S.I.N.
S.I.N. branding in 2022, 2023, and early 2025. Blood orange was used as the primary colour instead of Sentinel’s familiar blue to emphasise that the service was not officially affiliated with the project.
Sentinel Independent News (better known as S.I.N.) was the original permutation of what has now become P2P News.
It operated it as the Sentinel Ecosystem’s only independent community news outlet from 2022 until mid-2025, when we merged it with dVPN News, a Growth DAO-curated portal for Sentinel articles and guides.
Both were summarily rebranded with the current “P2P News” moniker, and have functioned as once entity ever since.
Below is the full announcement of the change, originally published on the S.I.N. Telegram feed:
A New Era for S.I.N.
29 May 2025
It's been our pleasure to serve the community for the past three years and watch Sentinel grow from a single team building a dVPN protocol into a burgeoning privacy-focused bandwidth behemoth that could change the internet forever.
As the Sentinel Ecosystem restructures and fine-tunes itself to compete on a much grander stage, S.I.N. must do its part to evolve with it:
We are pleased to officially announce that P2P News and S.I.N. have merged and will now function together as one entity going forward.
Though we were very attached to the S.I.N. brand, it makes far more sense to consolidate both of Sentinel's community news outlets than to continue operating both semi-autonomously. We hope this will create a more efficient information flow for existing project followers and contributors, and also foster a less overwhelming atmosphere for newcomers.
For our long-time subscribers, things will function mostly as they always have. Articles will be published on the P2P News website, and S.I.N.'s Telegram channel and X account will be posting live news and updates under the P2P Newswire moniker.
No personnel changes have taken place and posts here will still follow the same format.
Some improvements have also been made to the website itself, and many of the resources which S.I.N. maintained independently are being ported over. The old dVPN News domain has also been retained, so old article links should continue to work.
As always, we'd like to thank all of our 1000+ subscribers on Telegram, X, Discord, Reddit, and beyond for their years of support and continued readership.
Information for Stakers
Because the Sentinel Growth DAO already maintains its own validator and P2P News is hosted by them, S.I.N.'s own validator has been spun off and rebranded as Sarmatia Digital.
Delegations will still support our work, and our commission will remain stable. Just as before, no posts about the validator will be made on this channel, so for staker updates please join @SarmatiaDigital.