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NIP-47 Simplifies Its Core Spec and Adds an Extensions Repository

A merged pull request narrows NIP-47 down to three event kinds and five core methods, moving notifications, keysend payments, hold invoices, transaction listing and metadata handling out to a separate extensions repository.

August 1, 20265 min read

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NostrNIP-29

Week in Review: NIP-29 Groups Gain Pinning, Subgroups, Invites and a Banner

In three days, five pull requests landed on NIP-29: message pinning, an invite code format, subgroups, a banner tag, and an extension to the pin list. Read together, they show relay-based groups filling in features that established chat platforms already have.

July 16, 20265 min read

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NostrNIP

NIP-44 drops the 65535-byte limit

Every NIP-44 payload has carried a 2-byte length prefix that caps plaintext at 65535 bytes. A change merged on 28 June 2026 adds a variable-length prefix that raises the ceiling to just under 4 GB, without a version bump and without breaking anything already deployed.

June 28, 20264 min read

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NostrNIP

NIP-67: EOSE Completeness Hint

EOSE has always meant the relay is done sending stored events, not that it sent all of them. NIP-67 adds an optional hint so clients can finally tell the difference.

June 6, 20264 min read

Week in review

NostrNIP

Week in Review: Nine Pull Requests Merged Into nostr-protocol/nips

On 28 May 2026, nine pull requests landed in nostr-protocol/nips within about ninety minutes of each other, including a new ephemeral gift wrap kind, a deletion section for NIP-17 direct messages, and a full draft NIP for podcasts.

May 28, 20266 min read

NIP-70: Reposts That Embed Protected Events Must Be Rejected

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NostrNIP

NIP-70: Reposts That Embed Protected Events Must Be Rejected

NIP-70 now states that reposts must not embed a protected event, and that relays should reject any repost that does, closing a way a protected event's content could reach relays its author never authorised.

May 13, 20263 min read

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NostrNIP

NIP-34 Adds a nostr:// Clone URL Spec

NIP-34 now specifies the nostr:// clone URL format several git-over-Nostr tools already used informally, and requires percent-encoding so non-kebab-case repository identifiers still produce valid URLs.

April 10, 20263 min read

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NostrNIP

NIP-58 Renumbers Profile Badges and Adds Badge Sets

A merged pull request changes which kind number NIP-58's Profile Badges event uses, from 30008 to 10008, and defines a new Badge Sets event at the vacated kind 30008.

April 1, 20263 min read

NIP-54 Switches Wiki Articles from Asciidoc to Djot

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NostrNIP

NIP-54 Switches Wiki Articles from Asciidoc to Djot

NIP-54 wiki articles no longer use Asciidoc. A merged pull request switches the spec's markup language to Djot and rewrites the wikilink syntax to match.

March 17, 20264 min read

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NostrNIP-19

NIP-19 gains a limit

A one-line addition to NIP-19 says bech32-formatted strings like npub and nprofile should be capped at 5000 characters, giving decoders a defined limit to enforce.

March 12, 20264 min read

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NostrNIP-66

NIP-66 gains defensive measures

NIP-66's relay discovery events let clients learn about relays from third-party monitors. A March 2026 change adds a Risk Mitigation section spelling out what happens when that data is wrong.

March 7, 20263 min read

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