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Nostr Compass #8
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This week: rust-nostr ships a major API redesign with 21 PRs overhauling the SDK’s architecture. Nostria 3.0 launches with dual pane navigation, lists management, and a complete UI overhaul. Vector adds SIMD acceleration achieving 65x-184x speedups and ships Marmot protocol support for encrypted group messaging. Frostr brings threshold signing to iOS via TestFlight. Damus implements NIP-19 (Bech32 Encoded Entities) relay hints for cross-relay content discovery. Primal Android adds NWC encryption and wallet transaction exports. …
Nostr Compass #7
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This week: Ridestr brings decentralized ridesharing to Nostr with Cashu payments and encrypted location sharing. Pomade introduces email-based recovery for multisig signers. Damus ships negentropy for reliable DM syncing. Amethyst’s desktop app adds search, bookmarks, and zaps. Amber v4.1.1 displays relay trust scores. Marmot merges MIP-03 and builds a TypeScript reference chat app. diVine adds NIP-46 QR authentication and mentions support. New NIP proposals address community management, sequence-based sync, and encrypted file …
Nostr Compass #6
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This week: Bitchat replaces C Tor with the Rust Arti implementation for better reliability and performance. nostrdb-rs gains streaming fold queries that enable zero-allocation database operations. Listr receives a major refactor with NDK 3 beta migration and AI-assisted maintenance after a year of dormancy. Zeus ships 17 merged PRs focused on NIP-47 (Nostr Wallet Connect for remote Lightning control) fixes and Cashu improvements, while Primal Android adds wallet backup flows and NIP-92 (media dimensions for proper aspect ratios) …
Nostr Compass #5
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This week: Bitchat undergoes a professional security audit by Cure53, the same firm that audited Signal and NIP-44, with 17+ PRs already merged fixing critical findings. NIP-71 is merged, bringing addressable video events to the protocol. A post-quantum cryptography NIP opens discussion on future-proofing Nostr against quantum attacks. Amethyst v1.05.0 ships bookmark lists, voice notes, and an early desktop release, while Nostur v1.25.3 improves NIP-17 DMs with reactions and replies. In library news, rust-nostr expands NIP-62 support …
Nostr Compass #4
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This week: Primal Android ships NIP-46 remote signing and NIP-55 local signer support, making it a full-fledged signing hub for other Android apps. The Marmot Protocol team addressed findings from a security audit with 18 merged PRs hardening MLS-based encrypted messaging. Citrine hits v1.0 and Applesauce ships v5.0 across its entire library suite. TENEX builds out AI agent supervision on Nostr, and Jumble adds smart relay pooling. A NIP-55 spec fix clarifies
nip44_encryptreturn fields, and a NIP-50 PR proposes …Nostr Compass #3
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This week: As 2025 closes, we look back at five years of December milestones in Nostr’s evolution. From fiatjaf’s first client release in December 2020, through Jack Dorsey’s pivotal 14 BTC donation in December 2022, to this month’s NIP-55 signer proliferation and NDK’s 162x cache speedup, December has consistently marked turning points for the protocol. This special issue traces the technical history through each December, documenting the protocol’s growth from two …
Nostr Compass #2
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This week: Three NIP-55 signer implementations see updates: Amber adds performance caching, Aegis gains
nostrsigner:URI support, and Primal Android joins them as a full local signer. Shopstr introduces “Zapsnags” for flash sales via zaps. Mostro adds a development fund. Four NIP updates land including Public Messages (kind 24) and group privacy improvements. NDK cache queries speed up 162x, Applesauce adds reactions and NIP-60 wallet support, and Tenex introduces RAL architecture for AI agent …Nostr Compass #1
Welcome to Nostr Compass, a weekly newsletter dedicated to the Nostr protocol ecosystem. Our mission is to keep developers, relay operators, and builders informed about important developments across the network. We document protocol evolution with technical accuracy, neutrality, and depth, covering everything from NIP proposals to client releases to implementation best practices.
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