Today, we put our year one on the record. The Aventus DAO Annual Review is now live. Inside: the network, the numbers, the decisions, the changes in strategy, what we learned, and where we go next. Read the full report ↓ aventus.io/insights/aventus-…

Crypto has changed a lot more than people give it credit for. For years, the conversation kept coming back to the same criticisms: “Bitcoin is for criminals.” “Crypto is a scam.” “It’s all speculation.” “People only buy it because they think the price will go up.” Now look at what is being built. @Nasdaq has agreed to invest $100m through Nasdaq Ventures in @Payward, the parent company of @krakenfx, as they develop infrastructure for tokenised equities and always-on markets. Payward’s Dubai entity has also secured its VARA licence. @StanChart has launched a service enabling eligible affluent UAE clients, initially those classified as Professional Investors, to buy and sell Bitcoin and Ether through their existing bank accounts. No separate exchange account. No separate wallet. @Samsung is bringing USDC transfers directly into Samsung Wallet from the last week of October, with 82 million compatible Galaxy devices in the US. @solana is among the partners providing the underlying infrastructure. @MorganStanley is building infrastructure for tokenised equities. Its head of digital asset strategy expects the tokenised real-world asset market to reach $3 trillion to $10 trillion by 2030. Speculation hasn’t disappeared. Neither have scams. But dismissing the entire industry on those grounds means overlooking what these companies are investing in: payments, settlement, custody and financial markets built around blockchain infrastructure. At Aventus, we see a substantial opportunity in the infrastructure businesses will need as this develops. We’ve been building since 2017. Today, Aventus DAO is registered in the UAE, with an ecosystem spanning enterprise appchains and Aventus Cloud, our decentralised compute network. Our view of mass adoption is straightforward. The technology becomes part of products, businesses and financial systems people already use. Its usefulness gives them a reason to adopt it. Samsung’s planned rollout is a good example: people will be able to send USDC from the wallet already on their phone, without having to manage private keys themselves. The infrastructure does the work behind the experience. We see the same principle applying to businesses. A company should be able to bring its operations onchain without having to build every component itself. It needs control over its business logic, dependable execution and systems that work together. That is the opportunity we are pursuing through enterprise blockchain infrastructure and independent compute. The world is moving onchain. We intend to make Aventus part of what it runs on.

Having worked on enterprise blockchain infrastructure at Aventus since 2017, one thing we’ve learned is that businesses need flexibility over how their applications operate. Not every business needs a completely separate blockchain. But not every business can operate under exactly the same rules either. @HyperliquidX is showing how both approaches could coexist.

Interesting development from Tether. We’re approaching decentralised infrastructure through Aventus Cloud, with over 2,500 community-operated nodes. Different use cases, but a familiar challenge: making independently operated infrastructure useful, reliable and manageable at scale.

The Aventus DAO Council has published its decision on the bridge recovery, AVT supply and the AvN Mainnet v10.0.3 upgrade. The statement sets out the recovery plan, the one-time replacement issuance, the new permanent transaction fee burn and the next steps for restoring the bridge. Read the full Council decision ↓ aventus.io/insights/bridge-r…

Circle’s expansion into AI agent payments is particularly interesting for us at Aventus. We’re developing community-operated compute and verification infrastructure through Aventus Cloud. As agents begin purchasing services autonomously, independently verifying the work those services perform becomes increasingly valuable.

The growing resistance to OKXICE is interesting. Having spent years building enterprise blockchain infrastructure at Aventus, we’ve seen how important confidence in the underlying systems is to adoption. Companies want to understand the risks and who is accountable. Those are reasonable expectations.

China has put blockchain alongside AI and 6G in its national infrastructure plans. That's quite a statement about where the technology is heading. We've spent nearly a decade building enterprise blockchain infrastructure at Aventus. It's encouraging to see serious attention being given to its practical applications.

Grayscale highlighting blockchain’s role in the AI infrastructure economy is encouraging. At Aventus, we’ve spent years working on decentralised infrastructure, and one question keeps becoming more relevant. How do you coordinate independent participants, verify their contributions and build an economic model that works for everyone involved? That’s where some of the most interesting innovation is happening.

Interesting development from Ethereum. At Aventus, we’ve recently strengthened our network’s software build and release processes as part of our latest mainnet upgrade. The Glamsterdam delay is a reminder of just how important careful testing, independent security research and responsible deployment decisions are for blockchain infrastructure.

The PHP security crisis is a reminder of how much responsibility comes with operating critical infrastructure. For community-operated networks like Aventus Cloud, that responsibility extends across governance, software releases and independent node operators. Building the network is one challenge. Keeping it secure and sustainable for years is another.

A useful example from another ecosystem One feature we like in @NEARProtocol's Chain Signatures: a single operator cannot sign a transaction alone. Independent participants have to cooperate to produce the signature. It is a useful example of decentralisation doing a specific job: distributing the authority to act. When assessing any network, look at what an operator can do independently and what requires agreement from others. That tells you something a node count cannot explain on its own. For us, an important part of infrastructure design is making those boundaries explicit. People should know where the power sits

One thing we’ve learned building infrastructure at Aventus since 2017 is how important node economics are! Everyone’s talking about @Solana’s 150ms finality target. We're equally interested in the changes to validator operating costs. Making decentralised networks faster and more economical to operate is good for the entire industry.

Infrastructure rarely gets the spotlight. It gets the workload! As more businesses move onchain, they need infrastructure behind them that can handle real demand. That is where Aventus comes in. And our community of decentralised node operators is a big part of what makes it work. Find out more at: aventus.io

A power failure in London Millions of banking customers affected. That’s how interconnected our infrastructure has become. At Aventus, we’re building community-operated decentralised compute and verification infrastructure. Check us out at: aventus.io

Aventus Cloud, beyond your own nodes. The upcoming dashboard will give operators a view of the wider network, including a map of operator locations and the total number of registered nodes. From there, a more detailed dashboard will show the computers, operating systems, client versions and connection types represented across the network. For a community helping to build and run this infrastructure, access to that information should be part of the experience. This is an early preview. More coming soon!

Interesting to see @Microsoft putting greater emphasis on operational independence, auditability and customer control. These are increasingly important requirements for enterprise infrastructure. At Aventus, we’ve spent years exploring how decentralised technology can provide greater transparency and independent verification. Exciting times ahead 🥳

Aventus connects the businesses building onchain with the community running the infrastructure. Appchains bring the applications. Our community of node operators runs Aventus Cloud, carrying out the compute work those applications send to the network. AVT is used for transaction fees on Aventus Network and rewards for active node operators. Through governance, holders also have a say in how the ecosystem develops. We’re building more reasons to use AVT across Aventus Cloud and appchains. Our ambition is straightforward: as the ecosystem grows, AVT should have more work to do.

World wants banks to know who’s behind an AI agent. Good. But knowing who authorised an agent tells you very little about the quality of the work it performs. Independent verification will become increasingly important as autonomous systems take on greater responsibilities. Something we’re actively developing through Aventus Cloud.

Microsoft’s reported withdrawal from Nscale’s UK data centre is worth following. Imagine announcing an AI data centre with 23,000 GPUs, only to discover that sufficient electricity might not arrive for another five years. Across the compute industry, there’s an enormous difference between projected capacity and infrastructure that’s actually delivering services. Something every cloud provider, including decentralised networks like Aventus Cloud, should be measured against.