============================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week ============================== “Nostr is exactly what Bitcoin was in 2009. Slowly then suddenly!🔥” #quote_nostr_recap

================================ #2 🔥 Community Highlights ================================ 1. A question from a pleb to himself 2. Interesting quote from a pleb 3. Now you get that the centralization and censorship is bad 4. The Creator speaks about Nostr 5. speaks about #amethyst drafts 6. The Nostr Anniversary 7. Fully on decentralization, deleting centralization 8. Yes, that is true 9. First post of a Pleb on #community_nostr_recap

=============================== #3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth =============================== Nostr is growing fast! Overview Pubkeys: 43582130 Users: 1181356 Trusted users: 198319 Events: 582476264 Posts: 152106775 Zaps: 5137787 Zap amount: 2067249371 sats 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 800 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment. During last week: Total zaps: 28,708, compared to 27,793 zaps the week before Total zap senders: 808, compared to 748 plebs the week before Total zap receivers: 147, compared to 148 plebs the week before Total zap amount: 6,615,406, compared to 6,778,841 sats the week before Total events: 3,114,558, compared to 2,934,218 events the week before Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by , all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr/ and https://nostr.watch/ for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap

============================= #4 🎓 Educational Guide ============================= 1. How to use 2. Shakespeare Tutorial with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK9gHjQr7nc 3. What is Nostr? https://benwehrman.com/what-is-nostr/ #education_nostr_recap

=============================== #5 📅 Upcoming Events =============================== 1. NOSTRBAMA Nostr Conference - July 2025 📅 Date: July 15 - 17, 2025 📍 Location: Mobile, Alabama. 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: , , 🔗 Event: https://nostrbama.com/ 2. Nostr and AI Meetup in Mexico city - July 2025 📅 Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2025 ⏰ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM CST 📍 Location: Hashtag Gallery Ltd, Av. Benjamín Franklin 151-A, Hipódromo, Cuauhtémoc, 06140 Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico. 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: 🔗 Event: 🔗 Event: https://lu.ma/02g8vsyw 3. Purple Konnektiv meetup - August 2025 📅 Date: August 29 - 31, 2025 📍 Location: Baden-Wuerttemberg, Southern Germany 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: 🔗 Event: : #events_nostr_recap

=============================== #6 📰 Nostr in the Media =============================== 1. How Nostr Empowers You to SPEAK YOUR TRUTH! , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HoIHY-miKw 2. Nostr is Revolutionizing the healthcare industry. , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o_vZLSofYY 3. Using AI and Nostr to Build Free Speech Social Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9XBq9I8hYM 4. The importance of #Nostr & #Bitcoin working together https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fRJgGu4WfCg 5. Redefining Social Travel with Bitcoin and Nostr Integration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP1wca_n4Jo 6. A Million sats worth pic https://x.com/nostrnaut/status/1944546574253674747 7. Well said https://x.com/TFTC21/status/1942603330150150227 #media_nostr_recap

=================================== #7 ⚡ 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 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 1. Name: Zaps Received: 661 Sats Earned: 123k 2. Name: Zaps Received: 577 Sats Earned: 114k 3. Name: Zaps Received: 514 Sats Earned: 216k 🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers 1. Name: Zaps Sent: 419 Sats Spent: 4k 2. Name: Zaps Sent: 398 Sats Spent: 8k 3. Name: Zaps Sent: 298 Sats Spent: 3k 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received 1. Name: Sats Earned: 1M Zaps Received: 32 2. Name: Sats Earned: 654k Zaps Received: 136 3. Name: Sats Earned: 505k Zaps Received: 326 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent 1. Name: Sats Spent: 1M Zaps Sent: 1 2. Name: Sats Spent: 488k Zaps Sent: 28 3. Name: Sats Spent: 172k Zaps Sent: 243 Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement: 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped 1. Zaps Received: 122 Sats Earned: 79k 2. Zaps Received: 89 Sats Earned: 9k 3. Zaps Received: 86 Sats Earned: 74k 🔥 Top 3: Most Sats 1. Sats Earned: 468k Zaps Received: 7 2. Sats Earned: 206k Zaps Received: 37 3. Sats Earned: 79k Zaps Received: 122 #most-zapped_nostr_recap

=============================== #8 😂 Nostr Memes =============================== 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. #memes_nostr_recap

======================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ======================================== 1. Plebs app - New Tool Plebs App is a decentralized video platform built on the Nostr protocol. It allows users to share and watch videos without censorship or central control. Content is distributed through Nostr relays, ensuring resilience and freedom of expression. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/plebs-app/ 2. Nostr Polls - New Tool Nostr Polls is a simple, decentralized polling tool built on the Nostr protocol. It lets users create, share, and vote on polls without relying on centralized platforms. Votes and results are recorded via Nostr events, ensuring transparency and censorship resistance. Developed by: Sandeep Pandey Source: https://github.com/abh3po/nostr-polls 3. Yumyume - 0.9.0 - Steamed Fish in Banana Leaf with Coconut Rice Yumyume is a decentralized, open-source social bookmarking tool on Nostr, inspired by del.icio.us, offering censorship-resistant, user-owned bookmark sharing. In the release, “Steamed Fish in Banana Leaf with Coconut Rice,” Yumyume introduces private bookmarking via NIP-44, letting users choose which bookmarks stay personal and encrypted. It also adds a tag search box for easier discovery and improves link responsiveness during loading. This release blends privacy and usability, offering a thoughtful, secure bookmarking experience on Nostr. The concept is from . To support its growth, contributions to the campaign are encouraged, with rewards available for even less than the cost of a yearly Pinboard subscription. https://geyser.fund/project/yumyume Developed by: Source: https://gitlab.com/digitalethicsagency/nostr/yumyume/-/releases/0.9.0 4. Amber - v3.4.3 Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android, enabling users to securely manage and sign with their nsec keys in a dedicated, isolated app. In this version, Amber fixes a crash when sending multiple intents, restructures profile fetching into its own module, and improves log handling by using WorkManager to clear logs only after 5 minutes. This update enhances stability and background task efficiency for mobile key management on Nostr. This is the latest release, and there were also the releases v3.4.2 and v3.4.2-pre4 last week. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v3.4.3 5. Runstr - v0.6.0 Runstr is a fitness tracking app powered by the Nostr protocol, blending social competition, workout logging, and decentralized identity. In v0.6.0, Runstr launches Season 1, a 3-month competition with 200k in prizes and rewards across all activity types. The new Goals system lets users set and track distance targets, while the revamped rewards structure introduces weekly payouts, streak bonuses, and achievement-based rewards. The Badge system adds claimable perks that boost weekly and streak rewards. Additional improvements include Amber integration fixes, monthly stats grouping, Kind 1 note auto-posting, and a sleeker UI — pushing Runstr toward a more competitive and rewarding decentralized fitness experience. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/HealthNoteLabs/Runstr/releases/tag/new-features-0.6.0-20250711-013508 6. Primal Android App - 2.3.6 Primal is a Nostr-powered social app for Android, offering a clean and feature-rich interface for decentralized communication. In v2.3.6, the app delivers several important bug fixes and stability improvements: issues with muted hashtags, media saving, and scrolling in feeds and side menus have been resolved. It also fixes a video thumbnail bug that caused crashes, corrects thumbnail aspect ratios, and improves the video playback experience in the gallery. These changes enhance the app’s performance and media reliability for daily Nostr users. Developed by: Aleksandar Ilic Source: https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-android-app/releases/tag/2.3.6 #tools_nostr_recap

=============================================== #10 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases =============================================== 1. Shakespeare - New Developer Tool Shakespeare is a revolutionary AI-powered website builder built on the Nostr protocol. It allows users to create and publish websites directly to Nostr relays, without relying on centralized hosting. Designed for simplicity and decentralization, Shakespeare empowers anyone to build censorship-resistant websites with ease. Developed by: Source: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/shakespeare 2. Grain - v0.4.1-pre-release GRAIN (Go Relay Architecture for Implementing Nostr) is a modern Nostr relay framework built in Go, offering a full-stack architecture for relay deployment, development, and testing. In this release, GRAIN ships a complete documentation suite, CI/CD-ready build system, integration test framework, and an improved relay dashboard. It also includes client libraries and reference implementations to help developers build on GRAIN easily. This pre-release lays the foundation for a production-grade, developer-friendly relay ecosystem, designed for scalability and simplicity. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/0ceanSlim/grain/releases/tag/v0.4.1-pre-release 3. Noscrypt - v0.1.11 Noscrypt is a Nostr-specific cryptography library written in C, designed to provide low-level, high-performance cryptographic functionality for Nostr-related applications. In this release, Noscrypt improves developer convenience by adding a nuget.config file for easier access to vnlib packages. It also updates mbedTLS to v3.6.4, OpenSSL headers to v3.5.1, and vnlib.core to v0.1.2-rc.6. Additionally, manual configuration steps for builds have been removed, streamlining setup for developers integrating Noscrypt into their projects. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/VnUgE/noscrypt/releases/tag/v0.1.11 #dev-tools_nostr_recap

============================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week ============================== “as the internet gets further infested with ai slop, the nostr webs of trust we are building out today become much more important” #quote_nostr_recap

=========================== #2 🔥 Community Highlights =========================== 1. Subscribe on YouTube, and you will be able to see an amazing conversation with soon 2. at 3. A Great work of a bunch of Devs on Nostr 4. Web of Trust fixes the confusion of impersonators 5. A Cal alternative on Nostr is on fire very soon 6. The Web of Trust is very important 7. The new wave of Nostr Grants 8. It is not easy to onboard friends on Nostr 9. A lady pleb is gonna force her friend to use Nostr 10. Decentralization is always very cool 11. Americans and Indians on Freedom of speech 12. This is why we need Freedom of speech #community_nostr_recap

=============================== #3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth =============================== Nostr is growing fast! Overview Pubkeys: 43487306 Users: 1178329 Trusted users: 199892 Events: 579234889 Posts: 150980577 Zaps: 5108880 Zap amount: 2059699059 sats 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 800 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment. During this week: Total zaps: 27,793, compared to 31,377 zaps the week before Total zap amount: 6,778,841, compared to 6,453,547 sats the week before Total events: 2,933,211, compared to 3,156,552 events the week before Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by , all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr/ and https://nostr.watch/ for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap

============================= #4 🎓 Educational Guide ============================= 1. How to find your friends on Nostr with follow packs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ah_7HWUt00 #education_nostr_recap

=========================== #5 📅 Upcoming Events =========================== 1. NOSTRBAMA Nostr Conference - July 2025 📅 Date: July 15 - 17, 2025 📍 Location: Mobile, Alabama. 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: , , 🔗 Event: https://nostrbama.com/ 2. Purple Konnektiv meetup - August 2025 📅 Date: August 29 - 31, 2025 📍 Location: Baden-Wuerttemberg, Southern Germany 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: 🔗 Event: : #events_nostr_recap

=============================== #6 📰 Nostr in the Media =============================== 1. NOSTR Telegram with MLS encryption , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4MaEwLdXEg 2. Decentralizing social media speech of & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYIbTxlVS0Q 3. Why Nostr will beat X https://x.com/jakewoodhouseio/status/1940499093580828996 4. Nostr is the future https://x.com/benwehrman/status/1939942444306411647 #media_nostr_recap

====================================== #7 ⚡ 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 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 1. Name: Zaps Received: 755 Sats Earned: 73k 2. Name: Zaps Received: 624 Sats Earned: 173k 3. Name: Zaps Received: 397 Sats Earned: 76k 🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers 1. Name: Zaps Sent: 951 Sats Spent: 9k 2. Name: Zaps Sent: 575 Sats Spent: 626k 3. Name: Simply Nostr Zaps Sent: 418 Sats Spent: 18k 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received 1. Name: Sats Earned: 840k Zaps Received: 17 2. Name: Sats Earned: 518k Zaps Received: 318 3. Name: Sats Earned: 222k Zaps Received: 43 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent 1. Name: Sats Spent: 940k Zaps Sent: 3 2. Name: Sats Spent: 626k Zaps Sent: 577 3. Name: Sats Spent: 188k Zaps Sent: 30 Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement: 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped 1. Zaps Received: 188 Sats Earned: 129k 2. Zaps Received: 124 Sats Earned: 67k 3. Zaps Received: 103 Sats Earned: 28k 🔥 Top 3: Most Sats 1. Sats Earned: 186k Zaps Received: 2 2. Sats Earned: 129k Zaps Received: 188 3. Sats Earned: 103k Zaps Received: 50 #most-zapped_nostr_recap

============================== #8 😂 Nostr Memes ============================== 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. #memes_nostr_recap

================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ================================== 1. Coracle - 0.6.18 Coracle is a web-based Nostr client that explores what makes Nostr unique, offering advanced relay selection, web-of-trust moderation, privacy protection, and content recommendations. In this version, Coracle improves UX with a tooltip on the Bunker login QR code, fixes initial note creation bugs, improves NIP-05 validation, and allows viewing of raw profile JSON. These updates refine the experience for privacy-conscious users who value fine-grained control over their Nostr interactions. Developed by: , Lucas Klasa Source: https://github.com/coracle-social/coracle/releases/tag/0.6.18 2. Yana - v0.17.0 Yana (Yet Another Nostr Application) is a multi-platform, community-driven Nostr client designed for better performance on older devices and built around a true FOSS spirit. In this version, Yana introduces a new Wallet app flavor, Blossom media server management, and a modern video player with autoplay settings. It also brings a new drawer design, faster QR scanner performance, and improved handling of pending/failed payments. These updates make Yana more media-friendly, wallet-aware, and smooth across devices, while staying lightweight and open for contributors. Developed by: filipegirassol, , Source: https://github.com/frnandu/yana/releases/tag/v0.17.0 3. Flotilla - 1.2.0 Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client built around the concept of “relays as groups,” making decentralized group chat intuitive and structured. In v1.2.0, Flotilla adds push notifications on all platforms, a “mark all as read” feature for desktop, and a redesigned space dashboard for better navigation. It also fixes issues with thread comment sorting, link display, and profile protection, while improving notifier authentication by switching from Bunker URLs to relay claims. These updates enhance usability and real-time communication in group-centric Nostr spaces. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/coracle-social/flotilla/releases/tag/1.2.0 4. Runstr - v0.5.2 Runstr is a fitness tracking app built on Nostr, blending workouts with social features and decentralized identity. In this version, Runstr adds major upgrades for cyclists: real-time 1-second update frequency, intelligent stationary detection, and smoothed speed tracking for more accurate feedback. The League system now supports activity-specific leaderboards, and a new auto-posting feature lets users automatically share workouts as kind 1301 events, with full user control. This update refines the experience for runners, cyclists, and walkers alike in the open Nostr fitness world. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/HealthNoteLabs/Runstr/releases/tag/vfeed-0.5.2-20250630-041752 5. Pokey - v0.2.4-beta Pokey is a Nostr notification tool that displays live alerts for your events and allows other apps to receive and interact with them, bringing real-time awareness to the Nostr ecosystem. In this release, Pokey introduces a new Mute List view, giving users better control over which profiles trigger notifications. This update enhances user control and personalization, making Pokey even more effective as a decentralized notification hub. This is the latest release, and there was the release of v0.2.3-beta also last week. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/KoalaSat/pokey/releases/tag/v0.2.4-beta #tools_nostr_recap