NOSTRAS is a Nostr client with no app store gatekeeper and no custody of your keys or funds — paired with a self-hosted relay that does the heavy lifting so the client stays fast, wherever you install it.
What's actually shipped
That's deliberate — a note, a zap, a DM, or a signer connection made in NOSTRAS reads the same way to any other Nostr client or relay in the network. Nothing here is a silo.
Connect a bunker app or a browser extension. Your private key never touches NOSTRAS's servers — full stop.
Connect any NWC-compatible Lightning wallet. Payments go straight from your wallet to theirs — NOSTRAS is never in the money's path.
Gift-wrapped DMs that hide who's talking to whom from the relay itself, not just the message contents.
Summarize, translate, or ask Claude anything — priced by the actual job, paid over Lightning, no subscription.
Full-text search and outbox-aware feeds — most public relays skip both. NOSTRAS's own node doesn't.
Install it like an app. Mentions, DMs, and zaps reach you without keeping a tab open.
The audit surface
Every action NOSTRAS takes leaves the same signed, public
trace any Nostr client would. A note is a kind 1
event. A zap is kind 9735. A signer connection is
NIP-46. You don't have to trust our code — you can watch the
protocol-level events on the relay directly, with any tool that
speaks Nostr, and see exactly what left your device.
That's a different kind of transparency than reading a repository — closer to how you'd trust a bank not by reading its internal software, but by watching the ledger it's required to publish.
{
"kind": 1,
"pubkey": "3bf0c63f…d3a1e",
"created_at": 1785950316,
"content": "gm nostr",
"tags": [],
"sig": "a1b2c3…f9e8d"
}