Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr

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Technical resource for the Nostr protocol. Weekly newsletter covering NIP proposals, client updates, relay developments, and notable code changes.

Nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays

Nostr is an inclusive communication commons. A simple standard that defines a scalable architecture of clients and servers that can be used to spread information freely. Not controlled by any corporation or government, anyone can build on Nostr and anyone can use it.

Explore Nostr Apps

Join your peers in a healthy social network. Nos is our Nostr client for humans, not algorithms.

Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future (FOSDEM'26)

Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same. How do we make the next generation of protocols ...

From ZK-first to AT Protocol — our path to DDS | Agora Citizen Network

We've been building Agora — a platform for public deliberation using Polis-style clustering — for a while now. Along the way, we've written about what we think about Nostr, AT Protocol, Polis, Community Notes, and protocol interoperability. Those posts are somewhat outdated now. This one describes w...

nostr - controlled by users, not platforms

Nostr is a free and open-source protocol for social media and other things - controlled by users, not platforms.

shreyan - Nostr and ATProto

This post could’ve been titled “Nostr vs ATProto”, but that really isn’t what I wanted to do here. While I will be comparing and contrasting them a lot, and that’s kind of even the point of writing this, I didn’t want to really pit the two against each other at all, and especially not with the title. I also want to try avoiding commenting on the differences between the communities that have formed on the protocols and their apps, although I definitely will be looking at the philosophical differences between the two a lot - also kind of the point of writing this. This also isn’t a super deep technical post, though it assumes familiarity with technical concepts. I also might come back to edit parts of it and add more later.

shreyan - Nostr and ATProto

This post could’ve been titled “Nostr vs ATProto”, but that really isn’t what I wanted to do here. While I will be comparing and contrasting them a lot, and that’s kind of even the point of writing this, I didn’t want to really pit the two against each other at all, and especially not with the title. I also want to try avoiding commenting on the differences between the communities that have formed on the protocols and their apps, although I definitely will be looking at the philosophical differences between the two a lot - also kind of the point of writing this. This also isn’t a super deep technical post, though it assumes familiarity with technical concepts. I also might come back to edit parts of it and add more later.

FOSDEM 2026 - Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future

Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same.

Trusted Assertions by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #1534 · nostr-protocol/nips

Certain calculations in Nostr require access to the entire dataset of events and are impossible to do directly by Clients. This PR offers a simple way for users to declare trust in service provider...

FEP-1042: Peer to Peer Fediverse Identities

Hey folks, we at [Distributed Press](https://distributed.press) have been working on making a bridge between peer to peer or "dweb" protocols and ActivityPub implementations over the past year and wanted to solidify our approach so that others can interoperate. Here's is an initial draft expla...

Decentralized Syndication — The Missing Internet Protocol

The Internet is decentralized by design. It came into being not at once, but in parts. New protocols were added on top of previous ones…

Why a New Protocol? The History and Future of AT Protocol - AT Protocol

Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee and Head of Protocol Daniel Holmgren join for a wide-ranging conversation about what atproto is, why it exists, how it got built, and where it's going next. From a Twitter consultancy to an IETF working group, this is where to get started.

The Deceptive Complexity of P2P Connections and the Solution We Found

Discover how ARK Builders navigated a maze of p2p network technologies, comparing WebRTC, libp2p, and Iroh to find the perfect fit.