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INTERVIEW - @AskVenice Is Here to Win: How Private AI Takes On OpenAI and Anthropic @TrustlessState sits down with @JonShapeShift and @jesseproudman to unpack how Venice is taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with private AI. They talk about: - why AI is becoming the biggest data honeypot ever - private @grok access through Venice - unrestricted AI as a consumer wedge - how non-crypto users still feed the $VVV economy - $DIEM, tokenized inference, and AI agents --- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 1:12 Why

Jun 8

NEW EPISODE - Crypto’s Next Winners Won’t Be Blockchains The infra era is fading. The next wave of crypto value may come from apps with real users, real revenue, and real tokenholder returns. @AustinBarack joins @TrustlessState to break down: • Why $VVV could still be materially undervalued • $PUMP trading at just ~5x buybacks • @Hyperliquid’s expanding role in global markets • @ether_fi's evolution into an onchain neo brokerage • Why applications could eventually generate 90%+ of crypto reve

Sep 7

LIVE: Wednesday @ 3pm EST -------------- The $VVV Community Call Hosted by @TrustlessState and @JonShapeShift Project updates from @AskVenice, $VVV and $DIEM tokenomics discussion, Community QnA, all in one place! 3pm, Live here on X

Jul 20

$VVV Community Call | August @AskVenice Head of Strategy @JonShapeShift joins @TrustlessState for the August $VVV community call to unpack Venice crossing $100M in annualized revenue, 4M total users, record $VVV burns, upcoming emissions cuts, expanding $DIEM supply, the tokenized inference economy, and what comes next. [TIMESTAMPS] 0:00 Livestream Kickoff 2:51 Burn Surge Explained 10:06 Revenue Milestone Unveiled 13:43 Emissions Cut Ahead 17:39 New Utility for Stakers 24:57 Trading Unused DM

Aug 19

September $VVV Livestream https://t.co/INyuljWu8G

Sep 28

WEEKLY ROLLUP: Robinhood, Stripe & BlackRock Just Went Onchain Crypto looks bullish again, but the receipts are complicated. @TrustlessState and @RyanSAdams unpack OpenUSD’s USDC threat, Robinhood Chain’s tokenized stocks, Saylor’s hedge-fund pivot, Venice’s token dilemma, Cloudflare’s stablecoin payments, and Trump’s $1.4B crypto haul. [TIMESTAMPS] 0:00 Intro 2:37 Market Bounce + Fed Watch - @KillaXBT - @Geiger_Capital 8:37 Strategy’s Digital Credit Capital Framework - @saylor - @Strategy

Jul 3

August $VVV Livestream https://t.co/LOocvUeGGG

Aug 19

$VVV Community Call | September @AskVenice's Head of Strategy @JonShapeShift joins @TrustlessState for the September $VVV community call to discuss Venice reaching 250B daily tokens, the latest $VVV emissions cuts and $DIEM supply changes, accelerating burns, rising demand for private AI, Venice Minds, the upcoming data center rollout, and what comes next. [TIMESTAMPS] 0:00 Intro 0:21 September AI Update 2:12 Token Growth Surge 8:36 Emissions and Diem Supply 16:10 Burn Mechanics Explained 23:

Sep 28

Did you know @AskVenice is building out their own compute and data infrastructure? A question from the $VVV QnA: How will @venice owning their own compute and data center infrastructure impact $VVV burn? @JonShapeShift: "One of the places we're deploying capital is you know building out data centers and owning our own GPUs as much as we can." "This allows us to do a number of things, both from the privacy side of things, but also trying to get our inference margins down. So our expectation is

Jul 28

In the last 2 weeks... - $VVV burns 3x'd - $VVV issuance reduced 50% - $DIEM target supply increased 38k -> 40k What do you think? 🤔

Aug 5