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CULT DAO · Investment Proposal

Venice AI

$VVV / $DIEM

A formal CULT DAO investment proposal, presented in the official Guardian question-and-answer submission format.

Status

Early Research Draft

Network

Base L2

Format

Guardian Q&A

VVV Contract

0xacfE…21bf

Disclosure

The author holds no VVV or DIEM position.

Section 01

Submitter

Guardian Name

Seeking Guardianship Sponsorship

Guardian Discord / Twitter Handle

Seeking Guardianship Sponsorship

Guardian Wallet Address

Seeking Guardianship Sponsorship

Section 02

Project Name

Venice AI — $VVV and $DIEM

Section 03

Project Description & Suitability for CULT Investment

“V spoke for the voiceless. VVV builds the infrastructure they can never silence.”

Venice AI is a privacy-first AI inference platform on Base. No data logging, no censorship, no corporate gatekeeping. Founded and self-funded by Erik Voorhees (ShapeShift) until a $65M Series A in July 2026 led by Dragonfly and Coinbase Ventures. No presale. 50% of supply went to community on launch; 42.9% permanently burned. $70M+ ARR, profitable Q1 2026, 3.5M users, 1.7M daily API calls.

$VVV is a pure capital asset. Stake it, earn 12–19% APR, and generate DIEM: tokenized AI compute that can be sold, granted to builders, or used internally. Every new platform subscription triggers a permanent $VVV buyback and burn. Emissions cut six times in 14 months, from 14M/yr to a target of 3M. Over 42% of total supply already permanently destroyed.

CULT's play is the loop. Stake VVV → mint DIEM → sell DIEM for $CULT → burn half, distribute half to stakers. An external yield position that feeds CULT's own tokenomics. We hold the asset, keep the upside, and use the compute yield to incentivise builders in our own ecosystem.

Two items still outstanding before formal submission — an audit report and formal documentation. Both being researched. The thesis is strong. The founder is aligned. The mechanics are real.

“Intelligence is being decentralised. CULT should be in the room when it happens.”

Section 04

Tokenomics, Token Distribution & Fundraise Details

No official whitepaper or litepaper has been published by Venice AI. The following is compiled from on-chain data, official Venice documentation, and verified third-party sources.

Dual token system

$VVV · Capital Asset

  • ERC-20 on Base
  • Stake for yield: 12–19% APR
  • Stake 100 VVV = unlock Venice Pro (unlimited prompts, image/video gen, advanced models)
  • Lock sVVV to mint DIEM
  • Deflationary: three active buyback-and-burn channels
  • 7-day cooldown to unstake; sVVV non-transferable
  • 67% of circulating supply currently staked

$DIEM · Tokenized Compute

  • ERC-20 on Base
  • 1 DIEM = $1/day of AI API credits, perpetual and non-expiring
  • Minted exclusively by locking sVVV
  • Fully transferable / tradeable on Aerodrome DEX
  • Current market price ~$670 per DIEM
  • Burn DIEM anytime to unlock original sVVV (reversible)
  • While locked, holder earns 80% of normal staking yield
  • Active DIEM users receive 14× efficiency over passive stakers

Token distribution (genesis)

Community Airdrop50%Venice users & AI-aligned Base projects at launch
Venice Company Treasury35%Incl. team allocation, 24-month vesting ending Jan 2027
Incentive Fund10%
Liquidity / DEX5%

Supply facts

Total Genesis Supply
100M VVV
Genesis Burn (Mar 2025)
33.68M destroyed
Current Circulating
47.3M VVV
Total Supply Remaining
80.6M VVV
Supply Burned to Date
42.9%

Genesis burn: 33.68M unclaimed airdrop tokens permanently destroyed.

Emission schedule

Annual emissions, paid 100% to stakers. Six cuts in 14 months.

Jan 2025
14M
Oct 2025
10M
Feb 2026
6M
May 2026
5M
Jun 2026
4M
Jul 2026 (target)
3M

~6.3% annual inflation on circulating supply; three burn channels work against even this.

Three-channel buy-and-burn

Ch 1 — Monthly Discretionary · since Dec 2025

Venice funds a Safe with USDC; CoW Protocol TWAP buys VVV on Aerodrome hourly over ~30 days and burns it. Budget ~$100K/mo.

Monthly burns: Dec $62K → Jan $97K → Mar $119K (largest) → Apr $147K → May $159K. Trending up.

Ch 2 — Subscription Triggered · since Apr 2026

Every new signup triggers an instant market buyback + burn.

Pro $18/mo → $2 · Pro+ $68/mo → $5 · Max $200/mo → $10.

Ch 3 — API Credit Burn · since Jul 17 2026

$5 of every $100 in API credits purchased auto-buys and burns VVV. Scales with developer / agent API usage. VVV surged 13% on announcement.

Fundraise details

  • No ICO / presale / token sale
  • Community airdrop: 50% of genesis to users at launch
  • External capital: $65M Series A (Jul 2026) led by Dragonfly, with Coinbase Ventures, North Island Ventures, Archetype, Morgan Creek Digital, Liquid2 Ventures
  • Valuation $1B · Platform ARR $70M+ · Profitable Q1 2026
  • Capital use: GPU purchase, proprietary data centres, engineering expansion, enterprise zero-knowledge security rollout

DIEM supply expansion (active)

Target rising 38,000 → 40,000 in four staged steps — Aug 3 / Aug 17 / Aug 31 / Sep 14. Mint rate exponential; minting before Sep 14 secures the best cost basis.

Section 05

Social Channels & Attribution

Section 06

Token Contracts & Audited Contracts

All contracts on Base.

Audit status: smart-contract audit report not yet publicly located. Actively researching. Known open item and a condition of final submission.

Section 07

Investment Options in Return for 13 ETH

Projections

The figures in this section are forward-looking estimates and arguments, not verified on-chain data.

Option A · Buy and Hold

Acquire $VVV with 13 ETH, hold as a deflationary capital asset.

  • Benefit from emission compression (14M → 3M/yr in 14 months)
  • Three-channel buyback-and-burn, accelerating monthly
  • Stake for 12–19% APR
  • 100 VVV unlocks Venice Pro for the DAO
  • Simplest structure, no active management
  • Pure price appreciation + compounding staking yield

Option B · Mint DIEM → Builders

Acquire → Stake → Lock sVVV → Mint DIEM → Distribute.

  • Mint DIEM (retains 80% yield while locked)
  • Distribute DIEM as builder grants to CULT ecosystem devs
  • Each DIEM = $1/day private uncensored inference (permanent)
  • Productive asset, not a dumpable bounty
  • Builders use Venice API directly; CULT becomes a distribution layer for sovereign AI compute
  • Burn DIEM anytime to recover sVVV
  • CULT keeps the VVV / appreciation and earns goodwill

Option C · Mint DIEM → Buy & Burn $CULT

Acquire → Stake → Lock sVVV → Mint DIEM → Sell on Aerodrome → Buy $CULT → run loop.

  • Mint DIEM (retains 80% yield)
  • Sell DIEM for ETH/USDC
  • Buy $CULT on the open market
  • 50% of acquired $CULT → burn wallet
  • 50% → dCULT contract (stakers)
  • External yield feeding CULT's deflationary tokenomics
  • VVV appreciates independently, DIEM yields, $CULT supply contracts
Preferred

Hybrid of B + C

Reserve a portion of minted DIEM for builder grants; sell the remainder for $CULT and execute the burn/distribute split. Self-sustaining: platform grows → more burns → VVV appreciates → CULT treasury compounds → builders keep building.

The full loop: intelligence infrastructure funds the revolution that funds itself.

Section 08

Swap Rate for CULT

The specific swap rate (% per day/week/month and duration) is open for discussion, determined collaboratively between sponsoring Guardian(s), cultorganics.xyz, and other parties on the final submission.

Framework: a % of VVV staking yield is set aside on a recurring basis (weekly/monthly) to buy $CULT on the open market, split 50% to dCULT (stakers) / 50% to burn wallet. The same mechanism can layer on DIEM sales proceeds (two parallel streams).

Rate and cadence: to be confirmed by Guardian sponsors before final submission.

Section 09

dCULT and Burn Confirmation

✓ 50% → dCULT contract

Distributed to stakers.

✓ 50% → CULT burn wallet

Permanent destruction.

Confirmed: 50% of all $CULT acquired via this mechanism goes to the dCULT contract; 50% goes to the CULT burn wallet.

Additional mechanism: a % of VVV staking yield is set aside on a recurring schedule to fund ongoing $CULT market buys — a continuous compounding burn-and-distribute loop independent of DIEM sales (% and cadence open for discussion). A second parallel stream sells DIEM → buys $CULT → 50% burn / 50% dCULT. Both streams can run simultaneously, compounding over time.

Section 10

IDO Date Confirmation

Confirmed: deployment of this strategy will be executed within 12 weeks of the close of the proposal vote, subject to Guardian sponsorship and final submission. Exact timeline confirmed upon Guardian engagement.

Section 11

Project Ethereum Wallet

To be provided upon Guardian Sponsorship.

Proposal research & documentation · cultorganics.xyz

Early Research Draft — Subject to Guardian Review

Audit and whitepaper documentation pending. Final submission conditional on resolution of open items.

Venice AI · $VVV / $DIEM · 0xacfE6019Ed1A7Dc6f7B508C02d1b04ec88cC21bf · Base L2