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The new plan management dashboard that is in production and not yet publicly released features instructions on linking Sentinel's on-chain subscription modules to fiat payment rails, authorizing users to connect to nodes in your subscription plan without any on-chain payment.

Building on Sentinel was difficult and obscure due to the complexity of its on-chain architecture and the previous lack of developer tooling. Sentinel's #1 focus right now is its comprehensive set of end to end ecosystem tooling and utilities allowing for: - Easy hosting and management of dVPN nodes - Easy management of enterprise subscription plans - Publicly transparent node testing and creation of node scoring data for enterprises Sentinel is already integrated with a centralized VPN application that has over 5 million users and Sentinel has onboarded over 50k of their users in a phased onboarding process till date. Sentinel's infrastructure is proven, however the question remains - how much does the enterprise pay per dVPN node? Sentinel aims to be the first DePin chain to solve p2p bandwidth economics and this involves a process of understanding a node's system specs and also conducting stringent bandwidth tests in order to fairly determine a node's max concurrent user capability at an industry standard SLA of 10 MBPS. Sentinel's on-chain ecosystem and economic structure will be in place before any announcement or discussion of complete chain migration. The protocol existed, but it wasn't easy to build on - until now. Independent dVPN was created on Sentinel and has reached over 500k installs with 20k+ MAU and has a minimum market value of $100 k. Thats a real business with a valuation that has been constructed on a fully decentralized stack using only a RPC with 0 off-chain dependencies. Once Sentinel solves economic questions surrounding peer to peer bandwidth monetization - real on-chain revenue creation and economic value generation will begin. A dVPN entrepreneur must understand the cost it'd take to handle x # of concurrent users in the same way a centralized VPN owner does when they access services such as digital ocean.