The privacy coin for AI. Buy · Stake · Mint DIEM — the three mechanics that power the Venice AI ecosystem and HCC-IDE's compute layer.
The capital asset of the Venice AI platform
VVV is the native cryptocurrency of Venice AI — a privacy-first, uncensored AI platform founded by Erik Voorhees (former CEO of ShapeShift). Venice provides open-source AI inference for text, image, video, and code generation where user data is never stored and content is never censored.
Unlike governance tokens or speculative assets, VVV is engineered as a capital asset directly tied to platform revenue. As Venice grows, a portion of every subscription dollar is used to buy VVV from the open market and permanently burn it — creating a deflationary feedback loop that aligns token holders with platform success.
33.68M unclaimed airdrop tokens were permanently burned in March 2025, reducing total supply from 100M to ~66.3M in a single deflationary event.
Since November 2025, Venice uses a portion of monthly platform revenue to buy VVV on the open market and permanently remove it from circulation.
Annual emissions cut from 14M VVV at launch to ~6M by February 2026 — a 57% reduction — with Venice committed to further cuts toward long-term deflation.
Acquire the Capital Asset
VVV is the native capital asset of the Venice AI platform — an ERC-20 token on Ethereum's Base blockchain. Launched January 27, 2025, with an initial supply of 100 million tokens, VVV is engineered as a long-term deflationary asset whose scarcity increases as Venice scales.
More Platform Revenue → More Buy & Burns → Less Supply → Scarcer VVV
Earn Yield + Unlock Venice Pro
Staking is the core utility of VVV. When you stake, you earn continuous yield from token emissions and gain proportional access to Venice's total AI inference capacity. Stake just 100 VVV to unlock Venice Pro — unlimited text prompts, leading generative image and video models, and advanced features.
At 50% utilization Venice earns max emissions to fund infrastructure — aligning platform and staker incentives
Tokenize AI Compute
DIEM is the second token in the Venice ecosystem, introduced in August 2025. Each DIEM represents exactly $1 of daily Venice API credit in perpetuity — it never expires. Only VVV stakers can mint DIEM by locking their staked VVV (sVVV). DIEM can then be used for API access or sold on the open market.
Lock 900 sVVV → mint 10 DIEM → get $10/day API credits forever, with predictable budgeting
HCC-IDE integrates Venice AI as one of its three AI backends. When you use the Venice AI backend in HCC-IDE, your pipeline runs are powered by the same privacy-first, uncensored inference network that VVV token holders have proportional access to. Pro and Team subscribers on HCC-IDE gain access to Venice AI's full model catalog — the same models available to VVV stakers.
As a VVV holder, you can stake your tokens to earn yield and gain direct Venice Pro access — complementing your HCC-IDE subscription with on-chain, permissionless compute ownership. DIEM tokens minted from your staked VVV can be used to fund API calls directly against Venice's inference network, independent of any subscription.