Sentinel-Turing-2 Announcement & extending the Node Incentivization Program until main net

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Current State of Development

Over the last few months, team Sentinel has been working on the entire security suite while development on the networking protocols has been on-going. Current tracks of development include:

1. Chain related development
2. Networking protocols - OpenVPN, WireGuard and IKEv2
3. Desktop Client v2 with support for OpenVPN & WireGuard
4. iOS Application with ETH with support for IKEv2
5. Development required for Private Nets

Continuing the Node Incentivization Program (until mainnet)

Incentivization for the 5th month of the Node Incentivization Program have been distributed and this time, we have distributed over 900K SENT to the node hosts that have been around since the last few

Sentinel team intends to continue with the Node Incentivization program and enable the community to not only understand the value of such a network, but also to simulate a model of what might happen when the entire network goes mainnet.

During the node incentivization program, the Sentinel Network saw a peak of 100 nodes with an average bandwidth exchange of ~500GB on the network per day. These nodes were being hosted to provide maximum functionality and bandwidth throughput.

Output of Sentinel-Turing-1

Since the release of Sentinel-Turing-1, a total of 1.6M blocks (at the time of writing) have generated with 39 validators participating within the network. The Sentinel-Turing-1 underwent a coordinated attack (by the Validators of the network and the core team), which resulted in the halt of the chain, as expected.

Not only this, but internal testing has revealed that a lot of the assumptions made had to be tested thoroughly before launching a version with the VPN & its transactions in place.

Announcing the release of Sentinel's Turing-2

While Sentinel-Turing-1 focused on a version of governance and consensus that was quite similar to the Cosmos Network, Turing-2 will also feature a version that's similar, but the key difference would be in the way transactions are handled.

Turing-2 will feature the Sentinel Network's key utility, the dVPN in action, supported by multiple protocols - OpenVPN, WireGuard and IKEv2. Each protocol works in a very similar way and other protocols in future can be added in a plug-and-play manner reducing development efforts.

Currently the desktop app doesn't feature Turing-1, but the client that's being developed for Turing-2 will work not only with desktops and laptops, but also the Raspberry Pi with a command-line interface (CLI).

Turing-2 will also feature a version of the Private Net that works with or without a chain. More information on the Private Net will be detailed in an independent article.

Sentinel's Turing-2 will be released with the su

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Sentinel Network is a network layer that enables a true p2p and decentralized applications and resources marketplace. Sentinel enables anyone to create Public and Private networks that provide access to both free and incentivized, and also payment method agnostic (pre-paid/escrow/post-paid) services (dApps) & distributed resources, enabling its clients to become both producers and consumers in the network.

Sentinel utilizes locking, staking and multi-sig directly from Tendermint core and Cosmos SDK and aims to fully eliminate the disadvantages of previous generation protocols, that couldn’t scale due to limitations of the blockchain they share with other dApps or that have an unsustainable economic model that reduces usability or access to the product they offer.

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