Ritual is an AI-native blockchain infrastructure project that is building a sovereign execution layer for decentralized AI, co-founded by Niraj Pant and Akilesh Potti. Ritual's Twitter Score is 223 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #1,909 (top 0.5%) among 489,627 tracked accounts.
Ritual describes itself as building a blockchain for AI, integrating AI models on-chain through a decentralized infrastructure layer. The project raised a $25 million financing round led by Archetype, with participation from Robot Ventures, Polychain, Accel, Anagram, Accomplice, dao5, Dialectic, Avra, and Hypersphere. The Ritual Foundation operates as an independent organization supporting adoption through grants, education, and community initiatives.
Ritual has built a notable set of affiliations across the broader crypto and AI ecosystem, with connections to projects including EigenLayer, Arbitrum, Arweave, StarkWare, and Celestia. Affiliated figures include Illia Polosukhin, co-author of the influential paper "Attention is All You Need" and founder at NEAR, as well as Sreeram Kannan, founder at EigenLayer, Tarun Chitra, founder at Gauntlet, and Arthur Hayes, co-founder at BitMEX and the 100x Group. Ritual has published 382 posts and has been mentioned by 353 accounts a total of 1,271 times.
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Ritual attracts a technically engaged audience across the crypto and AI space. The accounts that follow Ritual include 811 founders, 272 angel investors, 394 influencers and 22 VCs, among them ZachXBT, Cobie, Ansem, Erik Voorhees, Mert and Fred Ehrsam.