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What is VeChain Token (VET)?

VeChain Token (VET) is a cryptocurrency and smart contracts platform focused on supply chain management. It is the native utility and staking token of VeChainThor; holders can participate in network governance through staking and delegation, but do not receive ownership, equity, or corporate governance rights in the VeChain Foundation. VET holders can participate in network security by operating a validator or staking and delegating VET through StarGate; nodes staking VET can vote on network upgrades and are rewarded with VTHO every block. Becoming an Authority Masternode requires staking a minimum of 25 million VET and submitting identifying information to the VeChain Foundation.

What is VeChain?

Sunny Lu, a former chief information officer (CIO) of Louis Vuitton China and a former Alibaba executive, and Jay Zhang co-founded the blockchain platform VeChain in 2015 with the goal of improving supply chain management using distributed ledger technology (DLT). At first, they used a token crowdsale to raise $20 million for the VEN cryptocurrency, which was launched on the Ethereum platform. After the launch of VeChainThor, the company's own blockchain, VET replaced VEN; sources differ on the swap ratio (Kraken cites 1:100, other overviews cite 1:1000).

The primary objective of the VeChain platform is to alleviate supply chain problems and make information management easier for companies. Smart chips that monitor the flow of a supply chain are fundamental to VeChain's objective. Connected to a distributed ledger, these provide the highest level of trustworthiness, openness, and security. As an example, VeChain and Renault developed an immutable digital vehicle maintenance book to protect confidential repair information. VeChain's corporate users include BMW (odometer fraud prevention), LVMH (luxury leather goods tracking), Walmart (food provenance), and it has strategic partnerships with PwC and DNV GL.

VeChain also supports decentralized applications (dApps) and IoT-related use cases, extending beyond supply chain management.

Two tokens, VET and VTHO, make up the VeChain wallet. VET is the primary value and staking token, while VTHO is the gas token used to pay for transactions and smart-contract execution on VeChainThor. VET serves as a value transfer medium, generates VTHO, can be staked for rewards, is used in governance, and powers dApps on VeChainThor. Anyone can purchase and put money into VET.

How Does VeChain Work?

Among the most well-known platforms that utilize the Proof of Authority (PoA) consensus system, VeChain stands out. To verify the legitimacy of transactions and the generation of new blocks, PoA uses identity as a stake. Due to the reputational nature of their job, validators have an incentive to keep the transaction process running smoothly. Anyone with a valid VET credential who wants to become a validator must reveal their identity; remaining anonymous is not an option. Quicker transaction times are a result of PoA's lack of energy consumption and need for a minimum number of validators, in contrast to consensus algorithms like Proof of Work (PoW). A known trade-off of PoA is that it relies on a central authority to check and authorize users who can take part in processing transactions. VeChainThor historically used Proof of Authority (PoA); following the Hayabusa upgrade in December 2025, it operates under Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS).

Price History of VeChain

Many see VeChain, like other cryptocurrencies, as an extremely risky investment. There is no foolproof method to forecast the future value of VET because its price has risen and fallen over its lifetime. Before putting your money into cryptocurrency, you should, as usual, perform your own research.

VET began trading in 2017 (Yahoo Finance lists a start date of 2017-08-22); the VeChainThor mainnet launched in 2018. VET's price has risen and fallen significantly over its lifetime and remains subject to market volatility. VET has a fixed maximum supply of 86,712,634,466 tokens, with a circulating supply of approximately 85.98 billion.