Venice Token (VVV) Goes Live on Solana via Sunrise, Connected by Wormhole NTT

Venice Token (VVV), the token behind the private AI platform Venice, is now trading on Solana. Sunrise, the gateway that lists outside assets on the network, announced at 15:24 UTC on 6 October 2026 that "$VVV is now listed on @Solana via Sunrise." Wormhole W$0.015+3.3% said in its own post that the token is "Connected by Wormhole NTT," and Raydium RAY$2.21+10.6% posted that "Venice Token is now trading on Solana via @sunrise." Venice's account answered the listing with "$VVV across more chains."

The official Solana account followed at 15:35 UTC with "BREAKING: $VVV from @AskVenice is live on Solana via @sunrise." None of the posts says who initiated the Solana deployment.

What Venice AI is and who is behind it

Venice is an AI startup founded by crypto entrepreneur Erik Voorhees. The Block reported on 1 July 2026 that Venice raised a $65 million Series A at a $1 billion equity valuation, led by Dragonfly, and described the product as a private and uncensored alternative to ChatGPT. The Solana account described Venice as "a private, uncensored AI platform where conversations never leave your device, with $VVV giving holders ongoing access to its inference capacity." Inference is the computing work of running an AI model to answer a prompt.

What the VVV token does: staking, DIEM and AI credit

VVV is issued on Base, the Ethereum layer-2 network. Venice's tokenomics post, published on 17 July 2026, calls VVV "the capital asset of Venice, an ERC-20 token on the Base blockchain." According to that post, staking VVV lets holders earn yield, unlock Venice Pro and mint DIEM, a second token for which "1 DIEM equals $1 of Venice AI credit every day."

The same Venice post set out a cut in VVV emissions from 3 million to 2 million tokens a year in two steps, on 1 September and 1 October 2026. It also directs $5 of every $100 of credits bought through Venice to buying and burning VVV. None of the 6 October posts says whether staking or DIEM minting is available to VVV held on Solana.

The Venice Token contract address on Solana

The Solana contract address for VVV is VVV4UdRywr7SLafPHzqXwRCw7myXkmgCtitXUvj8g8c. Sunrise published the address in a reply to its listing post and called it "the canonical $VVV on Solana," Sunrise's term for a single official version of an asset on the network. The Solana account told readers to verify the address on tokens.xyz, a token registry, and the tokens.xyz page for Venice lists the same mint.

Checking the address matters because lookalikes got there first. A Solana Compass token search on 6 October 2026 returned three other Solana tokens using the VVV ticker, two of them named "Venice Token." All three were created before the mint Sunrise listed, and none of them is the address Sunrise published. Compass token records show the Sunrise-listed mint was created at 22:11 UTC on 5 October 2026, about 17 hours before the announcement.

Raydium, Jupiter, DFlow and Phantom carry the token at launch

VVV was available in nine named Solana apps within minutes of the listing. The Solana account listed them as Fomo, DFlow, Titan, Phantom CASH$1.000+0.0%, Jupiter JUP$0.353+4.6%, Raydium, Archer, Kamino Swap from Kamino Finance KMNO$0.039-2.8%, and Mayan, "and more."

The token crossed over Wormhole's Native Token Transfers (NTT), a system for moving a token between blockchains, which is the route PEPE took to Solana in September 2026. Sunrise listed Shiba Inu two days earlier, on 4 October 2026.

Early on-chain data: about 1,800 holders in the first hour

About 1,800 wallets held VVV on Solana at 16:21 UTC on 6 October 2026, 57 minutes after Sunrise's post, according to Solana Compass's VVV token data. In the five minutes to 16:21 UTC, Compass counted 670 trades worth about $55,000. Roughly 19,300 VVV existed on Solana at that time.

The Solana supply is a small slice of the token. The Block's July 2026 report said Venice alone held more than 30 million VVV.

Shiba Inu and PEPE arrived on Solana as community tokens. VVV is tied to a paid product, with a burn funded by Venice's credit sales, and it reached Solana with one published address and nine apps on its first day.