Sentinel ($P2P): The Underdog Ready to Resurface in Cosmos

Is Cosmos more alive or more dead? Rhetorical question — but for the past three years I’ve kept one underdog in my sights: Sentinel ($P2P), a blockchain many newcomers miss and some old-timers tend to forget.

A few words of hope about Sentinel. As digitalization accelerates and access to information becomes more restricted, Sentinel has been quietly building a reliable, secure, decentralized foundation. They haven’t chased marketing — they focused on infrastructure. The devs say the network is nearly ready, which means the next step is marketing and rolling out decentralized VPN (dVPN) apps on top of Sentinel. 🔧

Recent highlights:

• Rebrand / positioning — the project moved to Sentinel / $P2P with a focus on P2P infrastructure and an AI Data Layer; website and docs were updated. 📄
• Docs / whitepaper — updated materials describing the governance token P2P and its role (staking, governance). (see: docs.sentinel.co)
• Bridge / Ethereum integration — announced an IBC/bridge solution and reported a first transfer between their L1 and Ethereum via the IBC/Eureka stack.
• Listing / DEX plans — tweets and announcements mentioned a targeted P2P/Uniswap pool on Ethereum (target: Aug–mid 2025).
• Comms / channels — socials refreshed and messaging updated to scale the dVPN audience (the team cites large user numbers).

Beyond branding, Sentinel has been shipping product-level integrations. Their Sentinel Scout AI Data Layer reached live testing in H1 2025 and offers APIs for AI agents and LLMs to access distributed “data miners” for scraping and validation — a move that positions Sentinel not just as a privacy layer but as a data infrastructure provider for decentralized AI. The project has publicly signalled integrations with Akash’s Supercloud/Chat stack, strengthening the compute + data story. Source

On the user side, dVPN apps built on Sentinel (for example, Norse Labs’ dVPN) are live in app stores and advertise no-logs, distributed node networks and censorship resistance — proof that Sentinel’s stack is already powering consumer-facing privacy tools. You can also find a curated list of dVPN apps on the Sentinel webpage.

So what’s the bottom line? Despite a prolonged crisis, Sentinel is active and shipping. New dVPN apps built on Sentinel (for example, Norse Labs’ dVPN 2.0) are noticeably more stable than they were a few years ago.

How will this affect $P2P’s price? Probably another rhetorical question. According to the team, 50% of dVPN fees are allocated to $P2P and earmarked for marketing — the user base is growing fast, and on-chain activity is rising with it.

I wouldn’t be surprised if many more people learn about Sentinel by the end of the year. With increasing blocks on centralized VPNs, Sentinel feels like a breath of fresh air that will be hard to shut down. They’re also planning partnerships at Cosmoverse ’25. If you’re curious — drop into their chat and DYOR, ofc.

I didn’t even touch on their major collaborations here — for example with Akash Network (Sentinel supports and documents deploying dVPN nodes on Akash as a recommended option; Akash has mentioned Sentinel in its materials and spotlights, highlighting Sentinel as a dVPN project in the ecosystem. In 2025 Akash also mentioned integration with Sentinel Scout AI Data (Akash X).) — that would make the post much longer, which I didn’t want.

Long story short: I’m rooting for Sentinel and hoping they make a loud exit from the underground. What’s more, all the prerequisites for that are already in place. ✨

Peace,
avalonweb.