Welcome to the Shrine
What We Offer
Product Development
Our team brings experience from founding successful protocols, building major crypto platforms, and leading product at top tech companies. We collaborate on protocol design, leveraging Ritual's infrastructure capabilities around heterogeneous compute and on-chain AI models to implement net-new applications that would be impossible on traditional blockchains.
Design & User Experience
Drawing on experience creating intuitive interfaces at leading tech companies and crypto projects, we provide design support from initial branding through production-ready interfaces, with expertise in creating accessible experiences for complex applications.
Engineering Support
Backed by engineers who've built both foundational blockchain infrastructure and contributed to transformative AI research, our team provides expert guidance on smart contract development, AI model integration, and frontend implementation. Our collective experience spans all facets of crypto, AI development, market infrastructure and more.
Go-to-Market Strategy
With experience launching successful protocols and scaling applications, we help design effective launch strategies for applications at the AI/crypto intersection, with connections to integration partners across DeFi, consumer applications, and enterprise.
Fundraising and Networking
We've worked at some of the largest funds in the space, and will help you craft your story, design your pitch deck, connect with investors, and strategize around your round.
Strategic Network & Mentorship
We're supported by some of the greatest minds in the space, and will open up our network of operators, investors, and researchers so you can get the best perspectives while you build your vision into reality.
Hiring
We have some of the strongest talent pipelines in the industry and will help you hire for critical roles that can accelerate your growth trajectory and build a team capable of executing your ambitious vision.
Operations
We'll help you shortcut all the behind-the-scenes operations involved in building a company, from optimal vendor selection, to offshore & onshore setup, to securing audits, and more, allowing you to focus on building what matters most.
Community Engagement
Join a community of builders exploring Ritual's expanded design space. Our team's background in community building across major protocols helps facilitate knowledge sharing and collaborative opportunities that accelerate progress.
Why Build on Ritual?
Expressive Computation, At Your Fingertips
Smart contracts can call AI models, TEEs, and other expressive computation forms - enabling entirely new categories of applications that aren't possible elsewhere.
10x Expanded Design Surface
By enshrining advanced computation at the base layer without burdening core execution, Ritual creates a dramatically larger design space for what you can build on-chain.
Future-Proof Infrastructure
With native support for a variety of computational integrity gadgets, model privacy, on-chain AI capabilities, and EVM compatibility, your applications can leverage cutting-edge features while maintaining accessibility.
Improving the EVM
Ritual extends Ethereum compatibility with crucial improvements like native account abstraction, the latest EIPs, and scheduled transactions - allowing for recurring, conditional smart contract execution without external keepers, reducing complexity and points of failure.
Ready to join the Shrine but not sure how?
We've prototyped some ideas we'd love to see brought to completion and want talented teams to take them over.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Ritual's infrastructure makes AI capabilities accessible directly from smart contracts. You can leverage your crypto expertise while exploring new AI-enabled possibilities. Our team, which includes members who've bridged these domains at research institutions and leading companies, can help you integrate AI capabilities into your blockchain applications without requiring deep AI expertise.