VeniceVVV

Venice generated $1.8M in gross revenue from Dec 2025 to Aug 2026 (246 days), with $1.8M retained as net revenue. $1.8M accrued to VVV token holders. Its primary token utilities include Staking Rewards, Staking Access, and Feature Access.

This averages $$7.5K in daily gross revenue across the tracked period.

VVV accrues value through 2 mechanisms: Buyback & Burn and Direct Token Burn.

• Buyback & Burn: Venice deploys a portion of monthly platform revenue to buy VVV on the open market (Aerodrome on Base) and send to a burn address. Program announced October 2025, first burn executed December 8, 2025, monthly cadence since. Cumulative buyback burns to date: ~217k VVV across multiple monthly executions, growing each month.
• Direct Token Burn: One-time burn at the close of the 45-day airdrop claim window in March 2025: 32,509,739 VVV from unclaimed Community Airdrop tokens were sent on-chain to a burn address. Additionally, ~1M VVV from a team-sale buyback was burned in the same period. Combined one-time burn: ~33.5M VVV, representing ~33.5% of the original 100M genesis supply.

Yes, Venice burns or redistributes VVV tokens via Buyback & Burn, Direct Token Burn. In 2026, approximately $1.8M worth of value was returned to token holders through these mechanisms.

Yearly token holder distributions:

• 2026: $1.8M
• 2025: $64.4K

VVV serves 3 primary functions within the Venice ecosystem: Staking Rewards, Staking Access, and Feature Access. The protocol generates fees from user activity, with a portion distributed back to VVV holders. Value flows back to token holders through Buyback & Burn and Direct Token Burn.

Token utilities:

• Staking Rewards: Stakers receive 100% of VVV emissions as yield (current rate: 6M VVV/yr as of Feb 10, 2026, with announced reductions to 5M on May 1, 2026 and 3M on July 1, 2026). When sVVV is locked to back minted DIEM, the staker earns 80% of the standard yield while locked, with the remaining 20% flowing to Venice. The Utilization Rate split mechanism used pre-DIEM was retired on August 20, 2025.
• Staking Access: Staked VVV (sVVV) can be locked to mint DIEM tokens, where each DIEM grants $1/day of perpetual API compute credit on the Venice platform. Holding unstaked VVV does not grant API access — staking is the gateway to platform compute via DIEM. 7-day cooldown applies to unstaking.
• Feature Access: Staked VVV locked to mint DIEM tokens grants holders perpetual access to Venice API compute at $1/day per DIEM, providing predictable inference capacity for developers and AI agents without per-request billing.

Value accrual mechanisms:

• Buyback & Burn: Venice deploys a portion of monthly platform revenue to buy VVV on the open market (Aerodrome on Base) and send to a burn address. Program announced October 2025, first burn executed December 8, 2025, monthly cadence since. Cumulative buyback burns to date: ~217k VVV across multiple monthly executions, growing each month.
• Direct Token Burn: One-time burn at the close of the 45-day airdrop claim window in March 2025: 32,509,739 VVV from unclaimed Community Airdrop tokens were sent on-chain to a burn address. Additionally, ~1M VVV from a team-sale buyback was burned in the same period. Combined one-time burn: ~33.5M VVV, representing ~33.5% of the original 100M genesis supply.

In 2026, Venice generated $1.8M in gross revenue. Of that, $1.8M was distributed to token holders.

Year-by-year revenue breakdown:

• 2026: $1.8M gross revenue — $1.8M to holders
• 2025: $64.4K gross revenue — $64.4K to holders

Venice's gross revenue has increased by 171.1% over the past 90 days compared to the prior 90-day period, from $435.5K to $1.2M.

• Recent 90d daily average: $13.1K/day
• Prior 90d daily average: $4.8K/day