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.
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Nostr Compass #42
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
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Nostr Compass #41
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
This week: fips2go adds fallback mesh links and opt-in Nostr peer discovery, fips-initramfs’s September 6 catch-up explains remote opening of encrypted roots, and MintRadar makes Cashu mints easier to compare. Grain 0.8.0-rc4 turns relay health into an operator dashboard, while Marmot Protocol’s MDK makes local sends and attachment acquisition durable. White Noise Android improves private chat delivery, voice tools, and profile sharing. Project spotlights include napplet.soy, RelayKit, and Threshold Sessions. Merged work …
Nostr Compass #40
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
This week: Marmot Protocol and MDK add bounded conversation windows, recovery fixes, and coordinated SDK bindings, Myco turns its FIPS mesh into an offline napplet and file-sharing runtime, Dart NDK changes relay and cache behavior, and Keycast rebuilds remote signing around durable requests and recovery. Tagged releases include Nail, Nostr Mail Client, Linky, and Boris. The NIPs repository merged one PR this week, clarifying NIP-A3 (Payment Targets), while proposed slash-command and DVM-heartbeat work remains open. Deep dives cover …
Nostr Compass #39
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
This week: ngit and GitWorkshop move signed git workflows onto Nostr and Blossom, nsite-clay makes browser publishing recoverable, and Wingman App joins browsing, local signing, authentication, and files. Shosho and Livelier connect self-hosted streams to Nostr, Communitator makes relay templates inspectable before signing, cal.emre.xyz publishes appointment slots, and Plektos encrypts private events. Tagged releases add recovery and privacy work in Vector, Primal Android, LibreNostr, and SkateSpots. Development work spans NIP-27 …
Nostr Compass #38
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
This week: Voca 1.0 brings verified Nostr notes and long-form subscriptions to an offline Android reader that speaks articles aloud, nostream expands relay-side job routing and authenticated operation, NDK for Dart fixes negentropy and multi-relay request lifetimes, Divine Mobile makes wrapped-message deletion and signing deterministic, Conduit Relay protects gift-wrap inboxes by default, Amethyst ships portable highlights, and Mostro verifies signed orders before its spam gate. Napstr publishes audio catalogues and seeder heartbeats …
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