If you can afford it, go for it.
VEN is a good project, still early in development. So yes, many early projects will hype and shill even without the tech or fundamentals. All the IOT projects are new, and I have seen how the Waltonchain team does not market to western moon boys, let alone over-hype any announcement. Their marketing focus is on their customers, big businesses like the largest glass windshield manufacturer that just got on board. Not only are they WAY ahead of vechain in hardware bridging, they will be saving huge companies money when their blockchain releases in a few months. It was delayed specifically because the benefits of using waltonchains rfid+blockchain is so in demand, they need to build the child chains along with the parent chain.