Dear Aventus Community,

We are incredibly humbled by the support, interest and overall commitment we have seen from you guys over the last few of months. We have worked very hard for almost a year to get to where we are today, post token sale, and cannot thank you enough for what you have done for us.

Some information about the sale:

Our token sale lasted just 7 minutes on September 6, 2017, and attracted over 1,300 participants, with an average contribution size of 15 ETH.

60,000 ETH (~$18.7M at the time of writing) was raised in total.

For hours after the sale had sold out, there were over 1,000 transactions equating to over $1.5 million worth of contributions from wishful participants.

Post sale, there has been countless scam attempts from phishing websites and Slack direct messages from people trying to scam wishful contributors out of their ETH. We would like to thank our community very much for being so vigilant, pointing out and taking action against these fraudsters.

Now that the sale has ended, we have a lot to prove; not only with respect to initiating change in the traditional and monopolised ticketing industry, but also as one of the first protocols tackling a very narrow vertical in the blockchain community.

You may have seen our most recent release, our Blockchain as Persistance (BaP) product, which features one of our first clients, Townsend Music, live on the Rinkeby test net. With our head of product Andy’s agile methodologies, over the next couple of months we will be refining this product and its functionality with a selection of our clients, and build up to our protocol beta release at the end of this year.

Many of you are interested in which exchanges AVT will be listed on and when. We will be releasing with GateCoin next week, and have a couple of other announcements behind closed doors currently that we are excited to announce soon about bigger exchanges. We will make sure to keep you up to date with new developments via our blog, but if you have any questions we are easily reachable through Slack.

Our vision is to change the ticketing industry from the ground up; to create a fair, transparent, and secure standard for the creation, promotion, and sale of tickets throughout their entire lifecycle for the industry as a whole, in such a way that is not controlled by any one monopolised entity. AVT will be a core part of this paradigm, as it will be responsible for governance decisions, fraud elimination, and network security. We are very excited to embark on this journey with you, the community, as a whole; you guys are hopefully the first of millions of AVT owners and protocol users.