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Nostr Compass #31
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
This week: Vector v0.4.0 retires Marmot as the default transport for Group Chats in favor of Concord, an open, MIT-licensed community protocol also used by Soapbox’s Armada, and ships Concord v2 four days later with a slash-command picker for bots, a self-destruct timer, and NIP-58 badges. Amethyst merges its own clean-room, wire-compatible Concord implementation the same week. Sonar splits off from Bitchat with a cross-platform alpha and is the cited spec source for this week’s sticker-pack kinds proposal. Divine Mobile …
Nostr Compass #30
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This week: the Marmot spec is marked adopted across 42 files as MDK cuts v0.9.0 through v0.9.3 with encrypted group avatars, external signer support, and MarmotKit iOS and Android bindings. Mostro ships Transport v2 on NIP-44 direct messages with anti-spam gates and a coexistence window in both mostrod v0.18.0 and Mobile v1.3.0. Bitchat 1.6.0 adds NIP-13 proof-of-work to geohash channel messages, an opt-in mesh-to-Nostr gateway that lets one online phone uplink a whole crowd, prekey bundles, transitive verification, and creator-managed …
Nostr Compass #29
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This week: FIPS v0.4.0 ships a Nym mixnet transport, opt-in mDNS LAN discovery, hitless rekey under loss, and a data-plane overhaul, wire-compatible with v0.3.0. Whitenoise Linux surfaces as a desktop Marmot client in Rust and Slint with a protocol proposal to move message effects to a dedicated kind-9 event. CustID v0.1.10-beta launches as a hardware-backed mobile identity vault acting as a NIP-46 remote signer and answering physical access challenges over NFC. myco launches peer-to-peer nsite sharing over the FIPS mesh with a new BLE …
Nostr Compass #28
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
This week: Sprout rebranded to Buzz and started publishing personas, teams, and managed-agent records as Nostr relay events, with cross-device read state and per-message read markers replacing the old badge-frontier model. Napplets by sandwich.farm launches as a trust-boundary protocol for composable Nostr apps distributed over Nostr and Blossom. Conduit (a three-app marketplace monorepo on Nostr: buyer market, merchant portal, store builder, with its own in-repo NIP and spec directories) lands 17 PRs hardening the marketplace MVP, …
Nostr Compass #27
This week ran heavy on signer work, P2P trade protocols, and flagship client releases. Amethyst v1.12.0 ships 170+ PRs adding NIP-60 Cashu wallets, NIP-61 nutzaps, NIP-82 software-app feeds, NIP-F4 podcast support, CLINK on-chain zap verification, KMP phase-1/2 iOS migration, and a Tor self-heal driver. Clave v1.0.0 (build 102) was submitted to the App Store, bringing push-woken background signing and incoming-signature verification to iOS. Mostro Core v0.13.0 ships Protocol v2, replacing relay-based order communication with NIP-44 gift-wrapped direct messages, and Mostro v0.17.5 made the …
Nostr Compass #26
The Marmot Protocol organization opens three new repos for a v2 protocol draft and a native client lineage: a Rust workspace named
darkmatter, a SwiftUI iOS appdarkmatter-ios, and a Kotlin/Compose Android appdarkmatter-android. The original Flutter Whitenoise is archived. Chama compresses seventeen releases into one week and crosses the standalone-app line at v3.0.0 before landing a full trade-room UI redraw and per-seller storefronts in v3.1.0, on top of holder-only Shamir shares, arbiter substitution, full-world community routing, and end-to-end trade notifications. Coracle launches a paid …Nostr Compass #25
Amber 6.2.0 ships NIP-44 v3 encryption ahead of the spec. Mostro lands the foundation for Cashu-settled escrow across eight PRs, wrapping the existing Cashu Development Kit as a second settlement backend alongside Lightning. NIP-F4 podcasts merges after 27 months of debate. fiatjaf opens a contested NIP-17 key-decoupling proposal that re-opens the bunker-versus-Marmot architectural argument. Amethyst lands NIP-32 hashtag labeling, a dedicated podcast screen, and onchain zaps across 52 unreleased PRs.
Nostr Compass #24
Amethyst v1.11.0 lands a full NIP-52 calendar implementation with reminders, on-chain Bitcoin zap splits, and Marmot group reply support. White Noise v2026.5.22 ships iOS push notifications through a Notification Service Extension, alongside block UX and an add-members button. Vector v0.4.0 lands a ground-up vector-core rewrite, one-click Tor with bridges, NIP-46 remote signers, full-negentropy MLS group sync, and a 21-tool MCP server for AI agents. Applesauce v6.1.0 introduces NIP-51 lookup relay lists (kind 10086) and a complete NIP-34 git-cast factory set. MDK adds NIP-40 disappearing …
Nostr Compass #23
Primal 3.5 ships a rebuilt Android shell, Amethyst adds onchain Bitcoin zaps, White Noise gains markdown rendering and deep links, Keycast passes a security audit, and AgentNoise lets you control local AI coding agents over Marmot-encrypted chat. Hostr launches a P2P rental accommodation platform on Nostr with four draft NIPs covering listings, reservations, and EVM-based escrow. Angor migrates encrypted messaging from NIP-04 to NIP-44, Dart NDK adds NIP-77 and a web signer, Alby js-sdk v8 ships native NWC multi-relay reconnect, and KeyChat patches a forward secrecy gap in Signal one-time …
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. …
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