Nostr Compass Podcast

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.

Primal Android becomes a signing hub with NIP-46 and NIP-55. Marmot hardens MLS after audit. Nostria 2.0 adds music and streaming.

Five years of Nostr Decembers: from fiatjaf's first client in 2020 to 2,500+ relays, 140+ clients, and a thriving global ecosystem.

Episode 2: NIP-55 Signers, Zapsnags, and the Social Graph

Builders break down Nostr Compass #1: NIP-BE, Marmot Protocol, Blossom, Shopster, plus client updates from Amethyst, Damus, Notedeck, Zeus, and more.