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+# About
+This is a nostr relay running on [rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/) and [tokio](https://tokio.rs/).
+A Rust learning project with poor code quality.
+
+# Usage
+Run `cargo run` whit environment variable `DB_PATH` set to the path of the database file.
+
+# Features
+- NIP-1
+- NIP-2
+- NIP-5