Weekly conversations with the developers building on Nostr. Companion podcast to the Nostr Compass newsletter covering NIP proposals, client updates, relay developments, and protocol changes.
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FIPS v0.4.0 mixnet mesh, Whitenoise Linux Marmot desktop, CustID NIP-46 vault, myco nsite sharing, NIP-44 limit lift, NIP-86 and NIP-89 dives.
Buzz rename and Napplets trust boundary, Conduit marketplace MVP, BitBlik BLIK Lightning exchange, NIP-99 checkout proposal, Six Years of Nostr Junes.
Amethyst v1.12.0 Cashu nutzaps, Mostro Protocol v2, Clave 1.0 App Store push signing, Signet NIP-17 fix, NIP-77 and NIP-61 deep dives.
Marmot v2 darkmatter draft, Chama v3.1 standalone escrow, Coracle Caravel hosting, NIP-67 EOSE finish merges, NIP-50 autocomplete and Clave NIP-44 v3.
Amber 6.2.0 NIP-44 v3, Mostro Cashu CDK escrow, NIP-F4 podcasts merged, Amethyst NIP-32 labels, contested NIP-17 key decoupling opens bunker debate.
Amethyst v1.11.0 calendars, Vector v0.4.0 Tor MCP rewrite, MDK NIP-40, Formstr calendar NIPs, Cordn MLS, Six Years of Nostr Mays recalled.
Primal 3.5 Android rebuild, Amethyst v1.10.0 onchain zaps, Hostr P2P rentals, White Noise markdown, AgentNoise Marmot control, NIP-07 and NIP-39 dives.
Nostr VPN v4.0.10 BoringSSL throughput jump, Marmot completes user blocking, Grain v0.6.0 four NIPs land, with NIP-78 and NIP-98 deep dives.
MDK 0.8.0 MIP-05 notifications, LaWallet NWC v0.10.0 full wallet, Amethyst Nests JWT fixes, ngit GRASP fixes, NIP-53 and NIP-34 git dives.
GitWorkshop expands git-over-Nostr review, Routstrd routes paid inference, and Six Nostr Aprils tracks protocol history, including NIP-34 and NIP-67 updates weekly.
Episode 19 tracks major client releases, relay hardening, Marmot interoperability work, and NIP proposals, plus deep dives on communities and zaps.
Episode 18 covers Amethyst's major architecture upgrades, rapid client releases, emerging Marmot tooling, and seven NIP proposals plus deep dives today.
Amethyst migrates to Arti Tor and ships pure Kotlin MLS and Marmot. NIP-58 badges migrate kinds. NIP-17 and NIP-46 deep dives.
Amethyst ships NIP-62 Request to Vanish and relay management, NIP-5A merges for static websites on Nostr, and Marmot adoption widens.
Primal shipped Follow Packs and deep links, BigBrotr turned leaked nsecs into a network-wide warning system, nostr-vpn and P2P DOOM pushed Nostr beyond social use cases, and the episode closed with a six-year March retrospective.
Wallet clients broadened NWC support while removing risky paths, Notedeck pushed signed release discovery onto Nostr, relay selection became more runtime-aware, and the episode closed with deep dives into NIP-94 and NIP-54.
Shopstr commerce MCP, NIP-42 relay auth, Route96 labeling, Samizdat's Android alpha, and NIP-49 plus NIP-70 trace this week's Nostr hardening push.
Podcast #12 is out. We unpack outbox benchmarks, ContextVM's MCP, and MDK's public release. We also run through this week's releases and NIP updates. Then we trace five Februaries of Nostr from the 2021 rewrite to 2026 infrastructure growth. Read the issue at nostrcompass.org.
FIPS mesh networking, White Noise real-time messaging, HAVEN multi-npub relay, Burrow agent messaging, and NIP-55 Android signing deep dive.
Blossom local caching, competing AI agent NIPs, FROST signing, decentralized maps, Mostro Lightning wallet, and NIP-85 Trusted Assertions deep dive.
Mostro ships its first public beta for P2P Bitcoin trading on mobile, Zapstore reaches 1.0 stable, and OpenSats renews funding for Minibits Wallet. NIP-45 gains HyperLogLog for approximate cross-relay event counting. Primal Android expands NWC infrastructure while Antiprimal bridges Primal's cache to standard Nostr protocols. A campaign to slim kind 0 metadata begins with identity tags moving to their own event kind. NIP-96 continues its deprecation as projects migrate to Blossom for content-addressed media hosting.
rust-nostr ships a sweeping SDK overhaul. New clients like Nostria, Frostr, and Vector raise the bar. NIP deep dives follow.
Ridestr builds P2P ridesharing with Cashu escrow. Damus ships negentropy DM sync. Marmot merges MIP-03. Five years of Nostr Januaries reviewed.
Bitchat hardens with Rust, AI resurrects abandoned projects, relay trust gets standardized, quantum resistance debates continue, plus Amber, Zeus, Primal, and NostrDB updates.
Bitchat completes Cure53 security audit with 17+ PRs fixing critical findings. NIP-71 addressable video merged. Post-quantum cryptography NIP opens. Amethyst v1.05.0 ships bookmarks.
