Jul 2026
Understanding User-Generated Content and Communities in Decentralized Web3 Networks: An Empirical Study on Nostr
This paper presents one of the first large-scale empirical analyses of Nostr, based on 22.3 million user events collected from four major publicly accessible relays, and finds that knowledge-oriented content in Clusters 1 and 5 receives higher Zap engagement, suggesting the socialization of a primarily technical infrastructure.
Shutong Qu, Chunyang Li, Hongzhou Chen et al.
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