Intro: This is a Venice.ai API key. It grants you access to their server infrastructure and ability to prompt their AI models: cbkpePStIr1di75OBv61AZ-S8ABH3vkJlP3xGeHDxB
You are free to use this key. I have generated this API key and capped it to about $2 worth of AI compute per day, I have set it to expire on April 9.
Venice.ai doesn’t know who I am and I don’t know who you are. I can’t see your prompts because you connect directly to Venice.ai’s server.
(note: Venice.ai does know my Base blockchain address I use to stake their token (VVV) which grants me, and any other VVV staker, a daily allocation of AI compute and the ability to generate and manage Venice API keys that connect directly to Venice.ai’s server)
Main Point: To relate this to shielded Zcash - There is nothing stopping me or any other VVV staker from doing something like the following:
- I post my shielded Zcash address here so that you can send me an encrypted note
- In your encrypted note you tell me your shielded Zcash address and how much Venice.ai compute you want the API key to have per day, when you want the key to expire, and how much ZEC you want to pay.
- If I have the available Venice.ai daily compute resources, I respond with an encrypted note that includes a newly generated Venice API key set to your liking
- You send shielded ZEC as payment (if no ZEC is received I can terminate the key).
- You use TOR or a VPN and the API key to anonymously connect to and use the AI models on Venice.ai.
I won’t post my z address right now because this thread is for educational purposes, and I am also not trying to break any forum rules. I’ll post it later only if the community wants or allows.
Background: Venice.ai is a privacy focused AI cloud provider company founded and owned by Erik Voorhees a well known libertarian and longtime figure in the crypto space.
Venice.ai the company does not directly sell access to their API service for Zcash, but there is now a pathway to pay with shielded ZEC to use their AI models through their API, no KYC required. Venice.ai recently launched their token called VVV on Base that grants any blockchain address which holds and stakes VVV an ongoing allocation of AI compute which they call Venice Compute Units (VCU) which resets daily. No email is required to be granted VCU. Those stakers are free to use or sell their daily VCU on the secondary market by generating API keys that connect directly to Venice.ai. These stakers are able to set VCU caps and expiration dates for the API keys that they generate and sell on the secondary market. Meaning there are now thousands of people who can sell daily VCU allocations for shielded Zcash if they wish.
Anybody who stakes their token can potentially sell their unused daily VCU by generating and selling Venice API keys. A secondary market will now grow over time.
Importantly Venice.ai does not know who VVV stakers sell their generated API keys to, and the VVV stakers that sell the Venice.ai API keys can’t see what the buyers are prompting the AI for because the buyers connect directly to Venice.ai’s server by using the API key (no middle man server).
Here is a link to the Venice.ai API documentation: https://venice.ai/api-beta