This blog covers Sentinel’s short-term roadmap that the community can expect to come into effect into the coming months. This short-term roadmap includes:
- Updates on Sentinel dVPN Applications
- Sentinel SDK Update
- Sentinel Website and New Webpages Update
- New Networking Protocol and Node Features
- New Subscription Plan Updates
- Upcoming Sentinel Hub (Chain) Updates
- Open-Source Transparency
- Growth DAO
Update on Sentinel dVPN Applications
Meile dVPN: Meile dVPN will be getting a complete UI makeover and a more sophisticated windows installer.
Solar dVPN: Solar dVPN will be updating to offer subscription plans which will enhance user experience and create a smooth user journey similar to Bagimsiz. Solar will also be getting a Windows desktop application.
Sentinel Flagship Application: The Sentinel flagship application will be released for community testing within the coming week most likely. The release of the application was delayed as it did not pass internal front-end testing and the front-end is currently being re-done in React.JS.
The functionality and logic of the application is complete.
Caishen VPN: Caishen VPN is a Chinese-community focused VPN centered around good luck and fortune, as ‘Caishen’ (财神) is the Chinese god of wealth.
Breadcrumbs VPN:
Breadcrumbs will be launching their dVPN application built on Sentinel soon. Checkout their website at:
Future VPN Applications:
Future planned VPN applications for the coming months include:
1) ATOM dVPN
2) BTC dVPN (pay in Bitcoin/lightning)
3) XMR dVPN (pay in XMR)
4) Osmosis dVPN (pay in Osmo)
Sentinel SDK Update
The upcoming Sentinel SDK will allow for developers who want to build dVPN applications on-top of Sentinel. The SDK is currently being re-written in Go and will be re-written in Javascript and other popular languages such as Python.
The Sentinel SDK (in progress) can be found at:
The creator of a centralized VPN SDK is also constructing a dVPN SDK on Sentinel. More updates in the near future.
More information about the creator’s current SDK can be found at: https://apivpn.io/
Sentinel Website and New Webpages Update
Current Sentinel Website: The current Sentinel website is currently being coded and will be built on React. The current version is built on WebFlow making editing difficult. The pace of website edits will be faster once the website with the updated front-end is released.
Hardware Webpage: A new webpage dedicated towards the bandwidth mining of Sentinel using the Raspberry Pi (and potentially other hardware in the future). This website will have information on the setup of dVPN node on a Raspberry Pi and other information including earnings for the node hosts.
AI Data Scraping Webpage: A new webpage dedicated towards Data scraping for AI training purposes. Sentinel aims to focus heavily on attracting businesses in the data scraping sector to use its residential and cloud node ecosystem.
Residential Node Webpage: A new website dedicated towards Sentinel’s focus on fostering a residential node ecosystem. This website will have information on the superior residential node earning and also information about the various use-cases of residential nodes.
Subscription Plan Webpage: A new website dedicated towards showing the active on-chain subscription plans and their relevant datapoints.
New Networking Protocol and Node Features
Automated Node Pricing: Node pricing will soon become automated with the integration of Osmosis’s dVPN price feed into the Sentinel node structure to ensure that node hosts can just set a monthly DVPN rate in $ dollar terms.
Dedicated IP Feature: The first ever p2p dedicated IP marketplace will come into effect in future Sentinel networking protocol upgrades, with users having the ability to purchase access to a dedicated IP at a fixed monthly rate.
This means that only 1 user will be allowed to use the dedicated node and no other user can utilize the IP address of the dedicated node. This function offers extra assurance and safety to users who are using geo-blocked websites which maintain sophsticated IP identification and logging systems.
New Subscription Plan Updates
Subscription Management: A data reporting system is being created to clearly indicate:
- The number of nodes added into the subscription plan
- The number of nodes that were not added and the reasons (including publicly viewable database)
- Subscrpition plan historical revenue and real-time revenue stats
Global Cloud Nodes Subscrpition: Global cloud nodes will receive a monthly income of $3 per month (after automated pricing is enabled) until the economics of various regions is properly structured.
Residential Subscription: Residential nodes will soon be added to a dedicated subscription plan which will provide $10 a month in incentives.
Upcoming Sentinel Hub (Chain) Updates
Sentinel Hub Upgrades: The Sentinel hub will soon be upgraded in order to upgrade the hub to the latest Cosmos Hub version which will allow for lower block times and greater dVPN connectivity.
This hub upgrade will also include an accounts update where the main Sentinel ecosystem wallet will be divided into multiple smaller wallets due to feedback from the community. Due to a mistake in the genesis, multiple wallets were combined into one larger wallet and this is being resolved.
Open-Source Transparency
The Sentinel dVPN ecosystem is committed to open-source transparency and will be open-sourcing future developments and has recently open-sourced the complete Sentinel stats structure as well as the ‘Node Health Check API’.
Node Health Check API Open-Source:
https://github.com/sentinel-official/health-check
Sentinel Stats and Explorer Open-Source:
https://github.com/sentinel-official/explorer
Sentinel Growth DAO
The Sentinel Growth DAO will be making major moves soon with the creation of a community ‘jobs portal’, which will allow for community members to take on relevant tasks for the ecosystem in-exchange for compensation. The Growth DAO will be incentivizing and driving community-led initiatives and make the best use of the network effect of the Sentinel ecosystem.
