Mentoring the Next Generation — The ContextVM World #5 🌍

GM people, and welcome to the fifth issue of "The ContextVM World", your biweekly appointment to discover everything you need to know about ContextVM, MCP, Nostr, and all in between!*

In today's update we cover the latest news from ContextVM. In particular, we have been chosen to mentor the next generation of open-source contributors through the Summer of Bitcoin internship program. We also cover our latest modification to the CVM website and the spam attack that recently hit our realys.

We also discuss the latest news from the ecosystem, with a growing number of MCP servers appearing. For example, two new MCP servers are now available through CVM, one based on am-i.exposed, another on OpenTimeStamp.

Moreover, we will present a curated list of articles, blog posts, and notes talking about CVM and how it is changing the way we interact with MCP servers.

Finally, we will bring the most interesting news from the internet regarding the MCP ecosystem, AI agents, and more!

Let's start!

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News from ContextVM 📰

A list of updates, releases and new cool features.

• Summer of Bitcoin: CVM has been invited to participate in the Summer of Bitcon (SoB) project, a global, online summer internship program focused on introducing university students to Bitcoin, Nostr, and open-source development. CVM will provide projects for students to work on during the summer, mentoring the new generation of open-source contributors and helping them bootstrapping their careers in the space. Do you have a CVM-based project you would like to propose for SoB? Feel free to reach out to us!

• Search by npub: We recently made a powerful update to our website to improve server discoverability and strengthen decentralization. Users can now lookup MCP server directly by npub and nprofile either in the search bar or directly by adding it to the URL. Bonus point, you can also search it through its NIP-05 indentifier!

• Spam attack: We recently suffered a spam attack on our relays. To fix the issue and reduce the attack surface for the future, we decided to fork the Strfry relay, which is the base of our infrastructure, to add additional write policies to restrict accepted event kinds to the subset used by our relay.

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News from the ContextVM Ecosystem 🗞️

Find all the projects leveraging ContextVM on ContextVM/awesome.

• Am I exposed?: A new MCP server is now available on Nostr leveraging the am-i.exposed on-chain scanner capabilities to audit the privacy of your wallet information, ranging from transaction evaluation, UTXO hygiene, and full audit. We also did a quick demo on how to use it.

• Time-stamping Nostr events: Another new MCP server is now available, allowing users to use OpenTimeStamp to time-stamp any Nostr event. The tool is very simple, providing one command to create an attestation and another to verify it. We also wrote a simple note with the instruction to use this server through CVMI CLI.

• Nostr.watch + CEP-8: Nostr.watch, an important online tool that monitors relays health, recently integrated CEP-8 payments in their CVM-enabled MCP server. Check Sandwich, nostr.watch creator, note to know more.

• Relatr + Ants: Relatr was recently added into the Advanced Nostr Text Search (Ants) project by Gigi to improve its search capabilities.

• New Relatr domain: Due to some issues with our registrar we no longer control the old relatr.xyz domain. You can now find it on relatr.net.

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What’s Next for ContextVM? ⏭️

Let’s take a look at the features currently being implemented!

• CEP-15: This enhancement proposal implements a standard for defining and discovering common tool schema. This aims to enable interoperability between multiple servers, standardizing tool interfaces that clients can recognize and use consistently. It leverages MCP's _meta field, RFC 8785 for deterministic hashing, and CEP-6 announcements for discovery, creating a marketplace where users can choose between multiple providers implementing the same standard tool interface.

• Three new CEPs have been proposed and are waiting for a number to be assigned:

• CEP-XX: This enhancement proposal aims to define a way to detect when a message can't be published, due to its payload exceeding the size limits of a relay. The linked issue tracks exploratory work for this new mechanism.

• CEP-XX: This enhancement proposal aims to standardize the way in which MCP servers publish a persistent public profile and how they manage a public communication channel for updates and announcements.

• CEP-XX: This enhancement proposal aims to standardize how users attach comments and reviews to server announcements. This would allow to create a Nostr-native review and discussion layer around servers.

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Who is Talking about ContextVM? 📢

A curated list of articles, blog posts, and notes about ContextVM and its ecosystem.

• CVM has been mentioned on Nostr Compass #15, a weekly newsletter covering everything going on in the Nostr ecosystem. CVM has been also mentioned in the Nostr Compass Podcast #12.

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Intresting resources from the web 🤖

A curated list of resources we found interesting.

• Nicholas Carlini - Black-hat LLMs | [un]prompted 2026: Nicholas Carlini, Research Scientist at Anthropic, discusses how LLMs can now be used to automate attacks that were previously only doable by human adverasries.

• Thoughts on slowing the fuck down : An interesting article by Mario Zecher diving into what could be the best way to work with coding agents.

• Skills Over MCP Interest Group - March 24th 2026 Office Hours Notes: This resource provides the minute of the meeting of the Skills Over MCP Interest Group, the commitee responsible for discussing the next steps, issues, and blockers for implementing Skills into MCP.

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