This week is the 10th weekly update we’ve published and we’ve got a lot to celebrate! Our new team members have incredible experience and knowledge and we’re excited to present them to you. We also feel like it is time to address the rumours surrounding our Twitter followers and set the record straight.

On a side note, we’d to point out that these weekly updates are not announcements. Occasionally they will contain information regarding an announcement, however they provide information about all aspects of the business. This is what we’re covering today:

Exchange Listings

Twitter Followers

Meet Andy! Our new blockchain engineer

Meet Vincent! Our new blockchain engineer (Teaser)

Press releases

Exchange Listings

In our Telegram and Discord groups we keep getting questions about when we’ll be listed on the next exchange. We have discussed this multiple times and answer these questions daily in the groups. However, this week we briefly sat down with Alan and Annika for our weekly YouTube video, which will be released tomorrow, and asked them to go into a bit more details. Alan was happy to do so and we hope that this has cleared things up a little bit more for you guys. Additionally, our founders answer a few more topics which we’ve seen being brought up regularly in the chats.

Be sure to watch the full video tomorrow on Aventus Systems YouTube

Twitter Followers

After much deliberation we have decided to address our Twitter followers. We pride ourselves on being a highly transparent company and we will stay that way throughout the Aventus journey. As many of you may have noticed we’ve had a dramatic rise in followers recently. Initially, we thought it was down to our social media campaign, which is currently focused on growth. One of our successful strategies was to work with influencers. Although we did hope for an increase, we did not expect quite the amount by which our platform has grown.

We have been using a variety of programs to find out where these followers are from and have come to the conclusion that sadly an external party are definitely involved in paying for fake followers. Significantly, this highlights the fact that external parties are that fearful of what we are doing and who we are. And so they should be. It is a pretty desperate move to attempt to tarnish a brand in such a manner and spread, as the blockchain community like to call it, FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt).

At Aventus we have never and will never buy followers. We aim to grow organically and build an honest community, driving engagement. This has always been and will remain our goal. We now had the hard decision to make: Do we delete all of the fake followers, risking potentially deleting genuine community members in the process? After a week of debating we have decided to attempt to remove the followers, as the growth has not decreased and day-by-day we keep growing. Blocking tens of thousands of followers is going to take a considerable amount of time, as they need to be blocked individually (do any of our community members know of a great app to mass block fake followers?) If we have wrongly blocked you, then please get in touch in our Telegram or Discord group. Or alternatively, please email info@aventus.io and we will immediately unblock you.

Meet Andy! Our new blockchain engineer

Can you first introduce yourself please, tell us a bit about you? Maybe a fun fact we wouldn’t expect?

Hi! I’m the second Andy to join Aventus, but the first in birth order!

I’ve been working as a software engineer for half my life, which started up in Newcastle, in the north east of England.

I went to the University of Edinburgh, lived in Swindon for a few years then moved to London in 2000 where, except for a few months living in Finland, I’ve been living and working since.

FUN FACT: I live on a canal boat in West London that I suspect will get some use for company trips out on the Thames when the summer comes back :)

What is it that you do at Aventus? How did you hear about the company and what made you apply for your role?

I’m a developer in the blockchain team, mainly writing Ethereum Solidity contracts.

I found my way to Aventus when I was approached by a recruiter who told me he had something very cool and very interesting for me to look at.

I applied because the recruiter was right — this is a VERY exciting industry to be in!

You have years of experience in the industry. Tell us a bit about your background?

I spent the last 10 years working at Google, mostly on Google Maps — blame the blue dot and the Save function on me and my colleagues — and AdSense, where I finally made Google some money instead of just spending it.

The 12 years I worked before Google were spent in the mobile industry, on pre-iOS-and-Android smartphones with Symbian, and with network infrastructure at Motorola.

When did you first hear and start learning about blockchain? What is the most interesting thing about it to you?

A good few years ago, actually, when I first heard about Bitcoin. Like many people, however, I found that the entry requirements to get involved were too high effort so I didn’t really go anywhere with it.

The challenge now, and what really interests me, is how to bring blockchain to the masses — I am always most interested in how technology affects real people in their lives.

What do you hope to achieve at Aventus? What are you particularly excited to work on?

I want to help Aventus to help people, in event ticketing and the wider blockchain community, so we can make people’s lives better.

How can the community get more involved with what you are doing at Aventus?

Please send as much ether as you can to my private beer fund at 0xFc3e8F2Ed7E1a4233b4C1dDeeABF2bf79D1A8445 :)

What are your hobbies?

I’ve recently got back into Rubiks cubing because of my kids, but I also like playing guitar and singing.

Meet Vincent! Our new blockchain engineer

Well not yet… A bit of a teaser. His Q&A will be up next week for you guys!

Press Releases

A short paragraph to end this week’s update. We announce previously that we’ve hired a PR agency. We have been getting a lot of questions about which agency, when the press will start etc. It is important to state that any new partnership takes time, especially when it comes to building a new campaign. Next year we will have our official launch and our main focus as well as the agencies’ focus is to work towards that. Of course we’d like to try and get frequent PR exposure before then and hope within the next few weeks to be featured in a few good publications.