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Roadmap

zig-nostr ships in milestones: one audited core, native apps that prove it on real product surfaces, and steady expansion across NIPs and platforms. Below is what’s shipped, what’s being built now, and the year ahead — roughly a milestone a month.

Shipped

  • Library core — secp256k1 keys and BIP-340 Schnorr signatures (bitcoin-core’s libsecp256k1), the NIP-01 event model, NIP-19/21 encoding, NIP-06 derivation, and NIP-49 key storage. Passes the full official BIP-340 test-vector suite.
  • Transport & outbox — RFC 6455 WebSocket, a relay connection state machine with NIP-01 subscriptions, a live TCP/TLS dialer, and the NIP-65 outbox model with zero hardcoded relays.
  • Local-first store — a zero-copy, memory-mapped LMDB event store with a bounded, newest-first query planner. Sub-millisecond feeds that stay flat as the store grows.
  • Signer protocol — NIP-44 v2 encryption, the NIP-46 remote-signing (“bunker”) protocol, and NIP-42 client authentication.
  • Signet — the native remote signer. Your key lives in a local daemon and every request waits for your approval. A downloadable macOS app.
  • Docs & benchmarks — this site, the NIP-support table, and reproducible performance numbers.

In progress

  • The flagship client — a fast, local-first native Nostr client organized around community “places.” Three things done well:

    • Onboarding in under two minutes — browse as a guest with no key; when you want to post, generate a key or connect Signet; a curated starter pack means the feed is never empty.
    • Local-first performance — the feed renders from disk instantly and reconciles from relays in the background; posting is optimistic; nothing waits on the slowest relay.
    • Community “places” — the home isn’t a global firehose but browsable, joinable community relays organized by interest.

    A polished, focused vertical slice first — depth over breadth — with the rest on the year ahead.

The year ahead

Roughly one milestone a month, expanding the core and the ecosystem around it:

  1. Library 1.0 — a stable public API, an audited error model, and a fuzzed parser.
  2. A deeper client — threads (NIP-10), reactions and reposts, quotes, and media (NIP-92).
  3. A “places” discovery engine — relay discovery and reviews, and one-tap tooling to spin up and tend a community relay.
  4. A secure messenger — private direct messages (NIP-17 gift wrap) on the local store, signing through Signet.
  5. A document app — Nostr-native notes and long-form (NIP-23), personal and shareable.
  6. Payments — zaps (NIP-57) and Nostr Wallet Connect (NIP-47), wired into the apps.
  7. Reusable utility libraries — the local store, outbox/discovery, onboarding, and the NIP-46 bunker, extracted as standalone packages other projects can build on.
  8. Sync & reliability — set-reconciliation sync (NIP-77 Negentropy), capability discovery (NIP-11), reconnection/backoff, and relay health scoring.
  9. C-ABI bindings — a stable C header so Swift, Kotlin, C, and JS projects can link the library.
  10. WASM — the library compiled to WebAssembly, with a browser example.
  11. Mobile — the client on iOS and Android, with the core running on-device.
  12. Adoption & 1.0 — a 1.0 client, external projects building on the library, contributor docs, and a full benchmark suite.

Track the detail on the project board  and in each repo’s issues.

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