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.

Did you know that Sentinel provides infrastructure for other bandwidth usecases such as AI Data, apart from dVPN privacy?

Everyone has heard of $GRASS, but has anyone even used Grass?

Grass is an AI Data Layer and is valued nearly $2B FDV, but it isn't open to the public. Do you want to try out the first working AI Data Layer?

http://scout.sentinel.co - Get 100 MB of credit free everyday!

Sentinel Scout is the first working public AI Data Layer and is built on Sentinel's Layer 1 chain.

API interface for AI agents to autonomously scrape data from Sentinel Scout is live and docs are being released soon!

Sentinel is the Layer 1 with the highest amount of utility in the DePin Bandwidth segment, with over 800k users on its chain already.

Aleksandr Litreev Appointed as CEO of Sentinel

“Transforming Sentinel into the Layer-1 for Decentralized Bandwidth, Privacy, and AI Infrastructure”

Litreev’s appointment comes at a crucial juncture as Sentinel expands its original mission beyond decentralized VPNs into an infrastructure layer supporting privacy-centric AI data scraping, harnessing the power of decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN).

A New Era for the Sentinel Network

Under Litreev's leadership, Sentinel will shift its strategic focus onto three critical areas.

Product: Sentinel will continue developing its Cosmos-based blockchain infrastructure, providing easy-to-use SDKs and robust tools to empower developers, organizations, and everyday users to build, contribute, and benefit from the suite of next-generation privacy-focused applications Sentinel provides. 

Revenue Growth: Accelerating Sentinel's transition from primarily free services to sustainable, revenue-generating products. Initiatives include segregated subscription plans, enhanced node reliability, and expanded global reach.

$DVPN Utility: Litreev plans to increase utility and demand for the native $DVPN coin through innovative economic models and incentivized infrastructure development through continued collaboration with existing stakeholders.

More in the article: https://x.com/sentineldvpn/status/1912528942910554302?s=46

Finally, the Cosmo dVPN has been approved for launch by the App Stores, public release on iOS and Android is imminent. Its time for the Cosmos ecosystem to understand what Sentinel is all about.

The Sentinel ecosystem can confidently say that its dVPN protocol architecture is the most sophisticated of any DePin networking project thanks to the Cosmos SDK.

Imagine a dVPN application so decentralized that information such as available nodes to connect to is being fetched directly from the Sentinel blockchain.

Imagine a dVPN application so decentralized that the creator of the application has the ability to consolidate community hosted nodes into an on-chain 'subscription contract', with the ability to offer any user access to this contract based on an on-chain payment trigger or any external API authorization (e.g credit card payment).

The development team in Sentinel has some of the most ingenious builders in the Cosmos ecosystem, as proven by Sentinel's domination in the Game of Zones competition as well as Sentinel's custom dVPN protocol logic modules at Consensus.

Sentinel is setting standards on what a REAL decentralized DePin application is. Most of the DePin applications out there depend on centralized masternodes and off-chain architecture.

To connect to a Sentinel dVPN node through an application like Cosmo dVPN, all you need is a working Sentinel RPC.

There will be a lot of focus into the depth of the technology behind the dVPN protocol.

After reaching rank #3 on Apple TV (free apps) in Russia, the 'DVPN' application built on Sentinel has been blocked by the Russian app store on request of the Russian government.

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

Several nation states have sent cease and desist letters to dVPN applications built on Sentinel over the years. The Sentinel ecosystem does not cooperate with intimidation and does not comply with requests for backdoors while most of the centralized VPNs you love and trust do.

You only trust open-source wallets while you ask, why does anyone need a dVPN?

Demand open-source transparency, demand a dVPN.

The founder of Celestia
@musalbas
involved in a hacktivist group which was deanonymized because of a VPN that cooperated with the US government.

https://theregister.com/2011/09/26/hidemyass_lulzsec_controversy/

No individual, agency, or nation state can stop Sentinel's p2p revolution.

Sentinel IS THE L1 for secure p2p bandwidth exchange.

Aleksandr Thread:

https://x.com/alexlitreev/status/1912789906734072157

Thanks to Tech Radar for covering Sentinel's battle against unjust app store removals.

Apple must defend everyone's right to privacy, not remove applications that do not comply with the autocratic policy of a nation state.

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/apple-has-removed-yet-another-popular-vpn-app-from-its-russian-app-store

The Sentinel ecosystem has a very important week ahead:

- Launch of the Cosmo dVPN application on both iOS and Android
- Launch of the Sentinel Scout Data Layer API w/ integrations with Eliza OS and other agents
- Release of documentation for new node/health check and testing

Sentinel is in the top 1% of DePin projects with real global distribution.

Why does Sentinel have free dVPN applications?

Because one of the user acquisition strategies of the Sentinel ecosystem is to provide reliable services for free, gain a large number of users and then offer paid subscription services with premium benefits.

The time for revenue attribution has come.

Sentinel's plan is going fantastic, with now over 400k users on its free applications - the network is almost ready to begin introducing premium subscription packages in its free applications.

Revenue attribution is the new mantra, with a focus on showing increasing aggregate dVPN application revenue.

Lets show the crypto ecosystem one of the few examples where monetized decentralized services can be offered to the end user without the user even realizing that they are operating on a blockchain.

Try Independent dVPN out on your iOS/Android/Mac device for free!

http://independentdvpn.com

Premium subscriptions with ad removals, residential nodes and more benefits are being introduced after the upcoming chain upgrade.

Privacy made possible by Cosmos.

So.. $DVPN is back on ethereum since 2021! All thanks to cosmos IBC Eureka

Just the based Interchain doing what it was always meant to do, you can even do it in the bath! 

Mintscan
https://www.mintscan.io/sentinel/tx/1714586B84DC9DA8D1C355917D1A0653AED1A4E246886392C73CB7C2E3072E92

Etherscan
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x460cb46a19bfef3c711bfceb45372366ccb2d7eac269d69e1ba02d843a04d03e