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Fourteenth Wave of Nostr Grants
We're pleased to announce a new wave of grants supporting contributors building open-source software for the nostr ecosystem. This wave of grants includes work on relays, developer libraries, as well as clients and services people use to publish and consume content via nostr.
Three new grants support projects focused on improving relay access and feed-based reading, expanding cross-platform developer tooling, and supporting a full-featured client that continues to invest in usability and discovery. We're also renewing support for two previous grantees, as per below.
The first-time grants in this wave will go to:
The grant renewals have been awarded to:
- Dart NDK (Aug. 2024)
- Mattn for nostr-relay (Oct. 2023)
This wave of grants is made possible by our generous donors who, like us, believe in an open, censorship-resistant communications layer for the internet.
Our nostr grants are sourced from The Nostr Fund. To help us support the nostr ecosystem, please consider making a donation.
Let's dive in to learn about how each project is contributing to the future of nostr.
YakiHonne
YakiHonne is a multi-platform nostr client available for web, iOS, and Android. It is built for a fast and straightforward user experience with a focus on relay discovery and publishing controls. One of its main features is a creator portal for long-form writing, where users can manage both drafts and published posts from a single dashboard. The project has been in active development, and the team has iterated successfully on onboarding and discovery, refined UI/UX and performance characteristics, and implemented features like outbox-style relay publishing and Web of Trust mechanisms.
With support from this grant, YakiHonne will continue improving reliability and user experience across devices, with particular attention to mobile stability. Planned work includes offline-first publishing with queued delivery, media improvements, mobile parity features such as NsecBunker integration, and expanded payment support, including Cashu and Nutzaps (NIP-60, NIP-61). In addition to the above, the team plans to invest in better relay-based feeds for discovery and to explore relay-level paid feeds designed to remain interoperable across clients. YakiHonne is also available on Zapstore.
Repositories: YakiHonne
License: MIT
Quartz
Quartz is a Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) library that implements nostr functionality in a form that can be reused across other projects. It is developed alongside Amethyst and is already used in production. Related work has also included experiments integrating nostr feeds and nostr-adjacent content into existing readers and podcast applications, helping developers understand what it takes to bring nostr content into other applications.
With support from this grant, the Quartz project plans to complete the remaining refactoring needed to move Android-specific code into shared multiplatform modules, then add functionality and tests to ensure the library behaves consistently. A final milestone is to build a simple first version of Amethyst for iOS that can connect to nostr and do the basics, like reading and posting.
Repository: KotlinGeekDev/quartz
License: MIT
Nostr Feedz
Nostr Feedz is a web app that lets users follow traditional RSS feeds alongside nostr long-form content (NIP-23), with a public guide/directory for discovering writers. Nostr Feedz also provides a "nostr to RSS" feature that turns nostr long-form posts into an RSS feed, so those updates can be followed in standard RSS readers outside nostr.
The author of Nostr Feedz, PlebOne, also maintains a self-hostable relay project and runs a community instance at relay.pleb.one. It uses invite-only Web-of-Trust access and an admin dashboard for managing invites, similar to fiatjaf's pyramid and utxo's WoT Relay.
With support from this grant, PlebOne will keep building out Nostr Feedz and the relay project—shipping improvements, strengthening reliability, and maturing both into stable production services. Funding also contributes to ongoing maintenance and operational costs of the public instances.
Repositories: Nostr-Feedz; relay.pleb.one
License: MIT
The projects in this wave reflect the steady work that turns nostr into software people can depend on. From relay infrastructure and feed-based tools to shared libraries and full-featured clients, each grant supports practical improvements that help the ecosystem remain reliable, interoperable, and easier to use.
We're grateful to our donors who make this funding possible. If you'd like to help us continue supporting builders in the nostr ecosystem, please consider donating to The Nostr Fund or becoming a recurring supporter.
If you are a developer working on free and open-source nostr projects consider to apply for funding.