#1 “Although this community is small, every one of us tries to help each other grow - engaging with posts, sharing them, and sending sats. As a result, our posts actually get seen.💜 On other social media platforms, posts often get buried under a mountain of content and have little chance of being seen unless you’re part of a much larger community or a powerful group where your content has a better chance of reaching people.” #quote_nostr_recap

#2 1. This combination would be interesting. What do you think? 🫵🏻 2. A must-watch episode of Bitcoin for the Arts 👇🏻 3. A very important question from the Nostr founder 👌🏻 4. Nostr has the best community over other social media 🫶🏻 5. What is your opinion Nostriches? 👇🏻 6. I am not going anywhere. Are you? 🫵🏻 7. We should adjust our mindset like this 👇🏻 8. Seems there is a truth in this statement 👇🏻 9. An unforgettable day of a lady nostrich 👩🏻‍🍼 10. Agree 100% on this 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 #community_nostr_recap

#3 The Nostr growth indicates differently in several sources! According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe now. According to https://nostrhub.io/stats 👉🏻 1045 relays on the Nostr network Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days): 👉🏻 Amethyst - 2,020 Users 👉🏻 Primal - 1,746 Users 👉🏻 Ditto - 431 Users According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days): 👉🏻 Amethyst - 778 Users - 13.1k Notes 👉🏻 Primal iOS - 758 Users - 8.2k Notes 👉🏻 Primal Android - 540 Users - 4.5k Notes Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists): 👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 332.3k Users 👉🏻 nos.lol - 313.3k Users 👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 274.2k Users According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ 👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 4.71M (+1.2%) 👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 4.19M (-7.6%) 👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 7.06M 👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.55 BTC 👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 181.1K Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (User Relay Preferences from NIP-65): 👉🏻 relay.mostr.pub - 659.1k Users 👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 519.2k Users 👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 459.3k Users According to https://npub.world/stats During last week: 👉🏻 Total Users: 7,143 users, compared to 7,858 users the week before Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrhub.io/stats, https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/, by , https://npub.world/stats by , and all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap

#4 1. Buzz: Nostr-Powered Chat for Human-Agent Swarms https://prokopov.me/posts/buzz-nostr-human-agent-collaboration/ #education_nostr_recap

#5 1. Nostr 101: Own Your Identity with Cryptographic Keys - September 2026 📅 Date: Saturday, September 12, 2026 ⏰ Time: 4:45 PM - 7:00 PM (GMT+5:30) 📍 Location: Pune, India 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: 🔗 Event: b340c0aeab4b.png https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqejwqu87yhnkmh8054yjnsx7gtk26zqspy6s0cjdu33zqagumda2qqvrvcfev93nzerpx9snjdt98y6rwc3n8ymnvvejvc9gyf3t 2. Nostr Atlanta #17 - Rush Hour Avoidance - September 2026 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 ⏰ Time: 4.30 PM - 6.00 PM (EDT) 📍 Location: 684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE suite a1, Atlanta, GA, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: 🔗 Event: https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqejwqu87yhnkmh8054yjnsx7gtk26zqspy6s0cjdu33zqagumda2qqvrvcfexvexxwrpvgmkvetrxc6xyvtyvfjnxcfcvcfl34sn 3. Munich Nostr Meetup (newbies & nerds welcome) - September 2026 📅 Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026 ⏰ Time: 10:00 PM - 2:00 AM (Event timezone not specified) 📍 Location: Munich 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: Munich Nostr Meetup 🔗 Event: https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqhqmqsq4yn3q08xvk94w75spay4c0p9fzu290p8d5nwkpwgn3f98qqex6atwd93ksttwdaehgu3dd4jk2ar4wqkkuethvf5k2ueddejhyern94mk2mrrdakk2tf3xycxzeryxycqekle0a 4. NOSTRSHIRE - November 2026 📅 Date: Friday, November 20, 2026 ⏰ Time: 9.00 AM - 6.00 PM (GMT) 📍 Location: Pendulum Hotel, Sackville St, Manchester M1 3BB, United Kingdom 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: , 🔗 Event: https://bitfest.uk/#nostrshire #events_nostr_recap

#6 1. The Internet Is Being Captured. Here's How We Take It Back , https://youtube.com/watch?v=NliC5LwnbPo 2. A nice Nostr explanation https://www.fabriok.ar/notes/nostr 3. Microduck with Nostr: The Future of Communication https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcwW4zpFJs1/ #media_nostr_recap

#7 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 these insights. Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing the creators who received/sent the most engagement: 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped 1. Name: Zaps Received: 400 Sats Earned: 660k 2. Name: Zaps Received: 368 Sats Earned: 54k 3. Name: Zaps Received: 157 Sats Earned: 12k 🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers 1. Name: Zaps Sent: 1999 Sats Spent: 48k 2. Name: Zaps Sent: 140 Sats Spent: 5k 3. Name: Zaps Sent: 131 Sats Spent: 1k 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received 1. Name: Sats Earned: 660k Zaps Received: 400 2. Name: Sats Earned: 255k Zaps Received: 87 3. Name: TURI$MO Sats Earned: 228k Zaps Received: 76 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent 1. Name: Sats Spent: 191k Zaps Sent: 6 2. Name: Fullspeedahead Sats Spent: 153k Zaps Sent: 3 3. Name: Sats Spent: 102k Zaps Sent: 4 Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement: 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped 1. Zaps Received: 175 Sats Earned: 13k 2. Zaps Received: 24 Sats Earned: 1k 3. Zaps Received: 19 Sats Earned: 183k 🔥 Top 3: Most Sats 1. Sats Earned: 185k Zaps Received: 1 2. Sats Earned: 183k Zaps Received: 19 3. Sats Earned: 100k Zaps Received: 1 #most-zapped_nostr_recap

#2 1. Nostr unofficial CEO ensures the build gets done even if he is away 👨🏻‍💻 2. Nostr workout tracker Progressive Web App officially stable 🔥 3. Nice music that every bitcoiner should listen 🎧 4. A huge White Noise release is on its way 😍 5. The move of a Spanish Olympic skateboarder’s life 🛹 6. Anyone can’t say that privacy isn’t important 👇🏻 7. A nice capture of a solar eclipse 🌑 8. Let’s wish him luck for the win 🏃🏻‍♂️ 🚴🏻‍♀️ 🏊🏻‍♂️ 9. A nice suggestion from the Nostr founder 👌🏻 10. Being altruistic is always so nice 🫶🏻 11. A pretty nostrich celebrated her birthday 🎂 12. The people who love even animals have the best hearts in this world ❤️ #community_nostr_recap

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#9 1. Zapstore - 1.1.2 Zapstore is an open Android app store where developers can publish apps directly and communities can curate them. This release adds installer package ID visibility for apps installed outside Zapstore and improves security by rejecting Nostr events whose claimed IDs no longer match their serialized content. Contributed by: Source: https://github.com/zapstore/zapstore/releases/tag/1.1.2 2. Earthly - v0.1.8 Earthly is a collaborative map editor built on Nostr that helps communities turn local knowledge into useful, shared maps. The release v0.1.8 adds intentional AI-powered visual map feedback, improving how users interact with and understand their maps. This was the latest and there was also the release of v0.1.7 last week. Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab Source: https://github.com/zeSchlausKwab/earthly/releases/tag/v0.1.8 3. Amber - v6.6.1 Amber is an Android Nostr event signer that securely handles signing requests for Nostr apps. This release fixes permission-list parsing, improves rejected signer request handling, updates the default signer and indexer relays, and adds missing translations for Marmot protocol event kinds. This was the latest release, and there was also the v6.6.0 last week. Contributed by: , Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v6.6.1 4. Jumble - v26.9.2 Jumble is a user-friendly Nostr client for exploring relay feeds. This release adds support for displaying favorite relay lists using kind 10012, updates nostr-tools to improve connection handling, and fixes relay queries getting stuck in a pending state. Contributed by: Source: https://github.com/CodyTseng/jumble/releases/tag/v26.9.2 5. Primal Android App - v3.5.27 Primal Android is the mobile client for the Primal Nostr experience. The v3.5.27 release improves article URL linking, routes zap poll votes correctly, strengthens signer identity and NWC request security, and upgrades the Breez SDK Spark to v0.23.1. Contributed by: Aleksandar Ilic, Marko Kocic Source: https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-android-app/releases/tag/3.5.27 6. Shosho - v1.1.0 Shosho is a live streaming marketplace where creators go live and fans support the people behind the shows. The v1.1.0 release expands the live-stream catalog through the Livelier.live bridge, improves stream curation and browsing, separates live streams from replays, adds relay-hint support for links and sharing, improves chat relay handling, strengthens NSFW filtering and tagging, and refreshes stale cached profiles. Contributed by: Source: https://github.com/r0d8lsh0p/shosho-releases/releases/tag/v1.1.0 7. Yakihonne Mobile - 2.0.7 YakiHonne Mobile is a decentralized social platform mobile client built on the Nostr protocol, offering a censorship-resistant and privacy-focused social experience. This release adds NIP-22 comments, premium and relay indicators, landscape video support, improved paid-note payments with live tracking and confirmation, enhanced AI reader features, session recovery, payment cleanup, and general performance improvements. Contributed by: Boukhalfa Seddik Source: https://github.com/YakiHonne/mobile-app/releases/tag/YakiHonne-2.0.7 8. Mostro Mobile - v1.4.2 Mostro Mobile is a modern, secure mobile client for the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform. The v1.4.2 release fixes order message ordering, improves persistence of pending range-order sessions across restarts, strengthens session loading and caching to prevent race conditions, and improves NWC time-skew handling. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v1.4.1 last week. Contributed by: , Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mobile/releases/tag/v1.4.2 9. Vector - v0.4.4 Vector is a private and encrypted messenger designed to provide secure, direct communication between users. This release hardens its community engine with smarter file forwarding, faster boot syncing, improved avatar handling, background Mini App sharing, stronger multiplayer privacy, beta update support, raid recovery, and fixes across messaging, communities, encryption, notifications, and desktop platforms. This was the latest release, and there were also two more pre-releases (v0.4.4-2 & v0.4.4-1) last week. Contributed by: Source: https://github.com/VectorPrivacy/Vector/releases/tag/v0.4.4 10. Wisp - v1.2.2 Wisp is a minimal, performant Android client for the Nostr protocol. This release adds NWC connection-string export, improves notification feeds, strengthens wallet payment status and stale-payment reconciliation, updates the NSpam classifier, closes Web of Trust filter bypasses, and fixes reply targeting and post formatting. Although this was the biggest release of last week, the latest was v1.2.3. Contributed by: , Source: https://github.com/barrydeen/wisp/releases/tag/v1.2.2 11. Nostrord - v2.10.1 Nostrord is a NIP-29 Nostr client focused on decentralized group communication. The v2.10.1 adds Linux AppImage publishing and improves the CI workflow by avoiding repeated livekit-kmp builds, along with a version bump to 2.10.1. Contributed by: Source: https://github.com/nostrord/nostrord/releases/tag/v2.10.1 12. Dark Wisp - v1.2.3 Dark Wisp is a minimal, performant Android client for the Nostr protocol. This release introduces the new “Wisp in Shades” app icon and matching in-app branding, updates the Breez SDK to v0.23.1, and bumps the app version. There was the release v1.2.2 also existed last week. Contributed by: , Source: https://github.com/barrydeen/dark-wisp-android/releases/tag/v1.2.3 13. NoorNote - v1.5.1 NoorNote is a Nostr client focused on decentralized social and long-form content. The release v1.5.1 brings instant visibility for own zaps, cleaner premium-note unlocking, capped quoted-repost chains, and live zaps and likes for long-form articles. It also improves timeline performance, login, lazy loading, offline post delivery, feed recovery, and catch-up after network interruptions, alongside several thread and stability fixes. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v1.5.0 & v1.4.1 last week. Contributed by: Source: https://github.com/77elements/noornote/releases/tag/v1.5.1 14. Sidecar - v1.12.0 Sidecar is a browser-sidebar Nostr keystore and signer for securely managing identities and signing events. This release adds replies directly from notifications, web-of-trust notification filtering, NIP-42 relay sign-in, relay icons from NIP-11, verifiable Recent Activity, and connection-reset controls. It also improves zap amount detection, notification visuals, and composer behavior, while fixing relay-list overwrites, connection leaks, stuck signing requests, and relay/socket error handling. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v1.11.0 last week. Contributed by: Source: https://github.com/dmnyc/sidecar/releases/tag/v1.12.0 15. Workstr Web - v2.4.0 Workstr Web is a static, local-first Nostr workout tracker PWA. The release v2.4.0 improves mobile usability with flexible training-statistic time ranges, clearer recovery and empty states, redesigned exercise and program browsing with compact filters, two-column exercise cards, improved account and payment indicators for Lightning and Monero, and a unified glass-style UI across workout controls and actions. This was the latest of the week, and there were also the releases of v2.3.0 & v2.2.0 last week. Contributed by: Workstr7blo, sette7blo Source: https://github.com/Workstr7blo/workstr-web/releases/tag/v2.4.0 16. Roadstr - v0.5.2 Roadstr is an open-source, decentralized navigation app for Android built on the Nostr protocol. This release is a hotfix that restores all map-screen controls after a rendering-mode change in v0.5.1 caused the map to cover the search bar and buttons on real Android devices, while keeping the battery and heat improvements from the previous release. There was also the release of v0.5.1 last week. Contributed by: Source: https://github.com/roadstrapp/roadstr-app/releases/tag/v0.5.2 #tools_nostr_recap

#10 1. Nostr Java - v2.3.1 Nostr Java is a Java library for generating, signing, and publishing Nostr events. This release adds an MCP server module and fixes ordering and NIP-11 issues uncovered during its development. Although this was the latest, there were also two more releases (v2.3.0 & v2.2.0) last week. Contributed by: Eric T Source: https://github.com/tcheeric/nostr-java/releases/tag/v2.3.1 2. Rx-nostr - [email protected] Rx-nostr is a library designed for high-quality, flexible communication with multiple Nostr relays. This release fixes publish state cleanup after receiving relay OK responses, improving reliability when publishing events. Contributed by: Source: https://github.com/penpenpng/rx-nostr/releases/tag/rx-nostr%403.7.6 3. Mostro Core - v0.14.6 Mostro Core is a Rust-based library providing the peer-to-peer functionality that powers Mostro daemons and decentralized applications. This release adds a MaintenanceMode reason and an Unknown catch-all to CantDoReason, improving how applications handle unsupported or unavailable operations. Contributed by: Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-core/releases/tag/v0.14.6 4. Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) - v0.9.3 Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) is a Dart library that enhances the Nostr development experience. The v0.9.3 release improves the CLI by preventing wallet command replay and unrelated signer restoration, adds cleaner database handling, lets the installer download stable releases without using GitHub API quota, simplifies CLI help, and updates CI to reduce native verifier memory usage. This was the latest and there was also the release of v0.9.2 last week. Contributed by: frnandu, , Source: https://github.com/relaystr/ndk/releases/tag/v0.9.3 5. Mostro CLI - v0.16.1 Mostro CLI is a command-line client for managing and interacting with Mostro. This release adds maintenance-mode controls through the daemon’s admin gRPC, improves the safety of maintenance switching with bounded timeouts and secure token handling, and updates setup guidance, documentation, and security policies. Contributed by: , Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-cli/releases/tag/v0.16.1 #dev-tools_nostr_recap

#1 “Goodmorning Nostr Just a daily reminder that no one can shadowban your sunshine on Nostr! Let's propagate some positivity today! Keep your keys safe, your relays synced, and your spirit free. Can’t wait to be ignored on an open protocol today. Zero algorithms. Pure chaos. The best part about Nostr is nobody can cancel you except your own personality. ☕️👌🍀🌞 First rule of Bitcoin. self-custody. First rule of Nostr. self-sovereignty. How did you end up down this rabbit hole, and what are you trying to accomplish here? Are you here to build, push pure signal, drop killer memes, or fight for the mission ? ? Drop your story below ? 🫂💜✨️” #quote_nostr_recap