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Nostr Compass #34
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
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
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
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
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
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
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
Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr.
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.
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