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...

Osmosis is the best DEX in the Web 3 ecosystem and is highly regarded as having some of the most innovative tech, spoken about by reputed builders such as the founder of Eigen Layer. However, Osmosis has still been setback by the collapse of UST which the Osmo ecosystem is still recovering from. Until Osmo recovers, there is a suppression in the financial growth of the entire Cosmos ecosystem as a whole.

The internal disputes in the Cosmos ecosystem were amplified by the liquidity destruction created by the Luna/UST collapse with investors, validators and community members all experiencing tremendous losses - many of whom have not fully recovered till date.

Now to replace the hole that UST has created, USDC arrives in the Cosmos ecosystem and is backed by Noble which has led the wave of IBC integrated stablecoin innovation which will slowly but surely replace the hole that UST created.

It is an uphill battle no doubt, new founders who build and try to associate with this ecosystem will be dissuaded by many people to forget about Cosmos - or to just use the tech and not acknowledge that the ecosystem exists.

All respect to the builders who continue with strength. The crypto ecosystem may call us delusional to think that the Cosmos ecosystem can be revived. Embrace the power that the universe gives to underdogs with the right intention, and disprove the masses.

Development work for the Cosmos #dVPN application is now completed.

Currently the on-ramp for $ATOM is being finalized which involves the creation of new legal entities in order to be able to integrate with the payment processor partner for Android and iOS app store payments.

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.

🔥🔥🔥Exciting News!🔥🔥🔥

We're thrilled to introduce our brand new Dice Game based on Sentinel Network!

How to Play:

Load Your Balance! Before playing, make sure to load your Bot withSentinel balance.

To do this, follow these steps:
1. Open a private chat with 👉 @AFA_wallet_bot bot and type /myaddresses to get your sent address.
2. Deposit your Sentinel tokens to this address.
3. Wait for the tokens to be credited to your bot Sentinel balance.
4. Check your balance in private mode by typing /getbalance sent to ensure your tokens have been credited.
Simply type /dice <amount> sent to roll the dice in public group.

You can roll any amount between 1 and 1000.

Important: Bot only rolling dice in public groups, so make sure to play with your friends in a public group!

How to withdraw your tokens to another address:
Use the following command to withdraw your sentinel balance to another address:
/send destination_address amount sent


Payout Policy:

Win Big! If you win, you'll receive 3 times your original bet as a reward!
If you win no balance deduction, bot will pay 2 times excluding the bet you placed !

Sentinel's new AI data layer website which allows for data required to train an LLM to be easily retrieved from Sentinel 'AI Data Miner' nodes through a simple webpage, will be integrated with Chat GPT to allow for users to easily find recommendations on relevant links to scrape for their specific topic.

For example, if a user wants to train their LLM on 'the world's tallest buildings', the Chat GPT integration will be used to fetch 50 of the most relevant links (example) and data from each of these links will be downloaded in the data format of the user's choice.

Sentinel's goal is to use AskVenice in the future instead of Chat GPT once more advanced developer functions are available on http://venice.ai.

You can host nodes to power #dVPN applications built on Sentinel by using your Raspberry Pi device, while managing the node from your phone!

dVPN residential nodes can earn $10 worth of $DVPN/month

Join current testing efforts in this TG Group: https://t.me/raspberrypidvpntesting

There are over 400 residential nodes powering the Sentinel ecosystem.

Checkout https://sentnodes.com for more details on the dVPN node ecosystem

https://x.com/zengjiajun_eth/status/1824312549711679677

The dVPN narrative is getting stronger, the most hyped ETH l2 at this point of time has shown intention for onboarding a dVPN network.

It is important to note that a truly decentralized VPN network requires its own app-chain that is capable of handling the high throughput required for on-chain peer discovery (similar to an on-chain DHT). The Sentinel blockchain has processed around 9.7M transactions in the last 30 days - most of the transactions are attributed to dVPN logic related transactions.

Sentinel is a TRULY decentralized dVPN network, connection initiation and disconnection is on-chain, node registration is on-chain, node periodic up-time identification is on-chain.

On Sentinel, nodes message the blockchain consistently to indicate their presence and up-time, and dVPN applications built on Sentinel scan the blockchain in order to populate the list of available nodes.

Checkout this tweet for more information:
https://x.com/SentinelVPN/status/1755157307758121172

A fundamentally decentralized dVPN network built on MegaETH cannot afford the transaction cost required for on-chain peer discovery and would have to depend on centralized masternodes that would help users identify active nodes without creating scalability/economic issues.

Instead of MegaETH sacrificing the ethos of decentralization for the sake of a native implementation, Sentinel can instead build a white-labelled dVPN application for the MegaETH ecosystem.

Over 18,000 users have connected to a #dVPN node hosted on Sentinel through Sentinel's integration with Telegram within 1 month!

Connect to thousands of community hosted nodes and pay in Telegram stars for premium access!

https://t.me/dvpnbot

Hopefully IBC/TON bridge soon

Sentinel's flagship dVPN application, the Sentinel Shield application will soon be live on #iOS with a fiat on-ramp using #Apple Pay integrated. This allows for iOS users to purchase $DVPN and pay for #dVPN subscriptions using fiat easily.

http://shield.sentinel.co

Messages on Telegram aren't end to end encrypted unless 'secret chats' are used, with this functionality also having many skeptics.

At least Telegram has a fully open source library that allows for users to compile the application on their own:
https://github.com/tdlib/td

99.9% of the VPN industry does not even attempt to provide any assurances.

The current focus on the provability of true end to end encryption is for now restricted primarily to messaging applications, however in the future at some point it will transition to VPN applications as well.

VPNs are some of the most used consumer applications on the global scale and there is a overwhelming lack of care or awareness on the risks of a compromised VPN application. VPN applications are capable of a greater privacy invasion than can imagined, one of the best examples is that of the founder of Celestia, reference - https://theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/lulzsec-hacker-exposed-service-he-thought-would-hide-him/337545/.

The Sentinel ecosystem including all of the different teams working towards building dVPN applications have the duty of ensuring that people all over the world have the ability to access the internet and share information in a manner which is not monitored or restricted.

Use dVPN applications built on Sentinel! Only trust open-source provability.

http://shield.sentinel.co

https://sentinel.co/dapps

There are multiple SDKs written in different languages available for developers to build dVPN applications on-top of Sentinel, allowing for the Sentinel ecosystem to scale exponentially even (hypothetically) without the involvement of the core contributors.

These SDKs are best suited for experienced developers who are ready to actively manage the back-end to ensure best UX and can be found at : https://docs.sentinel.co/sdk.

The 'DVPN SDK' from Norse is suited for developers who do not want to be as intensively involved in back-end operations.

This SDK can be found at:
https://github.com/norselabs

"What is the DVPN SDK?

DVPN SDK is a versatile, cross-platform pre-compiled library that integrates seamlessly into mobile or desktop applications. It empowers developers to utilize available methods to:

-Obtain information about available VPN locations (countries & cities)
-Retrieve a list of available DVPN nodes for each VPN location
-Create and manage DVPN credentials for WireGuard and V2Ray connections

Why is it superior to a REST API or gRPC?

The primary issue with a conventional REST API approach is that the API endpoint can become a vulnerability in the application infrastructure, potentially being blocked by Internet Service Providers. In contrast, our DVPN SDK employs the following techniques to bypass any possible restrictions and ensure reliable access to the DVPN infrastructure:

Mirroring: Upon initialization, the DVPN SDK evaluates the user's network conditions and searches for any available endpoints. It systematically switches between mirrors to find a working endpoint for the specific device.

TON Blockchain: If no endpoints are found in the previous step, the DVPN SDK automatically connects to the TON Blockchain, using it as a bridge to access our DVPN infrastructure and the underlying Sentinel Blockchain. TON's decentralized nature and unique networking protocols (such as ADNL) make this approach highly reliable, allowing our SDK to securely retrieve data necessary for establishing a VPN connection.

Proxy-over-Push: In the unlikely event that the previous methods fail, our DVPN SDK can establish secure communication with the DVPN infrastructure using platform-specific Push Notification Services (e.g., APNS for Apple's operating systems or FCM for Android). Since these services are widely used by various applications, it is highly improbable that ISPs or any third-party actors will block them, as doing so would affect the entire operating system.

1983 Route: If all other methods are unsuccessful and the DVPN infrastructure remains inaccessible, our SDK employs a unique connection mechanism based on foundational Internet technology. This method ensures that the DVPN infrastructure is accessible as long as there is any Internet connection available. Although this communication method is extremely reliable, functioning in 99.999% of cases, it relies on obsolete technology not originally intended for such use. Consequently, it may be slower than other methods and is used as a last resort. And yes, patent pending!

The flagship Sentinel Shield dVPN application will be including two easy options for users to acquire $DVPN:

1) Swapfast by @leap_cosmos, http://swap.sentinel.co - allowing for popular crypto assets to be converted into $DVPN

2) Fiat on-ramps including Apple Pay and Google Payment solutions, allowing for fiat to directly be converted into $DVPN

https://messari.io/report/state-of-sentinel-q2-2024

Thanks to Messari and their research team for covering Sentinel's Q2 progress in 2024.

The Sentinel ecosystem looks forward to ongoing quarterly reports of the ecosystem's progress, especially with the launch of new dVPN applications as well as the introduction of the AI data layer network going live in early September. The key focus going forward on the network analytics side will be make application revenue clear.

Sentinel is a leader in the #dVPN segment due to its scalable and secure architecture which allows for anyone to build and deploy a dVPN application on-top of its Layer-1 #DePin blockchain while utilizing nodes hosted by community members on the same chain.

SDKs for building a dVPN on Sentinel: https://docs.sentinel.co/sdk

Nearly 500k people have used a dVPN built on Sentinel, explore dVPN apps built on Sentinel at: https://sentinel.co/dapps

Sentinel features the first decentralized on-chain DHT implementation where dVPN applications are able to query and present active nodes from on-chain subscription contracts directly by querying the chain where nodes indicate their availability, eliminating the requirement for a centralized DHT structure.

The Messari research team has used Sentinel's transparent stats APIs to query network statistics. Sentinel's next focus in the analytics aspect is the clear consolidation of application revenue statistics.

The 'Application Revenue' statistic will include:
1) On-chain Revenue - IBC payments/bridges etc
2) Fiat/off-chain Revenue - Apple Pay, CC, Wechat Pay
3) In-App Ad Revenue - Google AdMob, Yandex etc..

Currently the 'Network Revenue' chart listed on http://stats.sentinel.co points to the dVPN earned by node hosts, this metric will be changed to '$DVPN Earned by Node Hosts'.

A new 'Total Network Revenue' statistic will be introduced that includes both the revenue generated by dVPN applications as well as the revenue generated by dVPN nodes.

The first affiliate program in the Sentinel ecosystem is now live! You can now earn $DVPN for being an affiliate for Sentinel's #dVPN implementation on Telegram, http://t.me/dvpnbot.

Create an account: https://account.norselabs.io

Rules of affiliate program:
1. Someone opens the bot from your link — 5 DVPN
2. Person you've invited makes first purchase — 500 DVPN
3. Person you've invited makes renewal — 250 DVPN (for each)

@dVPNbot on Telegram has already crossed 20k users and allows for users to easily connect to Sentinel community hosted dVPN nodes around the world (http://map.sentinel.co) on Android/iOS/Mac (Windows coming soon).