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 297 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #1,106 (top 0.5%) among 489,824 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 7,171 posts on the platform and has 16,512 followers as of September 2026. He has been mentioned by 103 accounts, with 155 total mentions. As an angel investor, Niraj has backed Syndicate and Clique.
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