Nostr Compass is a technical resource for the Nostr protocol, helping developers, relay operators, and builders stay current on protocol evolution.
We publish weekly newsletters covering NIP proposals, client updates, relay developments, and notable code changes. Our podcast features conversations with the developers building Nostr. The topic index documents key concepts with links to primary sources.
Recent Newsletters
Nostr Compass #16
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
This week: Amethyst ships v1.07.0 with pinned notes, relay management via NIP-86, and NIP-62 Request to Vanish support. NIP-5A (Static Websites) merges into the NIPs repository, defining how to host websites under Nostr keypairs using Blossom storage. Flotilla ships v1.7.0 with voice rooms, email/password login, and proof-of-work DMs. White Noise fixes relay churn in v2026.3.23, nospeak launches its 1.0.0 as a no-signup encrypted messenger. Nymchat adopts Marmot for MLS-encrypted group chats with NIP-17 fallback. Calendar by Form* …
Nostr Compass #15
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
This week: Primal Android follows its 3.0 wallet release with Follow Packs, zap enrichment, and
primalconnect://deep links. BigBrotr publishes an nsec leak analysis scanning 41 million events across 1,085 relays, finding 16,599 valid private keys, while npub.world integrates leak warnings into profile pages the same week. Martti Malmi launches nostr-vpn, a Tailscale alternative that signals over Nostr relays and creates WireGuard tunnels, shipping 11 releases in seven days. The Vector team open-sources P2P DOOM over Nostr, FIPS ships …Nostr Compass #14
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
This week: Amethyst lands full NIP-47 (Nostr Wallet Connect) method support, Alby Hub adds multiple relay support in v1.21.6, Amber ships v4.1.3 with built-in Tor and finer signer permissions, and Zeus removes a risky NWC keysend path in PR #3835. Notedeck ships a signed updater in v0.8.0-rc2 that discovers releases through NIP-94 (File Metadata) events, while Damus fixes stale NIP-65 (Relay List Metadata) state, Nostrability Outbox revises its benchmark results with corrected data, and Primal iOS tests direct relay subscriptions for …
Nostr Compass #13
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This week: Shopstr and Milk Market add MCP surfaces for agent-driven commerce, while OAuth Bunker, Amber, and strfry add NIP-42 (Authentication of Clients to Relays) relay-auth and protected-event support across app, signer, and relay software. Route96 ships two releases around AI labeling, moderation queues, perceptual hashing, and machine-readable server docs. Samizdat, already live on the web, released its first Android alpha and later added NIP-55 (Android Signer Application) signer support. Formstr adds signup through NIP-49 …
Nostr Compass #12
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This week: The Marmot Development Kit ships its first public release with encrypted media and multi-language bindings. Nostrability publishes outbox model benchmarks across 14 relay selection algorithms. Wisp goes from first alpha to beta in eight days with Tor and NIP-55 (Android Signer Application) signing. NIP-91 (AND filters) merges. Vector v0.3.1 delivers negentropy sync with 15x performance gains. This issue also includes the Five Years of Nostr Februaries retrospective, tracing the protocol from a spec rewrite serving three …
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