Venice Token (VVV) Exchange

About Venice Token

VVV is the native utility and governance token of Venice AI, a privacy-first decentralised AI inference platform launched in May 2024 by Erik Voorhees (former CEO of ShapeShift) and Teana Baker-Taylor (former VP at Circle). Rather than functioning as a simple payment token, VVV operates as a compute access key: users and developers stake VVV to receive a proportional share of Venice's AI inference capacity across text, image, video, and code models — without per-request billing and without data logging. Venice AI reached 1.3 million registered users and 50,000 daily active users by March 2026, according to CoinStats AI analysis. The token launched on Base on January 27, 2025, with no presale.

VVV tokenomics

Venice launched with a fixed genesis supply of 100 million VVV. The protocol uses a declining emissions schedule over three years to reward stakers, complemented from November 2025 by a revenue-funded buyback-and-burn programme. As of October 2026, CoinGecko shows about 48.7 million VVV in circulation and a fully diluted valuation of about $1.9 billion.
Total supply — 100,000,000 VVV; fixed at genesis with the 3-year emission schedule adding to this base
Community allocation — 50% of genesis supply: 25 million to Venice platform users via airdrop (100,000+ eligible addresses), 25 million to ecosystem protocols including Aerodrome, Virtuals, and AIXBT
No presale — no private sale, no VC pre-launch allocation; launched directly on Aerodrome on Base
Emissions schedule — 3 years total; initial rate 14M VVV/year, reduced in stages to 10M VVV/year in August 2025 and 8M VVV/year from October 23, 2025, according to tokenradar.ai; later reductions follow official Venice updates; 100% of emissions flow to stakers
Buyback and burn — from November 2025, Venice allocates a portion of monthly platform revenue to purchase VVV on the open market via Aerodrome and permanently destroy it
Dual-token design — in August 2025, Venice introduced DIEM: stakers lock VVV (sVVV) to mint DIEM, where 1 DIEM equals $1 per day of perpetual AI API compute credit; locked sVVV earns 80% of standard staking yield while locked, with 20% flowing to Venice
Unstaking cooldown — 7-day cooldown applies to all unstaking requests; unstaked VVV does not grant API access

What determines VVV's value

VVV's primary demand driver is compute access: staking VVV gives access to Venice's AI inference capacity, so developers, AI agents, and users who want ongoing access through staking must hold and stake VVV. As active API user count grows, the capacity available per staked VVV increases — in 2025, Venice changed capacity allocation from “divided across all stakers” to “divided among active API users,” yielding a 14x efficiency gain per token staked for active users, according to CoinStats AI. The larger the active user base, the more valuable a unit of staked VVV becomes as an inference allocation.

The secondary mechanism is the revenue-funded burn: Venice's platform revenue converts into open-market VVV purchases, reducing circulating supply at a rate proportional to total AI usage. As the emission rate steps down from 14M VVV per year at launch, new token issuance falls while platform activity and burn activity are intended to scale in the opposite direction.