Cosmos Ecology-DVPN White Paper (7) Organizational Structure

The "Sentinel" organizational structure is mainly composed of the "Secure Network Technology" Foundation and Exidio, a for-profit organization focused on dVPN implementation and development. As of this writing, both the SNT Foundation and Exidio are fully registered and structured.

The SNT Foundation is focused on bringing an organizational and governance approach to the Sentinel distributed ecosystem, while Exidio is responsible for the technical development of the Sentinel dVPN framework, as well as the onboarding of dVPN application creators.

"Secure Network Technology" Foundation

• Provides financial and non-financial support to designated ecosystem projects - Responsible for providing non-financial and financial support to projects and organizations that exist in the Sentinel Ecosystem and that aim to build on and add to the Sentinel Ecosystem value.
• Drive Adoption - Drive adoption of Sentinel Tokens by envisioning and supporting smart use cases and utility mechanisms.
• Ensuring Token Economic Viability - The mission is to ensure a robust token economic structure Sentinel's ecosystem. It is necessary to monitor inflation and other network parameters with a focus on ensuring that the value of the token does not dilute significantly over the long term.
• Guaranteed Economic Health - Create a healthy and productive environment for validators/nodes/other service providers in the ecosystem. Design and maintain a robust economic structure to ensure that service providers can meet breakeven costs and are properly compensated for their time and effort.
• Increase Ecosystem Partners - Facilitate collaboration between the Sentinel ecosystem and entities that add value to the Sentinel ecosystem and drive protocol usage and token adoption.
• Global Community Expansion - Expand the global Sentinel community by maintaining and supporting each Regional Group and managing Regional Group Ambassadors accordingly. The SNT Foundation is responsible for ensuring that the structure of the ecosystem is compatible with different regions and that the design of the ecosystem does not hinder any particular geographic location.

EXIDIO

The Sentinel ecosystem is rapidly evolving from a more obscure and anonymous network to a transparent real-world ecosystem designed to serve the needs of mainstream consumers. Exidio is a for-profit organization focused on implementation, with the mission to "provide secure access to Web 3.0" by contributing to and implementing Sentinel's dVPN and Sentinel's universe-based blockchain infrastructure. Exidio will work with entrepreneurs as well as existing VPN companies to build a new dVPN application or transition an existing VPN network to a dVPN network.

While Sentinel focuses on providing an environment that houses the various components of the overall dVPN network, Exidio will focus on implementing white-label dVPN applications, with the necessary customizations.

The VPN industry is expected to be a $90 billion-plus market by 2027, and global VPN entrepreneurs are capitalizing on the growing consumer demand for VPN services and implementing white-label solutions. White-label solutions offer the benefits of lower cost-to-market and require less technical expertise and resources to manage.

Exidio's contribution to Cosmos mainly revolves around the following aspects:

• Development Tools - Develop meaningful and creative utilities (e.g. Exidio multi-sig/joint account deployment) that can be implemented by other developers in the Cosmos ecosystem.
• Develop dApps - Develop useful and efficient decentralized and distributed blockchain applications (like Sentinel dVPN) in the Cosmos ecosystem, capable of providing real utility functionality to mainstream users.
• Contribute to the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint Core - Contribute to the proposed roadmap and work on optimizing and improving the efficiency of the current codebase of Tendermint and Cosmos SDK.

Whitepaper: https://sentinel.co/whitepaper