In the relentless search for a “10x” gem, investors usually look for two things: low market cap and high hype. They buy meme coins, vaporware, and empty promises. DIEM offers something rarer and infinitely more valuable: low market cap and a high floor value.
Let’s look at the numbers. With a trading price recently hovering around $456, DIEM is valued at roughly 1.25 years of its own utility output ($456 cost vs $365 annual credit – as holding DIEM offers $1/day or $365/year in state-of-the-art AI access).
This is an absurdly low multiple. In the SaaS world, companies often trade at 10x to 20x their annual revenue. If the market were to value DIEM like a SaaS multiple—acknowledging that it provides a recurring service—the token price would theoretically approach $3,650. That is an 8x return just to reach “fair value” parity with Web2 standards.
But the potential goes beyond simple repricing. The minting difficulty of DIEM increases algorithmically. As more DIEM is minted, it requires more VVV or longer lockups (depending on the specific governance parameters at the time). As it becomes harder to mint new DIEM, the secondary market price must rise to match the cost of production.
Combined with the massive tailwind of the decentralized AI market growing to tens of billions, DIEM’s current valuation looks less like a market price and more like a pricing error waiting to be corrected. We are early in the adoption curve of decentralized AI. Most the world still uses ChatGPT. As privacy concerns mount and censorship becomes more oppressive, users will flock to platforms like Venice.
When that migration happens, the demand for DIEM will not be speculative; it will be utilitarian. Users will need it to use the product. This creates “non-price-sensitive” demand. A business that relies on Venice for its operations will buy DIEM regardless of whether the chart looks bullish or bearish, because they need the compute.
This is the holy grail of crypto investing: real demand. Most tokens only have speculative demand. DIEM has fundamental demand. When you combine a 1.25x revenue multiple with a deflationary supply mechanism and a massive total addressable market (TAM), you have the recipe for a genuine 10x. It is not a gambling chip; it is an undervalued asset in a high-growth sector. The repricing of DIEM is not a matter of if, but when.
Crucially, owning DIEM is one of the few remaining opportunities to generate wealth – as AI is rapidly beginning to replace the white-collar workforce. In his seminal work Capital in the Twenty-First Century, economist Thomas Piketty introduced the famous inequality r > g. He posited that the return on capital (r) historically exceeds the rate of economic growth (g), leading to the concentration of wealth. Those who own capital get richer faster than those who labor. In the Age of AI, this formula needs an update: the return on compute will exceed the return on labor.
We are witnessing the transition from an economy based on human labor to one based on machine intelligence. In this new paradigm, “compute” is the capital. DIEM allows participants to move from the side of labor (renting AI to do work) to the side of capital (owning the AI capacity).
By holding DIEM, an entity owns a fixed slice of the global intelligence supply. As demand for inference explodes—driven by agents, automated coding, and content generation—those renting compute will face variable costs and potential price hikes. Cloud providers can raise prices. API providers can change their terms. But DIEM holders enjoy fixed, perpetual access.
This creates a “rentier” class of AI operators. Consider an autonomous agent designed to trade stocks or manage a DAO. If that agent holds 50 DIEM, it has a guaranteed “universal basic compute” income of $50/day. It does not need to ask its creator for money. It does not need to worry about credit card expiration. It is self-sufficient.
In the Venice ecosystem, DIEM transforms intelligence from a service you hire into an asset you own on-chain. It is the ultimate hedge against the rising cost of cognitive labor. If AI models become 100x more powerful in the next five years, the value of accessing them will likely increase. Yet, the DIEM holder still gets their daily allocation.
Furthermore, this ownership model democratizes access to high-end AI. In the traditional Web2 model, only large corporations can afford to negotiate fixed-rate contracts for massive compute. Small developers are stuck with pay-as-you-go. DIEM levels the playing field. A solo developer can buy 10 DIEM and have the same economic certainty as a major enterprise.
We are moving toward a future where “compute” is the most valuable commodity on earth, potentially surpassing oil. In that future, would you rather be the person buying gas at the pump every day, subject to market fluctuations, or the person who owns the oil well? DIEM is the oil well. It is a claim on the future productivity of the Venice network. By owning it, you place yourself on the right side of the r > g equation, ensuring that as the AI economy grows, your share of it grows with it.
This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice or an endorsement of any product or service. Readers should conduct their own research and consult a licensed financial advisor before making investment decisions.