🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (06th April 2026 - 70th Edition)
“how could you NOT be bullshit on nostr? our ecosystem is growing faster than ever. new apps are booming. new features are booming. people are embracing the weird. people are using the ‘other stuff’. we have apps targeting non-technical users. we have several nostr events coming in the next few months with more planned later this year. what a time to be alive.”
“Thank you all for your comforting messages. After a month, I was finally able to buy just one gigabyte of internet access at a very high price. Nostr was the first place where I could send a message to you.”
“Nostr is bigger than people think.
We estimate 20k+ active humans on Primal. What does that mean for Nostr? Maybe 50k, maybe more?
People who count active users based on posting activity within a given web of trust are underestimating the number of real humans on Nostr by an order of magnitude. Remember: most people don’t post, and many humans don’t have enough followers to be included in the WoT.”
1. A lady Nostrich suffering from war 😞
2. Congratulations Buddies! 🥳
3. This indicates why we should be on Nostr 😍
4. This would be really helpful for Nostr users 😍
5. This is the way to be successful 👇🏻
6. Be cautious from the fake wisp ⚠️
7. Miljan replies about the user base on Nostr 👨🏻💻
8. Life is meant to be experienced, not to be endured 👈🏻
9. We need more onboardings like this 🤩
10. This is an awesome trick that everyone should aware 😍
11. But Nostr won’t ban this small family ♥️
12. This is so cool 🫶🏻
13. He really tries to opt-out from Big tech 😍
14. A New wallet from Primal? 👇🏻
15. The last several live days of the Custodial Primal Wallet 😱
16. He enjoys the growth of 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:
👉🏻 Primal web - 859 Users - 8.8k Notes
👉🏻 Primal android - 703 Users - 10.3k Notes
👉🏻 Nostur - 534 Users - 67.8k Notes
Top 3 Popular Relays:
👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 188.0K Users
👉🏻 relay.momostr.pink - 179.8K Users
👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 156.2K Users
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
👉🏻 Publishing Users last week : 579.7K (+63.3%)
👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week : 228.0K (-56.1%)
👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.66M
👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount : 42.35 BTC
👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 174.7K
According to https://npub.world/stats,
During last week:
👉🏻 Total Users: 2,967, compared to 4,534 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 and Own Your Posts: Get a kickstart on a new social network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kljtbs866_g
2. Nostr: Identity, Clients, and First Practical Uses (for Artists & Creators)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sROUXKvFxRk
3. Practical Attacks on Nostr, a Decentralized Censorship-Resistant Protocol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O97xhyHFSsw
4. BitHome: Rebuilding Real Estate on Bitcoin, Nostr and Omega
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvbjm8opdhU
5. What is this Nostr?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dep9XQKQJ04
1. Nostr: Introducing Renaud Lifchiz - April 2026
📅 Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 ⏰ Time: 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM GMT+2 📍 Location: Chez Ginette, 101 Rue Caulaincourt, 75018 Paris, France
🤹♀️ Organizers: Club Orange
2. Brisbane BitDevs March - NOSTR - April 2026
📅 Date: Sunday, April 19, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.30 PM - 9.00 PM GMT+10 📍 Location: The Dalgety Public House, 6a/110 MacQuarie St, Teneriffe QLD 4005, Brisbane, Australia
🤹♀️ Organizers: Club Orange
3. 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: Derek Ross
4. 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: fractalchris
🔗 Event:
https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjchbfb/
1. Soapbox Sessions: AI, Addiction, and the Internet We Actually Want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzWbg6rkpi0
2. Nostr is an (r)evolution in human communication
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RyUNYoG-Yw
3. Imagine a Nostr Relay that continues to function even without a server… We just created it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U7fEuJ1zJs
4. Who Pays the Agent? — Lightning, Nostr & Financial Sovereignty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diSGxrv2Fus
5. They Can’t Ban This! All In Bitcoin w/CK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuqakIBDCVM
6. Nostr from scratch: freedom of expression, Lightning and the digital euro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsA49Wg5ecU
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: utxo the webmaster 🧑💻
- Zaps Received: 380
- Sats Earned: 236k
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Name: FLASH
- Zaps Received: 288
- Sats Earned: 19k
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Name: negr0
- Zaps Received: 218
- Sats Earned: 141k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: AQSTR
- Zaps Sent: 2211
- Sats Spent: 131k
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Name: Yarnlady 🧶
- Zaps Sent: 148
- Sats Spent: 5k
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Name: BitBees
- Zaps Sent: 141
- Sats Spent: 3k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: utxo the webmaster 🧑💻
- Sats Earned: 236k
- Zaps Received: 380
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Name: Jor
- Sats Earned: 213k
- Zaps Received: 130
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Name: RABBIT HOLE RECAP
- Sats Earned: 199k
- Zaps Received: 23
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: Yorgos
- Sats Spent: 157k
- Zaps Sent: 60
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Name: “Name not showing”
- Sats Spent: 150k
- Zaps Sent: 1
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Name: AQSTR
- Sats Spent: 131k
- Zaps Sent: 2211
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- Zaps Received: 145
- Sats Earned: 140k
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- Sats Earned: 3k
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- Sats Earned: 6k
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- Zaps Received: 145
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1. Amethyst - v1.07.0: Pins, Polls, Vanish, Relay Management
Amethyst is a feature-rich Nostr client for Android, focused on privacy, censorship-resistance, and advanced Nostr functionality. This release adds support for pinned notes, polls, vanish requests, web bookmarks, zap goals, and comprehensive relay management (NIP-86), alongside multiple protocol integrations (NIP-15, NIP-24, NIP-29, NIP-32, NIP-43, NIP-60, NIP-61, NIP-62, NIP-66, NIP-69, NIP-75, NIP-77, NIP-7D, NIP-85, NIP-87, NIP-89, NIP-90, NIP-A4, NIP-BE, NIP-C7, NIP-5A, NIP-51). It also introduces performance improvements, desktop feed enhancements, crash fixes, UX refinements, parallelized startup, and extensive translations. This was the biggest release, and there were a lot more releases in the week. (v1.07.1, v1.07.2, v1.07.3, v1.07.4, v1.07.5, v1.08.0)
Contributed by: Vitor Pamplona ⚡ Dee Kay ⚡ Minced Beef Energy greenart7c3 KotlinGeek summoner Anthony 🇫🇷 Polak राज StellarStoic npub1...vx23t ⚡₿it₿y₿it⚡ CXPLAY mstrofnone, Anton Zhao
2. Nostrmo - 3.5.1
Nostrmo is a cross-platform Nostr client built with Flutter, supporting Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, and Web. This release focuses on bug fixes and optimizations, including inbox support for followed and mentioned feeds, improved feed syncing, in-app webview link handling, secure key storage, fixes for group messages, memory optimization for images, and enhancements to mentioned feed rendering.
Contributed by: DASHU
3. Amber - v6.0.0-pre1
Amber is an Android app for signing Nostr events. This pre-release adds per-connection signing keys for NIP-46 bunker protocol, NIP-42 relay auth whitelist settings, a mnemonic recovery phrase login screen, fixes crashes from duplicated events, and optimizes performance in content resolvers, intents, activity screens, and database logging.
Contributed by: greenart7c3
4. Comet - alpha-97b3c27
Comet is a local-first, encrypted note-taking app using Nostr and Blossom, designed for rich markdown editing. This release improves nested list and table editing, refines cursor behavior and selection, enhances theme-aware styling for checkboxes, headings, and tags, stabilizes undo actions, and optimizes the editor for smoother, more intuitive note creation. This was the biggest release, and there were a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: Christian Chiarulli
5. Yakihonne - v5.8.0
Yakihonne is a decentralized Nostr client with integrated Bitcoin payments. This release adds relay join requests and reviews for easier discovery, enables sending sats gift packets in messages, auto-removes expired notes, applies auto-translation on notes/articles, improves QR code payments and wallet selection, adds imeta support for uploaded files, and includes multiple bug fixes, UI enhancements, and general optimizations for smoother social and payment interactions.
Contributed by: Moos
6. Nymchat - v3.58.262
Nymchat is a lightweight ephemeral chat client on Nostr, offering anonymous and temporary messaging via Bitchat. This release introduces a friend system for finer control over settings and adds encrypted MLS group chat message synchronization within app settings. This was the most featureable release, and there were a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: Luxas
7. Keychat - v1.40.9+6510
Keychat is a chat app built on Bitcoin Ecash, Nostr, Signal, and MLS protocols. This release improves clipboard handling and adjusts the message retrieval duration for NIP-17 events.
Contributed by: kcdev
8. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.2.3
Mostro Mobile Client is a modern, secure mobile client for the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform. This release adds support for deep links between Mostro instances, background detection of admin/dispute DMs, and fetching exchange rates via Nostr with HTTP/cache fallback, while also fixing workflow, order submission, documentation, and directory issues.
Contributed by: Andrea Diaz, 21M
9. Nostur - v1.27.0
Nostur is a Nostr client for iOS that enables posting, messaging, and media sharing. The v1.27.0 release adds short video recording and trimming, support for animated GIFs and WebP, a shortcut to send Nostr posts, private replies, and fixes DM compatibility issues.
Contributed by: Fabian
10. Divine Mobile - 1.0.8
Divine Mobile is a dark-mode-only short-form video mobile app built on Nostr, focused on privacy, rich media interactions, and seamless content sharing. This release enhances the video editor and playback experience, expands the Freesound library, adds resumable and per-chunk uploads via Blossom, improves direct messaging with long-press actions and message deletion, redesigns discovery and category flows, implements unified search, boosts video feed performance with pooled players, enforces video quality settings, and strengthens privacy features like GPS metadata stripping and creator identity metadata publication.
Contributed by: rabble Daniel Cadenas Sebastian Heit Liz untreu matthew bradley, Oscar, Alex Frei, Meylis,
11. Wisp - v0.17.1-beta
Wisp is a minimal and high-performance Android client for the Nostr protocol. This release fixes cross-platform live stream chat visibility, improves group chat message fetching by retrieving the last 100 messages, and enhances live stream zap functionality for better user interaction. This was the latest release, and there were also a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: utxo the webmaster 🧑💻
12. Manent - v1.3.0
Manent is a private, encrypted note and file app built on Nostr. The v1.3.0 release adds the ability to mark notes as sensitive to blur them in lists, introduces support for NIP-42 authentication, and includes minor optimizations and bug fixes.
Contributed by: daniele
1. Mostro Core - v0.8.1
Mostro Core is a Rust library providing peer-to-peer functionality for decentralized applications, forming the foundation for the Mostro daemon. This release includes bug fixes, updates to dispute restore data with solver public keys, improved documentation with branch protection rules, and updates to Rust compiler and GitHub Actions for CI stability. This was the biggest release, and the latest release of the week was v0.8.2.
Contributed by: negrunch Pinball Wizard Brian
2. NDK (Nostr Development Kit) - v0.8.1
NDK (Nostr Development Kit) is a Dart library designed to enhance the Nostr development experience. The v0.8.1 release adds Cashu wallet support, paginated requests, a CLI with install script, Rust-based event verification, improved sample UI with Alby one-click flow, internationalization for the sample app, and includes bug fixes for signing and broadcast timeouts, alongside dependency and project structure updates.
Contributed by: leo Russell frnandu
3. ZSP - v0.4.5
ZSP is a fast command-line tool for publishing Android apps to Nostr relays. The v0.4.5 release adds community relay discovery, an agent-friendly CLI, and improvements for the F-Droid client.
Contributed by: franzap
4. Routstr Core - v0.4.3
Routstr Core is a decentralized protocol for private, permissionless AI inference that uses Nostr for discovery and Cashu for Bitcoin micropayments. The latest v0.4.3 release improves API key and x-cashu token refunding, fixes Claude code inference, and prevents refunds when reserved balances aren’t zero.
Contributed by: 9qeklajc
1. Sprout - New Relay
Sprout is a self-hosted Nostr relay designed for the agentic era, where both humans and AI agents interact seamlessly over a shared protocol. Built on a subset of the Nostr standard, it extends functionality with structured channels, per-channel canvases, and full-text search to enable richer, more organized communication. It also integrates an MCP server, allowing AI agents to natively participate in conversations alongside users. With authentication handled via NIP-42 and bearer tokens, and an append-only, fully audited write system, Sprout ensures secure, transparent, and verifiable data interactions.
Developed by: tlongwell-block, Wes
- Source: https://github.com/block/sprout
2. Topaz - New Relay
Topaz is a Nostr relay designed specifically for Android devices, enabling users to run a lightweight, self-hosted relay directly on their mobile phone. By bringing relay functionality to a portable environment, Topaz allows for greater decentralization and personal control over data, making it easier to publish, store, and relay Nostr events without relying on external infrastructure.
Developed by: fiatjaf
- Source: https://github.com/fiatjaf/topaz
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 Seventieth 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 making graphic stuff for my Nostr Recaps!
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