🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (09th March 2026 - 66th Edition)
“my only goal with wisp is to make people like nostr and have it not feel so slow and broken”
“Most people think the world is getting darker.
But quietly, something extraordinary is happening.
• Money that cannot be printed: Bitcoin
• Speech that cannot be censored: Nostr
• Value exchanged directly between people: ⚡
No permission.
No gatekeepers.
Just individuals building, learning, and creating.
The future won’t be fixed by institutions.
It will be built by sovereign individuals.
And for the first time in history…
they have the tools. 🧡💜”
1. Great news from Rabble about Divine 📢
2. You would really be interested to see this discussion 😉
3. Let’s curate with some Bitcoin songs 🎧
4. This tool would be so useful, especially for creators to keep engaging on Nostr 👇🏻
5. An awesome podcast between two popular Nostriches 👌🏻
6. This collaboration will make amazing Bitcoin arts 😍
7. Music is the Medicine 🎵
8. A Nostrich asks for freedom on Nostr 👇🏻
9. Whitenoise is gonna be insane 😍
10. Which part of this do you belong to? 🫵🏻
11. A featureable release of Yakihonne 👇🏻
12. Is she gonna preparing for the Birthday? 🎁
13. A comeback of a Nostrich after a while ✌🏻
14. Welcome to the Nostr world, little nostrich 👶🏻
15. Anyone solve this please 📢
16. This ambition is so friendly. Let’s spread 🫱🏻🫲🏿
17. This is a great decision 🫶🏻
18. Really well said 😍
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://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 1.44M (+116.7%)
👉🏻 New Users Last week : 307.4K (-60.7%)
👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.57M
👉🏻 All-time BTC Amount : 42.09 BTC
👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 172.2K
According to https://npub.world/stats,
During last week:
👉🏻 Total Users: 3,900, compared to 2,691 users the week before
Many thanks to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @npub1...6c2uc https://npub.world/stats by @npub1...7vgup and @npub1...3dgh9 and all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr for providing these insights.
1. What is Nostr? The Decentralized Protocol for Developers
https://www.verygood.ventures/blog/what-is-nostr
2. Criando um Cliente Nostr de Terminal com Python
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT8HLUxIY34
3. O que é NOSTR? Guia completo para iniciantes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZab4X5ZLS8
1. SXWorldwide - A Variety Extravaganza - March 2026
📅 Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026 - Sunday, March 15, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 4.00 PM CDT and 6.00 PM - 10.00 PM CDT 📍 Location: https://www.sxworldwide.xyz/ (Streaming Worldwide)
🤹♀️ Organizers: @npub1...m092t
🔗 Event:
2. RUNSTR: DISTRICT 5k - March 2026
📅 Date: Sunday, March 15, 2026 ⏰ Time: 7.00 AM - 10.00 AM EDT 📍 Location: Hains Point, Washington, DC 20024, USA
🤹♀️ Organizers: @npub1...jvy4e
🔗 Event:
https://www.satlantis.io/events/1571/RUNSTR%3A-DISTRICT-5k
3. Nostr Atlanta #11 - Lunch & Learn - Secret Handshake - March 2026
📅 Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT 📍 Location: 684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE suite a1, Atlanta, GA, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: @npub1...v9ka6
🔗 Event:
4. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - April 2026
📅 Date: Sunday, April 05, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: @npub1...p9elk
🔗 Event:
https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjcgbhb/
1. Soapbox Sessions Episode 27: This Podcast Creates Issues
@npub1...9arpj @npub1...tp424 @npub1...zf9d0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyS7hh1xeK8
2. Highlighting a decentralized social media platform, Nostr
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVcJU9Nk2mE
3. Unf*ck The Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnHQTIteFi4
4. TokenSats Claw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxXq_e34pHk
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 @npub1...tajft 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: @npub1...0r407
- Zaps Received: 474
- Sats Earned: 75k
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Name: @npub1...r50e8
- Zaps Received: 272
- Sats Earned: 53k
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Name: @npub1...tp424
- Zaps Received: 167
- Sats Earned: 32k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: @npub1...92h64
- Zaps Sent: 3395
- Sats Spent: 134k
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Name: @npub1...cx6yw
- Zaps Sent: 252
- Sats Spent: 281k
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Name: @npub1...r50e8
- Zaps Sent: 201
- Sats Spent: 59k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: @npub1...m3m3e
- Sats Earned: 572k
- Zaps Received: 106
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Name: @npub1...5xdlq
- Sats Earned: 280k
- Zaps Received: 28
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Name: @npub1...fd3h5
- Sats Earned: 162k
- Zaps Received: 157
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: @npub1...cx6yw
- Sats Spent: 281k
- Zaps Sent: 252
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Name: @npub1...y9h3r
- Sats Spent: 150k
- Zaps Sent: 3
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Name: @npub1...92h64
- Sats Spent: 134k
- Zaps Sent: 3397
Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:
🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
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- Zaps Received: 59
- Sats Earned: 20k
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- Zaps Received: 36
- Sats Earned: 506k
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- Zaps Received: 26
- Sats Earned: 4k
🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
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- Sats Earned: 506k
- Zaps Received: 36
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- Sats Earned: 108k
- Zaps Received: 2
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- Sats Earned: 50k
- Zaps Received: 2
1. Manent - v1.0.1 - New Tool
Manent is a private, encrypted space for storing notes and files on the Nostr network, giving users full control over their personal data. This release includes a small maintenance update that changes the fallback Blossom server, helping ensure more reliable file storage and access.
Developed by: @npub1...8vwqk
2. Amber - v4.1.3-pre2
Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that securely signs events for Nostr apps on your device. This pre-release improves relay management, updates default profile relays, and enhances notification text and UI elements. It also refines the backup screen, adds clearer signing information, and introduces a bottom-sheet interface for requests. Additional fixes improve relay connections, device compatibility, and overall stability.
Contributed by: @npub1...d0jr5
3. Oxchat App - v1.5.4
0xchat is a secure messaging app built on the Nostr protocol, designed for private and decentralized communication. This release fixes multiple Linux and app issues, including UI freezes, image display problems, emoji reactions, logout behavior, and relay management bugs. It also improves media handling with video volume controls and enhanced voice playback (scrolling and 2× speed) and adds new relays such as nostr.data.haus and relay.mostr.pub, improving reliability and usability across platforms.
Contributed by: @npub1...9x2wl
4. White Noise - v2026.3.5
White Noise is a secure, private, and decentralized chat app that uses the Marmot protocol with MLS and Nostr to enable encrypted messaging. This release focuses on stability and usability improvements, fixing issues with onboarding text, message reactions, media previews, chat UI elements, and translations. It also introduces reply improvements, a media-only chat summary, delivery status indicators, and various performance and build pipeline optimizations, making the app more reliable for secure messaging.
Contributed by: @npub1...6c2uc @npub1...d669p @npub1...xddfh @npub1...agrxw @npub1...6xvtp Mubarak Auwal
5. Nymchat - v3.40.155
Nymchat is a lightweight, ephemeral chat client built on the Nostr protocol and bridged with Bitchat for anonymous, temporary messaging. This release introduces a hotfix that enhances the quick react popup, improving the speed and usability of emoji reactions in chats. This was the latest release, and there were a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: @npub1...733sv
6. NosCall - v0.5.1
Noscall is a secure audio and video calling app built on the Nostr protocol, designed for private and decentralized communication. This release adds voice message support, optimizes the desktop experience, introduces contact favorites and notes, improves settings organization, enhances themes and accessibility, and includes data export, cleanup, and general bug fixes for a smoother, more reliable experience.
Contributed by: sana
7. Nostur (A Nostr client for iOS) - v1.26.1
Nostur is a social media–oriented client for Nostr, focusing on feeds, messaging, and multimedia content. This release fixes issues with voice message playback, resolves scrolling problems in direct messages, reduces timeout notification spam, and addresses a GIF search bug to improve overall app usability and responsiveness.
Contributed by: @npub1...flahe
8. Angor - v0.2.6
Angor is a decentralized P2P funding protocol built on Bitcoin and Nostr, enabling users to invest in and fund projects directly. This release adds Boltz integration, 1-click investing, and fully functional invest/fund project flows (tested on testnet). The UI is about 70% complete, with updates including Find Projects, Project Details, My Projects, and Funders views, as well as a new Create/Import Wallet flow. Several fixes, validations, and backend connections were also added to improve user experience and ensure smoother investment operations. This release is still not considered stable, with a beta-ready version expected in the next update.
Contributed by: @npub1...hzsk3 TheDude, José Manuel Nieto
9. Divine - 1.0.6
Divine is a decentralized short-form video sharing app built on the Nostr protocol, inspired by the creativity and simplicity of Vine. This release improves feed speed and playback stability, enhances search and discovery with a new Explore categories tab, and introduces stronger identity features like multi-account support and improved NIP-05 verification. It also upgrades the camera and video editor tools, adds real-time comments and better sharing options, and includes platform improvements with macOS support and experimental Linux builds.
Contributed by: @npub1...jg240
10. Wisp - 0.5.1-beta
Wisp is a minimal and performance-focused Android client for the Nostr protocol. This release adds relay hints to e-tags to improve event discovery and enhances profile fetching, helping the app retrieve user data more reliably while maintaining its lightweight and fast experience. This was the latest release, and there were multiple more releases last week.
Contributed by: @npub1...r50e8
11. Yakihonne Web - v5.7.0
Yakihonne is a decentralized social and payments client built on Nostr and Bitcoin, combining social networking with Lightning-powered interactions. The v5.7.0 release introduces an Explore page with media packs and starter packs, custom feeds, and scheduled notes support. It also improves messaging options, adds useful hotkeys for publishing and browsing media, introduces a Trending Notes feed, and fixes several issues related to wallets, notifications, and event signing for a smoother overall experience.
Contributed by: Moos
12. Yakihonne Mobile App - 2.0.2
YakiHonne mobile app is a Nostr client for mobile. This release adds support for starter packs, media packs, relay-based trending notes, and scheduled notes. It also improves messaging with non-blocking sending, queueing, and message deletion, while fixing issues related to ecash wallet creation, relay lists, sharing on iOS, currency updates, and hashtag recognition, along with other performance improvements.
Contributed by: Boukhalfa Seddik
1. Relayer - v2.2.8
Relayer is a Nostr relay framework for developers, used to build and run custom Nostr relays. This release fixes a context leak in the event processing loop and reduces the lock scope for clientsMu, improving stability and performance when handling events.
Contributed by: @npub1...uhaj6
2. NDK (Nostr Development Kit) - v0.7.1
NDK is a Dart library that simplifies building applications on the Nostr protocol. The v0.7.1 release introduces NIP-42 multi-account authentication, improved relay handling, and new caching and broadcast features. It also adds utilities like fetching NIP-05 data without a pubkey, improves database performance, and includes numerous bug fixes and stability improvements for Flutter and Dart-based Nostr apps.
Contributed by: @npub1...s3tur @npub1...uw5te frnandu
3. SNSTR (Secure Nostr Software Toolkit for Renegades) - v0.3.3
SNSTR is a lightweight TypeScript library for interacting with the Nostr protocol, designed to help developers build secure Nostr-based applications. This release strengthens relay authentication, publishing, and timeout handling for better reliability. It also adds helpers for NIP-42 authentication, NIP-29 group management, NIP-56 and NIP-70 moderation, and NIP-86 relay management, along with shared signer abstractions for local keys, NIP-07, and remote signers. These improvements make SNSTR more robust and developer-friendly for building Nostr integrations. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v0.3.2 last week.
Contributed by: @npub1...klxzl
No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.
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 Sixty-Sixth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.
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A big shoutout to @npub1...jg240 for his generous patronage for my Nostr Recaps!
Thank you, my younger brother @npub1...0hjyn for helping me with working on the content and making graphic stuff for my Nostr Recaps!
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