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Nostr Compass #15
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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
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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 …
Nostr Compass #11
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This week: White Noise v0.3.0 brings real-time messaging and Amber signer support with 160+ merged improvements. diVine 1.0.5 fixes video playback issues and adds Kind 22236 view events for creator analytics. Pika, Ridestr, and Unfiltered ship updates. FIPS ships a working Rust implementation of Nostr-native mesh networking. Notecrumbs gets stability fixes for damus.io link previews. ContextVM bridges Nostr with the Model Context Protocol. New projects include Burrow for MLS-encrypted messaging between AI agents and humans, and Nostria …
Nostr Compass #10
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This week: A Blossom local cache layer takes shape as independent projects converge on offline media access for Android. Alby launches an NWC developer sandbox for building and testing Nostr Wallet Connect integrations without risking real funds. Competing proposals for AI agent communication on Nostr arrive in the same week from two authors. fiatjaf strips unused fields from NIP-11, removing retention policies, country codes, privacy policy, and community preference tags that relay operators never adopted. NIP-85 merges service …
Nostr Compass #9
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This week: Mostro ships its first public beta after three years of development, bringing P2P Bitcoin trading to mobile via Nostr. OpenSats awards its sixteenth wave of Bitcoin grants, with Minibits Wallet receiving a renewal for its Nostr-integrated Cashu wallet. Zapstore reaches 1.0 stable release, marking the maturation of the decentralized Android app store. Coracle 0.6.29 adds topics and highlight commenting. Igloo Desktop v1.0.3 ships major security hardening for Frostr threshold signing. Amber v4.1.2-pre1 migrates to Flow …
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) …
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