Niraj (@niraj) — Twitter Score 309 out of 1000

Niraj Pant is a crypto founder who co-founded Ritual, a layer 1 blockchain and execution layer purpose-built for AI. Niraj's Twitter Score is 301 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,100 (top 0.5%) among 483,914 tracked accounts.

Niraj co-founded Ritual, which describes itself as a lab for autonomous intelligence focused on systems that can persist, coordinate, transact, and run onchain. Previously, he was a general partner at Polychain and formerly conducted research at the Decentralized Systems Lab. Ritual raised a $25 million financing round led by Archetype, with participation from Accomplice, Robot Ventures, dao5, Accel, Dialectic, Anagram, Avra, and Hypersphere, and later added Polychain as a strategic investor.

Niraj's work at Ritual spans the development of Infernet, the project's first product enabling smart contracts to access AI models for inference, and Ritual Chain, described as an EVM++ layer 1 blockchain with modular computational integrity and verifiable provenance. Ritual has established partnerships with EigenLayer to develop AVSs for Infernet and the chain, with Celestia for data availability on Ritual Chain and Infernet, with Nillion for privacy-preserving model inference and storage, and with Arweave for permanent storage of AI models, data, and proofs. Additional ecosystem affiliations include Arbitrum and StarkWare.

Niraj has published 7,168 posts on the platform and has 16,413 followers as of August 2026. He has been mentioned by 100 accounts, with 147 total mentions. As an angel investor, Niraj has backed Syndicate and Clique.

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The accounts that follow Niraj include 905 founders, 335 angel investors, 215 influencers and 24 VCs. Among his notable followers are Balaji, Chris Dixon, Solana, Cobie, Ansem and Marc Andreessen.