Dear Aventus Community,

Thank you for being patient with us as we took a long-needed weekend off filled with rest and good food. Now, we are back in action, and have lots coming in the coming weeks.

For starters, we are in the final stages with some larger exchanges. We cannot announce who they are, where in the process we are, or when these listings will come, but we can tell you that we are actively working on progressing these deals and will have good news to report to you hopefully this week. Please bare in mind that these processes have become significantly longer and more robust due to recent regulatory changes in various parts of the globe.

Our DApp idea competition is finishing up too! The judges have been extremely impressed with the submissions and have enjoyed reading through them albeit briefly. They still have a few days to make their decision, but we know already that it will not be an easy one.

In other news; we are progressing on our Blockchain as Persistence (BaP) product. We will be meeting with Townsend in the next week or two up in Manchester to discuss the steps ahead. Our relationship is progressing well and we are iteratively improving our product using their direct feedback; it has been extremely useful having Andy, our head of product, define such a high standard of product development techniques for our development team at Aventus.

We have just recently found new offices in London, near Fleet Street. We will hopefully be sharing photos soon. We have also began interviewing candidates as we expand our core development team; we are looking for a couple of blockchain engineers, backend engineers, and frontend engineers to lead the core and help us expand the team from that point. So far, there have been promising candidates, but if you are based in London and fit any of these roles, please contact info@aventus.io if you are interested in joining the team! Currently, Alan, Annika and Ben have been doing most of the development work, but this will obviously change as time progresses and the team expands.

We are also looking for a full time Head of Communications, as our current employee Arnaud is looking to start his own projects and can only work part time at the moment. We apologise for the inconvenience caused with any slow replies and less frequent updates on social media. Until we hire a full time replacement, Arnaud, Alan and Annika will attempt to fill any gaps there may be. If you are interested in filling this position yourself and are based in London (or are interested in relocating to London), again please email us at info@aventus.io.

Finally, as a way to give back to the community, we will be publishing a series of blog posts explaining our token sale journey from start to end; anything we learned along the way, how we went about each part (from corporate partners, to the marketing/communications strategy, etc). We hope some of our processes and lessons learned will be useful to any of you in the future as you embark on your token sale journeys. If you have any ideas or would like to contribute to this, please let us know!

Please note — we will be publishing weekly updates about our development, marketing, and client progress. We will also keep you up to date with fund withdrawals and what the money is going to be used for.