It has been an eventful week for us and we have some exciting news on the following topics:

Office Space

Hiring

Exchange Listing

Protocol Update

New Website

Office Space

We are very excited about having moved into our offices in central London! We can already feel ourselves becoming more productive with our space tailored to our needs. We have 650 sqft and expect to be able to fit 12 people with a small 5 person meeting room. This should last us for the next 6 months at which point we can easily expand in the same building. Please find a few images below to give you an idea of the space (once it is fully set up and decorated we will give a full tour):

Hiring

We have a new developer, Julian, joining our backend team on Monday and once he has had a chance to settle in we will get him to say hello to everyone on Discord and answer any potential questions.

New people are going to be joining every week for the next few weeks. We will always do an interview style piece on them (experience, background etc) and post it through this blog so that everyone involved in Aventus can get to know the team better.

Exchange Listings

As you probably already know our listing on Bitfinex, “the world’s largest and most advanced bitcoin trading platform”, was announced here this week.

Our first major exchange listing seems to have moved along some of the others we have been talking to and we are positive that we could see another major listing before the end of the month (no guarantees though since it is not fully in our control).

Protocol Update

We will have the first step towards the full protocol finished and deployed on the main Ethereum network by the end of October. This initial component will consist of the voting mechanics described in the white paper and the ability to put forward proposals for the Aventus Network and vote on them with an AVT stake. Participating in voting will give AVT holders a way to be active in the network and receive rewards for doing so. Full details will be released over the course of the month.

Some of you have asked about our Joy Records event that was listed for Halloween. We have chosen to focus on releasing the protocol update described above rather than doing ticketing for an event that would make little use of the protocol at this stage given their requirements. We are discussing doing an event at a later point, but we feel it is important that we do not get distracted from our core goal right now, which is driving fundamental value for the Aventus network by bringing an initial version of the protocol to the Ethereum network.

New Website

We will have a new more traditional, B2B focused website out this week. We had hoped to release it with this post, however we are still tweaking the copy for one of our clients, since they have requested some changes so the release and associated marketing will have to wait for tomorrow.