SENT has raised a funding round of $3.5M led by forward-thinking institutions and accomplished industry veterans.

This raise has a significant impact on the growth and the momentum of the Sentinel ecosystem going forward, allowing for:

1) The increase in development resources dedicated towards the Sentinel Cosmos based 'Hub' and the Sentinel dVPN network
2) Community expansion and increased user adoption through PR/Marketing efforts as well as demographic-specific marketing efforts
3) Onboarding onto reputable centralized exchanges which allow for Sentinel's native token to be accessible to a larger audience

Mainnet launch on 27th March.

We are very humbled by the amount of interest and support we got in this round from a diverse set of supporters of Sentinel. The protocol investment focused institutions which have participated in the Sentinel capital raise include:

Woodstock Fund, AGE Fund, Atka Capital, Pangea Blockchain, Exnetwork Capital, Zokyo Ventures, 01 Capital, Genblock Capital, Digital Strategies, Advanced Blockchain AG, Mempol Ventures

We also have prominent heads of Wachsman, AU21 Capital, Alphablock Investments, D1 Ventures, builders of Tendermint, leaders of Persistence, Akash Network, Secret Network, StakeWithUs, stakefish, SG-1, Bridge Mutual, SALT Lending, Tavis Digital, Biconomy, Giant Leaf Capital, XMonetae Capital, Infinite Lux, Crypto Guerillas, Ravindra Kumar of Frontier as well as other individual investors.

https://medium.com/sentinel/sentinels-next-chapter-the-path-to-dvpn-mass-adoption-5d8a0b2afaba

The Sentinel ecosystem is transitioning from a previously obscure and underground network into a global ecosystem that is providing utility to hundreds of thousands of users and one that is being featured in globally renowned news outlets.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/12/iraqs-protests-and-the-technology-of-resistance

The merits of Sentinel's open-source and provably encrypted dVPN ecosystem are highlighted in this publication released by @AlJazeera

Sentinel intends to create global awareness on the importance of using networking technology that you can trust.

People all over the world rely on VPNs to circumvent restrictions that infringe on their fundamental human right to 'freedom of communication and access to the data'. However, centralized VPNs are often exploited and these organizations are capable of manipulating encryption.

We see a trend in the retail messaging/communications application-sector, where users are migrating from centralized and closed-source platforms such as #Whatsapp over to open-source and provable platforms such as #Signal.

Similarly, users will migrate from #VPNs => #dVPNs and Sentinel will play a major catalyst in this transition not only with technological contribution but also through thought leadership.

The Sentinel ecosystem has made a strong commitment to proliferating the global adoption of dVPN technology. In order to ensure effective widespread communication and marketing, Sentinel has brought on industry renowned organizations, Wachsman and Winkrypto as key communications partners.

Wachsman, led by CEO David Wachsman has been often regarded as the top English Marketing and PR agency in the blockchain sector.

Sentinel has a very strong focus on cultivating a strong Chinese community and increasing user adoption in China, and will be working closely with Winkrypto which is one of China's top blockchain PR organizations.

Winkcrypto has a keen understanding of the cryptocurrency and VPN userbases in China with many channels to effectively reach these users including WeChat and other messaging and social network platforms.

https://medium.com/sentinel/sentinel-announces-key-communications-partners-wachsman-and-winkrypto-dfd1b65a66b1

Years in the making.

It's official - exactly one week until Sentinel mainnet!

Mainnet launch will be at 12:00pm UTC Saturday, 27 March 2021.

Prepare for liftoff. Huge thanks to the supportive @cosmosproject for the endless support.

Another step on the path to #dVPN mass adoption.

Users can now install Sentinel's native wallet and prepare for Sentinel's Cosmos based Mainnet Atom symbolby following this guide written by @johnniecosmos

https://sentinel.medium.com/sentinel-c%C3%B8smos-based-mainnet-wallet-staking-guide-ecc6d9a72f1c

Mainnet launches at 12:00 PM UTC on the 27th!

This wallet is a custom wallet built from scratch on Go by Exidio, and is open-sourced for other Cosmos based projects or developers to fork and develop their own wallet client from.

https://github.com/sentinel-official/desktop-client.git

To test staking on the testnet, join:

https://t.me/v3wallet

COUNTDOWN: T- 3 days until Sentinel Mainnet!

Things are warming up! 🔥

Stay tuned for additional announcements and posts this week.

Sentinel Mainnet Token Swap:

Holders of SENT ERC20 tokens will be able to send their tokens to the burn address beginning at 12:00pm UTC 25th of March.

Alternatively, holders can send their tokens to @MXCEnglish exchange and the tokens will be auto swapped to Sentinel mainnet tokens.

A blog detailing the token swap process will go live tomorrow at the onset of the token swap process.

*note: All mainnet tokens will be minted at Mainnet Genesis at 12:00pm UTC 27th of March.

The Sentinel Mainnet Token Swap is live!

Follow the steps outlined in this blog to swap $SENT ERC20 1:1 for Sentinel mainnet tokens.

Note: mainnet tokens will be distributed on Sentinel mainnet genesis, 27th of March 2021.

https://sentinel.medium.com/sentinel-mainnet-swap-an-easy-guide-to-swapping-your-sentinel-erc20-tokens-to-sentinels-73fa9b1e1456

COUNTDOWN: T- 1 day until Sentinel Mainnet!

Prepare for liftoff! 🔥

Stay tuned for additional announcements today and tomorrow.

⚠️Scam Alert ⚠️

🚫WARNING TO OUR COMMUNITY🚫

Scammers have created fake and imposter users!

How to check which group is real: Go to our official website https://sentinel.co and click telegram button!


⚠️ Important ⚠️

🛑 We will never ask for your private keys and recovery phrases.

🛑 Only follow the links from the Official Channels.

🛑 Admins will never PM you first. Always check the full username of the user or admin in question.


🚫Please report fake users or groups to @sentinel_co and @notoscam

Follow @Sentinel_Announcements for all approved updates.

What is Sentinel? A $DVPN protocol

Sentinel is excited to share a brand refresh announcement as part of the transition to Cøsmos. The strategy is to better demonstrate what Sentinel, the dVPN protocol, achieves. As Sentinel was the project to first bring decentralized VPN to the market, the change in its native token’s ticker is fitting. Upon swapping and mainnet trading, the ticker for Sentinel will change from $SENT to $DVPN.

We remain steadfast; Sentinel is committed to cultivating deep community ties and increasing user adoption across the globe. Our framework for creating new dVPNs is well positioned in this ever-changing space. We are excited to share the $DVPN change with the community.

https://sentinel.medium.com/sentinel-a-rebrand-on-c%C3%B8smos-fe996a330668

Sentinel is honored to announce the list of genesis validators participating in the mainnet launch on the 27th of March.

Sentinel cannot thank every participant enough for allowing the final step towards @CosmosProject mainnet launch and #DVPN mass adoption.

Validators are a key component of the Cosmos #DPOS. Without validators, Sentinel would be bound to unscalable infrastructure.

We welcome all to join in improving network security by validating the Sentinel blockchain. Please reach out if you're interested.

Onwards to Cosmos.

https://medium.com/sentinel/sentinels-genesis-validators-6462af1fde52

With the imminent shift to mainnet, this document gives a basic introduction into the token economics that will exist on Sentinel's mainnet.

Sentinel would like to thank Akash Network for the inspiring work and research they have done in this domain.

This article provides a brief overview of the Sentinel Network’s token economics. Once the network goes live, Sentinel will be on Cosmos’s DPOS based network with staking/inflation reward. It is important that all the different users in the network are well versed with the economic structure so that they can understand how to best situate themselves to gain the most value from their stake and participation in the network. The token economics structure for Sentinel is inspired by Akash Network’s economic model and Sentinel would like to commend Akash network for the exceptional research and implementation that they have done in this area.

https://medium.com/sentinel/brief-on-sentinels-new-mainnet-token-economics-303e7250adf5

More information about the utility of Sentinel will be released after mainnet, the next paper will be focused on higher-level economic abstractions that will bring additional features to the network.

Liftoff!

Sentinel has officially minted its mainnet genesis block on @cosmosproject SDK.

This is a pivotal moment in the journey toward #dVPN mass adoption.

$SENT token is now $DVPN

Please follow the chain live at https://explorer.sentinel.co

Additionally, thanks to @cosmostation, you can see all blocks live on Mintscan at https://mintscan.io/sentinel

May all blocks live long and prosper!

Sentinel is proud @Cosmostation decided to integrate the Sentinel blockchain. Sentinel's mainnet journey has just begun and there is already growing support across the @CosmosProject ecosystem.

Visit http://wallet.cosmostation.io now to begin securely signing $DVPN transactions via your Ledger hardware wallet via Keystation. The web version is live and mobile applications will launch within the next week.

The Sentinel native wallet client will have an updated version pushed live tomorrow, 28th of March, 2021, by 6:00pm UTC.

The updated version will have the Sentinel mainnet fully integrated. Holders will see their DVPN tokens and will be able to delegate them to validators directly within the client.

Please note: Seeds generated in all previous versions are compatible. You do not need to create a new public key (receiving address).

The Sentinel wallet client information and download instructions are detailed in this blog: https://sentinel.medium.com/sentinel-c%C3%B8smos-based-mainnet-wallet-staking-guide-ecc6d9a72f1c

Sentinel's Official Native Cross-Platform Mainnet Wallet is Now Live:

https://github.com/sentinel-official/desktop-client/releases/tag/v0.3.0

This is a custom-built wallet that has been developed from scratch by the Exidio.co team which is spearheading development in the Sentinel ecosystem. Other Cosmos teams and developers are welcome to fork this wallet which is built on GO, and use it for the purposes of their own projects. There will be constant improvements and UI upgrades as well in the near future and soon the new Comsos based dVPN application will launch along with the wallet in the same client.

Users who have installed the previous wallet running on the testnet might need to delete the old configuration file because of the network change.
File path: ${HOME}/.sentinel/client/config.toml

Please note: Seeds generated in all previous versions are compatible. You do not need to create a new public key (receiving address).

🎉🎊 After 3 years of consistent building, Sentinel has begun its mainnet journey and is transitioning its current ETH based $dVPN applications over to its own native Cosmos based chain. 🎊🎉

Sentinel's dVPN applications have proven traction, the next step is monetization. The architecture of the Sentinel network features both technical ingenuity as well as economic pragmatism.

The Sentinel Cosmos blockchain becomes the #dVPN server, dVPN applications will operate smoothly on Sentinel as long as Sentinel's own validators are not compromised.

A big thank you to Benjamin Powers for taking the time to really dig into Sentinel's technology and for interviewing @DanExidio and the Exidio team.


Coindesk did an amazing job with this piece showcasing the power of decentralized VPN.

https://www.coindesk.com/sentinel-decentralized-vpn-protocol-cosmos-mainnet

MXC Lists Sentinel (DVPN) in the Innovation Zone - 160,000 DVPN in tokens to be won!

DVPN token deposits are live
Trading begins at 11:00 UTC, Apr 1st, 2021

Activity A: Join in the deposit contest to win from a 80,000 DVPN prize pool
Activity period: 17:00, Mar 31 - 23:59, Apr 4 (UTC+8)

Those with Cumulative Minimum Net Deposit Vol. (DVPN) no less than 2,000 are eligible to share 30,000 DVPN and Minimum Net Deposit no less than 10,000 are eligible to share 50,000 DVPN in proportion to the users' Cumulative Net Deposit Vol

Activity B: Join in the trading contest to win from a 80,000 DVPN prize pool
Activity period: 19:00, Apr 1 - 23:59, Apr 4 (UTC+8)

To be eligible to claim from the 80,000 DVPN prize pool, users have to hit the minimum trading volume of DVPN/USDT to participate in the reward sharing

All DVPN traders whose min trading vol. is 10,000 DVPN or more will be eligible to share 16,000 DVPN participation prize pool

Full details: https://support.mxc-exchange.com/hc/en-001/articles/360059185191

Sentinel INFO Sheet 📡

If you want to know general information on sentinel nodes:
https://stats.sentinel.co/

If you want to follow Sentinel social accounts:
https://twitter.com/Sentinel_co
https://www.reddit.com/r/SENT/
https://discord.gg/bHJbar4

if you want to check the status of Sentinel Tendermint/Cosmos Mainnet:
https://explorer.sentinel.co/

🐋 exchanges that support $SENT
http://trade.sentinel.co
https://www.hotbit.io/exchange?symbol=SENT_BTC

⚡️Check sentinel github: https://github.com/sentinel-official

❓ New to Sentinel? https://medium.com/sentinel

🔧 Sentinel is built using Cosmos SDK, powered by Tendermint to see other cosmos based projects check:
https://cosmonauts.world/

🔥For SENT Price Speculation and Trolling, join https://t.me/SentinelTrollbox - Please do not troll in the main chat and feel free to troll in the Trollbox 🌚

Note that this channel is moderated by the community and views discussed here do not reflect the views of Sentinel team

The Sentinel Ecosystem's Mainnet is now live on its own Cosmos based chain, with the Sentinel ticker evolving from $SENT to $DVPN

Anyone can build their own dVPN application on the Sentinel dVPN framework. Sentinel supports autonomous and soverign dVPN organizations proliferating the adoption of provably transparent decentralized technologies.

exidio.co is a Cosmos development and innovation focused organization that contributes towards the Sentinel roadmap and also works with dVPN entreprenuers/existing VPN organizations in order to establish new Sentinel dVPN applications on Sentinel's framework.

The Velocity dVPN (Android) built on Sentinel's framework has over 100k users on the Google Play Store and is currently the 2nd most widely used dVPN in the blockchain ecosystem after Sentinel's flagship dVPN.

Sentinel dVPN (Android) Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.sentinel.sentinellite

Velocity dVPN (Android) Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vpn.proxy.velocity

Whitepaper Link: https://sentinel.co/whitepaper

Sentinel Mainnet Wallet Guide: https://medium.com/sentinel/sentinel-c%C3%B8smos-based-mainnet-wallet-staking-guide-ecc6d9a72f1c

Sentinel Mainnet Wallet Downloads Link: https://github.com/sentinel-official/desktop-client/releases/tag/v0.3.0-rc2

Sentinel Cosmos Mainnet Tokeneconomics Brief Link: https://medium.com/sentinel/brief-on-sentinels-new-mainnet-token-economics-303e7250adf5

The regional Sentinel community groups are not only important for the regional communication channels, but also for the global customer acquisition for the Sentinel dVPN and the other dVPN applications being built ontop of the Sentinel Network.

Sentinel Global Community Network 🇺🇳

🇨🇳Chinese - @Sentinel_Chinese
🇮🇹Italian - @Sentinel_ITALIA
🇯🇵 Japanese - @sentineljapan
🇷🇺Russian - @sentinel_ru
🇹🇭Thai - @Sentinel_Th
🇪🇸Spanish - @SentinelES
🇻🇳Vietnamese - @sentinel_Vietnam
🇸🇪 Swedish - @SentinelSwedish
🇧🇷 Brazil - @SentinelBrazil
🇫🇷 France - @sentinel_co_france
🇷🇴 Romanian - @sentinel_romanian
🇧🇩 Bangladesh - @Sentinel_BD
🇵🇭 Pilipinas - @Sentinel_PH
🇮🇩 Indonesia - @sent_indonesia

🚀Sentinel Main Chat - https://t.me/sentinel_co
🛠Sentinel Node Network - https://t.me/SentinelNodeNetwork

Sentinel's $SENT token has been rebranded into the $DVPN token, and is listing on MXCExchange today at 11:00 AM UTC!

MXC provides Sentinel a great opportunity to gain exposure to larger Tier 1 exchanges. Sentinel is focused on securing a Tier 1 soon.

https://sentinel.medium.com/sentinels-dvpn-token-lists-on-mxc-exchange-19d24e689941

The community is beginning to see an increase in marketing efforts that spread the awareness of the Sentinel ecosystem and the purpose of its dVPN.

Sentinel has some of the most influential Chinese and English PR firms in the Blockchain ecosystem in cooperation and is also beginning to spread to the grassroots communities.

While marketing is important, decreasing the barriers of entry to acquire the token is also important. Lowering barriers to acquire DVPN tokens includes a strategy of access to the dVPN token on DEXs on Cosmos and ETH/BSC (with the Cosmos IBC Peg), as well as access to the token on reputed centralized exchanges.