Let's talk Public Data vs Private Data— where is the line drawn? and how do they intersect?

Join us Today on Sentinel's X page at 5PM UTC
🎙 Speakers
🔹 Aleksandr Litreev - NORSE
🔹 Zac Wickstrom - VALT
🔹 Hosted by Crypto Danny

https://x.com/i/spaces/1vOGwXwOPRgJB

Monthly Sentinel Network stats for Feb http://stats.sentinel.co

🔥 55,684 dVPN total unique users
🔄 1.3M Encrypted sessions—the 3rd highest ever
🔐 234TB of data encrypted—the 3rd highest ever

100K+ Total Unique Users in 2025 so far!

Cosmos ecosystem frens hold strong. Do not let the manipulators capitulate you.

It isn't possible to script a story that would make the crypto ecosystem more bullish than it is now.

- The President made a coin
- US Govt is buying coins
- Regulators dropping cases

Soon moon

From Silicon Valley to Web3

Meet Zac Wickstrom founder of VALT

Zac and the VALT team are redefining your approach on how data is used. Building a self-custodial data manager that also integrates a Sentinel-powered dVPN

Own your data
https://www.dvpn.news/valt-zac-wickstrom/

Sentinel Scout docs are soon going live with the upcoming release of the Sentinel Scout API Interface which will allow for AI agents to retrieve public data to train and update their own dataset.

Gold incentivization for the Android AI Data miners live this week!

Sentinel is about to demonstrate the power of Cosmos DePin once the Scout Data Layer APIs go live.

> An AI agent will scrape data through Sentinel Scout
>Store the data on Jackal
>Use Akash compute to clean this data to make it more cost effective for the agent to train on it

Its only Sentinel and Grass in the AI Data Layer domain.

Checkout the first working user-facing AI Data Layer at http://scout.sentinel.co

Get 100 MB of data scraping credits for free everyday!

The Cosmo dVPN application with $ATOM revenue alignment has been submitted to the iOS and Android app stores and public release is imminent.

A video series narrated by Alex Litreev is being produced which will outline the features of the Cosmo dVPN, as well as its architecture

The community asks and Sentinel delivers. The 'Kill Switch' feature has been integrated in both Sentinel Shield and Cosmo $dVPN.

Anyone building a dVPN on Sentinel can now easily include advanced features such as 'Kill Switch' and 'Split Tunneling' into their own dVPN

A centralized VPN app is calling out another centralized VPN app as a honeypot.

Even some of the brightest people in the crypto sector don't understand why a decentralized VPN is required, while they themselves advocate open-source wallets over centralized wallets.

Most don't understand why a VPN needs to be decentralized, but this is going to change in the coming years in the same way that the awareness on the lack of trust in messaging applications has increased.

The conspiracy rabbit hole in the VPN industry goes far beyond what anyone can imagine. Nord VPN and other top tier VPNs are owned by data miners

Only trust open-source dVPN applications built on Sentinel.

dVPN applications built on Sentinel are on the path to cross 1m+ users.

📊 The March dVPN Stats (All Apps) are in.

👥 143,226 users in 2025 - up from last year's Q1
📆 Users in March - 57,938
🔐 Encrypted sessions - 1.4 million+ - 2nd highest ever!

See for yourself: http://stats.sentinel.co
Get a dVPN: http://sentinel.co

Cosmos OG/founder of Keplr has Sentinel Shield installed in their device!
With the release of Cosmo dVPN, the broader Cosmos ecosystem will become aware of Sentinel and all of the hard work from all of the contributors and community members and the adoption as a result.

First Sentinel will capture Cosmos mindshare for both Sentinel dVPN and Sentinel Scout, and then expand to other ecosystems.

$ATOM is one of the highest gainers today. No one is ready for what is about to come.

The latest Cosmo dVPN build is now ready for testing.
The $ATOM on-ramp will only be live in-app once the application is released through the app stores.

Android testers can provide feedback by joining the testing group: https://t.me/VPNproducttesting/3990

Sentinel has the first publicly accessible data layer (scraping) in the world.

People all around the world are powering Sentinel's AI Data Layer with their Android phone, this means you can scrape data through their device.

Get 100 MB of free scraping credits everyday!

Visit Sentinel Scout today at http://scout.sentinel.co

The first publicly accessible AI Data Layer. It is only $GRASS and Sentinel in this sector, and Grass is only accessibly by other businesses and is not open to the public to use for data acquisition.

Sentinel is the only blockchain network out there that has proven that fully decentralized applications can reach and make an impact on the mom and pop retail consumer.

100s of thousands of users use dVPNs built on Sentinel without realizing that they are blockchain based.

http://Independentdvpn.com has over 400k downloads and is used by people from all over the world with a strong community of users from Russia, China, Iran and other OFAC countries.

Whether markets are up or down, the Sentinel dVPN infrastructure which is built on its own Cosmos SDK chain continues to prove that decentralized apps can reach the masses.

'DVPN' built on Sentinel has reached rank #2 in Top Free Apps for Apple TV in the Russian App Store.

"For the first time, a @SentinelDVPN-based app has reached the top spots in the App Store charts. Users love DVPN for its power and simplicity — the go-to tool for unlocking content globally."

Check out the 'DVPN' application built on Sentinel

https://norselabs.io

What the crypto space needs going into 2025 is real dApp distribution. Sentinel, thanks to the Cosmos stack, is on path to achieve real dApp distribution.

We need consumer dApps that take advantage of the security and reliability of a blockchain while abstracting away all complexities to the end-user.

The Cosmos SDK offers the infrastructure for consumer applications that are targeting the mainstream.

Case Study: Independent dVPN (built on the Cosmos SDK and Sentinel dVPN Protocol)

Total users 400k+

Rating (GPlay) 4.5+

Monetization Structure : In-App ads (adding subscriptions)

- Independent dVPN is used by 100s of thousands of people across the world who don't even realize that a Cosmos based public/private keypair is being generated for them in the background when they create their account.

- 100s of thousands of people don't realize that every time they see the list of available nodes, that this list is being queried directly from Sentinel's Cosmos SDK based chain. The chain provides a significant amount of scalability to power Sentinel's on-chain DHT which has processed 100m+ dVPN logic related transactions since inception. Nodes communicate with the chain every few minutes and applications directly communicate with the chain to find available nodes.

- 100s of thousands of people don't realize that every-time they connect to a node, that the Cosmos 'Fee Grant' gas abstraction model comes into action and gas payments for users 'connection' and 'disconnection' transactions are taken care of in the background.

If you want reliable infrastructure which offers you high throughput, interoperability, dynamic governance, and the flexibility of the deployment of contracts in multiple languages - look no further than the Cosmos SDK.

Thanks to the performance of Independent dVPN, existing VPNs with significant userbases are coming onboard.

The game hasn't even begun

Blu frens will see you at the top

AI Agents for the first time in history will be able to scrape data autonomously from a decentralized AI data layer - and its happening right here in the
Cosmos ecosystem.

In a monumental step for Sentinel, the Sentinel Scout AI Data Layer API interface is live.

Imagine the Cosmos RAG -

Agent sends request for scraping data to Sentinel Scout.

Agent stores the data on Jackal

Agent uses Akash compute to clean the data and make it more cost effective to train on

All of this is going to happen within the Scout webapp.

Sentinel is THE blockchain for p2p bandwidth.

Sentinel offers the infrastructure for the creation of dVPN privacy and AI Data layer related applications, as well as the infrastructure for anyone to provide bandwidth and power the applications built on Sentinel.

Its only Sentinel and Grass in this sector.

API documentation releasing soon.

$GRASS does not allow the regular dev to access its network and scrape data. Sentinel Scout is the first publicly accessible AI Data layer. Its only Sentinel and Grass in this sector.

Visit http://scout.sentinel.co and get 100 MB of free scraping credits everyday!

We started with the Russian App Store, and now...

Our DVPN app is simply smashing the top charts of the App Store all over the world.

On Apple TV:
#3 among all free apps in Russia
#39 in Vietnam
#39 in Tanzania
#64 in Italy
#100 in Ukraine
#155 in Great Britain
#159 in Saudi Arabia
#500 in Senegal

On Mac:
#88 among all free apps in Russia
#27 among free apps in the category "Utilities" in Russia
#152 in Palau
#361 in UAE
#446 in Turkey

iPad:
#26 among free apps in the category "Utilities" in Russia
#369 in Greece

It's official now — we're literally fighting up internet censorship on a global level. And we've only just begun! Pictured is the long-awaited version of DVPN for Android TV. It will be fully available on Google Play — we'll be catching up on the Android platform.

It's amazing how they managed to wrap a decentralized blockchain-based product into something that anyone can actually use without any special knowledge or skills.

Let's continue in the same spirit!

🍏 iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dvpn-decentralized-vpn/id6553963594

🤖 Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.norselabs.dvpn

The Mantra $OM dump is reminiscent of the $MATIC/ $POL dump of 2019, where Matic dumped 80% and the founding team was accused of orchestrating a sell-off.

It was later found that this sell-off was the result of adversarial actors who took advantage of an opportunity to create a cascading liquidation effect and profit heavily from the capital destruction.

The Matic team recovered from this temporary hinderance and went on to create the most widely used EVM-enabled L1 after Ethereum at the time and outperformed the entire market.

Blu frens wishes JP and the Mantra ecosystem a speedy recovery.

Mantra is a Cosmos project and the Cosmos ecosystem is known for its resilience and perseverance.

Keep building, the real wave of growth for the Cosmos ecosystem hasn't even started.

There is an abundance of Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks right now. Less than 30 of them have real usage.

Sentinel is changing its positioning to a Layer 1, and will outcompete many.

Sentinel has more users and active builders than most Layer 1s/Layer 2s. Repositioning in effect.