Venice Tokenomics Overview
Full Venice tokenomics breakdown: VVV token allocation, vesting schedule, supply distribution, unlock dates, and investor terms.
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Full Venice tokenomics breakdown: VVV token allocation, vesting schedule, supply distribution, unlock dates, and investor terms.
Key questions and answers about Venice tokenomics.
Venice has 3 primary token utilities:
Venice token distribution allocates 100,000,000 VVV across 3 primary stakeholder groups:
VVV uses variable cliffs and vesting schedules that change depending on the allocation:
52.5% of the total supply (52,500,000 VVV) is unlocked at TGE, with the tokens split between Community and Insiders.
Venice has a total supply of 100,000,000 VVV, of which 46,023,016 VVV (46% of total) is currently circulating.
Total length of the full Venice emission schedule is 3 years, with 55.94% released in Year 1, while the remaining 4.06% is released over the following 2 years.
50% of the Venice supply is allocated to community focused pools such as Airdrop.
Venice is a privacy-focused decentralized AI inference platform built on Ethereum L2 Base, founded by Erik Voorhees (founder of ShapeShift). Venice provides users, developers, and AI agents with access to leading open-source AI models for text, image, and code generation through an uncensored API — without the surveillance, data retention, or content restrictions of mainstream AI services. The platform launched in May 2024 and introduced its native token VVV in January 2025, with no presale. VVV is a utility token, not a governance token. Holders do not vote on protocol changes, emissions, or treasury allocations — all such decisions are made unilaterally by Venice.ai, the company that operates the platform. The token's primary functions are: (1) staked VVV (sVVV) earns continuous yield from protocol emissions; (2) sVVV can be locked to mint DIEM, a separate access token where each unit grants $1/day of perpetual API compute credit; and (3) liquidity provisioning on Aerodrome DEX. Pre-staked direct API access via the original Utilization Rate model was retired on August 20, 2025 with the launch of DIEM. The tokenomics combine ongoing emissions with active buy-and-burn deflationary pressure. At genesis (January 27, 2025), 100M VVV were created with 50% airdropped to Venice users and AI-aligned community projects on Base, 35% retained by Venice.ai (with 10% reserved for the team under a 24-month vesting schedule ending January 2027), 10% reserved for the Incentive Fund, and 5% deployed to liquidity. Annual emissions began at 14M VVV/yr and have stepped down progressively to 6M VVV/yr (effective February 10, 2026), with announced further reductions to 5M (May 1, 2026) and 3M (July 1, 2026). 100% of emissions flow to VVV stakers as yield; when sVVV is locked to back minted DIEM, the staker earns 80% of standard yield with 20% flowing to Venice. The deflationary side comes from two burn mechanisms. At the close of the 45-day airdrop claim window in March 2025, 32,509,739 unclaimed VVV were permanently burned on-chain, alongside ~1M VVV from a team-sale buyback. Since December 2025, Venice has executed a revenue-funded buyback program, allocating a portion of platform subscription and API revenue to purchase VVV from the open market and burn it. As of April 2026, cumulative burns total ~33.7M VVV (~33.7% of the original genesis supply), trackable live at venice.ai/token/burns. Total supply is currently ~79.7M VVV. Venice's stated long-term goal is to evolve VVV into a deflationary asset where revenue-funded burns sustainably exceed emissions.
