What is Venice Token (VVV)?
Venice is an AI platform built around privacy that gives access to open-source and leading language models for chat, image and code generation, in its app and through an API. VVV launched on Base on 27 January 2025 with an airdrop to Venice users and AI projects on Base.
- Type
- AI platform token
- Launched
- 2025
- Consensus
- Runs on Base
- Max supply
- No fixed cap (100 million at genesis, plus emissions, minus burns)
- Swap network
- Base
How Venice Token works
Holders stake VVV in Venice's staking contract and receive sVVV one for one, and staked VVV earns all new emissions. Locking sVVV lets a holder mint DIEM, where each DIEM gives $1 per day of Venice API credit; the sVVV stays locked until that DIEM is burned, and unstaking has a seven-day cooldown.
What VVV is used for
Developers and AI agents stake VVV to fund ongoing API access instead of buying prepaid credits. Venice also spends part of its revenue buying VVV on the market and burning it.
VVV supply
Genesis supply was 100 million VVV: 50% airdropped to users and Base AI projects, 35% to Venice, 10% to an incentive fund and 5% to liquidity. Issuance started at 14 million VVV a year and has been cut several times, to 2 million a year from 1 October 2026, while burns remove tokens.
Before you swap VVV
This is the Base ERC-20, so keep a little ETH on Base for gas after withdrawing. You receive liquid VVV; staking and minting DIEM happen separately on Venice.