### News
- **0:16 — FIPS v0.4.0**
FIPS v0.4.0 ships Nym mixnet outbound transport, opt-in mDNS/DNS-SD LAN discovery, a data-plane overhaul with per-peer crypto workers, hitless FMP/FSP rekey under packet loss, a rewritten fipstop TUI, Prometheus show_metrics, and OpenWrt apk plus Nix flake packaging, all wire-compatible with v0.3.0.
- **6:40 — Whitenoise Linux desktop client**
Whitenoise Linux is a desktop Marmot client in Rust and Slint with a single password-encrypted vault. A protocol proposal moves message effects from inline dmfx: body markers to dedicated kind 9 sidecar events referencing the parent message.
- **10:04 — CustID mobile identity vault**
CustID v0.1.10-beta stores multiple Nostr identities in hardware-backed secure storage, acts as a NIP-46 remote signer, and answers physical access challenges over NFC and QR, dropping background NIP-65 keep-alive in favor of signing-notification sockets only.
- **11:42 — myco peer-to-peer nsite sharing**
myco v0.1.0 shares NIP-5A nsites peer-to-peer over a FIPS mesh with BLE L2CAP transport, per-peer speedtests, NFC-triggered sharing, and Zapstore distribution.
- **16:29 — Nostr Codex Phone**
Nostr Codex Phone v0.1.122 controls a local Codex coding-assistant worker over encrypted Nostr DMs from Android, with multi-repo sessions, voice transcription, Blossom uploads, and optional spoken responses, sibling to CodeDeck from #28.
- **17:23 — Coop Mobile**
Coop Mobile v0.2.1 and v0.2.2 are the first versioned builds of a NIP-17 encrypted DM client for Android, tightening crash safety around message parsing and QR handling and wiping stored data on logout.
- **17:51 — Amethyst**
Amethyst adds a NIP-34 Git Repositories feed, a napplet Discover section from NIP-89 and NIP-5A events, NIP-89 client-tag display in PR #3422, and NIP-77 negentropy with streaming reconciliation and automatic created_at windowing.
- **19:02 — Buzz v0.3.38**
Buzz v0.3.38 hardens relay attack surface on personas, teams, managed agents, and NIP-OA attestations, and adds provider-agnostic model selection including a Databricks AI Gateway v2 backend.
- **19:48 — Notedeck**
Notedeck lands NIP-37 private-sync relays as kind 10013, a NIP-52 calendar pane redesign, and NIP-22 kind 1111 comments in the headway pane.
- **20:41 — Applesauce**
Applesauce 6.2.x adds nbunksec portable NIP-46 session import/export and upgrades the wallet package to @cashu/cashu-ts v4 with Amount value objects.
### Releases
- **21:16 — mostro-core v0.14.0**
mostro-core v0.14.0 ships the next protocol iteration for the Mostro P2P fiat trading network alongside mostro-cli v0.16.0.
- **21:36 — ngit v2.6.1**
ngit v2.6.1 implements merged NIP-34 GRASP-06 fork semantics replacing personal-fork with a u upstream tag on repo-state events.
- **22:59 — mesh-llm v0.72.0/v0.72.1**
mesh-llm v0.72.0 and v0.72.1 fix a batching crash on large single prompts and migrate the MCP bridge off deprecated helpers.
- **23:20 — Meiso v1.4.0**
Meiso v1.4.0 introduces Shared-Key Collaborative Lists on addressable kind 35000 with NIP-44 self-encrypted tasks and relay Last-Write-Wins conflict resolution, replacing prior MLS-based task sharing.
- **24:15 — Cordn 0.3.2**
Cordn 0.3.2 removes ephemeral sender pubkeys from group message posting and hardens join-request flow against stale re-requests on the coordinator side.
### Project Updates
- **24:53 — diVine**
diVine merged 108 PRs in a post-launch polish wave, including a NIP-46 connect-flow stability pass migrating nostrconnect:// failures onto structured reason codes.
- **25:11 — Zap Cooking**
Zap Cooking continues the cross-project NIP-46 fix and composer overhaul from #28.
- **25:27 — Conduit**
Conduit continues marketplace correctness work on listing flow and buyer, merchant, and store-builder apps from #28's launch.
- **26:02 — Pollerama v1.12–v1.13.1**
Pollerama v1.12.0 through v1.13.1 add user-selectable client tags, thread depth caps linking to full threads, profile Notes and Conversations tabs, and follow-persistence fixes.
- **26:30 — getwired.app / get-tao.app**
getwired.app and get-tao.app fixed the NIP-13 confess submission flow so proof-of-work mining UX is coherent during anonymous posting.
- **26:59 — nostui**
nostui added a mention timeline tab surfacing kind 1 events tagging the active pubkey as a dedicated TUI view.
- **27:17 — Heartwood**
Heartwood landed a relay-to-serial HSM signing bridge and per-identity NIP-46 bunker URIs so one hardware device exposes distinct bunker connections per identity.
- **27:51 — Nostter**
nostter reworked auth and signer dispatch into strategy modules with login state on a single signal, unifying NIP-07, NIP-46, and nsec paths.
- **28:07 — Dart NDK**
Dart NDK moved the NIP-07 signer into ndk_flutter and randomized NIP-59 gift-wrap timestamps against timing correlation.
- **28:29 — Milk Market**
Milk Market added NIP-23 storefront blog pages, Square payment processing, and automatic shipping-label purchases for paid orders.
- **28:54 — Calendar by Formstr**
Calendar by Formstr merged PR #159 for an iOS app, PR #197 fixing local calendar-date parsing, and PR #201 adding Playwright E2E on a run-tests label.
- **29:27 — cagliostr**
cagliostr tightened configurable NIP-13 proof-of-work, NIP-09 deletion by addressable coordinate, and configurable NIP-22 timestamp limits.
- **29:51 — Rapid fire of new projects (Vanderwarker, ntrack, etc.)**
The Vanderwarker wellbeing suite publishes physical telemetry as kind 30078 Nostr events across five Zapstore apps: Holy Fit, Nunlock, Saint Stream, Sister Charge, and Cellibacy.
- **30:48 — ntrack & Haven**
ntrack v0.1.9 is an encrypted serverless live location-sharing Android app in Rust and Slint, sibling to Haven from #28 but carrying location updates over encrypted NIP-44 DMs instead of Marmot groups.
- **31:02 — NostrAppShell**
NostrAppShell published its first user-facing documentation as an early-stage application shell scaffold for building Nostr apps.
- **31:15 — NIPs by Pollerama / new NIP-34 repo clusters**
NIPs by Pollerama (abh3po/better-nips) surfaces NostrHub kind 30817 community NIPs with trust-weighted NIP-32 approvals. New NIP-34 clusters include Vidstr and a nostrapps.com trio: verdana, hallway, and napps.
### NIP Updates
- **31:53 — Section start**
Five NIPs merged this week alongside open proposals on NIP-17 wrapper keys, NIP-59 seal handling, NIP-29 group states, filter AND operators, and commerce consolidation into the Gamma Market Spec.
- **32:00 — NIP-44 payload limit — Merged**
PR #1907 removes the 65,535-byte NIP-44 plaintext cap, raising it to 4 GiB via a longer-length field tagged into the version byte while keeping v2 wire compatibility.
- **32:56 — NIP-86 signevent method — Merged**
PR #2389 adds a signevent method to NIP-86, and PR #2390 defines a Relay Roles replaceable event declaring administrator and moderator pubkeys.
- **33:43 — NIP-34 u tag for GRASP-06 — Merged**
PR #2395 replaces the NIP-34 personal-fork tag with a u upstream tag on kind 30618 repo-state events, closing PR #2384 and aligning with ngit v2.6.1.
- **34:14 — NIP-46 client metadata — Merged**
PR #2381 merges optional name, icon, and homepage metadata on NIP-46 connect requests, catching up to Amber v6.2.2 from #28.
- **34:37 — NIP-17 wrapper keys proposal — Open**
PR #2397 and PR #2396 propose epoch-based deterministic NIP-17 wrap keys and conversation-key-signed wraps for filterable DM threads without metadata leakage.
- **35:37 — NIP-59 seal rejection proposal — Open**
PR #2399 proposes relays reject top-level kind 13 seal events from NIP-59 gift wraps, with issue #2398 arguing seals should be ephemeral kinds.
- **35:59 — NIP-29 group states proposal — Open**
PR #2372 adds explicit open, closed, public, private, and archived group-state semantics to NIP-29 relay-based groups.
- **37:01 — AND operator proposal (NIP-91) — Open**
PR #2252 proposes an AND operator for Nostr filters, with implementations already in nostr-rs-relay, Applesauce, Amethyst, and worker-relay.
- **37:53 — Closed marketplace NIPs / Gamma Market Spec — Closed**
Escrow PR #2334, Reservations PR #2335, Marketplace Listing Extension PR #2346, and Accommodation Listing PR #2333 closed as commerce consolidates into the Gamma Market Spec repository composing orders, checkout, escrow, and disputes atop NIP-99.
- **38:14 — Bitcoin identity linkage proposals — Open**
Two proposals opened for linking Bitcoin identities to Nostr: a NIP-352 Bitcoin Silent Payment Address and a Bitcoin-OTC Identity Linkage Proof.
### NIP Deep Dives
- **38:39 — NIP-86 Relay Management API**
NIP-86 defines JSON-RPC relay management over HTTP POST with NIP-98 auth. Merged signevent lets admins ask relays to sign events with the relay pubkey, and Relay Roles events declare administrators and moderators so clients validate admin requests without out-of-band trust.
- **42:08 — NIP-89 Recommended Application Handlers**
NIP-89 defines kind 31990 application handlers and kind 31989 user recommendations so clients discover apps for unknown event kinds via socially filtered Open in... flows. Optional client tags surface authoring app identity with a documented privacy tradeoff. Amethyst's Discover section and napplet host build a full NIP-89 consumer surface on Android.
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