Newsletter #31 (2026-07-15)#111
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- Vector v0.4.0 retires Marmot for group chats in favor of a custom Concord Protocol - Sonar splits off from Bitchat with a cross-platform alpha and a sticker-pack spec - Divine Mobile 1.0.16 ships at-rest encryption and ProofMode provenance - Bitchat 1.7.0 adds live push-to-talk voice - MDK v0.9.4 bounds external-signer login - Bitcoin-Safe: Flathub packaging of the existing NIP-17 label sync, signers chat, and remote multisig PSBT signing plugin - NIP Deep Dive: NIP-99 and the Gamma Markets commerce extension (NIP-15 is legacy and no longer the active spec) - Open NIP tracking includes Form*'s private encrypted drive proposal extending NIP-4E - New topic pages: Concord Protocol, Gamma Markets, NIP-4E, ProofMode
Resolves outstanding npub gaps for projects and developers mentioned in newsletter #31 using the Marmot protocol npub provided directly, GitHub verified social_accounts links, live .well-known/nostr.json lookups, and naddr coordinate decoding for the Form* NIP author. Also fixes a pre-existing mis-mapping where "smolgrrr" pointed to f321x's npub instead of their own, and annotates remaining unresolved names as explicitly unverified rather than guessed.
Marmot must never receive an outreach DM even when genuinely mentioned, since the outreach mechanism and bunker signing both run over Marmot. publish/dm-outreach.ts now reads this list and skips matching npubs, reporting them as intentionally excluded rather than silently omitting.
…yst implementation Concord is an open, MIT-licensed spec (CORD-01 to CORD-07) also used by Soapbox's Armada, not a Vector-proprietary design as originally described. Adds Vector v0.4.1 (Concord v2) and Amethyst's clean-room Concord implementation (PR #3566), both published after the original fetch window closed but before publish.
Corrects an inaccurate cross-reference to #30 for Keep Android's FROST onboarding, removes pipeline-internal jargon ("fetch window", "same window"), cuts unsupported editorializing, clarifies that Gamma Markets' order/payment kinds ride on NIP-17 gift-wrapped messages rather than being new bespoke kinds, and fixes an awkward phrasing.
Remove internal-coverage-history phrasing, fix mid-checkout kind attribution error in the Gamma Markets deep dive, add example JSON for every kind discussed, add GitWorkshop's first Android build via Zapstore, and expand the Concord topic page with a real Marmot comparison and switch rationale sourced from the protocol's own README.
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