The Sentinel Hub v12 Testnet is launching in the coming days. This announcement covers the key changes to the Sentinel blockchain with this upgrade.
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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.
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dVPN Github — https://t.co/ot5PHTyoMo
dVPN Stats — https://t.co/iVEqiHP79J
dVPN Docs — https://t.co/JkSePp98mU