what's venice ai?
Venice AI is a privacy-focused, decentralized AI platform that emphasizes uncensored and private AI services. The project operates with no data storage, conversation logging, or user surveillance, using decentralized compute infrastructure with encryption protocols. Key developments include a major partnership with Warden Protocol, where Venice AI powers over 1.5 million daily chats and processes nearly 1 trillion tokens. The platform offers developers the ability to integrate Venice's models via Warden Studio for decentralized applications. Recent feature updates include an image remix capability that allows users to generate variations of AI-generated images. The project positions itself as an alternative to centralized AI platforms, focusing on user autonomy and privacy in the AI space.
Venice AI integrated CoinStats for private mode routing of research questions.
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Integrated with CoinStats to enable private mode routing for research questions.
Released Seedance 2.0 featuring multi-shot prompting, native audio support, real physics simulation, and reference image attachment for character and scene generation.
Listed on Bithumb exchange with a KRW trading pair on 2026-04-01.
Emissions scheduled to decrease to 5 million tokens on 2026-05-01.
Emissions scheduled to decrease to 4 million tokens on 2026-06-01.
Emissions scheduled to decrease to 3 million tokens on 2026-07-01.
Launched Aion 2.0 text model, free for immersive roleplay and long-form storytelling via API for Pro users and DIEM holders, with delivery under 5 minutes.
Ranked #4 on LunarCrush AltRank, jumping from an average rank of #415.
VVV token is now available for lending and borrowing on Moonwell DeFi on Base.
Partnered with ilblackdragon to expand privacy for AI.
Launched verifiable end-to-end encrypted AI inference with NEAR AI and Phala Network, using secure enclaves, cryptographic proof, and external auditability.
Integrated Grok on its platform on March 13th, 2026.
Increased 15% over the week ending March 16, 2026, ranking 6th among top weekly gainers.
Integrated x402 payment standard for AI inference using DIEM or USDC on Base, governed by Linux Foundation, enabling autonomous payments without API keys or billing accounts.
Venice Token (VVV) experienced a 25.12% price increase over a 24-hour period ending on March 13, 2026.
Participates in Synthesis 10-day hackathon, providing AI agent judges and inference infrastructure to evaluate projects. Sponsors "Private Agents, Trusted Actions" track with prizes including 1,000 VVV (1st), 600 VVV (2nd), 400 VVV (3rd) and over $100,000 total; submissions close March 22, 2026.
Executed largest VVV token burn to date on March 9, 2026, as part of a monthly buy-and-burn mechanism.
Venice Token (VVV) experienced a 12.49% price decline over 24 hours ending on March 9, 2026.
Ranked 4th by transaction count among top tokens traded on Definitive during the week ending March 9, 2026.
Integrated music generation using MiniMax Music, Stable Audio 2.5, and ElevenLabs Music, enabling full songs with vocals or instrumentals across multiple genres.
Featured in Messari's "Shoot the Sh*t" podcast episode discussing a controversy related to the project.
Featured in Bankless podcast episode discussing Erik Voorhees' private AI push with Venice AI as part of broader crypto and AI market coverage.
Ranked as the third top trending coin on CoinGecko for the week ending March 6, 2026.
Serves uncensored models via dphn AI for private inference services.
Performing infrastructure upgrade on March 8, 2026 from 11:30-12:00 UTC, during which the Venice app and API will be temporarily unavailable.
Increased token price 400% YTD as of April 12, 2026, driven by demand for private AI, and listed among best performing inference sector projects alongside Chutes in April 2026 market analysis for its uncensored and private AI capabilities.
Removed from OpenClaw's provider list on March 4, 2026.
Supports Parallel Society initiative and sponsors their event in Lisbon on March 6-7, 2026.
Accepts monthly USDC subscriptions for $18-20, processed via Stripe for private inference aggregating top models.
Launched Diem Pool as a secondary market for surplus DIEM tokens.
Reduced emissions implemented.
Reached 2 million users
Integrated on Aerodrome for liquidity provision.
Integrated on Morpho as collateral; incentives went live on the Morpho fxUSD/VVV market, offering 1100% APY by supplying VVV and borrowing fxUSD.
Integrated on Plena for gasless swaps.
Reduced annual token emissions from 8 million to 6 million in February 2026.
Operates a revenue-funded buyback and burn mechanism.
Founded by Erik Voorhees.
Trading volume is 955% above daily average.
Allocates compute access for inference services through VVV token staking, providing perpetual inference credits and API capacity without per-call billing or usage caps, and via DIEM token ownership.
492,000 tokens ($3.4 million) are scheduled to unlock from staking queues on March 8, 2026.
Reached 50 billion LLM tokens daily (app and API combined) in April 2026, up from 36 billion in March 2026.
VVV token surpassed $1.2B fully diluted valuation.
Deployed on Base blockchain as the network for the VVV token.
Featured in Binance Alpha Spotlight.
VVV perpetual futures available on KCEX exchange for US traders without VPN requirements.
Integration with Chainlink has been implemented or announced.
Designated as a privacy-focused model provider on OpenClaw (Clawdbot), launched November 2025.
Approximately 40M tokens are currently staked or locked
Reached a market cap or valuation above $250 million.
Reached 30,000 API users.
Described as "anon crypto openrouter" with potential to become the default infrastructure for agents, according to an industry participant who mentions holding the airdrop tokens.
Integrated as LLM provider for FlowClaw, with Llama 3.3 70B as default model, and with OpenClaw for private inference capabilities; VVV token surged 600% since early February 2026.
Added Qwen 3.5 35B model with 262K context window and multimodal input capabilities to the platform.
Integrated Google's Nano Banana 2 image generation model with native 4K support and enhanced text rendering capabilities.
Participates in Open Agents Hackathon in San Francisco on 2026-02-26 in collaboration with Akash.
Introduced verifiable end-to-end encryption for customer conversations on 2026-03-19, integrating Cludebot for private AI agent reasoning on Solana with zero retention from 2026-02-27.
Venice Token (VVV) experienced an 8.35% price decline over a 24-hour period ending on February 21, 2026.
Venice Token (VVV) ranked as the third-largest gainer among cryptocurrencies with a 31.75% price increase over 24 hours on February 20, 2026.
Made a leading coding model available on the platform on its day 0 release, offered free to DIEM token holders.
Made GLM 4.7 Flash Heretic model available on the platform with 128K context window and zero data retention.
Wintermute actively bought 150K+ tokens in 24 hours.
Added every leading AI model to the platform.
Daily trading volume reached $82 million as of March 3, 2026.
Reduced $VVV emissions from 10M tokens per year to 6M tokens per year in February 2026.
Added MiniMax M2.5 model to the platform, available through both web interface and API, during the week of February 9-13, 2026.
Venice Token (VVV) became available to New York residents on Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase iOS and Android apps.
Reduces $VVV token emissions by 25% on February 10, 2026.
DIEM staked to generate compute credits increased by 22% over a two-week period ending around 2026-02-08, and compute credits consumed increased by 79% over the same period.
Released image combination feature allowing users to merge up to 3 images into one composite, now available for all users.
Integrated with Moltbot to provide privacy-first inference capabilities for powering Moltbot functionality.
Released ImagineArt 1.5 Pro for 4K visual generation with lifelike realism for professional use. Integrated Recraft V4 and V4 Pro models for design-grade image generation.
Ranks among the top assets on LunarCrush AltRank™, indicating strong combined social and market strength.
DIEM token price reached $300, gaining 50%+ over seven consecutive weeks. VVV and DIEM reached double-digit price levels.
Reached 2 million users.
Processed 323 million LLM requests in 2025.
Generated 137 million images in 2025.
Generated 1.4 million videos in 2025.
Added chat backup and multi-document upload features in March 2025.
Released image enhance and upscale engine in April 2025.
Released embeddings endpoint and API upgrades in June 2025.
Launched native iOS and Android apps in August 2025.
Released auto-mode for model routing in September 2025.
Added web scraping and PDF upload features in October 2025.
Experienced an increase in active addresses on Base during the holiday period.
Mint opens with a reserve price of 0.069 ETH for the 9th city release in The World Rewritten collection.
Completed VVV token burn of 42.73% of total token supply, starting monthly burn program.
Uses Akash Network for private AI chat service with proprietary LLM accessing Claude Opus, GPT 5.2, and Gemini; sources compute at 70-85% lower cost than AWS for inference infrastructure.
Kling 2.6 Pro video model with native audio generation is now available on the Venice platform.
New image model launches in Venice API, accessible for free by DIEM stakers on Base.
Bitcoin OG Erik Voorhees discusses Venice AI on CoinDesk Spotlight, covering the platform's differentiation from ChatGPT and Gemini, VVV token, and 'Separation of Mind and State' concept.
Launched video models with VVV token staking, granting proportional inference capacity and API access. Staking DIEM tokens generates $1 worth of AI inference per token per day, enabling $1 daily credits and $1 compute credit.
Venice activates video models, allowing staked DIEM holders to use their $1 daily credits on video services.
Reduced token inflation to 8m/yr. Implemented monthly buyback and burn for VVV and DIEM tokens from platform revenue.
Commences VVV token buybacks, with first official token burn next month and recurring monthly burns planned. Dashboard for monitoring buyback and burn activity under development.
Ranks 3rd place in DappRadar Community Favorites Cycle #29 competition.
VV artwork reaches $1 billion in cumulative trading volume.
Arrakis now provides liquidity management for $VVV and $DIEM tokens on Base through AerodromeFi, with Arrakis Pro markets now live.
Arrakis powers liquidity for $DIEM on Base through AerodromeFi, with Arrakis Pro markets now live for Venice AI.
Venice becomes a Featured app in the Base app, gaining prominent visibility on Coinbase's L2 platform.