Morning Minute: Venice’s VVV Token Soars After OpenAI Dispute

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt.

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Today’s top news:

• Crypto majors rebound 1-3%, alts soar; BTC +2% at $79.5k
• VVV soars 40% to $27 and new ATH on OpenAI dispute; ZEC & LIT +10% to new ATHs
• Strategy buys no Bitcoin, adds $176M to STRC; STRC at $97.94
• Pump.fun revenue rebounds as Solana tokens reclaim market share lead
• Stonkfun eco soars as Stonk pops 50% to $200M

$81.8k$80.2k$78.6k$77.0k

24h HighHigh$79,701

24h LowLow$77,888

VolVol$1.0B

Market projectionsOdds by Myriad

🔒 A Fight Over an AI Math Proof Made the Case for VVV and Private Inference

VVV jumped 34% on Tuesday to $24.77 on a massive spike in volume. The catalyst? It was a public dispute between an NYU mathematician and OpenAI over credit for fluid dynamics proofs.

The details are messy and contested, and the mathematician has said outright he isn’t accusing anyone of misusing his data while OpenAI has denied accessing it. But the question that spread across X and Hacker News was simpler than the dispute itself: could a researcher’s private conversations with a chatbot end up informing a competitor’s work? Nobody has shown that happened. The point is that a large number of people found the question plausible.