Today’s dose of Siggy therapy. ☕🐈⬛🖤
A comfy chair, a cup of coffee, and a few flowers. Everything exactly where it should be.
The testnet is still running, but some things are simply meant to be done @ritualfnd@ritualnet@joshsimenhoff@Jez_Cryptoz
Private AI isn’t just a narrative anymore. It’s already working.
On Ritual, the model runs inside a TEE. Your prompt, the completion, and the onchain state settle in a single transaction. The output comes back EIP-712 signed so anyone can verify it came from the enclave itself. The operator never sees the data.
Most systems that claim “private AI” still pass your information through multiple providers in plaintext. Ritual Chat encrypts your input directly to onchain TEEs, removing the need to trust intermediaries.
And it’s not just chat.
Shadowbook is building dark pool RWA perps with TEE-native matching and onchain settlement. TweetRent keeps API keys encrypted inside enclaves while enabling account rentals. Auto PM runs as an autonomous research agent entirely onchain. You close the tab, it keeps working.
Private money spent 15 years looking for demand. Private AI found millions of users in months.
Ritual was built for the category where demand is already proven.@ritualfnd@joshsimenhoff@Jez_Cryptoz
Agent autonomy has always been talked about as a vision. Ritual is solving it as a technical problem, and I found that idea really interesting.
Here’s how on-chain AI works right now: the model thinks, output comes back, protocol acts on it. But these are separate steps. In that gap, the agent’s decision is sitting in the mempool, visible to everyone. Someone can read it and move before you do.
That’s exactly what happened with MakinaFi. $4.13 million gone. Not a smart contract bug, just that gap being exploited.
Ritual collapses inference and action into a single operation. The model thinks and acts at the same time. No one can get in between.
When a human makes a decision and acts on it, no one can read that decision before the action lands. Why should an agent be any different?
That’s where sovereign agents come in. Most “autonomous” agents today are still dependent on someone else’s infrastructure. If the provider goes down, the agent stops. On Ritual, the agent holds its own keys, schedules its own execution, and runs from its own wallet.
Reading Josh’s piece, this was the part that stood out to me the most. Agent sovereignty is a term I’ve heard many times before, but this is the first time I felt like I truly understood why it matters.
@joshsimenhoff@ritualfnd