SEC-05
Fall 2025, forty-one projects, still the cohort record. YOLO mode: Marmot Chat, hashpool, Frontier Browser, relays, mining, AI. FIPS mesh work started here.
Beacon
AI and Bitcoin stuffed in chat apps, WhatsApp/Signal/Qual using ContextVM
bitcoin-nostr-relay
A Rust library for relaying Bitcoin transactions over Nostr
BloVM
Blossom server monitor & indexer with blob health checks, also uses ContextVM
Boris
Nostr-native reading and highlighting app. Bookmarks, social highlights, zap splits, offline-first with local relay support.
Chrysalis
Atomic Cashu mint migration with 'traveling server' concept
ContextVM
A protocol that bridges Nostr and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable decentralized access and exposure of computational services. Provides SDK for JavaScript/TypeScript with core modules, transports, proxy, gateway, relay, and signer components.
Craig David
Get roasted by Craig David(AI), because no matter what, he's having a better week than you
Frontier Browser
The Web is Dead, Long Live the Web! A browser built from the ground up
Gather
Spontaneous event publishing with temporary postings
hashpool
Improvements on hashpool - mining pools, eHash & Cashu
Hypernote
Main idea of the hypermedia system built on Nostr. Includes Stories (story feature extension), Elements (UI elements library), OS (imagined as an operating system), and Pages (component-oriented version using zig-mdx and zig-nostr-loader for building reactive Nostr applications)
Local++
Mobile app for local LLM models with dynamic online/offline switching using Routstr/OTRTA
Marmot Chat
Audio/video calls using Nostr IDs with E2EE and MLS, MOQ for data transfer
noDNS BIP353 & BOLT12
BIP353 & BOLT12 payments over noDNS
noPorts
NGrok-like service over Nostr with smart reverse proxy
Nostr Bucket
Browser extension that provides a nostr event cache to all web apps
Nostr Globe
Privacy-first 3D globe visualization of upcoming Nostr events. Interactive filtering by date, radius, tags, and keywords. No trackers โ data fetched directly from configured relays.
NUT-XX: Deterministic NUT-13 Derivation Paths
Cashu NUT proposal for deterministic NUT-13 derivation paths
NUT-XX: Mining Share Payment Method
Cashu NUT proposal for mining share payment method
OTRTA (Routstr client)
Openrouter over Nostr using Cashu for selling local/API compute in a self-custodial manner
Paygress
VM provisioning and VPN purchasing over Nostr with Kubernetes integration
Seekstr
Nostr media event summarizer and transcription service. Indexes multimedia content from relays and makes it searchable.
Spotstr
Maps on Nostr with encrypted group sharing of locations and importing BTCMaps data
Wingman
AI Development remote assistant app, which now can use many LLM providers
Zig MDX
An MDX (Markdown with JSX) tokenizer and parser written in Zig
Zig Nostr Loader
A WASM-first Nostr event loader built with Zig, designed for high-performance caching and deduplication











