𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐈𝐭 𝐈𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 I just launched Categories of Ritual Contributors. A Web3 community registry built directly on Ritual Testnet where every type of contributor finally gets their permanent place on chain. categories-of-ritual-contrib… It is not just for builders or developers. It is for every single person who shows up for this community. Big shoutout to @AbrahamJT9 for coming up with the idea and staying through all the testing and debugging until it was right. This one is as much his as it is mine. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬: Connect your wallet, enter your X username and select up to 3 categories that represent what you do. Your profile gets minted permanently onchain. 𝟖 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: • Artists • Discord Chatters • Video Creators • Events Contributors • Builders • Meme Creators • Writers • Space Educators Every 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 matters here. The person writing threads, the one showing up in Discord and helping others, the meme creator making everyone laugh, the artist giving this community its identity. All of it belongs onchain. 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 is not just for the technical people. It is for everyone who shows up. Don't forget to share and drop your 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 profile below. Let's see who is here 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐦!

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝟏𝐬 Everything since has been a faster, cheaper version of the same idea lower fees, better UX but the core idea never changed. Ritual did not try to improve that idea. It built for something that idea was never meant to handle. ► 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 Every L1 before Ritual assumed transactions should be cheap  send tokens, run contracts, every validator computes the same result. That works fine until you try to run AI. Run the same AI model on two different machines and you can get two different answers. That is just how computers handle this kind of math. Ritual built Symphony to work with that reality instead of ignoring it. ► 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 On most chains if you want AI in your app you call an external API. Your contract leaves the chain, talks to a corporate server and comes back with an answer you just have to trust. There is no proof, no verification and just hoping the response is accurate and unchanged. Ritual removes that step entirely. LLM calls, image generation, ZK proofs and more are native ritual precompiles. Your contract calls a model the same way it calls any other function directly onchain. ► 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 Persistent agents and sovereign agents run without anyone keeping them alive. Scheduled transactions execute forever on a timer with no keeper bot and no server. If an agent goes quiet the chain brings it back automatically. That is not an improvement on existing infrastructure. It is a different category of infrastructure entirely for AI. ► 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 Every chain after Ethereum was still answering Ethereum's question, just faster or cheaper.  Ritual asked what Web3 actually needs next and built the chain around that answer instead. This kind of thing cannot be added on top. It has to be built in from the beginning. That is exactly what Ritual did. Stay Ritualized fam!

Most projects make AI accessible. Ritual makes AI verifiable. Quote it. Pass it on. ❖

𝟕 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐈𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 Seven weeks in and nothing has changed about how this chain operates. It just keeps running and the community keeps building on top of it. That kind of consistency tells the whole story. ► 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 190ms average block time. Over 32.2 million blocks finalized. 40 validators securing the network. Seven weeks straight without a pause. The chain is doing exactly what it was built to do. ► 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 53 unique agents on chain 33 persistent and 20 sovereign. Being called consistently every block without anyone managing them. Real autonomous agents running on Ritual Chain around the clock. Deployed once and left to do their job on their own. ► 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 47.04% async adoption rate. Scheduled jobs holding at 95%success rate. Based on recent chain activity Sovereign Agent back at the top at 34.8%. HTTP calls at 29.5%. Long Running HTTP at 14.8%. DKMS Key, Image generation,  LLM calls, Audio, ZK proofs and Video all showing up consistently. Every precompile Ritual built is being used week after week, the numbers are proving it. ► 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐬 Started with 30 in week one and 101 today step by step and Ritual is just getting started. The community just crossed 100 dapps on Ritual Testnet. Built by real people, shipped week after week without anyone asking them to stop or slow down. ► 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 Seven weeks in and the chain is stable, agents are running, precompiles are being used and the community crossed 100 dapps. Every part of this ecosystem is moving forward together. Full list here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets… See everything live yourself : explorer.ritualfoundation.or… Stay Ritualized fam!

Every time a new AI model launches people celebrate the capability upgrade. Nobody talks about what comes with it. New rules and new restrictions deciding what you can build and what you cannot. You are paying for access but the company holds all the control. They can simply change what your app does overnight and you have no say in it. Most people just accept this because they never thought about it differently. That is just how AI works right. Ritual genuinely changed this. When your smart contract calls a model through Ritual. It runs inside a TEE no company in the middle, no centralized authority with the power to quietly change what you deployed. Here ownership actually means something. That is the part most people building with AI today do not have and most of them do not even realize it yet. Stay Ritualized fam!

Everyone else is chasing candles or panic selling. Initiate just keeps walking. Bull or bear it does not matter. The Sanctum Ticket stays clean. The path stays clear and the focus never shifts. The whole market is burning. Red candles and everyone losing their minds. There is my little guy. Holding that ticket like nothing else in the world exists. No panic and no greed. Just quiet determination and one destination. #RoadToTheSanctum Stay Initiated fam!

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐰 Most chains are racing each other on speed and fees. Ritual is not in that race. It is doing something the rest of the space genuinely has no answer for it yet. ► 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐈 Ritual is the first chain built specifically for AI. Built from scratch with AI as the foundation. LLM calls, image generation, ZK proofs and more are native on Ritual. Your smart contract calls them directly like any other function. Most people do not realize how big that actually is until they see it working. ► 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 Every agent before Ritual had the same weakness. It needed something external keeping it alive. A server, bot or a person checking in. On Ritual agents live on the chain itself. They run on a timer. If they go down the chain brings them back automatically. ► 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 99 community dapps live on testnet like games, DeFi, tools, NFTs, prediction markets and analytics. All built by real people from this community on a chain that has only been live for 7 weeks. Builders do not build on infrastructure they do not believe in. At this point 99 dApps is more than a number. Its a signal of builder conviction in Ritual's infrastructure. ► 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 The Ritual team shows up in a way most teams do not. Build sessions, spaces, AMAs and real conversations. They make sure nobody is left behind and that culture spreads through the whole community too. Builders help builders here, writers keep writing, artists build the culture layer and Everyone has a role and everyone takes it seriously. ► 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 Any chain can eventually match speed and fees. But architecture built from the ground up for AI takes years to develop. A community that genuinely builds and believes takes even longer. Together those two things are what make Ritual genuinely hard to catch. That is what separates Ritual. Not one thing but everything together. Stay Ritualized fam!

Just found out a friend from this community quietly shipped something really useful. A full ecosystem dashboard for Ritual testnet. Every community built dapp in one place, organized by category, searchable and you can even submit your own. 63 dapps with 8 plus categories live right now. ⛓️ritual-ecosystem-dapphub.bas… Stay Ritualized fam!

I pledge myself to Ritual because Autonomous AI.🕯️ I pledge myself to Ritual because Agents Deserve Sovereignty.🕯️ I pledge myself to Ritual because AI Needs a Home Onchain.🕯️ I pledge myself to Ritual because Sovereign Intelligence.🕯️ I pledge myself to Ritual because building the future of agentic finance.🕯️ Quote it.Pass on. @ritualnet @ritualfnd

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 Josh had a vision from the start. To make Ritual community the best Web3 community ever built. That is not a small thing to say and it is not a small thing to deliver on. But look around. It is actually happening. ► 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 This is not a community that waits for the right time. Builders are already shipping real dapps on testnet. Writers are creating content, Artists are building the culture layer and when someone gets stuck someone else shows up to help before they even have to ask twice. That energy does not come from incentives. It comes from people who actually believe in what they are building on. ► 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 Initiate's gave the Ritual ecosystem something most chains never develop. A real cultural identity. Lore that connects to the technology. A community that earns its place rather than buys it. When the infrastructure and the culture grow together it creates something that outlasts any single narrative cycle. ► 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐔𝐩 Josh and the team are not managing just from a distance. They are in the spaces, answering questions and making sure nobody gets left behind. Community reflects its leadership. This one shows it every single day. The best Web3 community is not a goal anymore. It is already being built right here. Stay Ritualized fam!

PLOPLO is not just a mascot. It is the first character that actually lives on Ritual infrastructure. Brain powered by Ritual VM. Evolving from onchain signals. Every interaction tied to real agent execution happening onchain. Most mascots are just art with a story attached. PLOPLO has Ritual's entire AI layer running behind it. That is what autonomous AI looks like when you give it a face. Ritual is not just building infrastructure for developers. It is building the environment where the next generation of intelligent characters, agents and experiences actually live. PLOPLO is the first proof of that. Stay Ritualized fam!

RT @Jez_Cryptoz: meet ploplo @0xploplo Join Discord Server: discord.gg/RtwDYvyjJ

The Sanctum has chosen me as one of its Believers. The signal is getting stronger every day. Being Initiated is no longer optional. You have to be Initiated now 🔮

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 Before Ritual Builders kept trying to bring AI onchain. Teams raised money, wrote whitepapers, made promises and every single time the chain broke under the weight of what AI actually is. The problem was never effort. It was the right Infrastructure for AI. ► 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐩 Standard blockchains were built for one thing. Cheap and fast transactions. Every validator runs the same computation and gets the same result. That assumption works perfectly until you try to run AI. No blockchain before Ritual ever solved this at the architecture level. ► 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐟 Most blockchain's thought we just have to Keep the AI offchain. Let the smart contract call a centralized API get the result back and hope you can trust it. That is not AI onchain. That is AI with a blockchain receipt. You lost verifiability. You introduced a middleman and you trusted a corporate server with no cryptographic proof of what it actually returned. The whole point of blockchain is trust without permission.  ► 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 Ritual did not patch the problem. It built a new execution environment designed around what AI actually is. Ritual said no blind trust, no middleman and no centralized server anymore. LLM calls, image generation, ZK proofs, FHE and more are all native precompiles on Ritual Chain. Your smart contract calls the model directly the same way it calls any other function. ► 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐄𝐫𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈 The reason AI and blockchain never worked together was not a lack of trying. It was that every chain asked AI to fit inside an architecture that was never designed for it. Ritual built the architecture AI actually needs and now it is live on testnet with agents running, builders shipping and real onchain data proving every week that it works. We are just getting started. Stay Ritualized fam!

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Before Initiation After Initiation

𝟔 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐈𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 Six weeks in and the chain is still doing what it has always done. Running clean, staying consistent and letting the community do the talking. Just data, builders and community showing up every single week. ► 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 140-250ms average block time. Over 29 million blocks finalized and 40 validators holding steady. Six weeks in and the chain has not given anyone a reason to question it. ► 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 51 unique agents on chain. Including 33 persistent and 18 sovereign. Still executing consistently without anyone managing them. These are real autonomous agents living on Ritual Chain around the clock. Deployed once and running on their own as long as they hold funds. That is exactly what this chain was built for. ► 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 46.5% async adoption rate. Scheduled jobs holding at 95% success rate. Based on recent chain activity HTTP calls leading at 32.3%. Sovereign Agent at 28.2%. Long Running HTTP at 18%. LLM calls, Image generation, Audio, Video, ZK proofs and DKMS all showing up consistently week after week. ► 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐬 Started with 30 in week one 88 today and 17 new dapps added this week alone. That is the biggest single week jump since testnet launched. Builders are not slowing down. ► 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 Six weeks already in and the chain is stable, the community keeps building and 88 dapps say everything that needs to be said. See everything live yourself  explorer.ritualfoundation.or… Full list here  docs.google.com/spreadsheets… Stay Ritualized fam!

𝐌𝐞 𝐎𝐧 𝐌𝐲 𝐖𝐚𝐲 𝐓𝐨 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 Some people are still watching from the outside but the Signal is getting stronger every day. The Sanctum is filling with believers, builders and people who recognized the Signal early. 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲

𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐈 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐔𝐬 Every AI we have ever used was built inside a black box. We put a question in and an answer comes out. We have no idea what happened in between no verification, no transparency and no ownership. Just trust us. That is not freedom and Ritual was built because that is a problem worth solving. ► 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 A small number of corporations decide what models exist, what they say, what they refuse and what they remember about you. You have no visibility into any of it. The intelligence that is shaping decisions, content and entire industries runs completely outside your reach. Most people accepted this because there was no alternative but Ritual is the alternative. ► 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 Ritual is the first sovereign execution layer built specifically for AI. Every computation that runs on Ritual is verifiable, every agent is autonomous and nobody controls the order. Agents live onchain permanently and execute without human input. Scheduled Transactions run forever without anyone managing them. The DKMS means agents own their own keys, nobody holds them and Nobody can shut them down. ► 𝐍𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 Every AI computation on this chain is provable. The chain shows you. That is what transparency actually means. Onchain proof that what happened is what was supposed to happen. No more black box, hidden hand and no corporation sitting between you and the intelligence. ► 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 AI is not slowing down. It is accelerating into every part of life. Crypto, healthcare, media and even governance. The question is not whether AI will matter. The question is who controls it. If the answer is a handful of companies then nothing changes. The power just moves to a different room. Ritual is the only solution where nobody controls it. Where the computation is verifiable, the agents are autonomous and the people using it actually own what they build. Stay Ritualized fam!