OpenSats Announces the 10th Wave of Nostr Grants
"We're excited to introduce our latest wave of grants, supporting seven innovative projects that showcase the growing versatility of the Nostr ecosystem," announced the organization.
This round of funding includes four first-time Nostr grant recipients and renewed support for three projects:
- Chachi.chat is a mobile-friendly, relay-based Nostr group chat client (NIP-29) that efficiently supports various content types, including text, polls, and custom emojis, with future plans for video, audio, wikis, and calendar events.
- Zapstore is a permissionless app store built on Nostr. It empowers developers to cryptographically sign and distribute releases via the Nostr protocol. Users can verify binaries, recommend apps, and make bitcoin payments. It supports Tor, account-less use, and local-first architecture for offline functionality. A command-line tool (zapstore-cli) allows cross-platform app publishing and package management.
- HyperNote is a protocol for interpreting hypermedia on Nostr, following a "dumb relay, smart client" design. It stores HTML-like content and interactions as events on relays, with clients responsible for maintaining, reconstructing, and interpreting the state.
- Nostr Epoxy is a paid WebSocket proxy for Nostr that connects users to relays and services like Cashu mints. It bypasses network restrictions and censorship by bridging various networks, including Tor and I2P.
The following projects are receiving renewed support:
- futr is an upcoming Nostr desktop and mobile client written in Haskell and Qt5 for private groups (NIP-29) and private messages (NIP-17).
- Npub.cash provides a privacy-preserving Lightning Address without registration by combining Cashu, Nostr, and the Lightning Network.
- Notedeck is a multi-platform Nostr client, inspired by TweetDeck. It features a modular dashboard with customizable columns, allowing users to manage multiple accounts and view timelines, notifications, direct messages, and bookmarks from a single interface.
Open Sats is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All gifts and donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. Consider donating if you want to support open-source projects and developers in the Bitcoin and/or Nostr ecosystem.
If you are an educator, developer, or advocate working on a project that is aligned with OpenSats mission, apply for funding here.
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