Venice captures this vertical because it's the only AI project where crypto isn't just marketing gloss—it's load-bearing infrastructure.
The play:
Privacy architecture OpenAI can't replicate: Zero data storage, encrypted inference, decentralized GPU compute. ChatGPT harvests your conversations; Venice cryptographically forgets them. As AI surveillance ramps up, this becomes digital Switzerland.
Uncensored by design: 2.2% refusal rate versus Claude's 71% and GPT-4's 64%. When others install guardrails, Venice removes them. That's the premium product in a market choking on safetyism.
VVV actually does something: Stake to earn sVVV, get daily Diem credits (1 Diem ≈ $1 compute) plus ~14% annual yield. Real demand sink—you need the token to use the network at scale. Compare to OpenAI's $80B+ valuation with zero user upside.
Decentralized supply: Permissionless GPU providers earn VVV, creating antifragile compute that scales without AWS bills.
Undervalued? You're betting that private, uncensored AI steals market share from surveillance models. Given every other platform is tightening censorship while AI adoption explodes, Venice is the asymmetric bet on the shadow economy going mainstream.
Check current VVV market cap versus AI comps—the gap is the opportunity.
AI x Crypto feels like the true final frontier that brings crypto truly mainstream
I don't see any stronger narratives
Venice looks positioned to own this vertical.
If $VVV is the private, uncensored version of ChatGPT... it feels undervalued
*Obviously if you access Anthropic/OpenAI/Google models through Venice, those companies are definitely retaining prompts and responses (though they don't know who sent them, thus much more private than going direct).
Our privacy guarantee applies to all open-source models listed as "Private" in our app.
Lots of discussion around Venice's privacy model last few days. Glad to see this as an important topic!
To date, Venice is private in that prompts and responses are not stored on Venice servers. They are not retained. They can not be viewed or extracted later.
This is private, but it is not provable.
Venice users are not mainly crypto people, and for them, the above has been sufficient (empirically, given the growth). But proving the privacy is much better, and we need to do so. This has been on our roadmap since inception.
But delivery means everything. Provable privacy will be delivered soon.
aait shipped a bunch of updates to nanoclaw-venice
• setup now defaults to GLM 5 so you're not burning money during install. switch to sonnet or opus after with /model
• setup wizard is way more solid now, no more getting stuck between steps, the wizard should progress to the next step automatically
• the venice api proxy now runs as a real background process. no more second terminal window, no more it dying when you close the tab
• your agent can see images now. send a photo on whatsapp or telegram and it actually processes it
Oh, and if you're using Whatsapp, USE A VIRTUAL NUMBER. the agent sees every message on your account. added a full guide to the readme with app recommendations (hushed, burner, google voice).
Feel free to do this on https://t.co/m2jsJuCX8k
It's private, because nothing is stored/saved.
Table stakes in the crypto world... needed to exist in AI so we built it.
Freedom is impossible without privacy.
Super easy to route different @openclaw ‘cron jobs’ to different AI models with a single API key from @AskVenice. Just switch 75% of my agents jobs from Claude Opus to Sonnet which is 50% cheaper… however pretty sure I can save 90%+ by switching to one of the open source models on offer. $VVV
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now available on Venice.
Anthropic's fastest model yet — 1M token context, adaptive reasoning, and code performance approaching Opus at Sonnet pricing.