You may want to check out their discord channel where this was recently posted:

@everyone In the case of that we want to give the opportunity to investors who want to take a part in the success of our project,  we want to give away 10 masternodes 0.2 BTC each. This will cover the listing on the first exchanges and on masternodes.online.  But first we want to make sure everything goes well.

This is because everyone on Discord bashed and shouted against the dev.
Don't listen to the haters.

Dev just should make a wallet update with difficulty changing every block and everythin will be fine.

I dont want to offend devs of the project. It is just my opinion about what happened recent weeks. Recently, there are dozen of projects, which claim to have masternode, lauched. Of course, as you can check by yourself, most of them have masternode auctions. Devs of those projects said that they need to sell premined coins for exchange listings, marketing, etc. What happened after auctions? Again, you can check by yourself. Be careful and invest safely. Anyway, I will stay tuned to get more news from devs of Aerial.