Erik Voorhees’ privacy-focused AI app venice dot ai just dropped a new token called $VVV on @base and it went straight to 500MM FDV in five minutes (80M MC after lockups.) 🤯 

I have been using Venice recently and it’s very good, and can be used for free in a browser with no memory. Yesterday, they made a private version of deepseek available to their Pro users. 

The token will be used in lieu of an access key for their API and can be staked for a 2700% APY currently. There is also an airdrop for holders of certain tokens like $DEGEN and $VIRTUALS, I got about $1500 worth across my wallets so definitely check  it out at venic dot ai slash token. 

Feels like a big deal for @base! 

Some links below 👇

Wow utility tokens are back!

Stake $VVV on Base to get query quota for requests signed from the staking account.

What a time to be alive.

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

Voorhees is a crypto 🐐 

Also beware there are already several fake impersonations of this. (One just launched via clanker.)

Truly is, one of the few internally consistent people with strong principles and conviction.

I don't agree with many of his views but I enjoy his takes/debates and he has my respect.