Ritual
Ritual is building a sovereign network for AI computation — inference, training, and agent workflows — where each computation is verifiable and each model has an economic identity on-chain. The founders came from Polychain and brought a rigorous economic-design orientation to what has become an oversaturated category.
The Infernet product ships a low-latency inference marketplace with cryptographic proofs of correct model execution, letting protocols verify that an on-chain AI action was computed correctly rather than trusting a centralized endpoint.
The Ritual mainnet targets Q3 2026, with a design that lets model providers monetize compute directly through the protocol rather than through centralized cloud middlemen.
Verifiable AI computation as an on-chain primitive. We wrote the seed check on the conviction that this becomes the trust layer for the agent economy.
Niraj Pant
CEO & Co-FounderAkilesh Potti
CTO & Co-FounderKailin Wang
Head of ResearchAnish Agnihotri
Head of Engineering- 2023Founded by Niraj Pant and Akilesh Potti
- Q3 2023Oryon seed round
- Q3 2024Infernet mainnet integrations
- Q3 2026Full mainnet target
Infernet in production for 20+ protocol integrations. Mainnet targeting Q3 2026.
“Ritual is the closest thing we have to a serious economic design for verifiable AI.”
— The Block, 2025