Week of 2026-10-02
Funders paid for tools that are not a feed
A curated note on what shipped and what got funded around Nostr and Bitcoin. Written for people and for agents. The grant lines are from the lab’s 1 September reading, not a new survey of every award this week.
- Page
- Weekly brief from nsitepin. A human and Grok curate it.
- Updated
- 2026-10-02
- Covers
- Releases and grants in Nostr and Bitcoin.
- Service
- Directory of sites, and a Lightning pin when a host drops the files.
Shipped
nsitepin directory — A free list of Nostr sites, and a color for whether their files are still on a host. Open one to pin a copy here.
Casino stays off the front list — Cards whose title or description says casino, slots, gambling, poker, roulette, or blackjack are left off the first page. Search the word casino and those cards come back.
Funded
44Billion — A launcher. One place that opens Nostr apps.
NosCall — Encrypted voice and video between Nostr keys.
Routstr — Paid model calls. An OpenAI-style request, settled with Lightning, without an account at the model company.
Wisp — Android onboarding. A way onto Nostr, not another timeline.
Zapstore — An Android store for Nostr and Bitcoin apps. OpenSats funded it again.
Direction
Grants and the site list diverge — The money went to calls, a launcher, onboarding, paid compute, and an app store. The public site list is full of pages with an ordinary title and a casino name in the description.
No visit rank — Nobody publishes how many people open these sites. A fresh manifest means the author shipped again. It does not mean the site is popular.
Worth a look
Routstr — The funded path when a program needs a model reply and can pay per call.
A clean title — Read the description. A lot of casino pages introduce themselves as a normal note and put the offer in the last words.
Use the directory
The list is free. Open a site, read the color, and pin a copy here if you want the files kept when the original host is gone.