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Long-Term Support For SnowCait
- Authors
- Name
- OpenSats
- Name
- Arvin
- @arvin
OpenSats is excited to announce long-term support for SnowCait, a dedicated contributor to the nostr ecosystem. Through open-source development and active community engagement, they continue to improve the protocol's usability, reliability, and accessibility for users, and developers.
SnowCait is the creator of nostter, a web-based client, and Snowflare, a serverless relay designed to simplify deployment and reduce overhead. Other contributions include nostr playground, a JSON-based client for testing and debugging; snow-actions/nostr, a GitHub Actions integration for automated event broadcasting; and tools like Restr, nostr hours, and various bots that assist with user discovery, content search, and bitcoin price tracking.
These efforts have helped grow the ecosystem by making it more approachable, interoperable, and efficient—lowering the barrier to participation across roles and use cases.
Long-term support will allow SnowCait to maintain core projects while launching major upgrades and new features. Planned work includes:
- Releasing nostter v2 with embedded notes, NIP-47 Nostr Wallet Connect integration, a deck-style UI, real-time push notifications, and performance optimizations.
- Expanding Snowflare support for NIP-40, NIP-45, and NIP-62, along with logging, analytics, and an improved admin portal.
- Exploring support for NIP-50 and prototyping new tools such as offline authentication, a serverless NIP-46 remote signer, and a NIP-96 media uploader.
SnowCait's vision is to support diverse user needs through flexible, low-cost software while continuing to build an open infrastructure that strengthens the connection between nostr and the broader Bitcoin ecosystem.
I would like to continue to enrich the Nostr ecosystem and increase the number of Nostr users, developers, and operators [...] through Nostr I have become interested in Bitcoin, so I would like to strengthen wallet integration and explore what else I can do.
–SnowCait
Our mission at OpenSats is to provide sustainable funding for the builders and maintainers of critical open-source infrastructure, especially bitcoin-related projects and projects that help bitcoin flourish.
The Nostr LTS program is made possible by generous donors like you. To continue supporting important work from contributors like SnowCait, consider donating to The Nostr Fund.