Most people are unaware of all the tools and capabilities within Venice Our new Learn page has over 50 longform + video tutorials, from how to set up Hermes Agent with private inference on any model, to automating AI filmmaking with a custom video harness... learn.venice.ai/ @AskVenice

"We spent a generation teaching people the first rule of the internet: never give out your real identity to strangers. We have a word, doxxing, for inflicting that exposure on someone against their will. And now the same governments and platforms are asking every citizen to do it to themselves, voluntarily, as a condition of logging in." nevergivethemyourface.com/

1. Yes DIEM is a liability of Venice, this is known and intentional. 2. The liability is constrained because supply of DIEM cannot rise materially (doing so would lock exponential amounts of VVV) 3. We (Venice) treat DIEM like any other cost of business. We spend money on marketing, on servers, on staff, on SaaS products, and on DIEM as a mechanism. 4. We could easily support it if all DIEM was used every day, but it's not. Only 80% is staked, and of that just under half tends to be used, so the real liability is lower than max liability. But again, we can easily handle the max liability and designed things around that limit. 5. Venice hasn't sold VVV (in fact we have more today in both numerical and percent terms than when it launched, despite total supply falling from 100m to 80m tokens). And still, Venice has already made more in its 20% cut of locked VVV emissions from DIEM minting than it has spent in DIEM-led inference. None of our modeling or intention *requires* any such revenue, however, and if VVV had fallen in price since launch then it'd be a loss to us, but that's fine and expected. We are not noobs to crypto volatility, and our mechanics have foundational economic justification (this doesn't make them risk free, but does constrain the risks to knowable curves and gradients). 6. *Why* does DIEM exist? Because we wanted to experiment with a new kind of inference mechanic, in which agents specifically can access zero-marginal-cost compute. It's new and nobody quite knows how to value it, that's how experiments work. The risk is quantifiable and bounded, so why not experiment? When VVV launched we first enabled VVV itself to grant the free access, but because of the variable price, supply, and inability to guarantee fixed quantities of allocation, it was too volatile to be useful for serious people needing inference over time. DIEM was drawn out of VVV to provide the stability ($1/day). To illustrate this point, if VVV granted fixed $$$ inference, then as VVV rose in value over time the link would become absurd and break the utility. DIEM can remain range-bound in price forever, and this is the expected state, though we don't know the range that the market will settle into yet. VVV is unbounded by any theoretical range, especially as we try to burn all of it, and thus could not be attached to a specific dollar amount of inference per period of time. 7. DIEM is a small part of Venice's business. It gets lots of attention (indeed that was part of the point) but is not existential or fundamental. Also have you tried the app yet?