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.

Data consumed by users from dVPN nodes powering dVPN applications built on Sentinel has reached a weekly all-time-high of over 60 TB of data!
http://stats.sentinel.co

dVPN user count going up. Data usage going up.

AI Data layer is almost here. More users and data. Progress.

Application split tunneling is now live on the Sentinel Shield dVPN! Choose the applications that you want to use your regular internet IP while you are connected to the IP of a Sentinel dVPN node.

Download today (iOS/Android/Mac): http://shield.sentinel.co

The Sentinel Ecosystem is committed to continuously upgrading dVPN products and open-sourcing these contributions so any dVPN built on Sentinel can include them in their own application.

A historic day for the Sentinel ecosystem - the first ever rewards for AI Data miners powering the Sentinel Scout AI Data layer have been processed! Credit to Freqnik for the image!

Improve the accuracy of your AI agent's response by scraping relevant information in real-time from Sentinel's network of AI Data miners? Sentinel is about to enter a whole new fucking paradigm that no one is ready for.

Over 50 data miners who have supported the early testing by hosting the miner on their Android phones have received $DVPN rewards!

The official 'AI Data Miner Gold Reward' campaign is starting in the next 7 days along with the first release of the Sentinel Scout platform.

Secure infra and marketplace for dVPN Privacy and AI data layer. All on on chain.

Sentinel to $1B+

Sentinel Scout documents are getting prepared for release along with the platform.

Sentinel dVPN nodes provide bandwidth to users for privacy requirements.

Sentinel AI Data Miner nodes provide bandwidth to users who want to retrieve data from the internet.

The Sentinel ecosystem has been all about its dVPN ecosystem statistics.

Now make room for Sentinel Scout AI Data Layer statistics page, going live on the Scout platform which is being released soon.

Get a view of the global network of Sentinel AI Data miners in operation.

Update on $DVPN ST status on Kucoin:

ST status should be removed soon. $DVPN liquidity rank has improved to the top 400 and is out of the criteria of ST.

Thanks to patient blu frens. Several CEX listings + ETH dex/Sol dex pairings are planned for 2025

Over 550k unique users connected to a dVPN node through a dVPN application on Sentinel in the year of 2024. This number is going to exceed 1 million in 2025.

The Sentinel ecosystem continues to scale and break usage records. dVPN Privacy + AI Data Layer.

Governance Proposal #55 is now live on the Sentinel Blockchain! The community has issued this proposal to decrease the inflation rate:

"This proposal seeks to reduce the max inflation rate from 15% to 10%, and the min inflation rate from 12% to 7%"

https://mintscan.io/sentinel/proposals/55

The long awaited Cosmo #dVPN built on Sentinel has finally been approved for TestFlight by the iOS App Store and is going live soon.

Pay for provably encrypted end to end privacy by using $ATOM to make interchain payments to the Sentinel Layer 1 chain through the Cosmos IBC.

Thanks to Sentinel community contributors Yovan/BusurNode and Misfits/The Expanse for establishing a relay between the Sentinel Hub and Axelar.

$DVPN will be bridged to Solana and Ethereum and DVPN/ETH and DVPN/SOL pools will be established on Uniswap and Jupiter/or Rayidum.

The decentralized AI Agent market is one of the fastest growing sectors in the crypto ecosystem, however there isn't a single working data layer to help these agents scrape data online.

Sentinel Scout is the first working AI data layer and is integrating with @ElizaOS_ai

A new paradigm for Sentinel begins. Sentinel's p2p bandwidth marketplace and infrastructure now expands beyond privacy usecases, into data acquisition for AI training purposes. This is not the official Scout release, just an early testing announcement.

http://scout.sentinel.co and its Akash Chat integration is now open for testing

The first scalable AI data layer infrastructure where AI agents can plug in and retrieve as well as clean the data they require? @ElizaOS_ai is getting integrated with Scout.

The Sentinel ecosystem brings forward real working products that have the ability to reach the masses.

Download the Data miner and support the testing efforts by providing your bandwidth to the platform from your Android device to receive $DVPN Rewards

Cosmo #dVPN is now live on the iOS testflight with inter-chain $ATOM payments enabled in-app. $ATOM on-ramp will be enabled on the main iOS store release. This is Sentinel's first ecosystem dVPN application outside of its own Sentinel Shield application (http://shield.sentinel.co)

https://testflight.apple.com/join/ccQg3VVU

Sentinel is committed to the Cosmos ecosystem and will continue to develop utilities and create infrastructure in the ecosystem.

Sentinel is inspired by Akash network which proves that if you have a solid product-market fit, you can persist and grow regardless of the negative correlation that your native ecosystem may impose on you.

In other words, builders on Cosmos must appeal to the broader Web 3 audience and act as a mini liquidity and attention black hole in the same way that Solana/Base/and other REAL blackholes have been sucking away the liquidity and mindshare of our ecosystem.

Akash network gives hope and inspiration to the Cosmos ecosystem. Akash has the most sound crypto-economic model in the entire Web 3 sector and shows that gaining users is just the first step - with monetization being the real game. Sentinel is yet to monetize on its users but is strongly on the path to do so.

Akash is providing a REAL utility for one of the hottest market segments out there which is the AI sector and has been able to capture mindshare from the broader ecosystem. Sentinel isn't waiting for dVPN apps to start trending, Sentinel has taken the initiative to build REAL utility for the AI sector without compromising on the primary ethos of facilitating p2p bandwidth exchange.

http://Scout.sentinel.co

Sentinel's AI Data layer is the first usable decentralized data layer and has the ability to capture mindshare from the broader Web 3 ecosystem.

The Sentinel AI Data Layer has integrated Akash Chat and will be integrating Akash compute for data cleaning operations.

Sentinel's new paradigm begins now.

Note on the UI : This original UI was rejected by Google App Store on the claim that 'these logos have nothing to do with the product'. As a result the UI of both the Android and iOS applications were changed to a minimalistic placeholder that is not aesthetic. The original UI is being resubmitted to both app stores.

Keplr wallet has been integrated with the Sentinel Scout AI Data Layer! Come test the platform and receive free credits for scraping data!

http://Scout.sentinel.co

Users can now login with:
- Their Cosmos account
- Any email
- Their Gmail account

Very few #DePin networks have the verifiable active user stats that Sentinel does, and it is about to get a whole lot crazier.

Sentinel has built a robust and scalable decentralized VPN architecture which supports over 50k users per month, and centralized VPN companies are watching!

Sentinel is potentially onboarding an VPN that would make the current stats look like childs play.

2025 is going to be the year of 6 figure revenue attribution, crossing the 1 million user mark, and becoming the #DePin network with the highest # of verifiable daily active users.

Sentinel's framework allows for the creation of cross-platform decentralized VPNs which have access to community hosted exit nodes in the Sentinel ecosystem (http://map.sentinel.co)

There are 3 SDKs to build your own dVPN:

https://docs.sentinel.co/sdk

IndependentdVPN built on Sentinel just gives a glimpse into the potential of this stack

100s of thousands of downloads, not a dollar in marketing spend

4.5 + Rating, a sub community sometimes more active than Sentinel's main group.

http://independentdvpn.com

Regardless of market price action, #DePin utility focused networks such as Akash and $DVPN continue to grow

http://stats.sentinel.co

Sentinel is at the 699k user milestone and is about to cross to 700k+ users. This vision is beyond crypto volatility. Going to 1m+ this year