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Works in any feed reader, and rss.importFeedAsDrafts turns it straight into Nostr long-form events.

One package. 48 NIPs. The protocol, ready to use.

The entire NWC spec in five lines of code. That's not a simplification; it's the actual API.

Keys, events, relays, encryption, threads, reactions. All typed, all ready.

No OAuth. No API keys. No vendor. Just the protocol.

Most Nostr libraries give you the basics. nostr-core gives you the protocol.

The protocol is interesting. The libraries should be boring. That's a good thing.

A connection string and five methods cover most use cases.

Your wallet state lives on relays. Your proofs travel with your keys. No sync service.

NIP-47 connects you to a remote wallet. NIP-60 carries one with you. Together they cover every payment scenario.

Content-addressed blobs on Blossom servers, authenticated with your Nostr key.

Agents don't need more protocol knowledge. They need to know where to look. One skill to find every NIP, LUD, NUT, and BUD.

AI agents are only as good as the instructions they get. We wrote ten. From identity to payments to social -- all guided.

Point it at a feed. Get signed long-form events back. WordPress, Substack, Ghost, Medium, all of it.

Picture-first feeds come to Nostr. Kind 20, full metadata, friends tagged in the event itself, no platform in the middle.

No invoice, no callback, no receipt to take on faith. Kind 9321 carries the cash itself.

Your follows already know which mints are good. NIP-87 lets you ask them instead of a hardcoded list.

An availability page that is an event, bookings that are private calendar invites, and no subscription in between.

To, Cc, and a Bcc that stays blind by construction. Email-shaped messaging over gift wrap.

Kind 30078 turns relays into a personal database. Preferences on every device, no account system.

TypeScript ends at compile time. Schema checks shape at the edges; policy judges what gets through.

Laptops sleep and NATs time out. Relays now reconnect with backoff and replay your subscriptions.