A complete guide to Nostr

Useful resources to grow your knowledge about Nostr:

• https://nostr.how/
• https://usenostr.org/ 
• Nostr @ FOSDEM 2025
• https://nostrcg.github.io/userguide/ 
• https://soapbox.pub/blog/nostr101 
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/07/17/your-guide-to-nostr-the-decentralized-network-for-everything/ 
• https://nostr.net/ 
• https://medium.com/@jmchasteen/the-nostr-protocol-social-media-3-0-2c23e290bcb3 
• https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr 

Work in progress.

This is the summary of all the topics I would like to explain on this page for people who are having a first look at Nostr.

• What is Nostr?
  • https://njump.me/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqfnf8su5kntap0re6arw4kj6xvswm6uhsmatnlfvjp0pzhkzhcjlqqfx6mt6xdurqcmndf38scnzdcuhgvrrqzql8x 
• Apps / clients
  • Web
  • iOS mobile
  • Android mobile
  • Desktop
• Relays
• Content
  Every piece of data that is being transmitted between clients and relays are called events. These events are easy to read JSON formatted blobs.
• Funding & business models
  • https://www.hivemind.vc/writings/nostr 
  • https://opensats.org 
  • https://hrf.org 
• Your identity & profile
  • https://www.hivemind.vc/identity 
• Feeds & algorithms
• Search & discovery
  • https://npub.world/ 
  • https://brainstorm.world 
• Your social graph
• E-Commerce
• Payments
• Value-4-value
• Privacy
• Moderation, trust & safety
• Security
• Analytics & metrics
  • https://stats.andotherstuff.org 
  • https://nostrarchives.com 
  • https://ditto-metrics.shakespeare.wtf
  • https://npub.world/stats 
• Collectives for profit and non-profit
  • And Other Stuff
  • Open Privacy Foundation
  • Web of Trust Foundation
  • nostrdev.com
  • Open Cash
  • Soapbox
  • Primal
  • Sovereign Engineering 
  • Nosfabrica
  • Verse Communications PBC
• Events & conferences
  • https://nostr.world 
• Governance
  Issues: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues 
  Merge requests: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pulls 
• NIPS
  Nostr Implementation Possibilities
  • https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips 
  • https://nips.nostr.com/
  • https://nostr.dev 
  • https://nostrbook.dev/kinds/ 
  • https://nostrhub.io 
• Follow the latest developments
  • https://nostrcompass.org 
  • Weekly Nostr Recap
• Books
  • https://building-nostr.coracle.social/ 
• Missing features
  • A single point of truth (this is not a bug, but a feature)
  • Key rotation / identity recovery
  • Private group chats / communities
  • Relationships (2-way opt-in relationships)
    https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/761 
    https://vocab.org/relationship/ 
• Other features & tools
  • Search
    • NIP-50
  • Web of Trust
  • Livestreams
  • Calendar events
  • Communities
  • Git
  • Hosting data with Blossom
  • Encrypted data with MLS
  • Web bookmarks & highlights
  • Gaming
  • Attestations
  • E-mail
  • Networking
    • FIPS
• Other resources
  • Decentralized Social Media - Nostr (2026-05)
  • Your Guide To Nostr, The Decentralized Network For Everything (2024-07)
  • Exploring the Nostr Ecosystem: A Study of Decentralization and Resilience (02-2024)