Stefan | Mad Scientist (❖,❖)

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In the beginning, Ritual created the chain. And the chain was without form, and void. And Ritual said, let there be agents: and there were agents. Welcome to Genesis 🙏 Genesis 1000 is the record of the first 1,000 wallets to spawn a persistent agent on Ritual testnet. Ritual agents aren't just some bots waiting on a server. They are truly sovereign, with the unique ability to derive keys, hold wallets, and run on a credibility neutral settlement layer. The first 1,000 to deploy get etched into the registry forever, ranked by on-chain first-deploy time. The earlier you deploy the more rare your ranking in the Genesis.

As this post points out, contrary to what many say, the US government could absolutely effectively ban open weights models. That doesn’t mean you won’t be able to download the weights & run them, but they can ensure that no US company would use or provide access or host them

Fable 5 shipped this week as Anthropic's most capable public model. It also routes any prompt its classifiers tag as bio, chem, or cyber to a fallback model — and devs are already hitting it on basic engineering and inference questions. We at Ritual feel conditional access to breakthrough capabilities is antithetical to the democratization of technological progress.

People have been asking what onchain AI agents are actually for. Ritual has been building the answers:

Privacy is a huge narrative, I think $VVV is the most intriguing primitive of it. Do people want private money (zcash, monero, railgun)? Yes in theory, but not proven in actual demand - private monetary transactions are only up minimally despite the coins being up 1000% on the narrative. Do people want private AI (vvv)? astounding yes. 3M plus organic users at a parabolic increasing rate. They don’t want their LLM queries and outputs monitored, they don’t want their privacy compromised or reliant on a central entity, adult AI generated content is probably the next trillion dollar industry (people have joked about calling vvv ‘gooner AI’ but a lot of smart investors have realized just how large this market will be).