Sentinel Network Validator & Dev Team
Meile is a decentralized VPN running on a permissionless network of nodes secured by blockchain technology — censorship resistant, ultra private and secure. Nodes are run from datacenters, universities and homes by a worldwide community, creating a VPN network with no single point of failure.
01 / Overview
Meile uses a decentralized network of nodes running on blockchain technology, making it censorship resistant, ultra private and secure. There is no company server to raid, no database to seize and no invoice that ties your name to your traffic.
Discovery is a chain query against a consensus-protected registry, so it can't be taken down. Block one node and traffic simply reroutes around it — there is no relay layer to block and no central server whose loss ends the network.
Encryption happens on your device and sessions settle on-chain. Meile ships ring sessions with decoy session transactions by default, supports shielded ZEC payments via BTCPay and lets you buy SMS with Monero — no account, no email, no identity required.
A permissionless mesh of independent operators spread across jurisdictions. Because discovery, sessions and payments settle on-chain, central logging is architecturally impossible — there is no database that could hold a log in the first place.
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02 / Get the client
v2.8.2 Purchase SMS in-app w/ Monero, Redesigned Plan Screen, Zano Integrated Addres Payments, Bug Fixes — one codebase, three desktops.
Windows
64-bit installer
v2.8.2 · .exe
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Debug build
Mac OS
Apple Silicon
v2.8.2 · .dmg
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Arm64 build for Apple Silicon — there is no Intel Mac release any more.
Ubuntu
26.04 LTS
v2.8.2 · .deb
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Debian
12 · bookworm
v2.8.2 · .deb
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Older releases
Debian is served by the Ubuntu LTS packages: bookworm takes the 22.04 build, bullseye the 20.04 build.
Fedora
38 - 41
v2.8.2 · .rpm
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Older releases
The boxed download is the fc38 build — install it on Fedora 38, 39 or 40.
Arch
x86_64 · pacman
v2.5.0 · .zst
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Newest Arch package: meile-gui-2.5.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst — install it with pacman -U.
AppImage
x86_64 · >=Ubuntu 20.04
v2.8.2 · .AppImage
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Newest AppImage: Meile_v2.8.2-x86_64.AppImage — run it with chmod +x Meile_v2.8.2-x86_64.AppImage && ./Meile_v2.8.2-x86_64.AppImage.
Virtual-machine builds, grouped by Ubuntu release — newest first.
Select the VM build when Meile runs inside a Debian-based virtual machine.
GitHubmeile-gui →
PyPImeile-gui →Source tarballs, checksums and full release notes live on the GitHub releases page.
03 / Command line
Per request, Debian/Ubuntu users can now update or install Meile from the command line using apt. Run the following commands from your Debian command line.
$ curl -fsSL https://apt.mathnodes.com/install.sh | sudo bash
$ sudo apt -y install meile-gui
# To update
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install meile-gui --upgrade04 / Release notes
Nine upgrades to the most private, user-friendly decentralized VPN client on desktop.
05 / Subscriptions
Unlimited bandwidth on both tiers, paid in crypto — no FIAT, no account, no identity.
BASIC SUBSCRIPTION PLAN
$3.14/ month*
*Payable in multiple cryptocurrencies. FIAT not accepted. *10% surcharge for plans not paid in P2P (Sentinel).
PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION PLAN
$6/ month*
*Payable in multiple cryptocurrencies. FIAT not accepted. *10% surcharge for plans not paid in P2P (Sentinel).
06 / Economics
Every session fee is routed on purpose: burn pressure on Sentinel’s native coin, airdrops for MathNodes delegators, and funding for the client that keeps getting better.
There is a 10% surcharge for plans paid outside of Sentinel’s native coin P2P — an incentive to support the network with its own coin. Direct node sessions carry a 4.2069% fee that subsidizes Meile’s development, burns coins and rewards MathNodes delegators.
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The 4.2069% fee appended to a direct session is allocated randomly to 1-of-10 wallets. The first wallet burns its holdings, creating deflationary pressure on Sentinel’s P2P coin. The next three balances are airdropped to MathNodes delegators on Sentinel and beyond; the rest funds ongoing development of Meile.
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A percentage of coins used to pay for Meile plans that are not Sentinel’s P2P coin is used to purchase P2P on the open market. Buybacks help support the Sentinel network and its native coin; the remaining off-chain revenue funds development of Meile.
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3.14% of all sales
will be donated to The Roman Storm case — helping defend a developer prosecuted for writing code, and standing up for privacy software everywhere.
07 / The client
A decentralized VPN should not feel like a science project. Meile hides the blockchain machinery behind a stylish, dependable desktop experience.
A stylish and easy-to-use interface with modern features and extra capabilities — node maps, session controls and protocol selection without a single terminal command.
Fully loaded with a wallet displaying IBC tokens of P2P, OSMO, SCRT, ATOM and NAM. You’ll always know what you can pay with — and you never leave the app.
Runs on all major desktop platforms with a range of user options for a secure and stable experience — Windows, macOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Arch, with separate desktop, debug and VM builds.
08 / The network
Sentinel is a Layer 1 blockchain built on top of the Cosmos SDK. A strong dev team, with support from whitelabel developers like MathNodes and Norse Labs, drives the continual progress of the network. Specializing in decentralized, privacy-preserving technologies, Sentinel is at the forefront of the DePIN industry.
09 / Head to head
Both hide your IP. Only one changes who you have to trust. The chart below contrasts a dVPN stack (Sentinel, Nym, Anyone — and Meile as the client) with a mainstream centralized provider represented here by NordVPN: a Panama-headquartered service with 7,000+ servers in 118+ countries, a third-party-audited no-logs policy and a conventional account-plus-subscription model.
| Dimension | dVPNDecentralized network | VPNCentralized provider (e.g. NordVPN) |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | A permissionless mesh of independent operators. Your client tunnels directly to a node you chose — no relay layer, no company in the path. | One company owns and operates the fleet: 7,000+ servers in 118+ countries, with all traffic passing through corporate infrastructure. |
| Trust model | Cryptographic. You verify the code and the chain instead of trusting a brand. | Corporate. You trust a policy document and the audits that check it periodically. |
| Failure mode | Block one node and traffic reroutes. There is no single entity whose disappearance ends the network. | A company outage, seizure, sanction or domain block can disconnect every user at once. |
| Logging | No central database exists to log into. Sentinel: “No company exists that could log your traffic.” | “No logs” is a legal promise, not a technical guarantee — it stands or falls with the operator’s honesty and the auditor’s sample. |
| Jurisdiction | The network spans thousands of sovereign operators and jurisdictions. Nothing singular to serve. | One headquarters, one legal regime — subject to subpoenas, gag orders, NSLs and silent logging orders. |
| Discovery & bootstrap | Discovery is a chain query against a consensus-protected registry; any RPC endpoint works, and anyone can run one. | Discovery comes from the vendor’s app config and API endpoints — a finite, blockable surface. |
| Payments | Native tokens ($P2P, $NYM, $ANYONE), plus privacy coins such as Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), Zano, Firo Spark and 300+ others in Meile — paid in-app from a built-in wallet. | Credit and debit cards, PayPal and regional wallets — with crypto, where offered, routed through a third-party payment processor rather than being native to the product. |
| Identity ↔ usage link | Meile needs no account and no email. Ring sessions add decoy session transactions, shielded Zcash hides sender, receiver and amount, and multi-hop routing separates your real IP from your destination. | Your name, billing address, card or PayPal identifier and invoice history persist as a durable record — a billing relationship that maps a human to a subscription and every timestamp on it. |
| Metering | Pay per gigabyte or per hour straight to the node, with the session cost committed on-chain. Meile adds a 4.2069% direct-session fee that is burned, airdropped to delegators and reinvested in development. | A flat recurring subscription with auto-renewal. Usage is metered internally, if at all, and rarely surfaced to the customer. |
| Auditability | Node, client, protocols and SDK are open source — anybody can follow the traffic path end to end. | Server-side software is proprietary and unauditable; independent audits typically cover policy and apps rather than the fleet. |
| Protocols | Six transports behind one lifecycle — WireGuard, V2Ray, OpenVPN, Xray, AmneziaWG and Hysteria2 — chosen node by node, session by session. | A small, fixed set of vendor protocols, tuned for a corporate backbone rather than censorship resistance. |
| Governance | On-chain validator votes. Protocol changes require network consensus. | A corporate board. Policies can change with a terms-of-service update. |
| Typical price | Metered from a fraction of a cent per GB. Meile basic is $3.14/month, premium $6/month — payable in crypto, with a 10% surcharge only when not paid in P2P. | Monthly list pricing sits roughly an order of magnitude higher, discounted steeply when you prepay for one to three years. |
| Speed & consistency | Variable by nature — you are using somebody’s spare bandwidth. Modern clients add obfuscation (AmneziaWG, Hysteria2, Xray) that punches through throttling. | Generally faster and more predictable thanks to a purpose-built backbone. The trade-off is centralization. |
| Extras | Run a node and earn tokens; in-app node map and node-details page, QR hand-off to Meile Mobile, and community analytics dashboards. | Tracker and ad blocking, mesh networking, dedicated IP add-ons, 24/7 human support and polished cross-platform apps. |
Chain-query discovery versus vendor APIs — how each network gets its first node.
Centralized-provider specifics are taken from publicly published material at the time of writing — server counts, jurisdictions and policies change, so verify with the vendor. dVPN figures come from the Sentinel, Nym, Anyone and Meile project sites. Nothing here is legal, financial or investment advice.
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10 / From the blog
Releases, partnerships and privacy research from the MathNodes dev team.
August 4, 2026
Meile dVPN and Sparky team up to offer a summer 2026 bonus of double the subscription months when paying in Firo Spark.
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May 3, 2026
Age verification — AKA identity verification — is being rolled out by western states, sidelining users’ privacy and putting their data at risk. dVPNs help circumvent these draconian measures and keep the internet free.
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February 12, 2026
The Meile dVPN team is thrilled to announce the release of version 2.5.0 for all desktop platforms — a significant leap forward in private, user-friendly decentralized VPNs.
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Research
p₁, p₂, p₃, … — notes from the math lab behind MathNodes, where the validator and developer team’s research lives alongside the network work.
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