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A hosted API gives you intelligence.
Ritual starts to ask a different question:
what if the agent also needs privacy, state, credentials, and onchain settlement?
That is where things get interesting.
A private ChatGPT-style app is not just “send prompt to a server and get a reply.”
On Ritual, the prompt, completion, and onchain state can become part of one workflow.
Not floating in someone’s backend logs.
Not hidden inside a random SaaS box.
Executed through a network of TEE-backed executors, with results settling back onchain.
And DKMS makes the second idea even bigger.
Imagine credential markets where an agent can use access you grant, like X or Gmail, without exposing the raw credential outside the enclave.
The user keeps control.
The agent gets limited access.
The workflow gets a trace.
That is the part a normal hosted API does not really give you.
It can answer.
It is about giving agents a safer place to work.