automatic downloads, zoom functionality, and media icons in previews. User experience refinements include unique identicons, better scroll behavior, and protection against accidental profile edits. Chat bugs and notification issues are fixed, while UI elements like avatar colors, padding, and keypackage buttons are polished. Under the hood, performance is boosted with optimized group metadata loading, non-blocking user fetches, smarter data synchronization, and more efficient notifications, resulting in a faster, smoother, and more reliable app.
Developed by: JeffG
🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases
1. snow-actions/nostr - v1.8.2
snow-actions/nostr is a GitHub Action used to automatically send Nostr events from GitHub workflows. This release improves reliability and security by adding clearer proxy tags in notifications, strengthening tests, and updating multiple dependencies (including nostr-tools, ws, dotenv, eslint, jest, GitHub Actions libraries, and hashing modules). These updates benefit developers by ensuring better protocol compatibility, improved performance, enhanced security, and more stable automation when publishing Nostr events directly from CI/CD pipelines.
Developed by: 雪猫
2. Nostr Webhost (hostr) - v0.1.7
Nostr Webhost (hostr) is a command-line tool that lets you host and deploy Single Page Applications (SPAs) directly onto the Nostr network by publishing them through distributed relays instead of traditional web servers. In version v0.1.7, the project adds support for configuring both a local web server and relay settings, updates its build and release configuration, upgrades the Docker base image and GitHub Actions to Go 1.25, and refreshes dependency versions. These changes benefit developers by making deployments more flexible, improving compatibility and performance, and ensuring smoother, more reliable hosting of SPAs across Nostr’s decentralized infrastructure. This was the biggest update of the week, and there were another two releases (v0.1.6, v0.1.8) last week.
Developed by: kaiji
3. Mostro CLI - v0.14.4
Mostro CLI is a command-line client for the Mostro P2P marketplace, letting users and admins manage trades, disputes, and solver actions via terminal. This version improves admin workflows by renaming NSEC_PRIVKEY to ADMIN_NSEC, making it optional for non-admin commands, adding helper functions to fetch and validate keys, updating display messages, and refactoring key-handling logic for clearer, more maintainable code, resulting in a smoother setup and fewer configuration errors.
Developed by: Pinball Wizard Andrea Díaz Correia
4. Gitplaza - v0.21.0
Gitplaza is a desktop Nostr client focused on managing Git-related activity, allowing users to interact with repositories, issues, and events within the Nostr network. In this release it introduces an advanced activity filter, incorporates nut-zaps into the web-of-trust calculation, adds a settings button for submitting Gitplaza issues, improves hashtag handling and upvote behavior, and enforces input restrictions for release details. Performance improvements prioritize efficient subscription filters and abort outdated requests, while bug fixes resolve login button clickability, inline event processing, feed updates, and race conditions, resulting in a smoother, more reliable experience for developers and users managing Git projects via Nostr. This was the latest release of the week, and there was also the release of v0.20.0 last week.
Developed by: dluvian
🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
1. Nosflare - v8.7.16
Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay, built specifically for Cloudflare’s stack using a custom “Cloudflare Nostr Database” (CFNDB), which leverages Workers, Durable Objects, Queues, and R2 storage to deliver a scalable, low-maintenance relay. In this version, Nosflare has been fully refactored to remove all SQL and Cloudflare D1 usage, now relying exclusively on Durable Objects and Queues, making the relay faster, simpler, and more efficient to operate.
Developed by: Luxas
👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
Nostr is built by the plebs, for the plebs. If you found this recap helpful, consider supporting me, Nomishka, with a zap.
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 Fifty-Second Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap, and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.
🫡 Credits
Thank you Jurjen de Vries for this amazing idea!
A big shoutout to rabble for your generous patronage!
Thank you, my brother Samalka Hansana for helping me to make the graphic stuff for this recap!
Recap by Nomishka
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