Nostrum

Decentralized Nostr Accounts Validation and Search

This project is about solving some issues with Nostr Accounts.

• Users must own/have access to an internet domain to get verified
• Users can't be searched easily between relays
• Users can get impersonated

This project provides a possible solution for all these issues. The main application is a web app that allows users to claim a unique name, which is being stored on the Signum blockchain. The name is part of a so-called "Alias", a user owned on-chain data container - identified by an unique custom name - which is even updatable. The user has full sovereignty over this "Alias", as it is only him who owns and can change its content. As it is on a globally distributed, public blockchain, the user can be searched without any centralizing instance and completely independent of relays.

What's inside this repo?

This Turborepo includes the following packages/apps:

Apps and Packages

• apps/web: Web App to claim Nostr Account Names
• apps/service: Backend Chain Listener to enable chained transactions, i.e. transfers alias to claiming user
• apps/search-demo: A vanilla (using Vite) Demo Web App to show how to use the nostrum-name-search web component
• packages/nostrum-name-search - Reusable Web Component for User Search (framework agnostic)