🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (25th May 2026 - 77th Edition)
“i open twitter and all i see is distractions and mainstream propaganda which makes me anxious.
i open nostr and i feel a completely different vibe, there’s still hope.”
1. Let’s wish Carla a cure 👇🏻
2. Let’s listen to “Country Gin” 🎧
3. Great news from Rod to the creators 😍
4. Wanna checkout the richest npubs on Nostr? 👇🏻
5. Let’s get the purple pill for the cure 💊
6. What do you think about this? 🤔
7. The latest wave of the Opensats Nostr Grant has released 🫶🏻
8. The frustrated journalist about old social media tends to Nostr 😍
9. Let’s define what Nostr is 🙌🏻
10. Nature calms us when our mind is nervous 😇
11. Leave your comment about “on-chain zaps” too 👇🏻
12. Agreeeeeeeee, Nostr isn’t broken, it will never be 🔥
13. This is the truth. What’s your experience? 🫵🏻
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 - 840 Users - 15.6k Notes
👉🏻 Primal Android - 692 Users - 7.3k Notes
👉🏻 Primal Web - 617 Users - 4.2k Notes
Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):
👉🏻 http://relay.damus.io/ - 219.9k
👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 218.4k
👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net/ - 184.7k
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 1.48M (+109.6%)
👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 2.79M (+181.3%)
👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.81M
👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 42.75 BTC
👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 177.3k
According to https://npub.world/stats,
During last week:
👉🏻 Total Users: 7,852, compared to 4,863 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. Create a Nostr account easily for beginners with NoorNote
2. Chamler.radio - Nostr Protocol
3. You own your identity, not the state
4. Decentralized Social Media - Nostr
1. 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/
2. Nostr London Meetup (2140) - June 2026
📅 Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 9.00 PM BST 📍 Location: TBA
🤹♀️ Organizers: 2140.wtf #blockworkgallery
🔗 Event:
https://www.meetup.com/nostr_london/events/308639465/
1. Relais Nostr en pratique : groupes, Blossom et hébergement pour artistes
2. Bitcoin pill + NOSTR pill
3. Why “on-chain zaps” are a terrible idea
https://dergigi.com/2026/05/20/careful-icarus/
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: Gigi
- Zaps Received: 364
- Sats Earned: 66k
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Name: FLASH
- Zaps Received: 332
- Sats Earned: 44k
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Name: Fountain Boost Bot
- Zaps Received: 311
- Sats Earned: 545k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: AQSTR
- Zaps Sent: 2555
- Sats Spent: 72k
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Name: FL Justin
- Zaps Sent: 126
- Sats Spent: 4k
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Name: falsefaucet
- Zaps Sent: 114
- Sats Spent: 29k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: La Crypta
- Sats Earned: 2M
- Zaps Received: 181
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Name: Fountain Boost Bot
- Sats Earned: 545k
- Zaps Received: 311
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Name: craigraw
- Sats Earned: 279k
- Zaps Received: 148
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: “The name is not visible”
- Sats Spent: 773k
- Zaps Sent: 21
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Name: “The name is not visible”
- Sats Spent: 734k
- Zaps Sent: 15
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Name: “The name is not visible”
- Sats Spent: 265k
- Zaps Sent: 41
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: 367
- Sats Earned: 289k
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- Zaps Received: 128
- Sats Earned: 275k
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- Zaps Received: 63
- Sats Earned: 11k
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- Sats Earned: 305k
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- Sats Earned: 289k
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1. Amethyst - v1.11.0: Calendars and OnChain Zaps
Amethyst is a Nostr client for Android focused on decentralized social networking, Bitcoin integration, and advanced protocol support. This release introduces major additions including NIP-52 calendar events with reminders, expanded on-chain Bitcoin zap features, Marmot/MLS group message replies, contact list navigation, and enhanced profile/payment tools. It also improves privacy, notifications, media handling, search, translations, desktop stability, and overall app performance while adding numerous UI refinements and bug fixes across feeds, zaps, uploads, playback, and relay handling.
Contributed by: Vitor Pamplona greenart7c3 Quentin David Kaspar, Róbert Nagy, mstrofnone
2. Amber - v6.1.0-pre3 (Pre-release)
Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that securely manages keys and signing requests for Nostr applications. This pre-release improves app connection flows with a redesigned permissions experience, better bunker handling, and support for PSBT signing, while also adding intent rate limiting, boot-service controls, beta auto-update support, expanded auto-sign options, and multiple fixes for crashes, relay authentication, startup behavior, and signer request handling.
Contributed by: greenart7c3
3. Mostro - v0.17.4
Mostro is a production-ready, censorship-resistant, non-custodial Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange built on Nostr. This release introduces a major multi-phase anti-abuse bond system with concurrent taker bonds, dispute slashing, forfeited states, payout confirmation flows, and improved bond lifecycle management, alongside NIP-59 dual-key gift wrap transport support, new environment variable key handling, price provider reliability improvements, dispute solver permissions, and multiple fixes and documentation updates across trading, payments, and dispute resolution flows.
Contributed by: negrunch Pinball Wizard Andrea Díaz Correia Catrya codaMW
4. White Noise - v2026.5.22
White Noise is a private, decentralized messaging application built on the Nostr protocol that uses the Marmot protocol for MLS-based group encryption and keypair-based identity management. This release adds cross-platform push notifications for iOS and Android, markdown rendering in chats, improved group management (add/leave members), deep linking to chats, profiles, and settings, media and message sharing improvements, multilingual support including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and multiple reliability fixes across chat state handling, QR scanning, external signer recovery, and notification systems.
Contributed by: JeffG J.G.Montoya.Hodl Danny the Cyber Guy pepi Mubarak Auwal, stupidloud, Datawav
5. Nymchat - v3.66.409
Nymchat is a lightweight, feature-rich messaging application built on the Nostr protocol, designed for pseudonymous and temporary communication with additional bridging to Bitchat for short-lived chats. This release is a focused hotfix update that improves performance and responsiveness by moving typing indicator signing and cryptographic processing to a background worker, reducing UI blocking during real-time messaging. Although this was the latest, there were also a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: Luxas
6. Keychat - v1.41.1+6513
Keychat is a cross-platform messaging application that combines Bitcoin Ecash, the Nostr protocol, Signal Protocol, and MLS-based group encryption to enable secure, private communication with media sharing, file transfers, and relay-aware messaging features. This release improves security and forward secrecy by deleting Signal one-time prekeys after successful decryption, enhances chat UX with URL previews and improved media downloading, adds automatic update checking, refactors core message and relay handling for better reliability, removes voice message support, improves relay metadata loading (including paid relay configs), and includes significant Android build optimizations and expanded test coverage for stability.
Contributed by: kcdev, jack-keychat
7. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.2.7
Mostro Mobile Client is a mobile application that allows users to interact with the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading system built on Nostr and the Lightning Network. The v1.2.7 release adds a new Venezuela community node, improves P2P chat reliability with push wake-up and whitelist support, and enhances session restore behavior by providing clearer outcomes when recovery actions fail or cannot be completed.
Contributed by: negrunch Andrea Díaz Correia Catrya
8. Divine Mobile - 1.0.14
Divine Mobile is a dark-mode-focused short-form video mobile application built on the Nostr protocol that enables users to create, edit, share, and interact with loop-based video content alongside messaging and profile features. This release significantly enhances the editing experience with clip speed controls, timeline volume editing, local audio imports, and audio extraction from clips, improves messaging with emoji reactions, lightweight markdown support, better inbox previews, and more reliable delivery, strengthens profile features including banner uploads and verified account indicators, and adds clip trash with 30-day recovery, along with improvements to feed performance, search, notifications, and overall stability across the app.
Contributed by: rabble Daniel Cadenas untreu Meylis, matthew bradley, Liz Sweigart, Alex Frei, Oscar
9. Wisp - v1.1.0
Wisp is a lightweight Android client for the Nostr protocol designed for fast, minimal, and performance-focused social interaction, including posting, messaging, media viewing, and zapping features. The v1.1.0 release introduces improved wallet and zap handling with fiat-style input and private zaps, enhanced authentication with Google sign-in and encrypted Nostr key backup, support for remote signer details, auto-translate for notes, improved media browsing with swipe galleries, and private messaging features using NIP-17 gift wrapping and DIP-03 routing, while also refining relay behavior, onboarding flows, and removing local relay and NIP-55 remote signer support for a simplified architecture.
Contributed by: utxo the webmaster 🧑💻 The Daniel 🖖 greenart7c3
10. Nostr VPN - v4.0.39
Nostr VPN is a decentralized mesh VPN system built around the Nostr protocol and a FIPS-backed data plane that enables peer-to-peer connectivity, NAT traversal, and encrypted networking between devices across platforms. This release introduces built-in public FIPS bootstrap nodes for fallback connectivity, improved relay-based peer discovery controls, native WireGuard configuration import, TCP-based transport for restrictive networks, and a manual network join feature, along with major UI and networking improvements across all platforms including better diagnostics, peer management, invite handling, and performance optimizations, while also enhancing Linux, macOS, Windows, and containerized deployment stability. This was the latest and there were a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: Sirius
11. Nostrord - v1.0.3
Nostrord is a client application built for interacting with Nostr groups (NIP-29), providing features such as messaging, notifications, multi-account support, and relay-based event tracking across different platforms. This release improves security with OS keychain-based local key storage and passphrase fallback, enhances usability with tappable bunker QR login for Android, adds an offline relay management experience, introduces a notification center for cross-relay event tracking, improves multi-account handling, and includes various UI, video, metadata, and CI/testing improvements.
Contributed by: Anjhc
1. Mostro Core - v0.11.5
Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides peer-to-peer functionality for decentralized applications and serves as the foundation for the Mostro daemon. The v0.11.5 release introduces a new BondSlashed action for handling slashed bond events within the protocol, alongside changelog updates and related implementation refinements. This was the latest and there was also the release of v0.11.4 last week.
Contributed by: negrunch
2. Mostro CLI - v0.15.3
Mostro CLI is a command-line client for the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin and Lightning exchange built on Nostr. This release adds support for the AddBondInvoice action, improves invoice reply validation and event pinning behavior, refines submission timeout handling, and includes documentation and changelog updates.
Contributed by: negrunch
1. Citrine - v3.0.0-pre2 (Pre-release)
Citrine is an Android-based Nostr relay and relay aggregator that supports event storage, filtering, and synchronization across multiple relays. This pre-release adds Negentropy (NIP-77) sync support, external signer and NIP-42 authentication integration, mute-list enforcement, improved relay aggregation controls, better protection against reposted or sensitive events, reduced battery usage, performance optimizations in event handling, and a redesigned settings and networking interface with enhanced local, Wi-Fi, and Tor address management.
Contributed by: greenart7c3
1. Angor - v0.2.26 (Unstable Release)
Angor is an alpha-stage decentralized peer-to-peer funding protocol built on Bitcoin and Nostr that enables project creation, funding workflows, wallet management, and encrypted participant coordination. This unstable release improves encrypted messaging by migrating from NIP-04 to NIP-44, adds stronger protocol-level validation for timelocks, fees, dust limits, and penalties, enhances wallet safety on Android including protection against swipe-kill data loss, strengthens key and mnemonic security, fixes GrapheneOS compatibility issues, enables Blossom uploads using ephemeral Nostr authentication, and includes multiple UI, wallet, and testing improvements while remaining in an unstable experimental (alpha) stage. This was the biggest, and there were also the releases of v0.2.27 and v0.2.28 last week.
Contributed by: dangershony TheDude, Zaza
Nostr is built by the plebs, for the plebs. If you found this Nostr 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-seventh Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.
Thank you Jurjen de Vries for this amazing idea!
A big shoutout to rabble for his generous patronage for my Nostr Recaps!
Thank you, my younger brother Samalka Hansana for helping me with the content and graphic stuff for my Nostr Recaps!
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