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Today ZCG is earmarking $1M USD to fund payouts for responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities affecting core Zcash repositories. 🛡️ Our ecosystem moved fast to patch recent disclosures. This is needed now as the security landscape is accelerating in the age of AI. Forum 🔗⤵️

Sentinel's infrastructure has been used by over a million users and supports multiple functional decentralized products, whats the issue? The issue is that Sentinel has no way of communicating the fair value of a node to a application owner. No one knows what they are paying for. In the real world, people go to websites like digital ocean and AWS to purchase cloud and these platforms provide a clear understanding of system specs in terms of bandwidth availability and CPU/RAM. CPU/RAM is very important for VPN servers because each additional user who connects takes a certain % of CPU and RAM load. The truth is Sentinel isn't just about bandwidth, its about CPU + RAM + Bandwidth. A node that has a 1 GBPS connection doesn't matter if it doesn't have the RAM + CPU to handle even 10 concurrent users. Sentinel has already integrated a centralized VPN and has proven its ability to provide its users bandwidth, but what is the point if Sentinel cant even provide a fair determination of node's capacity and value? Decentralization and privacy as concepts are amazing, but they are not possible at scale without economic structure and a profit model for long term sustenance. Our focus has to be towards creating real-world businesses, not on-chain science projects. Multiple apps have been built on Sentinel in the past weeks alone, but how can the creator turn a profit if the creator does not know what they are paying for while they may have an idea of what to charge his end users. If they are targeting 1k users at first, they need nodes that have a capacity of providing at least 30% - 300 concurrent sessions at any time so users don't face issues with connectivity. On existing cloud CPU platforms an application creator can easily understand their costs. Sentinel is almost there, with the on-chain data from the new node hosting software and the node testing platform, a determination of specs and bandwidth capability will be available on-chain for the plan management platform to give a clear price determination to a dVPN application creator. Each utility is fully open-source and has its own CLI and can be also hosted on a local machine. This is the power of relying only on the blockchain RPC for the end to end creation of a fully functional and profit ready dVPN application. Lets decentralize the VPN industry