Sentry Node Open Beta (Concluded)

Status: Concluded

The Gradient journey began with the Sentry Node Open Beta. The Gradient community’s incredible energy around the Sentry Node Open Beta has brought the network to life. What began as an exploratory initiative has grown into a living foundation powered by thousands of people worldwide.

With millions of participants and billions of Taps, we have established a strong peer-to-peer connectivity foundation. Together, these Sentry Nodes form Lattica, our distributed data communication protocol. Season 1 has concluded on 28 August 2025, 12:00 UTC, marking the graduation of the Sentry Node Open Beta. Sentry Nodes will no longer accumulate new Uptime or Taps after that.

For our community, this is not the end of participation—it is the beginning of the main act.

Where to contribute now

• Run a Host: Join the Edge Host Pilot Program to provide compute capacity.

• Experiment with APIs: Start building on Gradient Cloud.

• Follow Research: Read our published papers on Parallax and Echo, and try open-sourced models on our Hugging Face Collection.

• Join the conversation and help us grow the Discord community.

• Follow our X page and stay tuned for more exciting ways to participate coming soon.