Venus is a synthetic stablecoin system and algorithmic money market that was introduced only on Binance Smart Chain (BSC). The protocol brings a user-friendly lending and borrowing solution for crypto assets to the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, allowing users to quickly borrow directly against collateral while paying less in transaction costs. Additionally, by submitting at least 200% collateral to the Venus smart contract, users can instantly create VAI stablecoins on demand. In contrast to XVS tokens, which are also BEP-20-based but are used for governance of the Venus protocol and can be used to vote on adjustments—including adding new collateral types, changing parameters, and organizing product improvements—VAI tokens are artificial BEP-20 token assets that are pegged to the value of one U.S. dollar (USD).The governance of the protocol is entirely controlled by XVS community members, since the Venus founders, team members and other advisors do have any XVS token allocations.