The long-awaited Sentinel Shield #dVPN is now live for iPhone/iPad and MacOS users on the App Store along with a fiat on-ramp through Apple Pay!

Download the application today for your iOS/iPad/Mac device:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sentinel-shield-dvpn/id6657986086?platform=iphone

The Sentinel Shield dVPN offers users:
- Competitive subscription fee with monthly subscription at 1333.33 $DVPN
- On-Ramp integration with Apple Pay allowing for easy purchase of $DVPN
- Open-sourced, provably end to end encrypted dVPN access and no-logging
- Leading consumer dApp UX with abstraction of gas and easy to use in-built wallet
- Access to over 5k community hosted dVPN nodes offering multiple encryption protocols allowing for access in sanctioned regions

‘Trust only open-source dVPN applications, do not trust closed source VPNs which monitor you and log your information regardless of the promises they may make.’

Github for Sentinel Shield iOS: https://github.com/sentinel-official/sentinel-dvpn-app-ui/branches

The purpose of the Sentinel Shield dVPN application is to clearly represent the Sentinel’s brand identity with regards to its privacy use-cases, and to give insight to the community as well as to developers into the potential of what can be built on Sentinel.

With the majority of Web 3 users from developed nations primarily using iOS, this release was extremely important for the proliferation of the awareness of Sentinel’s privacy use-cases in the Web 3 ecosystem.

Future Update: Segregation of high-speed dVPN nodes, separate high-speed nodes from the rest of community hosted nodes.

On-Ramp Utility: Sentinel Shield’s Apple Pay on-ramp allows for users to easily acquire Sentinel dVPN tokens in order to pay for the monthly subscription. While Sentinel’s on-chain subscription contract allows for payment via multiple options, the Sentinel Shield dVPN’s method of payment is currently restricted to $DVPN in order to promote the awareness of the Sentinel ecosystem.

For the reason of the restriction of the method of payment, an on-ramp is critical to ensure a frictionless experience for users.

Checkout the blog for more detailed information at:
https://medium.com/sentinel/the-long-awaited-sentinel-shield-dvpn-is-now-live-for-iphone-ipad-and-macos-users-on-the-app-store-c3bb4b91cf69

The Sentinel Scout #AI Data Layer console will soon be live, featuring a sleek browser application that will allow users to:

- Scrape data from Sentinel's AI Data Miner nodes (testing live on Android)
- Receive intelligent scraping recommendations on their desired topics from AI integrations
- Use tools and utilities to clean up and edit the data, integrating with Akash for required compute
- Configure data storage settings, integrating with Jackal for secure storage
- View on-chain ZKP proofs that establish the provenance of data collected from the Data Layer
- Curate their own datasets for a future on-chain data marketplace

The overall #DePin ecosystem maps will all have to be updated to include Sentinel in the 'AI Data Layer' category in addition to the 'Privacy' category that it is already identified in.

The Sentinel ecosystem has proven its ability to build solid consumer apps that utilize community-hosted #DePin bandwidth resources for the purposes of providing trustless privacy that are reaching 100s of thousands of users (http://shield.sentinel.co / http://independentdvpn.com and others).

Now the Sentinel ecosystem will build a very solid consumer app utilizing the same concept of #DePin bandwidth resources in order to power a user-facing AI data layer ecosystem.

Sentinel is a p2p bandwidth marketplace that supports privacy and AI data layer usecases.

dVPN nodes powering dVPN applications built on Sentinel have processed over 1.5 petabytes till date.

Soon, AI data miner nodes powering Sentinel's AI data layer will contribute to these statistics as individuals use Sentinel Scout to extract data for LLM training.

Sentinel is a p2p bandwidth marketplace which support both privacy usecases, and AI data layer related usecases.

More info and docs will soon be released on the AI data layer which is under rapid development.

Tools to clean/format data will be present in the scout console.

Sentinel's AI Data Layer proof of concept is live for testing at http://scout.sentinel.co

- Download the AI Data Miner (Android)
- Use the platform to send tasks to your own node/other nodes
- Test the settings

Data Miner incentives going live soon

Sentinel is a #DePin sector leader in creating truly decentralized consumer apps for the masses in the with 400k+ #dVPN users this year alone.

The Sentinel Scout platform will be one of the first AI Web 3 platforms that is easy to use and is understood by the masses.

https://medium.com/sentinel/test-the-sentinel-ai-data-layer-proof-of-concept-scout-sentinel-co-6ca59fb8b994

The Windows application for Sentinel's Telegram mini-app integration is now live!

Now connect to Sentinel dVPN nodes from your Windows desktop through @dvpnbot on Telegram, or http://t.me/dvpnbot.

Very easy UX and wallet abstraction, buy premium access with Telegram stars!

100s of servers available for free! Buy premium access with Telegram stars for full access to thousands of dVPN nodes.

The Sentinel ecosystem shows its ability to bring easy consumer applications to different platforms, while integrating a diverse set of payment options.

Each person who connects to the dVPN bot actually has a Sentinel account (pub/priv key) being generated for them.

This account is being authorized for connection upon payment and added to Sentinel's on-chain subscription contract.

True decentralization, abstracted away.

The inflation reward rate for $DVPN token holders who are securing the network by staking to Sentinel Validators is soon decreasing with a target of 15% APR.

This rate decrease is suggested by the community in-order to decrease daily emissions.

https://mintscan.io/sentinel

While a decrease in the rate of inflation rewards may impact the total # of $DVPN that a staker earns, this decrease has a positive impact overall by reducing the pressure on the market thereby compensating by increasing stakers $ USD value.

Calling all Windows users!

Easily use dVPN nodes on the Sentinel blockchain through Sentinel's Telegram integration: @dvpnbot or http://t.me/dvpnbot.

Sentinel is the first DePin ecosystem to integrate Telegram UX + payments, buy premium access to #dVPN with stars

The Cosmos #dVPN application is ready to go and is awaiting 'Cosmos' trademark permission to launch on Android and iOS app stores.

Given the intention to launch before Cosmoverse, the Android APK installer for the Cosmos dVPN will be going live in the coming days.

Unfortunately the word 'Cosmonaut' cannot be used for naming the upcoming dVPN application for the Cosmos ecosystem as NordVPN trademarked the word 'Cosmonaut' in context of VPNs (dVPNs included).

https://nordvpn.com/creator/entertainment/?coupon=cosmonaut

The final submission for the name of the upcoming Cosmos ecosystem dVPN that does not have an existing trademark conflict is 'Cosmo dVPN'. The word 'Cosmo' includes 5 of the 6 letters of Cosmos and is the first part of the word 'Cosmonaut', so while 'Cosmo' is not perfect it is the next best alternative to represent the cultural identity of the Cosmos ecosystem in this context.

The developer account that was used to upload 'Cosmonaut dVPN' was permanently banned for even attempting to launch an application with this name. And the irony is that NordVPN never released a VPN application with the name Cosmonaut.

Regardless of the obstacles, the Sentinel ecosystem strives forward and will deliver a quality dVPN application that proliferates the culture and ethos of the Cosmos ecosystem.

One of the most rewarding experiences is seeing people worldwide access unrestricted information and express gratitude for a decentralized app.

Independent dVPN, built on Sentinel, has over 200k installs and a thriving Telegram community of 1,500+ members!

🤖https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bagimsizvpn.app&pcampaignid=web_share
🍏https://apps.apple.com/us/app/independent-dvpn/id6468454526
📁APK https://independentdvpn.com
📢Telegram https://t.me/independentdvpn

The Sentinel ecosystem has effectively created a sub-community, most of whom don't even know they are using a Web3 product. Ultimately, the goal of Web3 products is to reach the mainstream. dVPNs built on Sentinel will be some of the first Web3 products to reach the Web2 masses.

Grass network has now launched and is near $1 Billion market cap showing the potential of AI Data Layer networks.

The Sentinel Scout AI Data Layer will be the first to offer an end to end platform for users to scrape, store, and clean data.

Store on $JKL clean on $AKT

https://medium.com/sentinel/test-the-sentinel-ai-data-layer-proof-of-concept-scout-sentinel-co-6ca59fb8b994

The price trends of almost all great Cosmos networks in the past 6 months is very similar regardless of the amount of releases that these projects have shipped.

Liquidity is yet to re-enter the Cosmos ecosystem, however builders are not deterred and everyone is assured that the inevitable resurgence of the Cosmos ecosystem will arrive. Utility networks will return to prominence.

The liquidity hub of the ecosystem, Osmosis, continues to improve and maintain its position as the #1 best UX dex in the entire web 3 ecosystem. Atom grows stronger day by day as the awareness and the adoption of ICS shared security structure grows.

Cosmo $dVPN has been submitted to the app stores! The release of one of the first consumer utility applications in the Cosmos ecosystem to enable $ATOM as the currency of payment is almost here!

Sentinel's AI Data Layer will scale exponentially as the data miner software will be bundled into different 3rd party applications. This integration allows for application owners to allow for their users to monetize on their own bandwidth, or access special application features in exchange for providing bandwidth.

Integrating Sentinel's #dVPN technology into 3rd party applications has already been done by Breadcrumbs and Decentr. The AI Data miner software is even easier to integrate.

The Sentinel AI data miner software will soon be integrated with Independent dVPN which is a dVPN application built on Sentinel with hundreds of thousands of downloads and a very strong rating of 4.6 (Android App Store). Users will have the ability to provide bandwidth in order to be authorized to get full access to the application.

http://independentdvpn.com

Grass scaled exponentially by creating a strong community of data miners pre-launch, allowing for millions to be onboarded due to the arbitrary value of the points. This network effect allowed for Grass to establish a high valuation and have the ability to afford such a large pool of data miners.

Sentinel Scout's pool of data miners will scale with 3rd party integrations of the data miner software by applications such as dVPN/VPN applications, browsers, games etc. These applications can opt to provide their own rewards, or provide access to special features to users in-exchange for the monetization of their bandwidth as well.

This will be the first integration of a Web 3 AI utility with a #DePin consumer application.

To learn more about Sentinel Scout checkout:
https://medium.com/sentinel/test-the-sentinel-ai-data-layer-proof-of-concept-scout-sentinel-co-6ca59fb8b994

Planned Releases for the Sentinel Ecosystem in November:

1) Launch of Cosmo dVPN - a dVPN application made for the Cosmos ecosystem, supporting $ATOM dVPN payments
2) AI Data miner incentivization program commencement with a target of 10,000 data miners
3) AI Data miner beta version platform launch
4) Testnet for new Sentinel Hub by the 15th followed by upgrade submission before the end of the month

The bull run is just beginning and #DePin/Privacy and #AI will be some of the core narratives supporting this run.

Sentinel will surpass its former glory and build an even stronger community now.

Soon Sentinel will allow for individuals to provide their bandwidth to AI Data layer usecases as well in addition to the current privacy usecases.

Sentinel is a p2p bandwidth marketplace focused on privacy and data.

The distribution of the AI Data miner will be done through existing and future dVPN applications, dVPN nodes, the Scout AI data miner client as well as integration with other 3rd party applications.

Users can test out the Sentinel scout beta at http://Scout.sentinel.co. The Android data miner can be downloaded from this website and tasks can be sent to the data miner from the panel.

Incentivized mining along with referral system and more distribution mechanisms is planned to begin soon.

Sentinel Scout will be the first user-facing AI data layer in the Web 3 ecosystem.

Why is the Sentinel Scout AI data layer a big deal? Because it will be the first user-facing decentralized AI data layer product which will allow for developers working in the AI sector to retrieve the data they need to teach their model about a specific topic.

In the current landscape, other networks allow for users to host nodes but none of them allow for users to directly access the nodes and provide the nodes with instructions. These networks may focus on larger scale b2b usecases and may opt to not create a platform accessible by anyone whether they are a solo dev or a small enterprise.

The Sentinel ecosystem excels in delivering working/user friendly products and will capture the attention of participants in the AI with a straightforward, clean, working product.

Apart from just the act of data retrieval through Sentinel AI Data Miners, the Sentinel Scout platform also allows users to:

1) Get intelligent recommendations on the relevant links for the desired topic from Akash Chat LLM
2) Store data on JKL decentralized storage
3) Use AKT decentralized compute for data cleaning and embedding

It is an end to end platform that allows for a user to:
- Easily input relevant links
- Customize the data format and other settings
- Manage storage for the data
- Clean the data and make it LLM Ready

all in one platform!

Sentinel is a p2p bandwidth marketplace servicing privacy and AI data usecases.

To visualize the Sentinel Scout platform at its most basic level, checkout http://scout.sentinel.co.

You can download an AI data miner on your Android device, power it up - and then send your own data miner scraping tasks directly from the website.