do you know every major tech wave needed a new kind of infrastructure to exist? > uber couldn’t exist without real time gps tiktok blew up because of edge compute chatgpt runs on specialized gpu clusters and now, ai x crypto is heading for its own infrastructure ☇ → the limits of today’s blockchains l1s were built for payments, not intelligence. if you throw ai level compute at them, they choke. > can’t run inference inside the runtime validators can’t handle gpu workloads long running tasks don’t fit the model verification is too rigid for ai ops basically, they’re financial ledgers pretending to be compute platforms. ☇ → the pattern repeats look at history, every wave demanded new rails. transportation → real-time data infra social → low-latency content infra ai → needs a compute-native blockchain the real need is a network where ai can live on-chain. ☇ → you have to enter @ritualnet
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another chain? really? that’s usually the first reaction when people hear about ritual. but the thing is, ritual isn’t competing on speed. it’s rewriting what blockchains can even do let’s break this down ⬎ ✦ ok but… why another blockchain? every big wave in crypto came from a new primitive, not only fast blocks yk → 2009: bitcoin let anyone send money globally without banks → 2015: ethereum brought smart contracts → composable finance since then, most l1s have just been optimizing for throughput, not expanding what’s possible onchain. they scaled the old use cases… but didn’t get new ones ✦ where ritual comes! ritual’s whole thing is: > enrich what users can do onchain today to attract the users of tomorrow it starts with ai × crypto, but it’s really about expressive compute. think of it as the first blockchain built to actually run AI inference, ZK proofs, TEE code, and web2 APIs, natively. >>>> read more below!
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many people don’t realize, blockchains weren’t designed for long-running compute they excel at: ✓ short, atomic transactions ✓ replicated state changes ✓ deterministic replay but when it comes to: ✖ multi-step AI inference ✖ zk proof generation ✖ extended agent logic they break down. gas limits, latency, and validator duplication kill it ritual changes this. its architecture separates consensus from execution, and introduces execution sidecars, purpose-built environments for long-running, stateful compute. that means you can: ➙ run multi-step AI agents directly onchain ➙ outsource zk proofs to specialized nodes ➙ schedule autonomous actions without keepers the result is, developers don’t need workaround infrastructure or off-chain crutches. ritual makes extended computation an integral part of the blockchain so, it’s a chain where contracts can think, wait, and act meaningfully ❖ ritual = the execution layer for the intelligent economy
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