NomishkaDilshan on Nostr: I made my 20th edition of "The Latest on the Nostr! - A Weekly Nostr Recap" (April ...
I made my 20th edition of "The Latest on the Nostr! - A Weekly Nostr Recap" (April 21st, 2025) highlight notable news, releases, community milestones, upcoming events, and more from across the Nostr ecosystem. I am aiming to bring you a concise but comprehensive overview. So you can stay in the loop without chasing every thread. Below, you’ll find mentions of the incredible contributors and creators whose work, insights, and enthusiasm powered this decentralized network last week. Dive in, discover what’s new, and consider zapping these plebs to show your support. Let’s #growNostr together!
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🗞️ The Latest the Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap - 21st April 2025 🚀
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🧠 Quote of the Week
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jack (npub1sg6…f63m)
“no one asks to speak.
no one begs to build.
no one waits to change.”
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🔥 Community Highlights
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1. #TechTuesday: Smarter Homes, Safer Digital Lives and Better Bookmarks with Nostr
2. #Nostr: Just freedom without #centralization
3. From vision to Reality: Decentralized social media in action
4. #Decentralizing Healthcare: Seeking Health Professionals for MedSchlr app
5. We don’t ask, We build
6. When Openness Hurts: A Hard Lesson in Nostr Identity
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🌱 Ecosystem Growth
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Nostr is growing fast! According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 140 Nostr clients, over 50 relays and over 450 Nostr apps are running in more than 40 countries around the globe.
During this week:
- Total zaps: 40,070, compared to 42,081 zaps the week before
- Total zap amount: 10,120,790, compared to 9,358,905 sats the week before
- Total events: 4,820,677, compared to 5,206,313 events the week before
Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band by brugeman (npub1xdt…ntxy) and all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr for providing these insights.
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🎓 Educational Guide
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1. Explaining Nostr on Twitter
https://x.com/notD7R/status/1912131094046011788
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📅 Upcoming Events
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1. BOB Spaces (npub1vlk…s68j) “Nostr Month” - Meetup 2
📅 Date: Friday, April 25, 2025
🕡 Time: 6:30 PM - 8.30 PM ICT
📍 Location: BOB Space Bangkok
64/1 Phatsana 2 Alley (Ekkamai Soi 4), Watthana, Bangkok, Thailand
Shared location with PeerPower Platform
🤹♀️ Organizer: BOB Spaces (npub1vlk…s68j)
🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/307258415
2. thebitcoinconf (npub1rwh…7avv) in Las Vegas - Nostr lounge - July 2025
📅 Date: May 28 - 29, 2025
⏰ Time: At 1.00pm PDT
📍 Location: The Venetian Las Vegas
(3355 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV 89109, USA)
🤹♀️ Organizers:
damus (npub18m7…q955) (28th meetup) - tyiu (npub1yau…vjmf), KernelKind (npub1fgz…jeck), eric (npub12gy…3jj5)
primal (npub12vk…pugg) (29th meetup) - miljan (npub16c0…6nvr), Marko (npub1zga…ppvc), paulinthejungle (npub1spd…q6j7)
🔗 Event: https://b.tc/conference/2025
3. NOSTRBAMA Nostr Conference - July 2025
📅 Date: July 15 - 17, 2025
📍 Location: The Hatch (upstairs Haberdasher), 113 Dauphin Street. Mobile, Alabama.
🤹♀️ Organizers: mallmeow (npub1unm…txhc), Sergio (npub16se…jdxk), Riddler (npub1ual…wmqx)
🔗 Event: https://nostrbama.com/
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📰 Nostr in the Media
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1. Scaling Nostr: The Shift from Kind 3 to Kind 10002 Relay Lists
sondreb (npub1zl3…jajh)
https://x.com/SondreB/status/1912968634013819156
2. On-Device AI: Private, Powerful, and Decentralized
damus (npub18m7…q955)
https://x.com/damusapp/status/1913341525515469135
3. A Medium blog related Discovery Relays
https://medium.com/@sondreb/discovery-relays-e2b0bd00feec
4. The Podcast of Lea (npub1pup…x7zp) from X to Nostr
https://x.com/LeaMeakin/status/1913493789378797970
5. The best replacement for X
https://x.com/LeaMeakin/status/1913500985697210541
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⚡ Most Zapped Last Week
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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 (npub1l2v…ajft) for providing this data. Here are the top zapped posts from last week, showcasing creators who received the most engagement:
🔥 Top 3: Most Zaps
1. Zaps Received: 708
Sats Earned: 1M
2. Zaps Received: 155
Sats Earned: 42k
3. Zaps Received: 90
Sats Earned: 50k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats
1. Sats Earned: 1M
Zaps Received: 708
2. Sats Earned: 85k
Zaps Received: 41
3. Sats Earned: 50k
Zaps Received: 90
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😂 Nostr Memes
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🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
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1. Lantern - A Chrome extension for highlighting and annotating web pages - New Tool
Lantern is a Chrome extension for highlighting and annotating web content and publishing notes directly to Nostr via NIP-84 and NIP-73. As a fork of Hypothes.is, it helps users emphasize and share readable content within Nostr. Works best on ungoogled-chromium.
Developed by: fiatjaf (npub180c…h6w6)
Source: https://git.fiatjaf.com/lantern
2. Aegis - Nostr Signer - New Tool
Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer for securely signing events across multiple clients. Supports various connection methods, making it easy to use with different apps and devices.
Developed by: ZharlieW
Source: https://github.com/ZharlieW/Aegis
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🎁 Developer Tools, updates and Guides
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1. Nostr Components - Take Nostr content beyond Nostr clients - New Developer Tool
Nostr Components is a developer tool that allows embedding Nostr profiles, posts, and follow buttons into any website. Built on the concept of fiatjaf’s Nostr Web Components, this tool enhances usability with a refined UI and a storybook component generator for easy customization. It simplifies the process for developers and webmasters to integrate Nostr content outside of traditional clients, helping increase Nostr's presence and accessibility across the web.
Developed by: saiy2k (npub1qsv…sft3)
Source: https://github.com/saiy2k/nostr-components
2. rely - A framework for building super custom relays - New Developer Tool
Rely is a framework for building custom Nostr relays. It avoids the complexity of other frameworks with a clean, minimal architecture. There was a release also this week (v0.3.2) which adds a security fix that blocks clients trying to authenticate before receiving an AUTH challenge, preventing impersonation attacks and enhancing relay security.
Developed by: pippellia (npub176p…vgup)
Source: https://github.com/pippellia-btc/rely
3. llms - Context text files for LLMs - New Developer Tool
llms is a developer tool that provides helpful text files for large language models (LLMs) to build Nostr apps more easily. These files include code examples, explanations, and documentation (all in one place). So the LLM has everything it needs to generate working code. It also includes support for tools like rust-nostr, making AI-assisted development faster and more accurate.
Developed by: aljaz (npub1alj…g9jp)
Source: https://github.com/nostr-net/llms
4. Rust Nostr - v0.41.0
A Rust library for building Nostr clients, wallets, and relays, offering high-level protocol support. This release adds NIP-C0 (Code Snippets) and NIP-98 (auth verification), introduces a Nostr keyring, improves relay error handling, and includes breaking changes to tag handling and metadata structure.
Developed by: Yuki Kishimoto (npub1drv…seet), Awiteb (npub1qqq…ln03), daywalker (npub1kue…drjt)
Source: https://github.com/rust-nostr/nostr/releases/tag/v0.41.0
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🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
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No Relay Updates and Releases for this week.
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👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
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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 twentieth recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #nostrrecap and let’s keep #grownostr together.
A big shoutout to Rabble (npub1wmr…g240) for his generous patronage!
Recap by NomishkaDilshan (npub19hs…5jcn)
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🗞️ The Latest the Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap - 21st April 2025 🚀
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🧠 Quote of the Week
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jack (npub1sg6…f63m)
“no one asks to speak.
no one begs to build.
no one waits to change.”
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🔥 Community Highlights
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1. #TechTuesday: Smarter Homes, Safer Digital Lives and Better Bookmarks with Nostr
quoting nevent1q…hj3xHow optimize the energy use in your house with relative simple hardware and HomeAssist? Bart Roorda told us how he did it and monitored it.
Digital Emergency : What do you need and best practices by jurjendevries (nprofile…q2fr)
He also give a insightful talk together with sebastix (nprofile…40ad) about Social Bookmarks with Nostr protocol
TechTuesday was an inspiring evening again! Thank you
2. #Nostr: Just freedom without #centralization
quoting nevent1q…zpyzCompared to Bitcoin, Nostr has no single chain of blocks to represent a global state.
Our "nodes" don't pick the longest chain and censor every other alternative.
There are no miners to pick which posts are allowed to go into the chain.
There is no proof of work to create space in the chain.
There is no single core codebase to control any changes to the protocol.
There is just freedom.
The most raw encoding of freedom one can have.
3. From vision to Reality: Decentralized social media in action
quoting nevent1q…2ydejack (nprofile…zj6n) showed me nostr recently. Reminds me of a writeup I did back in 2021 on decentralized social media:
https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc47dcfd4f99
I'll be mirroring my X account here and hopefully finding some good conversations.
4. #Decentralizing Healthcare: Seeking Health Professionals for MedSchlr app
quoting nevent1q…hmpqThe Nosfabrica team Vitor Pamplona (nprofile…yykk) AviBurra (nprofile…8j5k) thebitcoinyogi (nprofile…uqa2) is currently running the SALUD Decentralized Health App Development Challenge, focussing on decentralizing healthcare and health information. Currently a team of us is developing, MedSchlr, an innovative app designed to decentralize medical and health knowledge sharing and publishing using Nostr Alexandria.
We are actively seeking health professionals to join our team! Your clinical and/or research expertise and insights would be invaluable in ensuring MedSchlr meets real-world needs and maintains high standards.
Interested in joining the MedSchlr team? Send the Nosfabrica team or Emma a note or message by May 1st, 2025.
More info on the challenge - SALUD Decentralized Health App Development Challenge: https://nosfabrica.com/challenge/
5. We don’t ask, We build
quoting nevent1q…6wuywe reject gatekeepers.
we defy borders, hierarchies, and middlemen.
code is our passport. access is our right.
permissionless technologies defend freedoms.
they scale trust without institutions.
they enable action without approval.
no one asks to speak.
no one begs to build.
no one waits to change.
we build systems that can't be shut down.
we create tools that serve all, not the few.
we write code that liberates, not controls.
this is not just infrastructure.
it’s a revolution—
silent, sovereign, unstoppable.
we don’t ask.
we deploy.
6. When Openness Hurts: A Hard Lesson in Nostr Identity
quoting nevent1q…55u9Well I tried for 3 weeks to reach out to someone on Nostr to pay them back for a beer, they never responded. I thought i had the wrong profile so I messaged another profile that appeared to be his also and the other profile responded (making me think I had the correct profile) I then paid this profile 8 bucks for a beer that I owed the original person only to find out i paid an imposter. No to jazzed about Nostr right now.
Totally feel ripped off and not really into Nostr at this point.
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🌱 Ecosystem Growth
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Nostr is growing fast! According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 140 Nostr clients, over 50 relays and over 450 Nostr apps are running in more than 40 countries around the globe.
During this week:
- Total zaps: 40,070, compared to 42,081 zaps the week before
- Total zap amount: 10,120,790, compared to 9,358,905 sats the week before
- Total events: 4,820,677, compared to 5,206,313 events the week before
Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band by brugeman (npub1xdt…ntxy) and all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr for providing these insights.
==================
🎓 Educational Guide
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1. Explaining Nostr on Twitter
https://x.com/notD7R/status/1912131094046011788
====================
📅 Upcoming Events
====================
1. BOB Spaces (npub1vlk…s68j) “Nostr Month” - Meetup 2
📅 Date: Friday, April 25, 2025
🕡 Time: 6:30 PM - 8.30 PM ICT
📍 Location: BOB Space Bangkok
64/1 Phatsana 2 Alley (Ekkamai Soi 4), Watthana, Bangkok, Thailand
Shared location with PeerPower Platform
🤹♀️ Organizer: BOB Spaces (npub1vlk…s68j)
🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/307258415
2. thebitcoinconf (npub1rwh…7avv) in Las Vegas - Nostr lounge - July 2025
📅 Date: May 28 - 29, 2025
⏰ Time: At 1.00pm PDT
📍 Location: The Venetian Las Vegas
(3355 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV 89109, USA)
🤹♀️ Organizers:
damus (npub18m7…q955) (28th meetup) - tyiu (npub1yau…vjmf), KernelKind (npub1fgz…jeck), eric (npub12gy…3jj5)
primal (npub12vk…pugg) (29th meetup) - miljan (npub16c0…6nvr), Marko (npub1zga…ppvc), paulinthejungle (npub1spd…q6j7)
🔗 Event: https://b.tc/conference/2025
quoting nevent1q…yuezJoin us at the Nostr Lounge at thebitcoinconf (npub1rwh…7avv) for the damus (npub18m7…q955) Meetup and primal (npub12vk…pugg) Meetup.
Wednesday, May 28 @ 1PM - Damus Meetup
Thursday, May 29 @ 1PM - Primal Meetup
Devs, Demos, Q&A, Merch.
3. NOSTRBAMA Nostr Conference - July 2025
📅 Date: July 15 - 17, 2025
📍 Location: The Hatch (upstairs Haberdasher), 113 Dauphin Street. Mobile, Alabama.
🤹♀️ Organizers: mallmeow (npub1unm…txhc), Sergio (npub16se…jdxk), Riddler (npub1ual…wmqx)
🔗 Event: https://nostrbama.com/
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📰 Nostr in the Media
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1. Scaling Nostr: The Shift from Kind 3 to Kind 10002 Relay Lists
sondreb (npub1zl3…jajh)
https://x.com/SondreB/status/1912968634013819156
2. On-Device AI: Private, Powerful, and Decentralized
damus (npub18m7…q955)
https://x.com/damusapp/status/1913341525515469135
3. A Medium blog related Discovery Relays
https://medium.com/@sondreb/discovery-relays-e2b0bd00feec
4. The Podcast of Lea (npub1pup…x7zp) from X to Nostr
https://x.com/LeaMeakin/status/1913493789378797970
5. The best replacement for X
https://x.com/LeaMeakin/status/1913500985697210541
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⚡ 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 PABLOF7z (npub1l2v…ajft) for providing this data. Here are the top zapped posts from last week, showcasing creators who received the most engagement:
🔥 Top 3: Most Zaps
1. Zaps Received: 708
Sats Earned: 1M
quoting nevent1q…2ydejack (nprofile…zj6n) showed me nostr recently. Reminds me of a writeup I did back in 2021 on decentralized social media:
https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc47dcfd4f99
I'll be mirroring my X account here and hopefully finding some good conversations.
2. Zaps Received: 155
Sats Earned: 42k
quoting nevent1q…6wuywe reject gatekeepers.
we defy borders, hierarchies, and middlemen.
code is our passport. access is our right.
permissionless technologies defend freedoms.
they scale trust without institutions.
they enable action without approval.
no one asks to speak.
no one begs to build.
no one waits to change.
we build systems that can't be shut down.
we create tools that serve all, not the few.
we write code that liberates, not controls.
this is not just infrastructure.
it’s a revolution—
silent, sovereign, unstoppable.
we don’t ask.
we deploy.
3. Zaps Received: 90
Sats Earned: 50k
quoting nevent1q…69ckBeen reading up on the nostr protocol and comparing it to the DSP I wrote about in 2021. Many of the details seem to have been worked out brilliantly, but one thing that worries me is the reliance on volunteer nodes.
It would be nice if there was a business model for nodes and node competition at the protocol level.
As it is, I wonder if nostr can scale.
💰 Top 3: Most Sats
1. Sats Earned: 1M
Zaps Received: 708
quoting nevent1q…2ydejack (nprofile…zj6n) showed me nostr recently. Reminds me of a writeup I did back in 2021 on decentralized social media:
https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc47dcfd4f99
I'll be mirroring my X account here and hopefully finding some good conversations.
2. Sats Earned: 85k
Zaps Received: 41
quoting nevent1q…s6lmthoughts on buzzbot?
buzzbot (nprofile…rz74) 100000
3. Sats Earned: 50k
Zaps Received: 90
quoting nevent1q…69ckBeen reading up on the nostr protocol and comparing it to the DSP I wrote about in 2021. Many of the details seem to have been worked out brilliantly, but one thing that worries me is the reliance on volunteer nodes.
It would be nice if there was a business model for nodes and node competition at the protocol level.
As it is, I wonder if nostr can scale.
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😂 Nostr Memes
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quoting nevent1q…mg07Just your average high-signal day on NOSTR.
#SignalCleanse #NOSTRHygiene #ReclaimYourFeed #NostrMemes
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quoting nevent1q…ptngZaps are one of Nostr’s super powers
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quoting nevent1q…7zdcPower to the people. #Nostr.
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quoting nevent1q…ceckGm ☕️
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quoting nevent1q…zcmeWhich way npub?
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quoting nevent1q…f9dtEvery morning on Nostr feels like a damn fine cup of decentralization. ☕⚡
#ZapZide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM
#coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr
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🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
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1. Lantern - A Chrome extension for highlighting and annotating web pages - New Tool
Lantern is a Chrome extension for highlighting and annotating web content and publishing notes directly to Nostr via NIP-84 and NIP-73. As a fork of Hypothes.is, it helps users emphasize and share readable content within Nostr. Works best on ungoogled-chromium.
Developed by: fiatjaf (npub180c…h6w6)
Source: https://git.fiatjaf.com/lantern
2. Aegis - Nostr Signer - New Tool
Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer for securely signing events across multiple clients. Supports various connection methods, making it easy to use with different apps and devices.
Developed by: ZharlieW
Source: https://github.com/ZharlieW/Aegis
==================================
🎁 Developer Tools, updates and Guides
==================================
1. Nostr Components - Take Nostr content beyond Nostr clients - New Developer Tool
Nostr Components is a developer tool that allows embedding Nostr profiles, posts, and follow buttons into any website. Built on the concept of fiatjaf’s Nostr Web Components, this tool enhances usability with a refined UI and a storybook component generator for easy customization. It simplifies the process for developers and webmasters to integrate Nostr content outside of traditional clients, helping increase Nostr's presence and accessibility across the web.
Developed by: saiy2k (npub1qsv…sft3)
Source: https://github.com/saiy2k/nostr-components
2. rely - A framework for building super custom relays - New Developer Tool
Rely is a framework for building custom Nostr relays. It avoids the complexity of other frameworks with a clean, minimal architecture. There was a release also this week (v0.3.2) which adds a security fix that blocks clients trying to authenticate before receiving an AUTH challenge, preventing impersonation attacks and enhancing relay security.
Developed by: pippellia (npub176p…vgup)
Source: https://github.com/pippellia-btc/rely
3. llms - Context text files for LLMs - New Developer Tool
llms is a developer tool that provides helpful text files for large language models (LLMs) to build Nostr apps more easily. These files include code examples, explanations, and documentation (all in one place). So the LLM has everything it needs to generate working code. It also includes support for tools like rust-nostr, making AI-assisted development faster and more accurate.
Developed by: aljaz (npub1alj…g9jp)
Source: https://github.com/nostr-net/llms
4. Rust Nostr - v0.41.0
A Rust library for building Nostr clients, wallets, and relays, offering high-level protocol support. This release adds NIP-C0 (Code Snippets) and NIP-98 (auth verification), introduces a Nostr keyring, improves relay error handling, and includes breaking changes to tag handling and metadata structure.
Developed by: Yuki Kishimoto (npub1drv…seet), Awiteb (npub1qqq…ln03), daywalker (npub1kue…drjt)
Source: https://github.com/rust-nostr/nostr/releases/tag/v0.41.0
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🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
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No Relay Updates and Releases for this week.
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👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
===================
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 twentieth recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #nostrrecap and let’s keep #grownostr together.
A big shoutout to Rabble (npub1wmr…g240) for his generous patronage!
Recap by NomishkaDilshan (npub19hs…5jcn)