Venice's DIEM token experiment design is worth dissecting.

The background is straightforward: AI computation costs are soaring. How can users access high-quality models more cheaply? Venice came up with an idea in September—by staking DIEM tokens, users can access all AI models on the platform for free.

The mechanism works like this: holding 1 DIEM is equivalent to a $1 daily renewal quota. It sounds simple, but the logic is interesting—stakers shift from marginal cost to zero cost. In other words, the computational cost is directly offset on the user side.

The clever part of this design is that it transforms the cost of computing resources into token holder rights. It’s no longer the traditional "pay-per-use," but "holding tokens grants rights." For the project team, this locks in long-term token holders; for users, the risk is transferred to token price fluctuations.

From a tokenomics perspective, whether this model can achieve sustainable growth depends mainly on whether Venice's computing power supply can keep up with demand growth.