No Allowlist on the Eve of the Sentry Sale

By Coordinated Universal Time, Sentry node key sales would begin early the next day; for community members in some regions, this was the eve of the sale. The Foundation needed to explain allocation, pricing and the conditions for claiming rewards. The group was also eager to identify the genuine purchase entry point.

The Foundation set out the rules together: a fair sale, with no private sale, allowlist or special treatment. Its stated reason was that a stronger community was vital to a decentralized chain. The first Sentry key was priced at roughly USD 300 worth of ether, with each rise in sales moving the price higher along a curve that rewarded earlier buyers. Claiming network rewards required identity verification, and people in countries on the sanctions list could not claim them; rewards could be staked or traded. That evening, officials also warned that no purchase link had yet been published, that anyone sending a purported official link by private message was a scammer, and that losses from falling for such scams would not be covered.

The narrator read the two announcements side by side. The first put ordinary community members at the same starting line; the second showed scammers trying to steal the trust behind that expectation. With no allowlist, no one could bypass the public sale through a special channel. Participants still had to wait for a genuine entry point and check the source of every message. The promise of fairness and the harsh disclaimer stood together; the next day's sale would test how people acted on the rules.