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Nostr client Nostrich is run by RHXO, a New Jersey analytics firm, app store records show

Nostrich, a Nostr client for web, iOS and Android, is published by RHXO Technology LLC, a Jersey City software company that markets itself as an AI-powered business intelligence provider, according to its Google Play developer listing. Nostrich's own privacy policy names a different entity as operator, RHXO, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

The link surfaced Thursday morning when Nostr developer Alex Gleason posted that "Nostrich is run by an AI data mining company." His post quoted a biography of Mesut Darendeli crediting him with more than 100 patents in data mining and AI. Darendeli has been publicly identified as president and CEO of Rhxo Technology Group, a New York software firm. A newswire release indexed by Owler reported he had received patents on data mining technologies. All-Source could not independently verify the patent count.

RHXO's current website went up in 2025. It sells dashboards, data integration, custom AI work and a clinical trials recruitment portal, names no executives, and makes no mention of Nostr.

The same Google Play account publishes Call Tracking 365, a small-business tool that records and transcribes incoming calls and uses AI to grade each caller as a sales lead. Other apps on the account include a clinical trials app and BTC Frame.

Nostrich's store listing promises no ads and "no personal data business." Its data safety section reports no data collected. The privacy policy, updated Oct. 8, describes paid promotional campaigns that compensate users for completing advertising tasks.

To run zap campaigns, the company keeps a rolling index of roughly a week of public notes. For each author it stores their Lightning address and an Activity score calculated from public Nostr data. Users are included by default and can opt out in settings. The policy says marketplace listings are sorted with large language models and sellers receive their own Activity scores.

The same policy says private keys never reach Nostrich servers and direct messages are encrypted end to end. It states the company does not sell personal information or build behavioral advertising profiles, and that campaign targeting relies only on activity already public on Nostr.

Nostrich describes itself as free and open source and links to a GitHub organization. All-Source has not reviewed the published code.

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