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Derek Ross on Nostr: A NAK alternative? I look forward to testing this when I get home...or should I pull ...

A NAK alternative? I look forward to testing this when I get home...or should I pull out my laptop and try it now? 👀
Introducing deed: the Nostr command line.

A 2.3 MB native CLI with an embedded local event store. Starts in ~2.3 ms, signs and verifies ~31k events/s, and queries a 100k-event store in a few milliseconds.

Useful for:
• classification, ranking, and routing with Jev
• debugging and inspecting events
• scripting and automation
• testing clients, relays, and NIPs
• fetching once, querying repeatedly
• bots, migrations, and diagnostics

Runs well in:
• developer machines
• servers and VPSs
• CI/CD pipelines
• shell scripts and containers
• lightweight test and diagnostic environments

Built on zig-nostr. macOS and Linux, Intel and ARM. Windows coming soon.



https://github.com/zig-nostr/deed
https://zignostr.com/deed
https://zignostr.com/performance#deed