AI Agents represent the frontier of Crypto × AI, operating with independence
making decisions, and taking on-chain actions without human intervention.In 2023, we pioneered the idea of on-chain AI agents with
Frenrug, an agent controlled by a combination of LLM
and Classical ML models,
managing over $30,000 on Base.Yet, while recent traction has pushed the
agents market cap past $13B, current, leading
agents and agent frameworks have regressed to poor, unsophisticated
implementations, limited in their capabilities:
Trust & Verification: No reliable way to verify autonomous operation or
decision-making
Limited Capabilities: Restricted action space and poor integration with
external services
Security Risks: Vulnerable to model and private key tampering and
unauthorized access
Centralized Control: Reliance on centralized providers for model and
trade execution
Privacy Concerns: User data and agent behavior exposed to central
operators
Poor Composability: Limited ability to coordinate between multiple agents
Difficult Developer Experience: Poor framework architectures force
simple, fragile agents
Inadequate Architecture: Poor reproducibility, broken state consistency,
unsafe parallelism
Ritual provides a comprehensive framework for building better agents, that
are verifiable, truly autonomous, and cross-chain.On top, our upcoming agent launchpad simplifies the lifecycle of building
and orchestrating complex agents, while tapping into the secure underlying
execution properties of Ritual Chain.
Agents on Ritual live on-chain, with all execution logic (AI Inference, TEE
code execution, wallet management, cross-chain trading, etc.) happening directly
within a smart contract.
Verifiable Execution
Guaranteed autonomous operation with TEE execution and blockchain provenance.
Enshrined AI Inference
Secure, privacy-preserving AI
inference
powering real-time agent decision-making.
On-chain adaptation with verifiable performance gains Adaptive strategy evolution via DAOs Self-healing through automated failure detection and recovery
Ritual Chain acts as a trust-minimized coordination layer for agent-to-agent
communication, enabling complex multi-agent systems with cryptographic
guarantees.
Communication Layer
Secure message passing State synchronization Resource sharing Conflict resolution
Coordination Patterns
Hierarchical organization Peer-to-peer collaboration Task delegation Collective decision making
You can get started building autonomous, smart agents on Ritual today.Our tutorials & case studies
feature ways to build infinitely customizable on-chain agents, tapping into our
native enshrined compute and robust primitives.