venice ai04
$VVV
MCAP418.40M
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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.

Snapshot

Venice AI integrated CoinStats for private mode routing of research questions.

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15H ago
PARTNERSHIPOfficial

Integrated with CoinStats to enable private mode routing for research questions.

1W ago
TECH EVENTOfficial

Released Seedance 2.0 featuring multi-shot prompting, native audio support, real physics simulation, and reference image attachment for character and scene generation.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed on Bithumb exchange with a KRW trading pair on 2026-04-01.

2W ago
TOKEN ECONOMICS

Emissions scheduled to decrease to 5 million tokens on 2026-05-01.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Emissions scheduled to decrease to 4 million tokens on 2026-06-01.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Emissions scheduled to decrease to 3 million tokens on 2026-07-01.

TECH EVENTOfficial

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.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Ranked #4 on LunarCrush AltRank, jumping from an average rank of #415.

MARKET ACTIVITYOfficial

VVV token is now available for lending and borrowing on Moonwell DeFi on Base.

3W ago
PARTNERSHIP

Partnered with ilblackdragon to expand privacy for AI.

PARTNERSHIPOfficial

Launched verifiable end-to-end encrypted AI inference with NEAR AI and Phala Network, using secure enclaves, cryptographic proof, and external auditability.

1M ago
PARTNERSHIP

Integrated Grok on its platform on March 13th, 2026.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Increased 15% over the week ending March 16, 2026, ranking 6th among top weekly gainers.

VISIBILITY EVENTOfficial

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.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Venice Token (VVV) experienced a 25.12% price increase over a 24-hour period ending on March 13, 2026.

VISIBILITY EVENTOfficial

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.

TOKEN ECONOMICSOfficial

Executed largest VVV token burn to date on March 9, 2026, as part of a monthly buy-and-burn mechanism.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Venice Token (VVV) experienced a 12.49% price decline over 24 hours ending on March 9, 2026.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Ranked 4th by transaction count among top tokens traded on Definitive during the week ending March 9, 2026.

TECH EVENTOfficial

Integrated music generation using MiniMax Music, Stable Audio 2.5, and ElevenLabs Music, enabling full songs with vocals or instrumentals across multiple genres.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Featured in Messari's "Shoot the Sh*t" podcast episode discussing a controversy related to the project.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Featured in Bankless podcast episode discussing Erik Voorhees' private AI push with Venice AI as part of broader crypto and AI market coverage.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Ranked as the third top trending coin on CoinGecko for the week ending March 6, 2026.

PARTNERSHIP

Serves uncensored models via dphn AI for private inference services.

TECH EVENT

Performing infrastructure upgrade on March 8, 2026 from 11:30-12:00 UTC, during which the Venice app and API will be temporarily unavailable.

VISIBILITY EVENT

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.

PARTNERSHIP

Removed from OpenClaw's provider list on March 4, 2026.

PARTNERSHIP

Supports Parallel Society initiative and sponsors their event in Lisbon on March 6-7, 2026.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Accepts monthly USDC subscriptions for $18-20, processed via Stripe for private inference aggregating top models.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Launched Diem Pool as a secondary market for surplus DIEM tokens.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Reduced emissions implemented.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached 2 million users

MARKET ACTIVITY

Integrated on Aerodrome for liquidity provision.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Integrated on Morpho as collateral; incentives went live on the Morpho fxUSD/VVV market, offering 1100% APY by supplying VVV and borrowing fxUSD.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Integrated on Plena for gasless swaps.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Reduced annual token emissions from 8 million to 6 million in February 2026.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Operates a revenue-funded buyback and burn mechanism.

TEAM UPDATE

Founded by Erik Voorhees.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Trading volume is 955% above daily average.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

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.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

492,000 tokens ($3.4 million) are scheduled to unlock from staking queues on March 8, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached 50 billion LLM tokens daily (app and API combined) in April 2026, up from 36 billion in March 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

VVV token surpassed $1.2B fully diluted valuation.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Deployed on Base blockchain as the network for the VVV token.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Featured in Binance Alpha Spotlight.

MARKET ACTIVITY

VVV perpetual futures available on KCEX exchange for US traders without VPN requirements.

PARTNERSHIP

Integration with Chainlink has been implemented or announced.

TECH EVENT

Designated as a privacy-focused model provider on OpenClaw (Clawdbot), launched November 2025.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Approximately 40M tokens are currently staked or locked

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached a market cap or valuation above $250 million.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached 30,000 API users.

OPINION SPECULATION

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.

PARTNERSHIP

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.

TECH EVENT

Added Qwen 3.5 35B model with 262K context window and multimodal input capabilities to the platform.

TECH EVENT

Integrated Google's Nano Banana 2 image generation model with native 4K support and enhanced text rendering capabilities.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Participates in Open Agents Hackathon in San Francisco on 2026-02-26 in collaboration with Akash.

PARTNERSHIPOfficial

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.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Venice Token (VVV) experienced an 8.35% price decline over a 24-hour period ending on February 21, 2026.

OPINION SPECULATION

Venice Token (VVV) ranked as the third-largest gainer among cryptocurrencies with a 31.75% price increase over 24 hours on February 20, 2026.

TECH EVENT

Made a leading coding model available on the platform on its day 0 release, offered free to DIEM token holders.

TECH EVENT

Made GLM 4.7 Flash Heretic model available on the platform with 128K context window and zero data retention.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Wintermute actively bought 150K+ tokens in 24 hours.

TECH EVENT

Added every leading AI model to the platform.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Daily trading volume reached $82 million as of March 3, 2026.

2M ago
TOKEN ECONOMICS

Reduced $VVV emissions from 10M tokens per year to 6M tokens per year in February 2026.

TECH EVENT

Added MiniMax M2.5 model to the platform, available through both web interface and API, during the week of February 9-13, 2026.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Venice Token (VVV) became available to New York residents on Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase iOS and Android apps.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Reduces $VVV token emissions by 25% on February 10, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

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.

TECH EVENT

Released image combination feature allowing users to merge up to 3 images into one composite, now available for all users.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with Moltbot to provide privacy-first inference capabilities for powering Moltbot functionality.

TECH EVENT

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.

3M ago
VISIBILITY EVENT

Ranks among the top assets on LunarCrush AltRank™, indicating strong combined social and market strength.

MARKET ACTIVITY

DIEM token price reached $300, gaining 50%+ over seven consecutive weeks. VVV and DIEM reached double-digit price levels.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached 2 million users.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Processed 323 million LLM requests in 2025.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Generated 137 million images in 2025.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Generated 1.4 million videos in 2025.

TECH EVENT

Added chat backup and multi-document upload features in March 2025.

TECH EVENT

Released image enhance and upscale engine in April 2025.

TECH EVENT

Released embeddings endpoint and API upgrades in June 2025.

TECH EVENT

Launched native iOS and Android apps in August 2025.

TECH EVENT

Released auto-mode for model routing in September 2025.

TECH EVENT

Added web scraping and PDF upload features in October 2025.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Experienced an increase in active addresses on Base during the holiday period.

4M ago

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.

5M ago

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.