Unique users within a 24hr period yesterday hit 10.26k, only 300 users shy from the all-time-high.

http://stats.sentinel.co

Fueled by user growth from Sentinel's #dVPN telegram bot, looks like the ecosystem wants to set a new record today. Will we break it?

Did you know that you can use DVPN Bot on your Mac as well? Absolutely, you can! 🍏

VPN QuickClient is now compatible with Macs running Apple Silicon and is available on the Mac App Store.

Follow the simple steps given by DVPN Bot on Telegram using your Mac!

👉 https://t.me/dvpnbot

https://medium.com/sentinel/sentinel-enters-the-telegram-ecosystem-with-the-dvpn-bot-d3018277a857

Official Release of the Sentinel Telegram bot @dvpnbot on TG. Over 1k+ users connected to a dVPN node (http://map.sentinel.co) hosted on Sentinel through this bot within the first 24hrs! iOS/Mac/Android compatible (Windows soon!)

Sentinel is now officially apart of the Telegram ecosystem with the release of the ‘dVPN Bot’. This is the first integration of the Sentinel ecosystem with the Telegram ecosystem and this will be followed up by more sophisticated integrations including an integration with $TON for payments for #dVPN services.

This bot is effortlessly generating Cosmos-SDK based user accounts upon a simple interaction with a telegram bot (in the back-end), which then interact with and get authorized for connection by Sentinel's on-chain custom subscription modules.

Let’s bring the Sentinel dVPN ecosystem to the 1B+ Telegram users and lets take advantage of the power of virility that Web 3 dApps such as ‘tap to earn’ dApps having been taking advantage of in recent times.

Let’s take user feedback and learn more from this free dvpnbot environment in order to build up to a monetized product where users can pay through $TON and where the TON foundation can represent and back Sentinel.

Unique users across dVPN applications built on Sentinel reached a new 24hr all time high of over 11k users on the 24th of July!

This is a new record for the ecosystem, fueled by the Sentinel dVPN telegram bot growth.

Message the bot and connect today! https://t.me/dvpnbot

A new paradigm for the Sentinel ecosystem is about to set in with the launch of the AI data miner application on Android.

Anyone with an Android phone will have the ability to become a data miner to train decentralized AI models while providing provable provenance for the data

The Sentinel AI Data layer gitbook will be going live next week.

To learn more about the Sentinel AI Data Layer checkout:

https://x.com/SentinelDVPN/status/1811847270939361469

Early Alpha: Sentinel is THE first Web 3 ecosystem to have a working AI Data layer product. AI models need to learn from the internet on a daily basis in order to stay up to date. Anyone can host a data miner on their Android device (soon iOS and PC) and work can be sent to these miners which will retrieve the required data.

Over 4k users on the Telegram #dVPN integration built on Sentinel within a few days of launch and $0 marketing spend!

What the crypto ecosystem needs is more consumer apps, not $1b+ FDV L2 networks.

Try it out at on your iOS/Android at: https://t.me/dvpnbot

Blufrens going live on Rac_FM Twitter Spaces in 1 hour

Tune in:

https://x.com/RAC_FM_Spaces/status/1817888693992165441?t=JW1NapMwJH7frzJOHXDFqQ&s=19

Public testing of Cosmos dVPN imminent - The Cosmos ecosystem has the #1 interoperability protocol in the entire Web 3 ecosystem.

IBC transfer $ATOM into a wallet on Sentinel's chain and pay the on-chain subscription contract allowing for 1 click access to 1000s of #dVPN nodes.

The IBC protocol is the most decentralized, most secure, and most composable interoperability protocol - and most likely the fastest for having such a distributed governance set validating transactions.

Checkout the Map of Zones which shows all the chains connected by IBC

https://mapofzones.com

Cosmos dVPN public testing is officially live! IBC transfer $ATOM into your Sentinel wallet

Join the official testing group to install the APK:
https://t.me/VPNproducttesting/4155

Feedback in the group is very much appreciated so the application can be perfected prior to launch.

Unique user count, or the number of unique individuals who have connected to a #dVPN node through a dVPN app built on Sentinel in the month of July is 75.3k, only ~700 users away from the all time high.

http://stats.sentinel.co

Try https://t.me/dvpnbot on your iOS/Android

Sentinel has the highest # of verified active daily users in the Cosmos ecosystem

This month:

- Record for unique users within 1 day was broken
- Record for unique users within 1 week was broken
- Record for unique users within 1 month was broken

http://stats.sentinel.co

The API endpoint for Sentinel's stats is:
https://api.explorer.sentinel.co/api/v1/statistics?method=METHOD

Sentinel stats calculation methodology and determination is fully open-sourced at:

https://github.com/sentinel-official/explorer

The upcoming Cosmos dVPN application will feature access to residential nodes (not cloud VPS) as an added package for an additional payment in the form of $ATOM.

There are over 400 residential nodes hosted in the Sentinel ecosystem which can be found at:
https://sentnodes.com/node/residential

One of Sentinel's most important missions yet, to increase the number of physical hardware devices providing resource to the ecosystem, is going to begin soon.

'Casanode' by Foxinodes
is soon going live, allowing for anyone to host a residential node easily from their Raspberry Pi while being able to manage the node from their mobile device.

Repositories and compiled OS updated:

1) Casanode Mobile App: https://github.com/sentinelgrowthdao/casanode-mobile-app
2) Casanode BLE: https://github.com/sentinelgrowthdao/casanode-ble
3) Casanode OS: https://github.com/sentinelgrowthdao/casanode-os

Compiled OS: https://storage.busurnode.com/others/sentinel/2024-07-29-casanode-os-insecure.zip

Testing of the Raspberry Pi 'Casanode' application bundle has begun.

Join the testing group at:

https://t.me/raspberrypidvpntesting

Sentinel enters the $TON ecosystem! Within a few days Telegram users can use in-app 'stars' that can be purchased with $TON to buy premium subscription from https://t.me/dvpnbot in order to gain access to thousands of #dVPN nodes.

Try out @dvpnbot on your iOS/Android today!

Buy Telegram stars with $TON at: https://fragment.com/stars

To learn more about http://t.me/dvpnbot checkout:
https://medium.com/sentinel/sentinel-enters-the-telegram-ecosystem-with-the-dvpn-bot-d3018277a857

Try the 'dVPN Bot' on Telegram today and effortlessly connect to a dVPN node hosted on Sentinel within minutes! (http://map.sentinel.co)

The people of #Iran need #dVPN access more than ever given their autocratic government and this period of turmoil.

Did you know that dVPN applications built on Sentinel are trusted by and promoted on large Iranian telegram groups which range from 100k to upwards of 500k users.

Join the Sentinel Iranian community at:

https://t.me/sentinelirancommunity

The Sentinel ecosystem delivers end to end encrypted dVPN access to hundreds of thousands of users globally, circumventing the spying eye of bad actors.

Trust only open-source dVPN applications.

Download http://independentdvpn.com on your iOS/Android device today!

Users can now purchase full access to Sentinel #dVPN nodes on http://t.me/dvpnbot with Telegram 'Stars' (which can be purchased with $TON).

Telegram Stars offers a great way for dApps in the Cosmos ecosystem to provide an onboarding mechanism for Telegram users.

Hopefully in the future $TON gets #IBC integration that will allow for easier in-app Telegram payments.

Try out http://t.me/dvpnbot today! Available both on the iOS and Android.

The reach of the Sentinel ecosystem to different market segments is expanding daily.

Did you know...

...that you can unlock more locations with DVPN Bot Premium for just ~$1 per month?

Upgrade with one tap using Telegram Stars — no commitment, no credit card needed, and no auto-renewal. Enjoy hassle-free access today!

P.S. You can get Telegram Stars in your Telegram app or via Fragment.

The proliferation of physical hardware devices providing services to the Sentinel ecosystem is about to begin with the 'Casanode' software stack reaching completion, allowing for anyone to install a #dVPN node on their Raspberry Pi device while being able to manage the node from their phone.

Sentinel's true #DePin journey is soon beginning and this campaign will increase the number of residential servers supporting Sentinel apart from cloud VPS servers which provide service to the network.

Casanode is developed by @foxinodes, and is ready for testing.

1) Casanode Mobile App: https://github.com/sentinelgrowthdao/casanode-mobile-app
2) Casanode BLE: https://github.com/sentinelgrowthdao/casanode-ble
3) Casanode OS: https://github.com/sentinelgrowthdao/casanode-os

Compiled OS: https://storage.busurnode.com/others/sentinel/2024-07-29-casanode-os-insecure.zip

Global Node Map: map.sentinel.co

dVPN Node Info: sentnodes.com

Join the Testing Telegram Group at:
https://t.me/raspberrypidvpntesting

Checkout this blog to learn more about the Cosmos SDK.

The Sentinel ecosystem transitioned from Ethereum to its own native Cosmos SDK chain primarily for the throughput requirements that Sentinel's 'on-chain DHT' architecture requires.

100M+ transactions over the past 3+ yrs

https://medium.com/the-interchain-foundation/what-is-cosmos-sdk-interchain-stack-highlights-ba7b022eff59

Amidst all of the FUD on Cosmos, it is very important for everyone to recognize the negative reflexivity that the Luna/UST collapse has caused on the ecosystem which remains till date. This negative effect has not only deleted a lot of money from existence, but it has also several decreased the rate of projects which have associated themselves with the Cosmos ideology and the IBC - in addition to adding fuel to the fire in internal ecosystem disputes.

On the bright side - also recognize that this negative reflexivity will soon end and an effect of positive reflexivity is about to begin as the ecosystem is poised to win its uphill battle.

The Cosmos ecosystem was at the epicenter of the largest financial disaster in the history of the crypto ecosystem in the year of 2022. The Luna/UST collapse which wiped out much more than just the DEX liquidity of every single coin in the Cosmos ecosystem.

There is no doubt that the Cosmos SDK tech stack is second to none. The Cosmos SDK is the only reliable stack that can be used to construct a sovereign chain. Of course there is always room and enhancement for modifications, but its clear that Cosmos can support high throughput requirements - Polygon has been doing just fine proving that premier L2 chains in the ETH ecosystem can operate on the Cosmos SDK.

Now the argument remains that; 'teams will build on Cosmos or fork it and not even care about the ecosystem'. Meanwhile new chains built on the Cosmos SDK like Initia act like they will take over and provide a replacement to what exists thinking that the Cosmos ecosystem is dead.

The entire UST/Luna debacle naturally dissuaded high performance teams from joining the Cosmos ecosystem ideologically from 2022 May onwards, while many promising teams continue to build on Cosmos SDK tech or derivatives of Tendermint BFT. If teams like Bera or Hyperliquid were launching in 2021, most likely they would associate themselves with the Cosmos ecosystem and enable IBC however after everything that has happened many teams enjoy echoing the pessimistic view of 'Cosmos is dead' and disassociate themselves from anything Cosmos ecosystem related.

However, when you have thousands of highly intelligent and passionate people and a tech stack that supports many, many highly successful sovereign chains (whether they accept it or not) in the crypto ecosystem - you can bet that the phoenix will rise from the ashes.

Now onto the positives; the Cosmos ecosystem will expand 10 fold from here because - REAL recognizes REAL. REGARDLESS of all the FUD, several highly successful projects that build on Cosmos WILL come and embrace it and put the ecosystem back on the map. More and more projects will join hands in a beautiful effect of positive reflexivity which has been unlocked by all of us due to perseverance and determination despite all odds. Within a years time, few will remember the current sentiment and we will be outnumbered by hundreds of thousands of new community members who only know of the success of the Cosmos ecosystem which will begin from here.

This statement can be justified by Babylon's acknowledgement of the Cosmos ecosystem and its proposed integrations with the ecosystem. Babylon is one of the most promising Bitcoin L2 networks out there and is considered a Tier 1 project, however instead of choosing an arrogant approach like other Tier 1 projects which have built on/forked Cosmos, Babylon choose to integrate and embrace the ecosystem.

Babylon's embrace of Cosmos shows that regardless of all of the negative events and the hardships that the Cosmos ecosystem has gone through, there is still respect, there is still promise, and there is still belief.

The ecosystem has still has not recovered from the UST collapse and this is quite evident in aggregate ecosystem DEX volumes from before and after the UST collapse. To be continued...