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Nostr Compass #40
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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
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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
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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 …
Nostr Compass #37
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This week: Shopstr keeps remote-signer and wallet secrets out of browser storage, Routstr SDK verifies relay-sourced provider discovery, Postr launches as a small Android composer, Infans encrypts family tracking and co-parent sync, walls.rip carries PGP-encrypted chat through public Nostr relays, and pakstr makes Zapstore publication explicit. nostr-tools binds gift-wrap rumors to their seals. Releases cover subscription isolation, profile statuses, relay-scoped leave markers, an Android mail client whose arrival notifications need no …
Nostr Compass #36
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This week: Amber hardens relay auth and encrypts stored secrets, Cambium signs for websites under relay-auth load, Citrine hosts groups and static sites on a phone relay, Vector queues moderation under spam and syncs mutes across devices, Sonar adds threaded mesh replies, Nostria publishes podcasts, and Nail bridges email as gift-wrapped events. Releases cover MDK group state, badge minting, QR signer pairing, Android browser signing, and shared wallet-connect. Protocol work reaches comment patches, encrypted file metadata, thread …
Nostr Compass #35
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This week: nostr-wot-extension adds post-quantum keys and opt-in protected messages beside existing Nostr identities. Divine tightens account isolation, private-message validation, and publish confirmation; MDK strengthens encrypted-group convergence and recovery; and Amber makes grouped signing decisions explicit. Releases improve wallet connections, encrypted chat, social discovery, device sync, and remote signing, while protocol work covers identity and encrypted communities. The deep dives explain authenticated deletion requests …
Nostr Compass #34
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This week: Sandstr lets newcomers explore simulated Nostr clients without creating keys or installing an app. nostr-mill adds per-event signer consent and cross-client key recovery, while nostrord expands relay-hosted groups, signers, moderation, uploads, and highlights. Protocol work spans Nostr event formats, wallet connections, relay discovery, napplets, Marmot, and Concord; the deep dives explain relay-assisted search and portable highlights.
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nostr-mill 1.6.0 puts signing consent and account recovery in the browser …
Nostr Compass #33
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This week: Amethyst 1.13.1 follows version 1.13.0’s Nostr-app launch with NIP-29 host-relay authentication and authenticated Blossom-download retries. Code Call keeps remote coding sessions moving from a phone, GitWorkshop coordinates maintainers and repository synchronization, and Mosaico gives coding agents a shared Nostr awareness layer. Nostrology maps how profiles divide read and write duties across their published relay lists. Android releases from Mafrend, Hanami, and Cordn lead the tagged releases, while FIPS adds an …
Nostr Compass #32
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This week: IndieSats retires key custody, its whitelist, and its mandatory revenue cut, relaunching as an open relay, player, and discovery layer where artists publish under their own keys. Nostrord v2.3.0 lands group moderation, mute lists, and onion relays the same week five NIP-29 spec PRs merge. Zapstore 1.1.0 introduces a portable encrypted device key with Amber backup and opt-in background auto-updates. The favorite-follow-sets list kind merges and opens a renumbering PR within days. And the Iris projects ship nostr-pubsub, the …
Nostr Compass #31
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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 …
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