In response to the community discussion over whether 'Solar Labs dVPN application is better than Exidio dVPN app', it is importa
07 Jun 2022, 09:29
In response to the community discussion over whether 'Solar Labs dVPN application is better than Exidio dVPN app', it is important to re-state that Exidio continuously forked the core iOS/Android application that is being actively developed and upgraded by Solar Labs and there is a process of ongoing continuous bug fixing and application development from these earlier applications. The code for each application is available on GitHub and any centralized or decentralized development team can apply their own design or even edit the front-end interface and launch their own dVPN application that uses the global network of dVPN nodes. Teams can also opt to use the Sentinel-CLI to create build their own cross-platform applications and to not fork an existing 'ios' or 'android' dVPN application release that has been developed by another team like Solar.
The Meile dVPN team has already built a terminal user-interface for access the dVPN network without any incentivization or direct communication with the core Sentinel dVPN team, and is aiming to build a desktop dVPN application as well. Each dVPN white-labelled application built on the Sentinel dVPN node network increases the network's overall global reach as each white-label application is intended to target a different demographic and cultural audience.
The Exidio core team is not responsible for the functionality of the Exidio dVPN applications and was responsible more for ecosystem proliferation and marketing at the time while Solar Labs was responsible for the white-label application development on-top of the Sentinel-Cli and dVPN network protocol. As promised, the Solar Labs team continued to reiterate and improve the Android and iOS applications and these same applications would have been forked by Exidio today to target a different market audience. Due to the amicable and respectable departure, the Exidio applications have not been updated to Solar Labs most stable iOS/Android application releases. We would like to thank Dan and Peter specifically for all of the value added in the journey and internal rift is an unfortunate circumstance in the journey of many decentralized networks. The community can now focus on the rapid growth of the network both in-terms of dVPN node providers as well as application developers. Soon the Cosmos IBC network value and reputation will rise again after the UST debacle and there will be tremendous momentum and activity in the IBC ecosystem.