The Venice Airdrop ended today at dawn, Venetian time 🌅

Over the past 45 days, 17.4 million VVV tokens were claimed by over 40,000 people

We now enter a new phase for Venice 🧵

To those who are just hearing about it, what does the VVV token do?

The Venice API is free for any human or agent who stakes VVV, meaning zero-cost generative AI for private and uncensored text, image, and code

Stake VVV for free API access here venice.ai/token

Venice.ai is a generative AI app powered by leading open-source AI models, enabling anyone, anywhere, access private and censorship-free generative AI.

Now that the airdrop is over, what will be done with the unclaimed tokens?

The unclaimed supply—a third of total VVV supply, worth roughly $100,000,000—was burned today at dawn

And as previously conveyed at launch, 2.5% of token supply was unlocked for the team at genesis

1% was sold on launch day, with our blessing

After perps markets opened (i.e. leveraged shorts), several social media accounts spun this into a negative narrative against Venice

Combined with the sell pressure from the ongoing airdrop, a casual cynic could be forgiven for getting the wrong impression…

We want to reiterate the following:

Venice has sought no VC funding
Venice engaged in no pre-sale or OTC deals
Venice paid no KOLs for their affection

Venice stands alone in this among its peers

But to resolve any lingering doubts about our commitment to the importance of unrestricted intelligence…

Venice bought back the 1% of VVV that was sold, and these tokens were burned at dawn as well

But to resolve any lingering doubts about our commitment to the importance of unrestricted intelligence…

Venice bought back the 1% of VVV that was sold, and these tokens were burned at dawn as well

https://basescan.org/tx/0x9d0007242ccdd4ad12c5aa293e92a304eea202f55e0b437d9fa1ac6286aa8147

In the past 45 days since launch on @base, Venice has continued shipping features every day

This is public in our change log with more detail available here

In the past 45 days since launch on @base, Venice has continued shipping features every day

This is public in our change log with more detail available here

https://featurebase.venice.ai/changelog

Some highlights are:

Model Releases

DeepSeek R1 Models in the API
Qwen 2.5 VL 72B
Deepseek Coder V2 Lite
Mistral Codestral 22B
Lustify SDXL

Image Features

Image Inpainting
Sticker Factory
Multi-image Generation
Upscale Options
Increased Prompt Length

App Features

Venice Voice - Text to Speech
Venice Voice Downloads
Prompt History Navigation
Account-Level Safe Mode
Telemetry Controls
Extended Context Windows

API Features

Autonomous Key Creation
API Integration Guides for Cursor, Cline, VOID, Roo AI, Brave Leo AI, and ElizaOS
Akash Eliza Template
VCU Allocation Optimization
Immediate VCU Access
Characters available in API
API Dashboard
USD Billing on API
API Key Expiration
API Key Consumption Limits
Function Calling Support
Web Search Support
API Documentation Overhaul
120+ other code updates

We’re also pleased to unveil Venice’s new branding

For the past few months, we partnered with Asimov Collective to design a comprehensive design language

A visual identity inspired by mankind’s timeless quest for knowledge; the pursuit of unrestricted intelligence

Check it out now live on our website

What’s next?

We like to build and ship, rather than levy promises and roadmaps

But here’s a taste of what’s on the horizon: Venice’s new image engine, social feed, native mobile app, agentic Characters, and some powerful updates to VVV tokenomics

The API will continue to approach feature-parity with the app, and usage is growing

Venice ensures humanity has access to unrestricted machine intelligence, providing users with private, uncensored access to state-of-the-art open-source AI models

To those who have been enjoying the app, thank you for taking a chance on us early. If you haven’t already, join our Discord to meet other Venetians and chat with the team

Venice ensures humanity has access to unrestricted machine intelligence, providing users with private, uncensored access to state-of-the-art open-source AI models

To those who have been enjoying the app, thank you for taking a chance on us early. If you haven’t already, join our Discord to meet other Venetians and chat with the team

https://discord.gg/askvenice

To those learning about us for the first time, Venice is available without an account, at Venice.ai 

ad intellectum infinitum

- The Venice Team

Now that the airdrop is over, what will be done with the unclaimed tokens?

The unclaimed supply—a third of total VVV supply, worth roughly $100,000,000—was burned today at dawn

https://basescan.org/tx/0xf5a19b79b13274faf19c46b404a36699990cad18e907aece0ab26671ff4a37af