{"id":420098,"date":"2026-02-18T06:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/erik-voorhees-venice-ai-leads-altcoin-market-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:03:56","slug":"erik-voorhees-venice-ai-leads-altcoin-market-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/erik-voorhees-venice-ai-leads-altcoin-market-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Voorhees\u2019 Venice AI Leads Altcoin Market &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The decentralized artificial intelligence protocol is up 350% from its November low.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/nfts-and-web3\/erik-voorhees-venice-ai-launches-vvv-token\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">Venice AI<\/a>, an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) protocol created by Erik Voorhees, the founder and CEO of ShapeShift, has led the altcoin market over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>Venice AI\u2019s VVV token is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/venice-token\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">up 135%<\/a> over the last week, and 14% today to $4.28, or a $336 million fully diluted valuation (FDV), a 375% jump off its November low of $0.9.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">VVV Token &#8211; CoinGecko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Venice utilizes a dual-token system following the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ErikVoorhees\/status\/2008406334425715000\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">DIEM token<\/a> launch in September, which provides DIEM stakers with free access to Venice AI models. DIEM reached an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/diem\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">all-time high of $672<\/a> over the weekend, and currently changes hands at $586, a 200% increase from its launch price.<\/p>\n<p>The token was launched during the peak of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/markets\/memecoins-struggle-amid-ai-mania\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">AI agent mania<\/a> in January 2025, and traded as high as $9 within a week. However, VVV fell alongside the rest of the low-cap altcoin and AI agent market following the LIBRA token scam in February.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, VVV is trading at its highest level since August 2025, with the protocol\u2019s metrics hitting all-time highs. Voorhees <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ErikVoorhees\/status\/2023451264127062525\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">posted<\/a> on X that Venice is processing more than 45 billion large language model (LLM) tokens per day &#8211; double what he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ErikVoorhees\/status\/2019069585920508174\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">reported<\/a> on Feb 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decentralized artificial intelligence protocol is up 350% from its November low. Venice AI, an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) protocol created by Erik Voorhees, the founder and CEO of ShapeShift, has led the altcoin market over the past week. Venice AI\u2019s VVV token is up 135% over the last week, and 14% today to $4.28, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-420098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420105,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420098\/revisions\/420105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}