🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (27th April 2026 - 73rd Edition)
“I came to Nostr because I was tired of being the product.
No algorithm telling me what to think. No platform deleting what it doesn’t like. No owner.
Just keys, relays, and words.
If you also escaped the golden cages, follow me. Let’s build something different here.”
1. A Sweet song from Ivy 🎧
2. A music nostrich gang is so much grateful to Nostr 🎸
3. A popular lady nostrich is recovering back 💜
4. 💯% true and we are in it 😍
5. What do you think about this? Do you agree? 🤔
6. Nostr needs this kind of non-technical content too 👌🏻
7. He is trying to do a good job to iOS devices on Nostr 👍🏻
8. When you realized this, you are on Nostr 👇🏻
9. This is 💯% true. Well said Isa 🤙🏻
10. Consistency gives you the goal you need. Keep growing 💪🏻
11. This could be so awesome 😍
12. You can buy so quality wine from him 🍷
13. When you have such productive reason to be on Nostr, it is awesome 🤟🏻
14. Some proud builders on Nostr 👨🏻💻
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://nostrarchives.com/analytics,
Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage:
👉🏻 Amethyst - 315 Users - 1.6k Notes
👉🏻 Primal Android - 255 Users - 924 Notes
👉🏻 Primal Web - 145 Users - 404 Notes
Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage:
👉🏻 http://relay.damus.io/ - 200.8k
👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 192.1k
👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net/ - 166.4k
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
👉🏻 Publishing Users last week : 260.9K (-35.0%)
👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week : 666.6K (+112.2%)
👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.72M
👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount : 42.53 BTC
👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 175.7K
According to https://npub.world/stats,
During last week:
👉🏻 Total Users: 4,921, compared to 3,562 users the week before
Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @npub1...6c2uc https://npub.world/stats by @npub1...7vgup and all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr for providing these insights.
1. Use nostr as your agenda in notion, without complications
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVnWFaySIVA
2. I built a Bitcoin/Nostr Ecosystem from scratch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Al1h34Dahg
1. NosVegas 2026 - April 2026
📅 Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2026 ⏰ Time: 7.00 PM - 1.00 AM PDT 📍 Location: We All Scream Night Club, 517 Fremont St, Las Vegas, NV 89101, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: @npub1...tp424
🔗 Event:
2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - May 2026
📅 Date: Sunday, May 03, 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/mlcdqtyjchbfb/
3. Nostr Nights #2 @ Bitcoin Park Nashville - May 2026
📅 Date: Monday, May 11, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CDT 📍 Location: Bitcoin Park, 1910, 21st Avenue South, Nashville, Davidson County, Middle Tennessee, Tennessee, 37212, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: @npub1...tp424
🔗 Event:
1. From Cassingles to Zaps: How Bitcoin Fixes What Streaming Broke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKILy2PtaVQ
2. The Claw Cast Ep. 6: When Machines Choose Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99TKnRsHsA8
3. Nostr is the best
https://x.com/thekylehuber/status/2047002592421757274
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: 548
- Sats Earned: 61k
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Name: @npub1...ktplc
- Zaps Received: 331
- Sats Earned: 545k
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Name: @npub1...r50e8
- Zaps Received: 266
- Sats Earned: 49k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: @npub1...92h64
- Zaps Sent: 1636
- Sats Spent: 81k
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Name: @npub1...u9g2t
- Zaps Sent: 163
- Sats Spent: 5k
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Name: @npub1...cx6yw
- Zaps Sent: 129
- Sats Spent: 31k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: @npub1...ktplc
- Sats Earned: 545k
- Zaps Received: 331
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Name: @npub1...fd3h5
- Sats Earned: 221k
- Zaps Received: 128
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Name: @npub1...5xdlq
- Sats Earned: 205k
- Zaps Received: 16
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: @npub1...92h64
- Sats Spent: 81k
- Zaps Sent: 1636
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Name: “Name is not visible”
- Sats Spent: 78k
- Zaps Sent: 1
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Name: @npub1...fnr0j
- Sats Spent: 73k
- Zaps Sent: 6
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: 53
- Sats Earned: 10k
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- Zaps Received: 32
- Sats Earned: 10k
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- Zaps Received: 34
- Sats Earned: 15k
🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
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- Sats Earned: 66k
- Zaps Received: 4
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- Sats Earned: 40k
- Zaps Received: 2
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- Sats Earned: 21k
- Zaps Received: 2
1. Nowhere - New Tool
Nowhere is a decentralized web publishing system where an entire website is encoded directly into a URL fragment, meaning the site exists within the link itself rather than being stored on a server. It enables users to create and publish content instantly using tools like events, fundraisers, stores, petitions, messages, drops, art, and forums without needing accounts or platform approval. Interactions such as orders and messages are routed through Nostr relays using ephemeral keys, ensuring privacy and censorship resistance.
Developed by: @npub1...kh2p2
- Source: https://github.com/5t34k/nowhere
2. Iris Audio - New Tool
Iris Audio is a Hashtree-backed audio catalog application and reference implementation for building large decentralized media databases within the Nostr ecosystem.
Developed by: @npub1...3drvk
- Source: https://git.iris.to/#/npub1xdhnr9mrv47kkrn95k6cwecearydeh8e895990n3acntwvmgk2dsdeeycm/iris-audio
3. Nostr WoT Extension - New Tool
Nostr WoT Extension is a browser extension for Nostr that manages identity, signs events, sends zaps, and visualizes trust relationships (Web of Trust) directly inside the browser without needing to switch apps.
Developed by: Leon Acosta
4. Clave - v0.1.0-build18 (Build 18 — Bunker-first UX + dev menu) - New Tool
Clave is an iOS NIP-46 remote signer used to securely sign Nostr events via the bunker protocol without exposing private keys to client apps. This release improves the onboarding UX by making bunker-first flow the default, hides nostrconnect UI for reliability, adds a developer menu with logging and diagnostic tools, and includes build and stability improvements while keeping the signing (bunker) flow unchanged. This was the latest, and there was another release of v0.1.0-build13 last week.
Contributed by: @npub1...f3urc
5. Nostria - v3.1.30
Nostria is a decentralized social app built on the Nostr protocol, focused on human connections and a cleaner social experience without algorithmic noise. This release adds a wallet setting to display sats in USD and introduces an option to enable or disable promotional cards in the feed, improving user customization and control over the interface. This was the latest, and there were also a few more releases last week.
Contributed by: @npub1...cjajh
6. Comet - alpha-9aab0d3
Comet is a local-first notes app built with Tauri, React, TypeScript, and Rust, designed for offline-first editing with structured sync capabilities. This release focuses on internal architecture improvements, including refactoring event handling into imperative flows, consolidating Tauri sync listeners, reorganizing shared modules for better code separation, tightening lint rules, and preventing unsafe cross-feature imports to improve maintainability and stability.
Contributed by: Christian Chiarulli
7. Hostr - v0.1.0
Hostr is a peer-to-peer rental accommodation platform built using Nostr-based decentralized technologies, allowing property listings and bookings without relying on centralized intermediaries. The v0.1.0 release introduces the initial production setup with escrow infrastructure, blockchain/RPC integrations for RSK, deployment and CI improvements, production Docker build fixes, network and DNS reliability updates, and operational refinements for the escrow and hosted environment, establishing the first stable foundation of the system.
Contributed by: Paco
8. Nymchat - v3.58.288
Nymchat is a lightweight ephemeral chat client built on the Nostr protocol, also bridged with Bitchat for anonymous, temporary messaging. This release is a security-focused hotfix that patches a stored XSS vulnerability, adds jitter to kind 0 created_at timestamps for better privacy behavior, and improves safety by validating JSON structure of events received from relays.
Contributed by: @npub1...733sv
9. WaveFunc Radio - 0.1.3
WaveFunc Radio is a Nostr-based internet radio directory and player with full-text search, allowing users to discover and stream radio stations in a decentralized way. This release improves streaming stability and UI responsiveness, adds toast notifications for playback failures, fixes mixed-content issues by upgrading HTTP to HTTPS, refines search behavior and indexing for better performance, and enhances error handling in admin and station search operations.
Contributed by: @npub1...jm4rf
10. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.2.5
Mostro Mobile Client is a secure mobile app for the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform, providing order book, chat, and trading features on top of the Mostro network. This release adds filtering of offers by maker account age in the order book, introduces in-app notifications for chat messages received outside the chat screen, adds configurable trade history retention settings, and improves background P2P chat notifications, along with fixes for order cancellation UI issues and incorrect role display in canceled orders.
Contributed by: @npub1...neuhz @npub1...rvfj0
11. Wisp - v1.0.2
Wisp is a minimal and high-performance Android client for the Nostr protocol focused on speed and usability. This release adds a QR scan tab to the drawer QR sheet for easier interactions and includes a compatibility fix to support 16 KB page size on Android 15+, improving stability on newer devices. This was the latest release and there was also the release of v1.0.0 last week.
Contributed by: @npub1...r50e8
1. Hashtree-cc - New Developer Tool
Hashtree-cc is a standalone workspace for the hashtree.cc application and its local TypeScript packages, built on top of Hashtree, providing a structured development environment for maintaining and extending the system within the Nostr ecosystem.
Developed by: @npub1...3drvk
- Source: https://git.iris.to/#/npub1xdhnr9mrv47kkrn95k6cwecearydeh8e895990n3acntwvmgk2dsdeeycm/hashtree-cc
2. Dart Nostr - v10.0.1
Dart Nostr is a Dart/Flutter developer SDK (library) for building Nostr applications. This release includes a minor package fix (publishing example directory for pub.dev scoring and cleanup of redundant imports), while v10.0.0 is a major breaking update that modernizes the entire API by introducing a typed NostrResult<T> return system, replacing exceptions with structured failures, renaming and simplifying service namespaces (keys, relays, utils), adding a unified NostrClient facade, improving subscription and relay transport management, and introducing configurable retry policies, better error handling, and a fully rewritten documentation and migration path for developers.
Contributed by: Anas Fikhi
3. RX Nostr - rx-nostr@3.7.4
RX Nostr is a developer library (Nostr SDK) that provides reactive, flexible communication with multiple Nostr relays using RxJS. This release is a small bug fix that makes the arguments of createRxNostr() optional to simplify initialization and improve developer ergonomics. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of rx-nostr@3.7.3, crypto@3.1.6, rx-nostr@3.7.2, and crypto@3.1.5 last week.
Contributed by: @npub1...7fxtw
4. Mostro Core - v0.10.0
Mostro Core is a developer library (Rust SDK) that provides peer-to-peer building blocks for decentralized applications and serves as the foundation for the Mostro daemon. This release adds improvements to key handling by splitting identity and trade keys in wrap/unwrap flows, enforces stricter validation and formatting for rumor kinds, updates NIP-59 related logic, and includes documentation updates reflecting the new transport and key separation design. This was the latest release. But there were also the releases of v0.9.1 and v0.9.0 last week.
Contributed by: @npub1...3rfkq
5. ZSP - 0.4.9
ZSP is a fast CLI tool for publishing Android apps to Nostr relays, commonly used by Zapstore. The v0.4.9 release improves reliability by ensuring correct exit codes on failed publish attempts and adds a release filter to better control publishing workflows.
Contributed by: @npub1...3dgh9
1. Grain - v0.5.0
Grain is a comprehensive Nostr solution that functions as both a powerful relay and a Go developer library for building Nostr applications. This release is a major architectural overhaul that replaces MongoDB with a fully embedded nostrdb storage engine, moves to a single self-contained binary with built-in dashboard assets, introduces real physical event deletion with NIP-09 support, enforces proactive NIP-42 authentication, rebuilds mutelist handling using NIP-65 outbox relays, and significantly improves performance through caching, concurrency, and progressive rendering while also adding CI reliability, Windows fixes, and a developer-preview Go client library. This was the latest, and there were the releases of v0.5.0-rc7 and v0.5.0-rc6 last week.
Contributed by: @npub1...v7f60
2. WoT Relay - v0.2.1
WoT Relay is a Nostr relay built on the Khatru framework that filters and stores notes based on a web-of-trust model, showing content from people you follow and their connections. This release adds configurable seed relays, archive kinds, and port settings via environment variables, introduces LMDB as the event storage backend, and improves WoT bootstrap fetching performance along with general relay improvements.
Contributed by: @npub1...r50e8 @npub1...9xzpc @npub1...rfsft
1. TollGate - v0.1.0
TollGate is a protocol for enabling pay-per-use internet access using streaming micropayments in ecash (Cashu), allowing any device such as routers or switches to act as an access gate where users pay small amounts for connectivity without accounts or subscriptions. The v0.1.0 release defines the initial protocol specification, introducing layered standards including TIP-01 for base events, TIP-02 for Cashu payments, HTTP-based interfaces (HTTP-01 to HTTP-03), a Nostr-based interface (NOSTR-01), and WiFi-level access control (WIFI-01), establishing the foundation for decentralized, usage-based network access.
Contributed by: @npub1...465gr
2. Angor - 0.2.19
Angor is a decentralized peer-to-peer funding protocol built on Bitcoin and Nostr for creating and managing funding projects. This release adds an Edit Profile feature for project founders (aligned with the Angor web app) and includes fixes for mobile-related regressions, improving usability across devices. This was the latest, and there were a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: TheDude
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 Seventy-Third Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.
Thank you @npub1...0swft for this amazing idea!
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Thank you, my younger brother @npub1...0hjyn for helping me with the content and graphic stuff for my Nostr Recaps!
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