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 #22
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr protocol development.
This week: Nostr VPN ships eight releases in seven days from a redesigned device-pairing flow through a FIPS AEAD swap that roughly doubles TCP throughput. Marmot Protocol (the foundation for White Noise) ships a frontend release completing the user-blocking feature and 31 merged PRs across MDK and backend. Grain ships v0.6.0 with four new NIP implementations in one milestone. Citrine ships v3.0.0-pre1 with built-in Tor and relay aggregation. Amber ships v6.1.0-pre2 with connection-flow and signing improvements. …
Nostr Compass #21
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
This week: Marmot Protocol ships MDK 0.8.0 with the first MIP-05 notification primitives, addressable NIP-51 (Lists) key packages, and a tightened security review pass. LaWallet NWC ships v0.10.0 as the biggest release since OpenSats funding, bringing a full admin dashboard, end-user Wallet, end-to-end activity log, and a new
LightningAddress 1→NandNWCConnectionschema that unlocks per-address NIP-47 (Nostr Wallet Connect) routing. Amethyst lands a Nests stability sprint with audio gap elimination during JWT refresh, lifecycle-aware …Nostr Compass #20
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
This week: GitWorkshop turns git-over-Nostr into a fuller code-review surface with an in-browser PR merge button, Stars and repository following, a bandwidth-efficient git explorer, kind
1111inline review comments, and encrypted multi-device notification state. Routstrd launches a local daemon that discovers model providers via Nostr kind38421announcements and pays them with Cashu. Tagged releases include ngit v2.4.2, Wisp v1.0.0, grain v0.5.2 and v0.5.3, Mostro Core v0.10.0 and Mostro Mobile v1.2.5, marmot-ts v0.5.0, CruxCoach …Nostr Compass #19
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
This week: Amethyst lands a large Marmot, communities, and MoQ audio rooms pass, TollGate stabilizes pay-per-use internet access over Nostr and Cashu in v0.1.0, and nostream closes a week of relay work around NIP-45, NIP-62, compression, query hardening, and complete NIP-11 parity. Forgesworn drops a full signing, identity, and paid-API stack for Nostr. ShockWallet keeps pushing Nostr-native Lightning wallet flows. The Formstr suite (Pollerama, Forms, Calendar) merges 26 PRs across security hardening and RRULE support. StableKraft, …
Nostr Compass #18
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
This week: Amethyst merges 29 PRs including desktop Tor support, a custom C secp256k1 implementation with JNI bindings, a full WebRTC call system for NIP-AC voice and video calls, RFC 9420 MLS compliance for Marmot, and multi-wallet NWC. nstrfy launches as an Android push notification app that replaces Firebase with Nostr relays using kind
7741events. HAMSTR adds Reticulum mesh networking, enabling Nostr events over LoRa radio with no internet connection. Bloom ships v0.1.0 as a desktop app bundling a full Blossom media server and …
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