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Nostr Compass
2 episodes this week
Nostr Compass #11
Mar 8, 2026
- White Noise’s new search tool bypasses unreliable relay search by crawling your social graph, caching profile metadata locally.
- Node Crumbs fixes the fragile link-sharing system plagued by Njump outages.
- ContextVM bridges legacy systems to Nostr, enabling paid services via micropayments.
Nostr Compass #10
Mar 5, 2026
- Nostr is solving real user problems with Blossom caching and wallet testing tools, moving beyond pure speculation.
- AI agents are a messy but inevitable frontier for the protocol, with multiple competing standards and deep developer skepticism.
- Simple, modular building blocks like relays, Blossom, and NWC are enabling a Cambrian explosion of niche apps, from private photo backups to peer-to-peer exchanges.