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?
- 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
- Your identity & profile
- Feeds & algorithms
- Search & discovery
- Your social graph
- E-Commerce
- Payments
- Value-4-value
- Privacy
- Moderation, trust & safety
- Security
- Analytics & metrics
- 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
- Governance
Issues: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues
Merge requests: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pulls - NIPS
Nostr Implementation Possibilities - Follow the latest developments
- https://nostrcompass.org
- Weekly Nostr Recap
- Books
- 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
- Networking
- FIPS
- Search
- Other resources