# Minds Nostr Relay

> Minds Nostr Relay is a self-hostable Nostr relay server, enabling decentralized social media communication via the Nostr protocol. It supports multiple NIPs and integrates with Redis and MySQL for event storage and rate limiting.

- **Category:** Communication
- **Licence:** agpl-3.0
- **Open source:** oss
- **Tags:** Redis, Feature Flags, MySQL, Social Media, Decentralized, Communication, Rate Limiting, Node.js, Open Source, Nostr, Self Hosted, Websockets, Federated, Nostr relay, Decentralized social media

## Description

Minds Nostr Relay is a WebSocket-based relay implementation for the Nostr protocol, built with Node.js and Express. It provides read/write capabilities for Nostr events using MySQL for storage and Redis for caching/rate limiting. The relay supports several NIPs (Nostr Implementation Possibilities) including NIP-01 (basic protocol), NIP-08 (paid messages), NIP-09 (event deletions), and NIP-10 (conventions for enrichment). Installation is done via Docker container or local npm setup.

## Links

- [Homepage](https://gitlab.com/minds/infrastructure/nostr-relay)

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