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Shadow Node

A decentralized VPN with a web dashboard for staking and node rewards, and a companion desktop VPN client.

What our team built

Built the marketing site and dashboard, the Node/Express APIs, and the Electron + React desktop client with its Windows build.

Shadow Node: home page of the live site

The brief

Shadow Node is a decentralized VPN built around user-operated nodes. People needed one place to connect a wallet, stake, follow node rewards and download a desktop client that actually connects them.

Stack

  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • MongoDB
  • Electron
  • Wagmi

What we built

  1. 01Responsive marketing site and authenticated dashboard
  2. 02Wallet connection and smart-contract interactions
  3. 03Staking, node and rewards journeys
  4. 04Node.js / Express REST services on MongoDB
  5. 05Electron + React desktop VPN client with a Windows build

Scope note: No independent security audit, node performance or adoption figures are claimed.

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