Nostr Relay

The Vertex Relay is the core endpoint that powers Vertex services. It provides free, reliable access to high-quality profile events and statistics (NIP-45) aggregated from a comprehensive range of relays.

Example use cases:

• Querying profile information without the risk of spam or low-quality data.
• Bootstrap social graphs with the most up-to-date events.
• Find users’ preferred relays and blossom servers.

Features

Profile Discovery

The relay stores high-quality profile events.

• kind:0 profile event
• kind:3 follow list
• kind:10000 mute list
• kind:10002 relay list
• kind:10063 blossom server list

This makes it easy for applications to find the latest profiles or follow lists, and bootstrap social graphs without having to scout the whole network.

Read-Only Operation

To ensure the highest data quality and prevent spam, Vertex Relay operates in a read-only mode. Only our optimised crawler writes to the database, ensuring a consistent, up-to-date and spam-free experience.

Rate Limiting

The relay applies IP-based rate limiting for all client’s requests like EVENT, REQ, COUNT, and all API calls. The limit is 50 requests every 10 seconds.