This is the second update in our weekly update series where we inform the community about our progress in building our business and products at Aventus. We have a few announcements and pre-announcements this week about:

Exchange listings

Communications

Product development

Exchange Listings

We finally have a decent pre-announcement to give. We will be listing on a large exchange next week, as promised. We cannot say who this exchange is for legal reasons, but we can confirm that unless something major happens, we will be listed. Smaller exchanges, simultaneously, are also in the works, but there are no confirmations to share as of yet. As always, we will keep you updated, and thank you for being patient with us.

Communications

We are pleased to tell you that we have hired a new head of communications at Aventus! She has over 3 years experience in 360 digital marketing, and has built up communities in the fintech space from 2,000 people to over 10,000. We will be doing a formal release with a fireside chat and potentially an AMA next week with Alan, our new hire, and I, so if this is of interest to you please let us know via email or on Discord.

That brings us nicely to our next update; due to the constant spam in Slack and the general misfit of their product with our needs as an open community, we have moved our entire community and main communication channel to Discord; to join our community, please follow this link.

Please note: We will NOT be accepting or sending direct messages on Discord to avoid the kind of spam and phishing attempts that existed all over Slack. We recommend that you disable your direct messages by doing the following: Click on the user settings cog in the bottom left corner of the screen, then navigate to “privacy and safety” in the left nav bar, and then switch off “allow direct messages from server members”.

If you need to send direct messages to a team member in private for any reason, please ask us how to do so in the #general channel or email us at info@aventus.io.

Product

We have a new website focused on our product offering coming by the beginning of next week. It has been finished for a bit now, but we are making tweaks to improve it further. We cannot wait to share it!

On the general product side, as we said we have a product in beta and are slowly improving it; since our engineers do not start until mid-October, for now the changes are minimal, and we are focused more on client acquisition and protocol architecture.

One particular change we have been working on that we can disclose is dynamic seating allocation in stadiums; how to best allocate seats to various buyers across different channels that optimises the remaining space so that event organisers can maximise their revenue (if you look at existing seating systems, you will see that this is not optimised at all in sections; usually you even have to choose the exact seat you want yourself, rather than letting the system choose the best one for you). If you are interested in learning more about this, or have some ideas you would like to share, feel free to reach out on Discord.

We wanted to let you guys know that we plan to have the protocol written, audited, and ready to go by January/February time with great certainty; that will be when AVT will be in full usage. Until then, over this last quarter, we will be conducting isolated tests that utilise AVT; for example, testing our voting process and UI/UX, or a test of our matching system in the secondary market.