Ritual

Ritual is a decentralized AI infrastructure protocol that enables developers to deploy and monetize AI models on-chain while providing applications with trustless access to inference services. The protocol creates a marketplace where AI model providers can offer their services to on-chain applications, with payment and execution verified through cryptographic proofs. By decentralizing AI infrastructure, Ritual reduces reliance on centralized AI providers and enables composable AI services where multiple models can interact within blockchain-verified execution environments. Example: A decentralized finance protocol could use Ritual to access price prediction models for liquidation thresholds, with model inference costs paid in tokens and execution verified on-chain without trusting a single AI provider. Why it matters for AI and data in Web3: Ritual enables verifiable and trustless AI execution on-chain, creating decentralized alternatives to centralized AI APIs while allowing AI developers to monetize models directly.

Category: ai data, infrastructure applications

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