I have tested all the dVPNs available: Sentinel, Lethean, MYST, Privatix, Orchid, etc. Sentinel is the only one with the proper long-term vision. They fundamentally made several key decisions, if executed as announced, will end up pushing them to top 50 with ease. Key strategy decisions:
> Building on their own chain to avoid bottlenecks like Orchid on ETH. Yes it took much longer, but now they will be able to scale without any issues. Smart long term planning.
> IBC cross-chain interoperability: allow users to pay with BTC, XMR, ETH, etc. No need for a third party, worthless middleman token.
> Solid token economics: for most dVPNs the token's primary purpose is to pay for bandwidth. However, this introduces a couple extra steps and transaction fees to the onboarding process: buy BTC/ETH, send to exchange, trade BTC for dVPN token, send dVPN token to wallet, pay for bandwidth. That is a terrible user experience. Sentinel does it a bit differently:
The primary value of the SENT token comes from staking and securing the decentralized dVPN network. Since this is a decentralized network, you need validators to make sure there are no malicious node hosts and to validate all transactions. In return for staking SENT tokens, you get a % of all fees transacted on the network. If Sentinel launches their token mixer, the staking profits will skyrocket. I would also recommend they also introduce a discount if bandwidth is paid in SENT tokens to drive token demand even more.
> Build a Layer 1 dVPN infrastructure that other developers can easily implement and incorporate into their own applications. Now any dev can include private dVPN connection features for their app without having to maintain a whole VPN network. I have already seen several examples of white-labeled dVPN providers using the Sentinel infrastructure. In no time, we will see SENT being included natively in dAPPS, gambling apps, privacy tools...
No other dVPN has these key features.
