Dear Auctus Community,

March was a productive month for the Auctus team. We grew our community, launched our Alpha platform and also a Tournament to bring people to get familiar with Auctus. We’ve also been working on our Beta release! See details below.

Alpha Launch

The Auctus Platform launch on Rinkeby testnet was a great success, with almost 3,500 clicks on the website and hundreds of portfolios and investments created. Feedback from our community was above our expectations:

“It is an impressive first iteration of the platform. I am very excited to see what it will look like once more assets, and asset management capabilities are added,” said Philippe Castonguay, former member of 0x project and an advisor to Auctus. “It is a very simple application; intuitive, pleasant to use and it does everything it proposes. I was surprised by the usability of the system, which shows the focus and dedication of the team regarding UX. I can see it will be soon ready for Mainnet,” said Rafael Ferreira of Amadeus Relay, an Auctus partner. “Overall simple and smooth — looking forward to seeing more features,” said Will Harborne, Project Lead at Ethfinex.

Developers can take a look at the solidity implementation of the test AUC token and the simplified purchase smart contract.

Auctus Tournament

This tournament aimed to let users test the Alpha Auctus Platform with “play money” on the Rinkeby testnet. A total of 18,280 AUC tokens will be distributed to the winners after close of our token sale.

The results were already published and you can see them in this blog post.

As a fun fact, one of the portfolios with the best performance was the “Low Cap” portfolio from Drarch, featuring most of out Labs’ friends, as Bluzelle, 0x, RCN and Request.

It was really interesting to see people’s projection for each of the coins available, and for the future we are planning more interactive actions like this one. So stay tuned =)

Auctus Labs

Auctus launched Auctus Labs with the aim of replacing centralized components with decentralized ones, in an attempt to fully decentralize the Auctus Platform.

The first announcement already included Aragon, Ethfinex, Ripio Credit Network, Request.Network, 0x project, Melonport, Amadeus and Bluzelle. A few days later we were really glad to announce the addition of MakerDAO, in order to provide stability to retirement portfolios through DAI token.

And again the feedback from our collaborators and community was beyond our expectations, thank you all so much for the support!

Decentralized organization — Auctus’ Aragon beta instance is deployed!

Aragon has recently launched their beta version of Aragon Core v0.5 — The Architect. As one of the first steps towards decentralization trough Labs project we already deployed our decentralized instance on Rinkeby network and are planning to run some governance tests. You can check Auctus DAO at their website under auctus.aragonid.eth name. Yey!

And finally… the first Beta release

Following our releases roadmap, we are on our way to publish our Beta platform! This version will include integrations with major exchanges such as Bitfinex, and real-time analytics for your investments.

The first release of the Beta Platform will be available only for AUC token holders, in order to increase user base in a secure and controlled way.

Beta testers Airdrop

UPDATE: airdrop is already finished.

In order to have the right amount of beta testers a very restricted airdrop of 300k AUC, the platform token, will be conducted. How will it work?

The airdrop will distribute the maximum of 300k AUC tokens The first 3,000 participants who joined our Telegram, followed our Twitter and complete this form will be eligible to receive 100 AUC each via airdrop, after completing few tasks. Submissions will close on April 12th at 12 pm UTC. Only one submission per person will be accepted. Tokens will be distributed after 90 days of the end of the token sale.

As an Auctus Beta tester, you will contribute to the development and testing of the future of the decentralized retirement planning in the blockchain! We are looking forward to receiving your feedback. Let’s #BUIDL together!