The Venice (VVV) and Morpheus (MOR) decentralized AI project tokens showed significant growth after the U.S. Department of Commerce required Anthropic to restrict access by foreign nationals to its latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Within 24 hours, VVV was up 14% to $16.37, with a trading volume of around $130 million, and MOR added 21% to reach $2.28. On 12 June, Anthropic had to disable both models for all users to comply with the directive, although it had previously stated that the problem concerned only a narrow way of circumventing built-in security from finding vulnerabilities in the software.

Representatives of decentralized projects immediately took advantage of the situation. Morpheus thanked the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, for "free advertising," and Venice founder Eric Vurhis noted that such risks of censorship and citizenship checks had led to the creation of their platform. Venice is positioned as an AI network censorship-resistant based on open-source models with access through the VVV token’s steakmaking, while Morpheus rewards users from MOR tokens for providing computing power and code.

Anthropic, in turn, is trying to overrule the decision of the authorities and has promised to provide more details and restore access to models in the near future. The incident illustrated how government regulation of centralized AI services stimulates investors' interest in alternative decentralized solutions that offer anonymity and no geographical restrictions.