Refresher on $VVV, the token of Venice is an app for generative text and images. It's similar to ChatGPT, except private and uncensored. Late last year Venice released its API (which uses the OpenAI standard), enabling AI agents and 3rd party app devs to access the same text and image inference that Venice's own app uses. API users can pay like a normie with credit card/Stripe. But more interesting, they can alternatively stake $VVV. Staking $VVV grants the staker a share of Venice's API capacity on a continual basis. If you staked half the tokens, you get half our capacity. This changes the pricing structure from "pay per request" to "pay once and use forever" Since the launch of the token, Venice's API has grown from <1% of Venice usage to roughly 20%. This has occurred even while Venice non-API usage grew over 100% during the same timeframe. But why Venice when so many AI services exist? We have the world's most uncensored large language model, and all the prompts and responses are private, stored only client-side. No other provider offers private, uncensored generative AI at our scale. If you're building an AI app or agent, try our API at and consider holding $VVV to get all your inference for free.

- ErikVoorhees