What is Venice?
Venice is a decentralized AI infrastructure protocol that grants private, censorship-resistant access to text, image, and code generation models. Instead of charging per request, Venice uses a token-based access model: users stake $VVV tokens to unlock inference power measured in VCUs (Venice Compute Units).
The more VVV staked, the more capacity a user or agent can access—at zero cost per API call. This design enables predictable, gasless interaction with AI services and ensures access isn’t dependent on centralized payment rails.
Venice also aligns incentives through emissions-based yield, distributing VVV tokens to active stakers as the network grows. The protocol is non-custodial, stores no user data, and is architected to resist surveillance and control—making it a core building block for onchain AI agents and permissionless AI apps.
By combining AI access with DeFi-native token mechanics, Venice enables anyone to deploy or interact with intelligent systems without intermediaries or censorship.
