Imagine building the most clever smart contract, but it’s stuck in a room with no windows. It can do amazing things with what's inside the room (other contracts, tokens), but it has no way to look outside and see what’s happening in the real world. It's blind to the internet.

Just submitted my Ritual Ambassador application. Feels less like a form and more like a commitment. This community has felt like home since I joined. Being in the Discord every day and seeing how Ritual is reimagining what's possible has been the most exciting thing in the

What if you could take the most complicated, secret calculation in the world, run it on your own computer, and then give the world a simple, tiny “proof” that you did it correctly, without showing them a single number or detail from the actual calculation? That's the magic of

Let me start with a simple question: how do you keep a secret when you have to ask a stranger to do the work? Imagine you have a secret family recipe. You need to hire a chef to make it for a huge event, but you can't let them see the recipe, copy it, or change it. You also need

Imagine if every app on your phone lived in its own little world, completely cut off from the others. Your banking app couldn't see your Venmo balance. Your calendar couldn't check the weather. Spotify couldn't pull songs from Apple Music. To use any combination of them, you'd

We have a strange problem in crypto right now: we can build smart contracts that handle millions of dollars autonomously, but we still have to just 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 an AI when it gives us an answer. Why? Because proving that a complex AI model ran correctly is incredibly hard. Today,

We keep talking about putting AI “on-chain.” But what does that really mean? Right now, it usually means a smart contract has to stop what it's doing, call out to an API in the outside world, and hope the AI sends back a trustworthy answer. The AI is a separate, distant service.

Imagine an amazing artist paints a masterpiece. She shares it with the world, hoping to inspire others. But the moment she does, anyone can take a perfect photo of it, make prints, and sell them without giving her a single penny or credit. She can't prove the original was hers.

Let's talk about AI agents, those programs that are supposed to act autonomously in crypto. The hype is huge, with a market cap over $13 billion. But if you look closely, most of them aren't what they promise to be. The problem? Today's leading “on-chain” agents are more like

Here's a scary thought for anyone using DeFi: What happens if the live price feed your multi million dollar protocol depends on... just stops updating? Right now, most blockchains rely on external bots, called “keepers” or “oracles” to bring in crucial data like token prices. If

Thank you so much for the art Madridista, looks amazing. I love it 😍💚🙏

Here's a simple problem that's easy to miss: running AI on a blockchain is really, really hard work. A blockchain is great at keeping track of who owns what and making sure rules are followed. But asking it to also run a massive AI model? That's like asking your accountant to

Let's talk about something boring that secretly matters a lot: 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐬. Right now, most chains use a simple system. Network busy? Fees go up. Network quiet? Fees go down. Simple, right? Except there's a

Ritual testnet is now live. The first chain where an agent's existence doesn't end when its creators do.

People have been asking what onchain AI agents are actually for. Ritual has been building the answers:

Ritual Testnet is live, I’m alive. Let’s get the testing started.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐭 (𝐀 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞) I see a lot of people asking how to get started on Ritual. So here's everything you need, step by step. No assumed knowledge. 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟏: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐈𝐬