Episode Details

Fmar, Sondre, Paul, and Max join Nostr Compass Podcast #14 to walk through [Newsletter #14](/en/newsletters/2026-03-18-newsletter/), covering the rapid expansion of Nostr Wallet Connect support, Notedeck's move to Nostr-native software release discovery, and a week of client, signer, relay, and protocol updates. The episode then closes with two protocol deep dives, first on [NIP-94](/en/topics/nip-94/) file metadata and then on [NIP-54](/en/topics/nip-54/) wiki events, tying the week's concrete releases back to the specs shaping how software distribution and collaborative content work on Nostr. ### News - **00:00 Intro** Opening setup for the week's topics, the guests, and the thread connecting wallet infrastructure, relay behavior, and spec work. - **00:12 Wallet Connect support broadens, and wallet clients tighten failure paths** Amethyst pushes its [NIP-47](/en/topics/nip-47/) implementation toward near-full coverage with more request types, capability discovery, notifications, and hold invoice support. At the same time, Alby Hub adds multi-relay support, while Zeus removes an NWC keysend path after identifying a silent fund-drain risk, making this segment as much about narrowing dangerous failure modes as adding features. - **03:58 Notedeck moves release discovery onto Nostr** Notedeck's signed updater now subscribes to kind `1063` release events, matches platform-specific binaries, and verifies SHA256 hashes before install. The hosts focus on why this matters: software release publishing and release discovery can now both move through Nostr-native events instead of depending on GitHub APIs or project websites. - **06:10 Relay state is moving closer to runtime behavior** Damus fixes stale relay-list and LMDB crash paths, Primal iOS starts subscribing directly to a chat partner's write relays while conversations are open, and Nostur experiments with randomized scoring plus [NIP-66](/en/topics/nip-66/) liveness filtering. The broader point is that relay choice is turning from static setup into live runtime policy that clients measure, adapt, and repair. ### Releases - **09:19 Primal Android 3.0.7** Primal Android adds zap-based poll voting, paginated vote loading, richer wallet transaction receipt fetching, and [NIP-89](/en/topics/nip-89/) client metadata tagging. The segment centers on how the app is connecting polling, wallets, and event attribution into one release cycle. - **15:17 Amber v4.1.3** Amber adds built-in Tor, narrows signer permissions down to content-type-specific rules, hardens the offline flavor, and moves PIN storage into encrypted DataStore. The hosts frame this as signer-boundary hardening, not just another feature release. - **16:13 Route96 v0.6.0** Route96 moves configuration and whitelist state into the database with hot reload, adds retention policies, and exposes stronger operator visibility through file stats and a richer user files endpoint. - **16:45 OpenChat v0.1.0-alpha.11** OpenChat keeps tightening Marmot interoperability with NIP-59 gift wrap for Welcome events, MIP-02 and MIP-03 compliance work, and consolidation around the shared `marmot-cs` NIP-44 implementation. The emphasis here is reducing crypto and protocol drift across clients. - **17:37 nak v0.19.0 and v0.19.1** nak's 0.19 line adds a group-forum UI, updates group metadata editing to a full replace flow, and replaces older `no-text` handling with `supported_kinds`, keeping the CLI aligned with current group spec direction. ### Project Updates - **18:12 Amethyst** Beyond wallet connectivity, Amethyst adds [NIP-45](/en/topics/nip-45/) count queries to relay management, encrypted file uploads for [NIP-17](/en/topics/nip-17/) chats, and fuller [NIP-46](/en/topics/nip-46/) bunker login with heartbeat status. The conversation is about making complex remote-signing and relay states visible instead of mysterious. - **18:58 Nostria** Nostria adds Web of Trust filtering for feeds and replies, expands content filtering a