Writing

Works & publications from our team

Capacity oracles
APR 2026 · RESEARCH · External

Capacity oracles

Maryam Bahrani

Symphony: Execution-Aware Consensus and Proposer Disaggregation
APR 2026 · RESEARCH · External

Symphony: Execution-Aware Consensus and Proposer Disaggregation

Ritual

Dynamic Delayed Tree Expansion For Improved Multi-Path Speculative Decoding
FEB 2026 · RESEARCH · External

Dynamic Delayed Tree Expansion For Improved Multi-Path Speculative Decoding

Rahul Thomas, Teo Kitanovski, Micah Goldblum, Arka Pal

Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms Enable Cheap Verifiable Inference of LLMs
FEB 2026 · RESEARCH · External

Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms Enable Cheap Verifiable Inference of LLMs

Arka Pal, Louai Zahran, William Gvozdjak, Akilesh Potti, Micah Goldblum

Greedy Multi-Path Block Verification for Faster Decoding in Speculative Sampling
FEB 2026 · RESEARCH · External

Greedy Multi-Path Block Verification for Faster Decoding in Speculative Sampling

Rahul Thomas, Arka Pal

The Monotone Priority System: Foundations of Contract-Specific Sequencing
JAN 2026 · RESEARCH · External

The Monotone Priority System: Foundations of Contract-Specific Sequencing

Naveen Durvasula

Global Resolution: Optimal Multi-Draft Speculative Sampling via Convex Minimization
DEC 2025 · RESEARCH

Global Resolution: Optimal Multi-Draft Speculative Sampling via Convex Minimization

Rahul Thomas, Arka Pal

Incoherent Beliefs & Inconsistent Actions in Large Language Models
DEC 2025 · RESEARCH

Incoherent Beliefs & Inconsistent Actions in Large Language Models

Arka Pal, Teo Kitanovski, Arthur Liang, Akilesh Potti, Micah Goldblum

Markets for Decentralized Computation
NOV 2025 · CORE

Markets for Decentralized Computation

Naveen Durvasula

Introducing Ritual Interns
AUG 2025 · CORE

Introducing Ritual Interns

Ritual Team

Cascade: Token-Sharded Private LLM Inference
JUL 2025 · RESEARCH

Cascade: Token-Sharded Private LLM Inference

Rahul Thomas, Louai Zahran, Erica Choi, Micah Goldblum, Arka Pal

On Incentivizing Anonymous Participation
MAY 2025 · RESEARCH

On Incentivizing Anonymous Participation

Maryam Bahrani

Breaking Permutation Security in LLM Inference
MAY 2025 · RESEARCH

Breaking Permutation Security in LLM Inference

Arka Pal, Erica Choi, Rahul Thomas, Louai Zahran, Micah Goldblum

Towards Anonymous Neural Network Inference
MAY 2025 · RESEARCH

Towards Anonymous Neural Network Inference

Peiyuan Liao

Privacy Challenges in the Age of Open Weights Large Language Models
MAY 2025 · RESEARCH

Privacy Challenges in the Age of Open Weights Large Language Models

Arka Pal

Forging the Future of AI and Crypto
MAY 2025 · FOUNDATION · External

Forging the Future of AI and Crypto

Ritual Foundation Team

Introducing Ritual Chain
FEB 2025 · CORE

Introducing Ritual Chain

Ritual Foundation

The Resonance Mechanism and its Properties
NOV 2024 · CORE

The Resonance Mechanism and its Properties

Naveen Durvasula, Maryam Bahrani

Resonance: A Market Mechanism for Heterogeneous Computation
NOV 2024 · CORE

Resonance: A Market Mechanism for Heterogeneous Computation

Naveen Durvasula, Maryam Bahrani

Welcoming our first Apostles
NOV 2024 · CORE

Welcoming our first Apostles

Ritual Team

vTune: Verifiable Fine-Tuning for LLMs Through Backdooring
NOV 2024 · CORE

vTune: Verifiable Fine-Tuning for LLMs Through Backdooring

Eva Zhang, Arka Pal, Akilesh Potti, Micah Goldblum

Ritual × Arweave: Decentralized Storage For Trustless AI
NOV 2024 · PARTNERSHIPS

Ritual × Arweave: Decentralized Storage For Trustless AI

Ritual Team

Model and Data Watermarking
NOV 2024 · RESEARCH

Model and Data Watermarking

Micah Goldblum

Ritual × Arbitrum: Supercharging Ethereum With AI
NOV 2024 · PARTNERSHIPS

Ritual × Arbitrum: Supercharging Ethereum With AI

Ritual Team

Ritual × StarkWare: Expanding the Boundaries of Decentralized Computing with AI
OCT 2024 · PARTNERSHIPS

Ritual × StarkWare: Expanding the Boundaries of Decentralized Computing with AI

Ritual Team

Ritual × Nillion: Decentralized, Blind Inference for AI
AUG 2024 · PARTNERSHIPS

Ritual × Nillion: Decentralized, Blind Inference for AI

Ritual Team

Introducing Ritual Altar
AUG 2024 · CORE

Introducing Ritual Altar

Ritual Team

Welcoming Polychain as a Strategic Investor in Ritual
APR 2024 · FUNDRAISING

Welcoming Polychain as a Strategic Investor in Ritual

Ritual Team

Ritual × Celestia: Modularity for Decentralized AI
MAR 2024 · PARTNERSHIPS

Ritual × Celestia: Modularity for Decentralized AI

Ritual Team

Ritual × MyShell: A New AI Creator Economy
MAR 2024 · PARTNERSHIPS

Ritual × MyShell: A New AI Creator Economy

Ritual Team

Ritual × EigenLayer: Restaking for AI
FEB 2024 · PARTNERSHIPS

Ritual × EigenLayer: Restaking for AI

Ritual Team

FAQ
FEB 2024 · CORE

FAQ

Akilesh Potti

Introducing Ritual
NOV 2023 · CORE

Introducing Ritual

Ritual Team