The Sentinel Scout AI Data Layer platform is almost done integrating the We3 Auth login system to allow for users to create Sentinel accounts with an email ID, Google account, or other popular forms of Web 2 login.

In the same way that Independent dVPN has gained 100s of thousands of Web 2 users, Sentinel Scout also aims to onboard a large number of Web 2 users.

In order to cater to the Web 2 audience it is important to abstract away the complexities of using a decentralized application, in this case the complexities of creating and maintaining a public/private key pair.

The first decentralized AI Data Layer that you can interact with is coming soon!

Here is a preview of the Web 3 Auth integration with the Sentinel Scout AI Data Layer Platform, allowing for users to easily create a Sentinel wallet using their Gmail account.

Crypto-native users have the option of logging in with their Keplr wallet while Web 2 users and non-cosmos users will have the ability for easy account creation and on-ramping for payments.

The first interactable Web 3 decentralized Data Layer going live soon.

The DVPN bot by @norselabs is new on the Telegram Apps Center!

Getting started is easy:
1️⃣ Open https://t.me/tapps_bot
2️⃣ Start
3️⃣ Launch

Enjoy secure, decentralized VPN access in just a few taps!

#AKT provides AI devs with decentralized compute, and Sentinel Scout will provide AI devs with decentralized data resources.

Leap Wallet integration coming up next.

A whole new paradigm of Sentinel's p2p vision is about to begin, privacy + data resources all on one chain.

Using your Android Phone as a data miner to power Sentinel Scout?

A new paradigm of Sentinel's p2p bandwidth market is about to begin, expanding Sentinel beyond privacy dVPN and into AI data retrieval and processing.

Sentinel is the one-stop p2p bandwidth marketplace on Cosmos

A preview of the first user facing AI Data Layer product in the Web 3 ecosystem, the Sentinel Scout.

For the first time, users can get access to a decentralized network of data miners who can carry out data retrieval tasks.

The decentralized AI Data Layer revolution is only beginning and there are very few players with Grass leading the forefront.
Grass is focused on B2B operations and does not allow the normal dev to access the data layer and process scraping requests.

The Sentinel Scout platform will be the first platform to enable AI developers to gain access to decentralized data resources, in the same way that Akash was the first platform to enable AI developers to get access to decentralized compute resources.

The Sentinel Scout platform is the first user facing platform allowing for:
- Intelligent URL identification ( Akash Chat integration)
- Data retrieval from decentralized data miners
- Creation of proofs attesting the integrity of the data
- Access to decentralized storage for data through Jackal
- Data cleaning and embedding using Akash compute

all in one platform!

One of the final steps in the release of the platform is the storage integration with Jackal Protocol, allowing for users to automatically store data using their Jackal account.

The Sentinel AI Data Miner SDK is in development, allowing for other applications such as #dVPNs built on Sentinel or even browsers to integrate the AI data miner into their app and allow their users to monetize on bandwidth.

Incorporate a data miner into your app soon!

Did you know there are 3 dVPN SDKs supporting GO, JS and Python - allowing for users to build their own dVPN application on Sentinel, or even include dVPN in their existing application.

https://docs.sentinel.co/sdk

https://breadcrumbsdata.com has integrated dVPN into their app!

The AI Data Miner incentive program is soon going live on Android, allowing for users to earn gold for providing bandwidth to the Sentinel Scout AI Data Layer platform.

Power the first user-facing decentralized AI Data Layer platform to mine gold which converts to $DVPN

One of the most popular agents in the Fetch AI ecosystem marketplace is the Website Scraper Agent which requires users to interact with code and is not user-friendly at all.

The Sentinel #DeAI Scout AI Data Layer is about to deliver more utility to users than existing multi-billion dollar Web 3 AI ecosystems.

These half-baked solutions are going to be replaced by legitimate platforms like Sentinel Scout that offer users a one-stop-shop for their data retrieval and processing needs.

https://agentverse.ai/agents/details/agent1qwnjmzwwdq9rjs30y3qw988htrvte6lk2xaak9xg4kz0fsdz0t9ws4mwsgs/profile

The Sentinel #dVPN #DePin ecosystem is focused on real utility, builds real products that work - and is used by hundreds of thousands of people globally already. Its time for Sentinel to bring its pragmatism into the #DeAI sector.

Sentinel Scout AI Data layer provides a great user experience with no code interaction required.

Sentinel is undergoing a revision of content including a new website and whitepaper given the expansion of its bandwidth marketplace to include AI Data Layer services alongside the existing #dVPN ecosystem.

The basic wireframe structure of the first page of Sentinel's new website will clearly define Sentinel as a decentralized P2P bandwidth marketplace and infrastructure for data and privacy usecases.

The first section after the header allows for a website visitor to quickly grasp how a consumer would use services from the Sentinel ecosystem.

1) Sentinel Scout AI Data Layer - Visitors will be able to input a data retrieval request to Sentinel's AI Data Miners and they will be directed to the Sentinel Scout website where they will get free credits and have the ability to extensively test out the platform.

2) Sentinel dVPN Ecosystem - Visitors will be able to find a dVPN application that is compatible for their device and download the application.

This section is defined as the 'user focused' section of the website, the next key sections will include the 'bandwidth provider' section and 'builder section' (focusing on building on-top of the Sentinel AI Data Layer and Sentinel dVPN SDKs).

The Sentinel ecosystem focuses on building real product that work and are user-friendly and accessible even by the mainstream audience.

The new website and documentation will be a big step into Sentinel's positioning as a P2P Bandwidth Marketplace and infrastructure for data and privacy usecases.

The integration of Akash Chat with Sentinel Scout is focused on assisting Scout users in identifying relevant links to scrape.

The integration of Akash compute with Sentinel Scout will be focused on a 'Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture to make the collected data and embeddings easily accessible to clients, including large companies. The goal of this system is to allow clients to query the structured data efficiently, retrieve relevant embeddings, and use it for various AI applications.

RAG architectures are particularly useful for question-answering, information retrieval, and real-time inference tasks by combining retrieval of relevant data with generation capabilities provided by large language models (LLMs).

1. Vector Search for Data and Embeddings

2. Retriever-Generator Architecture

3. Integration of Metadata and Provenance

The number of AI contributors to the Sentinel ecosystem are rapidly expanding and documentation along with a detailed roadmap will soon be shared.

Over 600k unique users have connected to a dVPN application built on Sentinel's chain at least once as of today!

https://stats.sentinel.co - on-chain data

Thanks to dVPN application developers, dVPN node hosts, and community members for making the revolution possible.

Note on Cosmic Network forking Sentinel's #dVPN protocol and not giving public credit or acknowledgement to the Sentinel ecosystem.

The goal of this post is to not demean Cosmic Network, but instead to highlight the potential of adoption of Sentinel's open-source technology as well as to emphasize the importance of giving credit and public recognition for forking an open-source protocol that is under a free license.

Cosmic Network's dVPN architecture is forked from Sentinel's official GitHub repository and this network has been marketing it as their own development.

Cosmic Network - https://cosmicnetwork.io
Sentinel dVPN - https://sentinel.co
Sentinel Github - https://github.com/sentinel-official

Sentinel Network Stats - http://stats.sentinel.co
Sentinel Network Map - http://map.sentinel.co
Sentinel docs - http://docs.sentinel.co

Credit to: Silentsolutions
https://silentsolutions.info & https://kagenetwork.io

The Sentinel dVPN protocol has been worked on for years and is an advanced architecture that works at the consensus level. The design and implementation of this protocol has been done by contributors who have won some of the most prestigious Cosmos 'hackathon' style competitions against some of the smartest teams and validator orgs in the space.

Some insight into the protocol: https://medium.com/sentinel/introduction-of-on-chain-subscriptions-and-time-based-payments-sentinels-biggest-dvpn-protocol-a2b240199f18

Sentinel's main cross-platform dVPN application front-end and back-end architecture is very secure and efficient, with thousands of man hours going into development and refinement from multiple contributors.

Significant parts of the front-end and back-end could be made closed source without anyone even complaining as most dApps in the Web 3 ecosystem do, however everything in Sentinel dVPN protocol and flagship applications are open-source and easily fork-able. Blu frens are not playing games, privacy has to spread like wildfire. This is not some coin, this is a revolution.

The Sentinel dVPN protocol is meant to be built on, that is why there are 3 SDKs written in different languages to build on the dVPN protocol. Everyone is invited to build their own dVPN application. Sentinel is fully open-source and shares insight into all of the back-end functionality even though it is extremely proprietary with no comparisons.

https://docs.sentinel.co/sdk

dVPN applications built on Sentinel have been used by over 600k users with over 50k active users per month. Independent dVPN built on Sentinel has alone gained over 200k users and has a 4.6 star on Google Play.

The Sentinel ecosystem aims to support dVPN entrepreneurs and provides resources and technical support to several dVPN apps run by different teams all over the world.

The Cosmic core team could have approached the Sentinel ecosystem and tried to create a mutually beneficial structure with the community and potentially align incentives for $DVPN holders through governance.

Note from dVPN core contributor Alex Litreev

Take a look at their API: https://api.cosmicnetwork.io/api/getNodeWithCountryRegion. As you can see, even the nodes in their dVPN system still have the 'Sentinel' prefix.

The only thing the team bothered to change was the $ticker.

Now, no one expects a project to reinvent the wheel, especially in the open-source community. However, here's the core issue: Cosmic's dVPN code is NOT open-source. There is no attribution or credit to the original creators—
@SentinelDVPN
.”

Note from dVPN technical contributor:

Cosmic Network has allegedly taken Sentinel’s entire codebase—originally developed three years ago—performed a simple find-and-replace of token names, and launched a nearly identical chain, apps, and supporting infrastructure without proper attribution or adherence to open-source licensing terms.

Sentinel’s technical analysis indicates that Cosmic Network’s infrastructure, hosted almost entirely on two centralized cloud providers, fails to deliver authentic decentralized functionality. Critical blockchain interactions appear to be faked, with the entire system reportedly running on a low-cost virtual private server (VPS). Despite these serious technical shortcomings, Cosmic Network has managed to secure a listing on MEXC and approvals from Apple and Google for its mobile applications, raising concerns about due diligence processes among industry stakeholders.

Additionally, Cosmic Network’s developers have purportedly neglected to remove Sentinel’s original address prefix, “sent…,” from their cloned code, resulting in nodes on the Cosmic chain also using the same prefix. The absence of a legitimate GitHub repository or meaningful source code management challenges Cosmic Network’s claims of being “open source.” Sentinel views these actions as a clear violation of open-source principles and damaging to the collaborative efforts that drive decentralized innovation.

Oliver Scholl founder of
@s1lentsolutions
who first alerted Sentinel to the code theft, states:

“Open source isn’t a free pass to take without giving credit. It’s about collaboration, respect, and honoring the hard work of creators. When projects copy entire codebases without attribution or meaningful changes, while pretending to innovate, they betray the principles of open-source.

This isn’t innovation—it’s theft. The crypto space depends on trust and accountability, and we must call out actions that undermine the values of open-source and decentralized progress.”

Alex, Founder of Norselabs (formerly SOLAR Lab), whose code was misappropriated, adds:

“We have discovered that Cosmic Network is using our source code in their project without adhering to the mandatory attribution requirements of the MIT license. At Sentinel, we hold no respect for those who disregard the ethics of open-source collaboration. This kind of behavior undermines the trust that drives the open-source community and discourages others from contributing, pushing them toward proprietary alternatives.

We believe in sharing our work to strengthen the community, but open-source is not a gateway for free outsourcing without credit—it’s built on mutual respect. Our commitment to privacy, transparency, and open-source principles remains unwavering. We will take action against any dishonest actors to ensure they either respect the core values of open-source or face the consequences. Mutual respect is not optional—it’s essential."

About Sentinel

Sentinel is a decentralized P2P bandwidth marketplace dedicated to transparency, security, and privacy-focused blockchain solutions. The team at Sentinel remains committed to protecting the integrity of the broader decentralized ecosystem and reinforcing the collaborative spirit of open-source development.

- Moving Forward -

The Sentinel ecosystem blu frens do not wish harm or purposeful loss to anyone. The outcome of this communication would be to:

- Highlight the potential of Sentinel's dVPN protocol if projects are able to fork it and launch their own competitor and get to 30m market cap
- Make the Cosmic Network community aware of this circumstance so they understand the dVPN landscape and what Sentinel is
- Urge the Cosmic Network to do right by the blu frens in acknowledgement, thought leadership, and incentive alignment with the community (*if applicable)

Sentinel's new website aims to make it very easy for users to understand what the Sentinel Scout AI data layer and Sentinel #dVPN ecosystem is.

Users will be able to find a dVPN application that best fits their needs within a few clicks, as well as interact with Scout easily.

BOOM cosmos sentiment reversal

The dVPN AI Contest Has Ended – Thank You All!

What an adventure! Over 10 days, 27 participants tested our revolutionary AI model for managing dVPNs. Thanks to you:
✨ 3,500 messages sent
✨ 10 valid Sentinel addresses submitted

And here’s the surprise: we’re doubling the rewards!
💰 2 $DVPN per unique message submitted
💰 4 $DVPN per message for those who delegated to our validators (Agoric, AtomOne, Gitopia).

No worries, payouts will be sent directly to your Sentinel addresses by December 20.

Thank you for your dedication, creativity, and energy! You’re helping us build a future where managing VPN connections is simple and secure. 🚀

➡️ Stay tuned for upcoming initiatives: dVPN, AI, crypto – this is just the beginning!

Akash chat integration is ready, use Akash chat on Sentinel scout to intelligently find the links that are relevant for the topic you want to train your AI agent/LLM on.

Sentinel as you know it is soon going to be redefined.

AI Data layer, dVPN Privacy.

All in on one chain

The Sentinel Hub v12 Testnet is launching in the coming days. This announcement covers the key changes to the Sentinel blockchain with this upgrade.

https://medium.com/sentinel/launch-of-the-sentinel-hub-v12-testnet-sentinel-biggest-chain-upgrade-till-date-bcbaa1ad2d60

Sentinel runs on its own blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK, and is powered by over 70 validators. The Sentinel blockchain has processed over 130 million transactions over the past 3 years, with the chain acting as the backbone for p2p dVPN infrastructure by providing an on-chain DHT structure for the communication between dVPN users and dVPN nodes in addition to other critical functions.

It is the goal of the Sentinel ecosystem to consistently innovate on the back-end in order to improve user experience.

One of the key features of this upgrade is Sentinel’s integration with dVPN/USD Osmosis price-feeds via the Cosmos IBC protocol in order to allow for dVPN nodes to denominate their bandwidth pricing in terms of $/unit of time. In Sentinel’s last major protocol upgrade, pricing in terms of $DVPN/unit of time was introduced and now further work has been done to create one of the first-ever implementations of a secure pricing oracle that uses an interoperability protocol.

The upgrade to Sentinel Hub v12 is Sentinel’s biggest upgrade yet and includes several new features and upgrades that will make a significant impact for dVPN users, dVPN node hosts, and dVPN application creators.

Sentinel’s blockchain has provided secure dVPN connection to over 600k unique users and through over 6 dVPN applications built on Sentinel. The usage graph is trending upwards and Sentinel is set to cross 1 million unique users in 2025. Sentinel has custom modules for its p2p dVPN protocol written in GO at the chain consensus level, and changes to the dVPN protocol requires a complete chain upgrade.

This testnet is critical for dVPN application developers and node hosts to ensure that dVPN functionality is not disrupted once the upgrade is done and the dVPN bandwidth protocol is updated.

dVPN Explorer — https://mintscan.io/sentinel
dVPN Github — https://github.com/sentinel-official
dVPN Stats — https://stats.sentinel.co
dVPN Docs — https://docs.sentinel.co

Sentinel's AI Data Layer Sentinel Scout is being developed at a fast pace, with the credits system being implemented the platform is almost ready to launch.

1 credit = 1 MB of data. Buy credits in $DVPN or fiat $

Use credits to scrape data from Sentinel's AI Data miners

Sentinel's is transforming into a p2p bandwidth marketplace that services both AI Data layer and #dVPN privacy use-cases.

Use the data layer or a dVPN.
Provide bandwidth to the data layer or to dVPNs.
Build ontop of the data layer or build your own dVPN.

All on one blockchain

Blu frens are tired of bringing up the name Cosmic Network as the ecosystem wants to focus on development and progress, however at this point of time this issue has become very serious and is preventing the release of new applications built on Sentinel on the app stores.

Contributors to the Sentinel ecosystem will have potentially no choice but to pursue action against Cosmic in order to be able to get dVPN applications built on Sentinel approved on the app stores without an issue.

The iOS store is refusing to list the new Cosmo dVPN due to code conflicts with @Network_Cosmic's 'Cosmic VPN' which has forked and reused Sentinel's blockchain code as well as Android/IOS application code without originally highlighting or mentioning this. After Cosmic was called out, they added attribution to their website very recently in the past few weeks which is very unethical and illegal as app must clearly declare their attribution upon the time of submission to the app stores.

Proof - https://web.archive.org/web/20241120175318/http://cosmicnetwork.io/

All of the naming conflicts for Cosmo dVPN have been resolved with the name 'Cosmo' getting a green light to go ahead, however at this point of time the approval is stalled as the Cosmic team resubmitted 'new code' is now claiming to the app stores that the code is their own and they have just renamed several files - leading the app stores to actually suspend Sentinel contributor accounts and question developers on plagiarism.

The app stores don't have enough time to look in between the lines and determine who is being honest in these situations even though the facts are very clear and transparent. Hopefully there will be a positive resolution soon without the requirement for too much energy being spent on this.