Topic: SENTINEL - SENT - ERC20 Based DVPN and Anon Mixer - Integrating with Tendermint (Read 18028 times)

Can someone clarify the transition from Ethereum to Cosmos for me?  I didn't find the info in the latest white paper to be entirely clear.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sentinel-official/docs/master/whitepaper/whitepaper.pdf

Cosmos is all about creating interoperability between different block-chains based on different technologies.  Is Sentinel actually being:

• recoded from ERC20 to Cosmos based-code?
• being adapted to interact with the Cosmos hub and will remain ERC20?
• something else?

Thanks.

With the transition of the Sentinel 'Decentralized VPN' network from ETH to @cosmos, a series of incentive programs will soon commence targeting:

- Node hosts
- dVPN application users
- White-label operators
- $DVPN token stakers
- Ecosystem Developers

https://sentinel.medium.com/introduction-to-sentinels-various-dvpn-incentive-programs-239642551f12

Sentinel's @cosmos based sovereign blockchain is now processing IBC transfers as well as 'status updates' from @WireGuardVPN based $dVPN nodes hosted on Sentinel.

Nodes hosted on Sentinel communicate with its blockchain periodically to indicate their status and other properties.




Simply put, $dVPN applications built on Sentinel will only go down if Sentinel's chain goes down.

The user's application will query the blockchain in order to populate the list of available nodes and various other data about the node.

View transactions:
mintscan.io/sentinel/txs

The monetization of the Sentinel Network is here!

Over the past 24 hours, Sentinel #dVPN nodes have been launched on the sentinelhub-2 with users paying for bandwidth and node hosts being rewarded in $dVPN.

First user paid session on Sentinel:

https://www.mintscan.io/sentinel/txs/BB9159F1FDECE69B580770EE7984CDF8018163019D2CE70C2985B0D1B8505AF0

https://twitter.com/sentinel_co/status/1408708979895816201?s=21

The Internet is an amazing place, but each time you search for something or access anything online, you lose a piece of your privacy. Every site, application, and online service provider is collecting your personal data. A few years ago, the world thought it had found an answer to this problem. Futuristic companies developed virtual private networks, or VPNs, that supposedly provided top-notch cybersecurity. Unfortunately, security is not ironclad with the centralized VPN services we’ve come to rely on. However, the vulnerabilities of a centralized VPN are solved through the implementation of a decentralized approach

Read more: https://medium.com/sentinel/introducing-the-sentinel-ambassador-program-f4b063a59d8e

Community members will soon have the ability to become 'bandwidth miners', by hosting a #Sentinel @cosmos based $dVPN node on an @IndigitusVPN router and monetizing off of their bandwidth.

Shipping before EOY

Checkout the FAQ to find out more:

indigitus.com/faq/



Sentinel is currently the most widely used networking #DApp infrastructure, with hundreds of thousands of active devices using the network on Android alone.

The network is consistently achieving over 5 TB of utility per day on the 'free' network
stats.sentinel.co.

The @cosmos inter-chain de-fi revolution IS HERE!

Sentinel's liquidity on @osmosiszone within days of its launch stands at a total of nearly $3 Million.

This is nearly 10x of Sentinel's 'all-time-high' liquidity on Uniswap which stood at around $300k.

app.osmosis.zone/pools



@osmosiszone is the first #AMM in the Cosmos ecosystem and will soon be accompanied by the Gravity Dex.

Decentralized networks which are built on @cosmos  and have their own sovereign governance, are able to have their native tokens transferred cross-chain using the Cosmos IBC.

Sentinel has now launched a validator on @osmosiszone.  We are huge supporters of what they are building, and are committed to its long term success.

We'll be sharing guides and announcements about additional incentive rewards in the coming days.

https://wallet.keplr.app/#/osmosis/stake

Catch up with the recent Sentinel & @SecretNetwork AMA that happened last Thursday between @Exidio_coCEO Dan Edlebeck, and Secret's Awareness Lead  @Brendan_Kitt where they spoke about all things Privacy and Web3

Check more :

https://hubs.li/H0QDxV50
https://twitter.com/Sentinel_co/status/1406529756393246720

The first IBC transfer transaction from the #Sentinel Hub (explorer.sentinel.co) is complete!

This transaction happened between the Sentinel Hub and the @osmosiszone. mintscan.io/sentinel/txs/3…

The 'Cosmos IBC' is the most well-governed and secure interoperability protocol.

You guys have questions in here :
1. Question regarding exit node hosting
2. What happens if illegal activities are made through Sentinel VPN?

Wanted to run sentinel node, above question are representing my thoughts.

Leading up to the relaunch of the Sentinel $dVPN network on its own @cosmos based hub (http://explorer.sentinel.co), Sentinel ETH based dVPN network is reaching new all time highs in usage.

Sentinel's Cosmos based dVPN network will feature exponentially more nodes and dVPN apps.



The @TheVelocityVPN dVPN application which is built on Sentinel's ETH based dVPN framework will also be transitioning to a native Cosmos based Android application.

The Velocity dVPN is currently installed on over 150k devices, download it today!

You can check dapp on here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vpn.proxy.velocity

The latest Sentinel Desktop wallet release is now available for download. This wallet has been configured with Sentinel's IBC compatible @cosmos based Hub https://github.com/sentinel-official/desktop-client/releases/tag/v0.3.3

The next client release will be Sentinel's Cosmos based dVPN application.

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What’s happening in data privacy?

Cloud security flaws linked to 23 Android apps compromised the sensitive data of over 100 million Android users. Still think you don’t need a #dVPN?

Download Sentinel’s dVPN client for Android today https://sentinel.co/downloads

Staking Incentive for Long Term Token Holders

May 1st Update: The Foundation that oversees the success of Sentinel is aware of an exchange that has $SENT locked causing a delay in access to $DVPN and also restricting the $SENT to $DVPN swap for individuals. Members of the Foundation and community are in active conversations with the exchange. Because of this, the new snapshot will be taken on June 1st, so token holders who want to swap $SENT for $DVPN will have an additional four weeks to execute the swap.

Existing $SENT ERC-20 token holders remain eligible for a bonus of 400 million $DVPN mainnet tokens upon conducting the swap and staking their tokens for a minimum of 12 consecutive months.



The rebranding of Sentinel’s ticker on its mainnet has been well received from the community and this ticker further positions Sentinel as the current leader in decentralized VPN technology. The strategy is to better convey the purpose of the Sentinel dVPN protocol in a more direct manner. Read more about the rebranding of the ticker of Sentinel’s native token (Cosmos based):

Read more: https://medium.com/sentinel/staking-incentive-for-long-term-token-holders-5793253e0a3c?source=social.tw&_branch_match_id=888855402242557177

Sentinel Initiates Bandwidth Sharing on the Cosmos IBC Testnet



Sentinel is pleased to announce that bandwidth sharing will become available for testing on the Sentinel Turing-4 Cosmos IBC-enabled testnet starting in May. This transition marks a significant leap forward for the development of decentralized applications (dApps) that can be built on top of the Sentinel protocol as part of its up-and-coming provably private Web3 stack.
Sentinel has supported Cosmos from the very beginning. Cosmos IBC, which went live in February, enables dApps building on the Cosmos blockchain to interoperate with other blockchains in a fast and seamless way. As a result of the testnet migration, Sentinel users will be able to take advantage of the underlying Tendermint byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) protocol to enable cross-blockchain compatibility with instant finality.

Blockchains that use similar consensus algorithms, such as Proof-of-Stake (PoS), will be able to communicate with each other via Cosmos IBC using the Tendermint protocol. This alignment empowers dApps that build on top of the Sentinel protocol to make use of its provably private decentralized communications network.

In a statement about what the scalability and utility of Cosmos IBC means for the Sentinel network at large, co-founder and CEO of Exidio, a contributor to the Sentinel dVPN Protocol codebase, Dan Edlebeck said “We envision Sentinel having millions of daily users as we launch our whitelabel tech. Cosmos IBC will allow us to accomodate any amount of users to the Sentinel protocol through horizontal scalability. The focus being ease of use means we will allow any kind of payment that Sentinel dVPN nodes want to accept. In other words, any IBC compatible coin can potentially become a way to pay for Sentinel’s dVPN services.”

Echoing Edlebeck’s sentiment, Peng Zhong, the CEO of Tendermint said, “The permissionless transfer of tokens’ value across chains is a historic moment on the timeline to a valuable internet of blockchains. We will continue to focus on building the Cosmos Hub as the heart of the interchain — enabling trade and connecting politically sovereign chains to create a new paradigm for economic exchange. We have a defined roadmap in place to realize this future, and will continue to develop services for the Cosmos Hub that will create immense value for all the chains that connect to it.”

Sentinel is also very happy to be integrated with Keplr, an interchain wallet. The Keplr wallet integration will make the broader Sentinel network IBC-ready right after the Cosmos Hub is upgraded and right in time for the launch of Gravity DEX, a decentralized exchange bringing DeFi to Cosmos.

Read more: https://medium.com/sentinel/sentinel-initiates-bandwidth-sharing-on-the-cosmos-ibc-testnet-61eca88c2c25

Sentinel's Mainnet Validator 'Delegation Criteria' is now available in this blog article along with the link to the Sentinel 'Delegation Application Form'.

Sentinel's validator set will soon be expanding from a maximum of 50 validators to 64 validators.

https://t.co/qJOeioPqJV

Congratulations

SENTINEL listed in Bilaxy exchange

More exchanges will do the same as SENT's network utility grows.

SENT will soon be confirming a popular exchange for a paid listing, and support for the swap.

https://twitter.com/sentinel_co/status/1365837164647354368?s=21

sentinel shared the news, this week they were able to achieve a new record, having received a bandwidth result of 9 TB per day https://twitter.com/Sentinel_co/status/1264163610626048001?s=20

Is there a guide to how exit nodes can add currencies they are prepared to acccept?

DO NOT USE CENTRALIZED VPNs when accessing cryptocurrency exchanges.


https://medium.com/sentinel/is-our-favourite-crypto-exchange-blocking-users-from-your-country-no-fear-sentinel-is-here-ed68942b77ee?source=---------4------------------


SENTINEL will soon be shifting to a native Tendermint chain that will empower dVPN exit nodes with the ability to accept multiple cryptocurrencies.

https://medium.com/sentinel/new-tendermint-dvpn-client-release-along-with-launch-of-community-hosted-tendermint-dvpn-nodes-a4113b07afff

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Join the tens of thousands of active users on the SENT network today by downloading the MAC/WINDOWS/LINUX/ANDROID builds

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