The Sentinel ecosystem would like to reveal the Turkey focused #Bağımsız 🇹🇷 dVPN application. Bağımsız means 'independent' in Turkish and this application is managed by a Turkish team with a focus on providing unrestricted trustless internet access to millions of individuals in Turkey.

This application is extremely relevant given Turkish Internet regulations which have seen the blocking of critical information portals such as https://Twitter.com or http://Youtube.com at various points in the past.

This dVPN application will be launching on iOS and Android within the coming days of sufficient testing and will target user acquisition through the use of online-influencers and social media marketing. This will be the first dVPN application in the Sentinel ecosystem that will have targeted marketing campaigns.

The application will be free at first and will in the future transition to an AD based model along with a premium offering after attracting a sufficient userbase.

September saw 7,040 Sentinel $dVPN subscriptions globally.

The top 10 countries amounted to 5,778:

🇺🇸 - 3,378🥇
🇩🇪 - 494🥈
🇬🇧 - 364🥉
🇳🇱 - 325
🇸🇬 - 249
🇫🇮 - 215
🇨🇦 - 204
🇮🇹 - 190
🇦🇺 - 183
🇫🇷 - 176

Source: https://metabase.mathnodes.com/public/question/666fe1d2-b49c-4055-b2d4-12af4a9e6cca

Credit: @MathNodes

Meile dVPN v1.7.11 is officially available for Windows and OS X.

Features include:
🔐 OS X Intel Apple Certificate Signed
🐞 IBC Payment Bug Fix
✅ Minor improvements

Get it @ meile.app

September saw 2,808,595 $dVPN in revenue on the Sentinel Network.

Sentinel's competitive edge over traditional VPNs drives consistent demand, leading to increased revenue as more VPN apps launch on its platform.

Source: https://dvpn.cc/dashboard

It's Sunday, which means one thing...

it's Sentinel morality time!

This week we ask the following:

Why do you think decentralized VPNs are necessary? 

The best answer (determined by the admins) wins 10,000 $dVPN.

📢 gm DAOers! To start our journey in building growth for Sentinel, let's get a show of hands for our community Poker Night!

📅 This Saturday, 6pm UTC
🎲NL Texas Holdem'
👌Free entry
💰 2.5M $dVPN up for grabs!
🎙 Join the DAO voice chat

Sign-up link dropping on Thursday.

The $dVPN token is now available on the Leap Cosmos wallet.

Now: Browser 💻
Next: Mobile 📱

As new mobile #web3 focused decentralized VPN applications deploy on Sentinel, the Leap wallet will be vital in how users pay for their VPN subscriptions.

Get the Leap wallet: https://www.leapwallet.io/cosmos

gm Sentinel Growth DAOlists

We've created a product testing group, with specific topics for applications that require YOUR feedback!

We will incentivise rewards for feedback to improve on the app suite.

If you're interested in these apps succeeding, please join the group, read the pinned message in the general chat and get ready to test!

https://t.me/VPNproducttesting

The Sentinel Poker Night is upon us, hosted by the Sentinel Growth DAO.

🃏Saturday 28th October - 6pm UTC
🪙 2.5 million $dVPN prize pool
🔗Link: https://thepoker.pro/?tournamentId=1866
🔑Pass: sentinel42

For more information, please join the DAO Telegram. https://t.me/SentinelGrowthDAO

50 players turned up for the Sentinel Poker Night!

2.5 Million $dVPN tokens will be awarded to the top 7 players

1 million $dVPN will be awarded to the winner.

More games will run in the coming time.

Join The Sentinel Growth DAO Telegram and follow the Official Sentinel Social pages to take part.

https://t.me/SentinelGrowthDAO

Why is Sentinel in the top 10 on Cosmos for transactions?

Unlike #DeFi protocols, Sentinel's transactions are not focused on trading. Instead, they are used to establish connections, manage VPN subscriptions, and pay node hosts.

The more people using the Sentinel Network, the more transactions there will be.

Sentinel does not log users' internet history or personal data on the blockchain.

If you have a twitter account, vote for DVPN for the DVPN ecosystem to be able to have Sunny's (founder of Osmosis) insights into network expansion and application usage growth.

https://fxtwitter.com/sunnya97/status/1719802705450045801?s=20

The # of unique users that have connected to a dVPN node on the Sentinel blockchain has increased to 22,615 in the month of October 2023, representing a 30x+ increase over roughly 700 unique users in the month of July before the chain upgrade occurred to enable on-chain subscription plans.

The dVPN network is set to scale well beyond 100k active users and this is all possible thanks to the fully decentralized structure of the on-chain subscription plan.

Full-fledged stats website launching tomorrow allowing for the real-time transparency of critical metrics representing the usage and growth of the Sentinel ecosystem.

Connection and disconnection happens on-chain, each unique user can be tracked to an exact dVPN 'session' through on-chain data, with IP address information never being revealed on-chain.

The Sentinel 'Stats Engine' will be open-sourced allowing for the community to build their own analytical dashboards on-top of it.

The Sentinel stats page has now been re-launched, offering a clear insight into key metrics involving dVPN nodes as well as dVPN usage trends.

Visit the stats page today at: stats.sentinel.co

From over 30 different metrics available, 6 real-time metrics and 5 historical metrics have been chosen for easy understanding and straight-forward representation.

Given the recent implementation of the on-chain subscription plan, the Sentinel’s growth metrics will represent a strong upwards trajectory and the re-launch of the stats page is extremely timely.

In the future the ‘Stats Engine’ will be open-sourced allowing for community members to build their own analytics and dashboards.

Map.sentinel.co will soon be updated along with the release of Sentinel’s new website.

https://medium.com/sentinel/re-launch-of-sentinels-stats-page-stats-sentinel-co-96efac31bbcb

Telegram has added stories for communities, but this feature can only be enabled by our Premium subscribers.

You can cast your vote via the link: t.me/Sentinel_Announcements?boost

October saw another month-on-month increase in revenue on the Sentinel Network with 3,984,372 $dVPN.

Sentinel's competitive edge over traditional VPNs drives consistent demand, leading to increased revenue as more VPN apps launch.

Source: stats.sentinel.co

dVPN Key Focus Areas 11/8/23:

1) Website - New website is in development and intends to show key stats, the map, and info on all the white-labels on the homepage in a much more informative and updated structure than the past. The goal is to launch before the 20-25th of this month.

2) Next Utilities - Node Dashboard/Leaderboad - A utility for node hosts to check leaderboard stats as well as a page for their own node which has information on whether they are added to a subscription or not and the amount of earnings the subscription will be paying them as well as the minimum node prices set by on-chain proposals. The goal for the release of this utility is before 15th Dec however the target would be within this month.

3) dVPN Application management - UI revamps/website and app store profile management/twitter account and community management for the apps and organic growth strategies for each. Also individual profile pages of each dVPN application on the new Sentinel website established.

Ad-monetization will begin in-app soon to test an economic model where free dVPN applications can earn revenues on ads which can be used to therein pay dVPN nodes. As gaining free VPN installations is much easier as compared to premium installations, it will be a great case study into the potential for monetizing on ad traffic.

4) Node Economic Discussion - First node call this Friday, goal over-time is to create a strong revenue model where node hosts are making money while white-label applications are also making money and for centralized vpns who want to use nodes to not see nodes as overpriced. The key issue is that some node hosts are able to host nodes at a much cheaper rate than others and the breakeven cost for nodes cannot be established properly, in addition to the issue of nodes having varying degrees of specs allowing for some nodes to handle many more users than other nodes - leading to the potential requirement for further categorization. A lot of discussion is required to arrive at a working model that everyone is happy with.

5) Node Health Check - Node health check function is nearly completed and it will allow for subscriptions to easily add and remove node, with this the automatic incentives for nodes will wind down and be replaced by subscription earnings which are earnings for having a node which is qualified by the health check system, power white-label applications on dVPN. The goal is to being to suspend the general incentive program, but not remove ability for nodes to earn as the incentive reward is replaced by subscription earnings which everyone node that consistently works is eligible for.

Sentinel does not give free money to nodes just for hosting a node that connects to the chain, but instead sentinel has created a structure where nodes that are being actively used by tens of thousands of users are paid in an organized and timely manner on-chain for their services

6) Sentinel and ATOM dVPN Applications - The flagship Sentinel dVPN application is set to release for community testing before the 15th and a full launch before the end of the month. The ATOM dVPN application is set to begin testing hopefully before the end of the month and the launch before the 15th of next month. The Sentinel dVPN application has been prioritized as it represents the brand image and the outward facing impression of the Sentinel ecosystem.

7) Cosmos Re-Integration - After these steps are completed significant effort will be put into Sentinel's integration into the Cosmos ecosystem and awareness of dVPN's progress and working economic structure. The Cosmos community will embrace dVPN and recognize the merits of the work of all of the contributors and the impact that dVPN will have on millions across the 'real' world which few if any dApp ecosystems can claim to achieve

This Friday at 2pm UTC, the Sentinel Node community call takes place, on the main Sentinel Telegram group. 

Following the community update (above this post on the Sentinel Announcements page) a few topics will be under discussion to ensure the long term success of the Sentinel Node Network. 

Node economic discussion on how the network will look going forward, and the services it can offer to be flexible and competitive. 

Do you run nodes?
Do you want to run nodes?
Do you want to understand how the growth of the node network will affect the growth of white label development and adoption?

Got any questions but can't join? Then comment on this post.

🚀 Sentinel Growth DAO Poker Night

🗓 Date: Saturday, 11th November

🏆 Top Prize: 1,000,000 $DVPN

Sign in link will be shared on Friday.


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