In the interest of transparency and after feedback from our community, we have decided to write a blog post detailing our pre-sale and a breakdown of the contributions. We will not disclose the names of the majority of contributors in this post to protect their privacy.

The Aventus pre-sale began in July, when we started taking contributions from clients and strategic partners, including Global Advisors’ Coinshares 1 LLP (Global Advisors also led a seed round in Aventus Systems the company back in October) and Brave New Coin in New Zealand, our escrow partner post-token sale.

The pre-sale had a maximum limit of 3,000,000 AVT that could be created, which equates to half of the public sale and a maximum Ether contribution value of 27,273 ETH. The pricing was set to be a maximum discount of 20% from the public sale price of 92 AVT per ETH (therefore the maximum amount of AVT per ETH that could be issued to any one pre-sale contributor was 110). The percentage discount that contributors received depended on various factors but was mainly dependant on the time at which they joined the pre-sale.

The graph below depicts the breakdown of contributions during the pre-sale. A full list of the addresses, contribution amounts, and transactions can be seen on Etherscan here, corresponding to the wallet of our escrow partner Brave New Coin. To see the funds safely in our Gnosis Multisig wallet, you can see them here. Please note: a portion of the larger contributions in the graph above actually corresponds to smaller contributors who pooled funds together.

Over 50 individuals and funds from all over the world participated in the pre-sale, as can be seen from the graph above and the Etherscan transaction list. These contributors included strategic partners, crypto influencers, previous investors, clients, and individuals who have made us connections to potential clients. One particularly important criteria for selecting these participants was how long they planned to hold our token for, and whether they were buying the token speculatively or rather to participate in our network.

If anyone has any questions about the pre-sale and any of its details please feel free to reach out to us on Slack.