Nostrocket
Engineering Holdex's contributions to a Nostr-based coordination layer
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Nostrocket is an open-source organisation building "Separation of Business and State" on the Nostr protocol. The thesis is unusually direct. The traditional company refactors as a non-custodial coordination layer where individuals allocate their own time and resources to shared problems, instead of pooling them inside a corporate-controlled entity. The artefacts include hypergolic, the primary Nostrocket-protocol Nostr client, and humble.horse, an experimental group-chat application.
Holdex came in for product co-building and engineering contribution across the client layer, helping turn the coordination thesis into a usable product surface.
What we shipped
The work focused on the client experience around the Nostrocket protocol. That meant product engineering for the interfaces where contributors coordinate, communicate, and interact with the protocol rather than only read about it. The codebase is mostly Svelte and TypeScript, which lines up with where Holdex's frontend bench tends to add the most value.
The story
Nostrocket is the kind of protocol where the interface matters as much as the manifesto. If coordination is supposed to be non-custodial, the product has to make that coordination legible. Holdex's role was to help shape that surface: client-side product work, open-source contribution, and the practical engineering needed to move from protocol idea to working application.
Links
- Org: github.com/nostrocket
- hypergolic (primary client): github.com/nostrocket/hypergolic
- humble.horse (group chat): github.com/nostrocket/humble.horse