The recent release of Sentinel’s dVPN Lite for Android is now available on the Google Play Store. This establishes Sentinel as the first cross-platform, blockchain-based decentralized VPN solution on the market.

Two Types of Android Applications

On July 26, 2018, Google updated its Play Store developer policies to ban cryptocurrency mining on all Android devices. The Sentinel team is unsure if the ban can extend to applications that utilize tokens like $SENT or cryptocurrency wallets in the future.

To address this problem, the Sentinel development team decided to build out two unique Sentinel Android dVPN Apps:

Sentinel dVPN Lite — available on Google Play

— available on Sentinel dVPN — available on GitHub

The Sentinel dVPN Lite was designed to be easily used by the average consumer looking for a VPN alternative without the knowledge of cryptocurrency, whilst staying compliant with Google’s new developer policies. Sentinel dVPN, on the other hand, offers fast speeds and advanced features meant for the crypto community.

Sentinel dVPN Lite offers user-friendly and free access to the Sentinel decentralized VPN Network without any cryptocurrency knowledge. Sentinel VPN offers faster speeds and advanced security configuration options with ERC20 token support.

IMPORTANT: Both the dVPN Lite and the dVPN are still in alpha stages of development, and thus users may experience bugs and crashes. Furthermore, we will need users to report crashes to help the development team identify and implement a fix surrounding the issues at hand.

Sentinel dVPN Lite

The Sentinel dVPN Lite client is a decentralized VPN application for Android devices that have FREE access to the Sentinel dVPN Network. Being free, however, the client does not feature the Sentinel Ethereum Rinkeby TestNet Wallets used to pay for dVPN transactions.

The key features of the dVPN Lite include:

The current version (v0.1.6) is FREE to establish a secure connection with available Exit Nodes on the Sentinel dVPN Network The ability to configure limitations in terms of bandwidth usage parameters (since users do not pay for the bandwidth consumed). A referral code to allow users to participate in the upcoming Sentinel Utility Drop #2. A seamless user experience without the knowledge of blockchain or cryptocurrency. The application can be directly downloaded and updated from the Google Play Store.

NOTE: Russian will be added to the list of supported langauges in the upcoming update.

The Sentinel dVPN Lite Interaction Process.

We can illustrate the process of interacting with the dVPN Lite (v0.1.6) by following the steps below:

The user browses through a list of available VPN Exit Nodes that they can connect to. The User taps ‘Connect’ to establish a connection to the selected node and utilize the secure and provable Sentinel dVPN Network. Once the user taps ‘Disconnect,’ the application terminates the connection and ends the session.

In the future, tapping ‘Connect’ when already connected should disconnect the previously connected node and establish a new connection to the newly requested node.