Amethyst

About this project

Amethyst is the most feature-complete Nostr client for Android. The app offers three user experiences in one: note feeds, group chats and direct messages, and media-only feeds (Stories). The application supports both, public and private relays, and integrates with a vast number of Nostr services and NIPs, including bounties, zaps/wallet connect, long-form content, badges, file storage systems, highlights, polls, and lists. It currently has over 50K+ unique downloads and 35K active users.

The app is a crucial component in bringing lightning payments into the everyday transactions of Android users. It offers a Bitcoin-native messaging tool to author and distribute content, debate issues, orchestrate teams, and market and sell services to the most popular mobile operating system out there. This is how we onboard the real world into Bitcoin. We are here to open the doors of Android users to every other Nostr project out there.

Within the Nostr ecosystem, our operational strategy is decentralizing by design. Even though we could run our own relays, algorithms, and added services into the application, we believe doing that creates a centralizing incentive, an overly-defensive posture by the team, and must be avoided at all costs. We aim to support all other Nostr applications and bring their content to the Android ecosystem as best as possible. By developing Amethyst, we are pushing the Nostr community to build highly composable and fully decentralized Nostr applications, powered by zaps.

What Bitcoin solves in money, Nostr and Amethyst solve in communication. If Bitcoin can take on the FED, nostr can take on "Big Tech".