Chip In

VeniceStats — keep it independent

A few Venetians asked how they could chip in. So here's a wallet. The site is free and the same for everyone — chipping in unlocks nothing, it just helps.

The address. It's the VeniceStats project treasury. DIEM is the natural thing to send — it's what the site actually runs on — but any token works.

0x5c6bF971BB64A568A07b3861de79ca5aad2d4C7E

any EVM network

Nothing to sign up for. In time a wall of patrons will appear here, read straight off the chain — addresses, ENS where it resolves. Until then, the gesture is enough.

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Where it goes. It's a short list.

❦Inference. The big one. The site runs on it — and building it ran on it too: three months in and counting, almost all of that work mediated by a model one way or another. Inside the product there's a constant stream of automated jobs leaning on inference, and a backlog of more we'd add with the headroom. The only real cap is supply — right now it runs on whatever's left over from a personal budget already spread thin across other projects. More inference, more the site does. It's that direct.

❦Compute. The server that keeps the workers running, the database that holds hundreds of thousands of on-chain events, the RPC reads every five minutes — and the domain that points at all of it.

❦Time. The part that never shows up on an invoice.

None of it is expensive on its own — well, except the time. Chipping in just makes it steadier; on the inference side it's the difference between what the site does today and what we keep sketching.

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On independence. Chipping in eases the running costs and buys nothing else — not a line in the copy, not a number on the dashboard. The data doesn't move for the people who fund it. The longer version is in Lo Statuto.

Grazie.

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VeniceStats — May 2026
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