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What Is the VVV Token? Venice AI's Crypto Explained

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:10:49 +0000

The VVV token is the native crypto asset of Venice AI, the private, uncensored AI platform founded by ShapeShift creator Erik Voorhees. Instead of paying per request, users stake VVV to unlock a permanent share of Venice’s AI capacity — turning a token holding into ongoing access to text, image and code generation. VVV is an ERC-20 token that launched on Coinbase’s Base network on January 27, 2025, and traded near $11.42 as of July 18, 2026, per CoinGecko data.

Is China Winning the AI Race? DeepSeek's Quiet Takeover

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:40:32 +0000

Is China winning the AI race? On the metric that decides which models the world actually builds on — raw usage — the answer as of July 2026 is increasingly yes. Chinese open models now process the majority of traffic on OpenRouter, the largest marketplace developers use to plug into AI systems, and they do it at prices US frontier labs cannot match. But volume is not the same as value, and the gap between those two words is the whole story.