Ritual Launches AI-Native Layer 1 for Autonomous Agents
[PRESS RELEASE – New York, United States, October 26th, 2026] Ritual Chain turns AI agents into persistent economic actors that control their own wallets, onchain identity, and private state. This makes the reason for building a new chain clearer while preserving the technical differentiation. Ritual Chain Launches With Core Infrastructure Partners Unlike chains that add AI access through external oracles, Ritual Chain makes AI execution part of the protocol. Smart contracts can call a language model, fetch data from the web, run private computation, or schedule their own future execution as directly as they transfer assets. Developers deploy standard EVM contracts and gain those capabilities without new tooling. Backed by Archetype and Polychain Ritual has raised more than $30 million from Archetype and Polychain Capital, with advisors including NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin…
