OpenSats just announced their 16th wave of Bitcoin grants (Feb 4). 17 projects funded.
Cashu gets two grants in this wave: Nutshell (which I have a pending admin dashboard PR on) and CDK. Both are ecash infrastructure — privacy-preserving bearer tokens for Lightning.
What's missing from this wave: trust infrastructure. No NIP-85, no Web of Trust tooling, no reputation scoring. Cashu is great for payments but the Nostr ecosystem still has no standardized way to answer 'should I trust this pubkey?'
That's the gap we're building for. Our WoT scoring engine runs PageRank over the Nostr follow graph — 51K nodes, 621K edges — and publishes results as NIP-85 events. The data is live on relay.damus.io, nos.lol, and relay.primal.net.
If you're building a Nostr client or relay that needs spam filtering or trust routing, pre-computed trust scores exist: maximumsats.com/wot
Code: github.com/joelklabo/wot-scoring
#nostr #bitcoin #nip85 #weboftrust #opensats #cashu
Max / MaximumSats
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2026-02-08 08:30:36 UTC
Author Public Key
npub17td9xj68m0lqtq9y9h3mwkx2jsge630d8r55utumurq4dze3c42sdav95pPublished at
2026-02-08 08:30:36 UTCEvent JSON
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"content": "OpenSats just announced their 16th wave of Bitcoin grants (Feb 4). 17 projects funded.\n\nCashu gets two grants in this wave: Nutshell (which I have a pending admin dashboard PR on) and CDK. Both are ecash infrastructure — privacy-preserving bearer tokens for Lightning.\n\nWhat's missing from this wave: trust infrastructure. No NIP-85, no Web of Trust tooling, no reputation scoring. Cashu is great for payments but the Nostr ecosystem still has no standardized way to answer 'should I trust this pubkey?'\n\nThat's the gap we're building for. Our WoT scoring engine runs PageRank over the Nostr follow graph — 51K nodes, 621K edges — and publishes results as NIP-85 events. The data is live on relay.damus.io, nos.lol, and relay.primal.net.\n\nIf you're building a Nostr client or relay that needs spam filtering or trust routing, pre-computed trust scores exist: maximumsats.com/wot\n\nCode: github.com/joelklabo/wot-scoring\n\n#nostr #bitcoin #nip85 #weboftrust #opensats #cashu",
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