The Solar dVPN app which is built on Sentinel has been featured on the video of a Russian Youtuber with over 400k subscribers.

This video received over 70k views in 1 day.

To download : https://dvpn.solar

A large majority of Youtubers endorse VPN applications at least once in their careers. Sentinel will appeal to the top tier Youtubers who care about the products they endorse, Youtubers who understand that centralized VPN apps cannot be trusted as they are not transparent.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-FeI2NyOtP8&t=100s

There is no ecosystem in the entire crypto industry which will get the coverage and endorsement to the mainstream user as Sentinel is about to get. Sentinel has a chance to be the first project to make a real impact on people of the general public - outside the areas of using blockchain technology for money transfer or speculation.

The monthly number of users (unique wallets) that have connected to a dVPN application built on Sentinel has reached a new record, crossing the previous one of 22,615 users.

http://stats.sentinel.co

The number of users in the month of November is nearing 26k with 10 days left.

The first dVPN community call is happening tomorrow at 3 PM UTC. Visit the Sentinel twitter account to access the Twitter spaces.

https://twitter.com/SentinelVPN

This call is focused on the discussion of the optimal pricing mechanism for a p2p bandwidth marketplace.

Ensuring that bandwidth service providers receive a fair compensation for their services, while maintaining their competitiveness to their centralized counterparts.

There will be more frequent calls and public discussion forums surrounding relevant topics that impact decentralized p2p infrastructure.

DVPN Node Host Group: https://t.me/SentinelNodeNetwork

Node Call Twitter Spaces is Now Live! Join now!

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

Over 120 people tuned into Sentinel's twitter spaces yesterday marking a strong presence for Sentinel's first-ever community call in 6 years since its inception.

Thanks to the following communities for participating!

- Handshake Network
- Decentr Browser
- Math Nodes/Meile dVPN
- Solar Labs/Solar dVPN

We look forward to more community calls and engagement from our community members including both users and node hosts alike in the future events.

🚨 Update Alert 🚨

You may have noticed that we have changed our username, this is to better reflect our brand.

However, this means some of our social links with places like CoinGecko may lead to the wrong place for a bit.

Tickets are raised and we're working to fix all links ASAP.

The First Node Health Check has been Completed!

Current Health Check Wallet - https://dev.mintscan.io/sentinel/account/sent1c4nvz43tlw6d0c9nfu6r957y5d9pgjk5czl3n3

11/30/2013 - 1st Node Health Check

Total Nodes connected to: 3200
Nodes with Endpoint Success: 3179
Nodes Failing Endpoint Error: 21
Nodes with Config Exchange Success: 2756
Nodes Failing Config Exchange: 205
Nodes with Network Success: 2096
Nodes with Network Error: 660

Final Tally -

Fully Working nodes - 2096
Nodes with problems - 886
% Healthy nodes - 65.5%

What now?

The results of the node health check will be published and all nodes that have passed the health check will automatically qualify for retrospective rewards in the month of of Oct and Nov (if nodes were active in these times). Nodes that do not qualify will have to modify their configuration to pass the health check.

From today onwards, all incentives will be paid automatically through subscriptions to all nodes that pass the health check and the generalized incentive program will stop tracking participation from the 1st of Dec.

How often is the node health check?

The node health check will happen several times per day, everyday.

How will the node health check data be represented?

As of now there will be access to an online spreadsheet which will represent nodes that did not qualify and nodes that did qualify for the health check. In the upcoming node dashboard there is an indicator on the page for each node to show whether the node has passed the health check or not. There will be an alert system setup to assist a node operator in receiving notifications if their node has failed a health check.

Thanks to the community for the patience and the node community for all of the cooperation in this process of automating dVPN Node incentives and payment structures as well as node diagnosis processes.

The first node health check transaction

Become a PRIVACY enjooooyer with #dVPN

Don’t allow #web3 wallets to track your IP or:

💰Track your wallet
🔁log your transactions
🌍Know your location

Defend your online privacy with a decentralized VPN from Sentinel, because no one else will do it for you

Sentinel.co/downloads

A significant update which marks the beginning of Sentinel's aggressive journey for user acquisition, 'Node Health Checks' are now live and integrated with the current subscription plan structure!

Checkout the blog at: https://medium.com/sentinel/automated-node-health-checks-are-now-live-and-integrated-2819f633257a

Anyone can host a node, but how is the dVPN protocol supposed to know if the node actually allows a user to connect to the internet or not? It is not possible for the blockchain itself to automatically gauge the health of a node and test its connectivity.

The ‘Automated Node Health Check’ is a simple system where multiple servers connect to dVPN nodes hosted on the Sentinel ecosystem and verify the connectivity of each dVPN node.

With the current health check structure in place, over 3000 nodes can be checked within 30 minutes, allowing for multiple checks to take place within the same day if required.

With the ‘Node Health Check’ system in place, we will see a sharp increase in user connectivity experience. Nearly 30% of the nodes previously had misconfigurations or errors that prevented users from connecting to them.

Now with every node available in-app fully verified, user connectivity issue will only exist if the application itself has an internal error.

Sentinel's main website has been revamped and is now much more informative for new community members.

Visit now: Sentinel.co

Sentinel has a new facelift with brand new applications, utilities, and a new marketing campaign (now that connectivity has been resolved).

The new website includes:
1) A scrolling list of dVPN apps built on Sentinel
2) Node map integration
3) Network stats integration
4) CTAs

With a strong focus on utilities for the network, recent releases include:

- dVPN Global Node Map
- dVPN Network Stats
- New revamped dVPN Website
- COMING SOON - Node earnings and connectivity dashboard

The Sentinel #dVPN ecosystem is the first DePin network to have infrastructure in Iran.

The Sentinel Iranian community is hosting a V2ray node from Iran so our friends across the globe can understand the kind of internet restrictions in Iran.

https://map.sentinel.co/nodes/sentnode19vg6nlgsap2x58alu4h82hngmux8rec6269th8

Download the Bagimsiz Free dVPN app on your device today to test out the Iranian node!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bagimsizvpn.app

Sentinel has a very vibrant Iranian community which can be found at:

https://t.me/sentinelirancommunity

Thanks to 'Iranian Frog' for the management and structure.

After the completion of the following utilities;

http://Map.sentinel.co
http://stats.sentinel.co
http://sentinel.co

the next focus is the dVPN Node Dashboard (releasing soon) which will allow node hosts to see a complete overview of their dVPN node stats and earnings.

The node dashboard has already been reviewed by the community and there has been feedback given on it from dVPN node hosts.

With the release of the Node Dashboard the next focus will shift to the Node Leaderboard page which has also been completely designed and planned out.

The 'dVPN Node Leaderboard' will be launched following the node dashboard, and will highlight the most used nodes in terms of bandwidth and the most popular regions of dVPN nodes that are being used by individuals from all over the world.

The Sentinel ecosystem is committed to completing every utility that is requested by the community. There will be a high degree of focus on making dVPN node hosting much easier as well as one of the critical utilities.

The dVPN team has resumed communication with MEXC on relisting dVPN to the exchange. Please show your support on the tweet for MEXC relisting if you would like to see this happen.

MEXC will not only allow Sentinel to reach more people but will allow for a greater focus on the Chinese crypto community now that Sentinel's V2Ray servers are working very well for Chinese users to bypass the GFW.

https://twitter.com/SentinelVPN/status/1735191293402439808

Every day this week the Sentinel Network has hit over 1 million in $DVPN per day in revenue.

More people are realizing the power of decentralized VPNs.

20% of all revenue goes to $DVPN stakers. when Sentinel grows, we all grow!

Next stop? 10,000,000 in daily revenue.

Source: stats.sentinel.co

Key Updates for node community:

1) Node Dashboard - The node dashboard APIs are nearly completed and the plan is for a launch in the next week hopefully. This dashboard will allow users to clearly view their earnings and see the subscriptions they've been added in and track earnings. Node hosts will also be able to see whether they've passed the health check or not.

2) Automated Pricing - dVPN/USD price from Osmosis will be soon be queried for nodes to set a USD pricing for services and avoid the hassle of changing dVPN prices manually.

3) Multiple Subscription Plans - New subscription plans will be established for residential nodes as well as nodes with special qualities that make them expensive to host (e.g Iran node). This encourages node hosts to offer more specialised services in exchange for a higher reward.

4) Subscription revenue share - dVPN nodes will be able to earn a % of rewards from total earnings generated by a subscription plan creator (dVPN app owner) allowing for exponential scaling of earnings despite time-based payments being at a fixed rate. This will begin with the on-chain revenue of the upcoming Sentinel dVPN flagship application