Venice AI founder Erik Voorhees announced that OpenClaw documentation has designated Venice as the recommended model provider, with venice/llama-3.3-70b set as the default and venice/claude-opus-45 recognized as the 'best overall.' According to ChainCatcher, Venice Token (VVV) has experienced a significant increase, rising 14.3% in the past 24 hours and 70.4% over the past week.