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August 2026

Nostr ecosystem news from August 2026.

5 entries

NIP-A3 Rewritten a Day After Merging

One day after NIP-A3 entered the NIPs repository, a commit removed 101 of its lines. The kind number and the tag name survive. Most of the normative detail around them does not.

August 28, 20264 min read

NIP-A3 Adds payto: Payment Targets to the NIPs Repository

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NIP-A3 Adds payto: Payment Targets to the NIPs Repository

NIP-A3 is a new file in the NIPs repository. It defines a replaceable kind 10133 event whose payto tags name a payment type and an authority, which clients turn into payto:// URIs and render as buttons.

August 27, 20264 min read

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NIP-30 Extends Custom Emoji to Kind 1111 Comments

NIP-30 listed four kinds that may carry custom emoji. It now lists five. Kind 1111 comments, defined by NIP-22, join kinds 0, 1, 7 and 30315, with a worked example in the specification.

August 25, 20264 min read

Week in review

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Week in Review: NIP-22 Drops Its Kind 1 Prohibition, Amethyst Ships 1.14.0

A two line deletion in NIP-22 removes the rule that comments MUST NOT reply to kind 1 notes, leaving NIP-10's mirror rule in place and allowing a thread under a note to hold two different event kinds.

August 24, 20264 min read

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

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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