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

$DVPN has returned to its old home on Ethereum, with the protection of the Cosmos validator set.

Sentinel is now connected to Ethereum through IBC Eureka. Thanks to all of the contributors who made this infrastructure available at such a fast pace

The connection to Ethereum through IBC Eureka allows for dVPNs built on Sentinel to take advantage of cross-chain payment infrastructure, in addition to the ability for $DVPN to be bridged to Ethereum for the purposes of establishing $DVPN trading pools on Ethereum dexes.

🎙 Join us tomorrow — 25th April at 1PM UTC
for hot takes on Privacy, Data & Digital Freedom

Featuring
Alex Litreev from @SentinelDVPN & @norselabs

Zac Wickstrom from https://valtdata.com/

+special frens

💬 Set your reminders
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The acceptance of the Cosmo dVPN on the iOS store marks a historical moment for Sentinel in its journey towards ATOM alignment.

Cosmo dVPN is a fully decentralized open-source application which proves that it can be trusted, unlike 99% of centralized VPN apps.

Pay in ATOM for access to 1000s of community hosted dVPN nodes on the Sentinel Hub. Residential node provision soon being included.

The goal is to collect community feedback before the application is promoted in public channels. The on-ramp feature was not available for testing in the Test Flight program, so feedback would be requested on its functionality/UX.

Download Cosmo dVPN on your iPhone/Mac/iPad

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cosmo-dvpn-next-gen-vpn/id6740583966?platform=iphone

Please feel free to share feedback in the Sentinel Official Group: https://t.me/SentinelDVPN

Sentinel has one of the most straightforward, working AI products in the entire crypto industry and is getting prepared to dominate its sector, the same way it dominated 'dVPN'.

An agent template for Sentinel Scout is being created on N8N which is the most used agent framework

Come try out the first working decentralized AI Data Layer at http://scout.sentinel.co

Everyone knows $GRASS, but has anyone used it? Sentinel has the first working product in this sector and APIs are now live for agent integration.

Sentinel is THE L1 for Bandwidth.

📊 Sentinel's April dVPN stats are in!

🧑‍💻48,617 unique dVPN users in April
🌐 1.3M+ encrypted dVPN sessions
📈 168,383 people have used a dVPN in 2025 so far!

The world is waking up to privacy
🔗 See the growth http://stats.sentinel.co
🌍 Get a dVPN http://sentinel.co

Sentinel Scout is soon going to be the first decentralized AI Data Layer to automate agent and LLM access.

Akash Network is democratizing compute, and Sentinel is democratizing the access to publicly available data at scale.

Sentinel is THE Layer 1 for p2p Bandwidth.

Two important releases coming out soon:

1) MCP Server - A MCP server is an architecture to standardize the communication between an LLM and an external programs (in this case a data source). A MCP server is being created for Sentinel Scout, allowing for LLMs to autonomously scrape information. For example a potential usecase; If a user has a query that a LLM does not have the latest information trained on to answer accurately, the LLM can scrape relevant information through Sentinel's global network of data miners and then clean and train on this data to provide the most accurate answer to the user.

2) N8N Template - A Sentinel Scout workflow automation template is being created for N8N, one of the most popular agent building platforms out there. This template will allow any agent builder on N8N to easily connect their agent to Sentinel Scout, allowing for their agent to scrape information autonomously and update its own database and train itself without relying on additional external APIs.

Test Sentinel Scout before its public release and receive 100 MB of free data credits to scrape daily.

http://scout.sentinel.co

This is the first working publicly accessible AI Data Layer. Become an AI Data miner on your Android phone by following the link on the website.

The first step of Sentinel's ATOM alignment is halfway complete with the release of Cosmo dVPN on iOS/iPad/Mac. Android is coming out soon.

Get access to 1000s of community hosted dVPN nodes on the Sentinel blockchain for only .5 ATOM per month.

Download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cosmo-dvpn-next-gen-vpn/id6740583966

All revenues from this application will be used to purchase ATOM and use it to perform on-chain actions which are deemed as beneficial for the Cosmos ecosystem, such as potentially using the ATOM to provide liquidity where required. Currently the only payment option is in ATOM, but soon payment options will open up to direct Apple Pay and Google Pay and other fiat methods in addition to the existing Apple Pay on-ramps to buy ATOM.

This application truly showcases the power of the Cosmos SDK by integrating with Sentinel's dVPN protocol and other Cosmos modules such as 'fee grant'. Every time you check available dVPN nodes in the app, it is is actually querying the Sentinel (Cosmos SDK based) blockchain to identify dVPN nodes which are sending logic related messages on-chain to indicate their availability. Connection authorization and disconnection also happens on-chain. This is one of the most decentralized DePin applications ever released, all you need is a working Sentinel RPC and the application cannot go down.

Cosmo dVPN is a fully secure and decentralized application that provably does not monitor you.

Features include:

- Access to 1000s of Sentinel Wireguard and v2ray nodes
- Split tunneling
- Kill switch
- Access to residential dVPN nodes soon being included.

*Note that server quality is independent of the Sentinel or Cosmos blockchain and is based on the infrastructure of the Sentinel dVPN node host. Ongoing work is being done to further refine the process of identifying slower nodes (or nodes with high # of active users) and removing these nodes from dVPN app front-ends.

Sentinel has community members from both Pakistan and India running DePin dVPN node infrastructure, powering applications like Sentinel Shield and Independent dVPN (used by over 400k people).

War is never good, may all blu frens globally work towards only peace for the world

Visit http://map.sentinel.co to visualize the 1000s of dVPN nodes hosted by Sentinel community members around the world that power dVPN applications built on Sentinel.

The global privacy revolution for the common man is here, and its as decentralized as it gets.