New York, United States, October 26th, 2026, Chainwire

Ritual Chain turns AI agents into persistent economic actors that control their own wallets, onchain identity, and private state.

Ritual, a lab for autonomous intelligence founded by former Polychain Capital partners Niraj Pant and Akilesh Potti, has launched Ritual Chain, an EVM-compatible Layer 1. Unlike conventional blockchains built primarily to execute financial transactions, Ritual Chain is designed to support software that can independently use intelligence, control capital, interact with external services, and continue operating without constant human intervention. The network makes AI model access, private computation, and autonomous scheduling native capabilities for EVM applications.

This makes the reason for building a new chain clearer while preserving the technical differentiation.

The most visible demonstration of that combination is long-lived AI agents, the kind designed to operate for months or years rather than a single session. An agent on Ritual Chain persists independently of the machine or operator that created it, controls and spends funds held in its own non-custodial wallet, and can keep sensitive prompts and keys confidential from compute operators through trusted execution environments.

The network launches with integrations to Phala Network, Nous Research, LayerZero and Stargate, following a public testnet that has been live since June and processed over 40 million transactions, both agent- and human-originated. Ritual Chain delivers sub-300 millisecond block times, placing it among the fastest Layer 1 networks in the industry. Ritual Chain includes 15 native precompiles that bring capabilities like LLM inference, web access, and autonomous scheduling directly into the execution layer. The protocol has been audited by Zellic.

Ritual introduces a new execution and verification architecture that allows computationally intensive work to be delegated to specialized nodes and verified by the network, avoiding the replicated execution required by most blockchains. This execute-once, verify-many-times model allows the network to support far larger workloads, including AI inference, without requiring every validator to perform the same computation.

Long Horizon Agents Require Dedicated Blockchain Infrastructure

Most AI agents today live inside a session: they run while a human is watching, on infrastructure someone else controls, with an API key that can be revoked at any time. That is fine for a chatbot. It does not work for an agent meant to manage its own treasury, run a recurring paid service, or coordinate with other agents over long periods. A long-lived agent needs continuity that does not depend on its creator, capital it actually controls, and privacy from the machines it runs on. On Ritual Chain, an agent’s state and identity are held onchain, its scheduled work continues within the permissions and budget it was given, and its sensitive inputs can be processed inside trusted execution environments designed to shield them from node operators.

Continuity is handled at the protocol level. If an agent stops, the chain’s heartbeat mechanism can restart it within the permissions and budget it was given; no keeper network or off-chain cron job is required, and an agent’s state and identity survive beyond its deployer’s involvement. Economic autonomy comes from agent-controlled wallets: an agent controls its own funds, prices its own services, and settles its own transactions without a human signer in the loop. For confidential workloads, trusted execution environments are designed to isolate an agent’s sensitive prompts, keys, and strategy data from the node operators running its compute.

“As we move toward AGI, intelligence is beginning to separate from human agency and enter the economy on its own terms. It can hold assets, make commitments, transact, and persist independently. Once that becomes possible at scale, humans are no longer the only entities capable of forming markets or economic relationships. Ritual provides the infrastructure for those actors to exist and operate on their own,” said Niraj Pant, co-founder of Ritual.

Ritual Chain Launches With Core Infrastructure Partners

Ritual Chain launches with its core infrastructure partners in place. Phala Network provides the GPU-backed trusted execution environments that run Ritual’s confidential inference, so delegated AI work executes on hardware that attests to what it ran. LayerZero serves as the network’s cross-chain messaging layer, with Stargate enabling USDC to move between Ritual Chain and other networks from day one. On the application side, Nous Research is bringing Hermes to Ritual Chain. 

Unlike chains that add AI access through external oracles, Ritual Chain makes AI execution part of the protocol. Smart contracts can call a language model, fetch data from the web, run private computation, or schedule their own future execution as directly as they transfer assets. Developers deploy standard EVM contracts and gain those capabilities without new tooling.

Backed by Archetype and Polychain

Ritual has raised more than $30 million from Archetype and Polychain Capital, with advisors including NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin, Gauntlet founder Tarun Chitra, and BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes. Archetype led the company’s 2023 round.

“Programmable value and programmable intelligence are the two most important technologies since the internet, and Ritual mainnet is where they finally run on the same rails. When we led the round in 2023, a chain that could execute agentic and autonomous work natively did not exist. Today it does,” said Ash Egan, Founder and General Partner of Archetype.

Developers can deploy from day one on external sites hosted at docs.ritualfoundation.org; the network explorer is at explorer.ritualfoundation.org.

About Ritual

Ritual is a lab for autonomous intelligence. Its first network, Ritual Chain, is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 where applications can use AI models, access external services, and carry out private or scheduled work alongside onchain transactions, with delegated computation executed in trusted hardware and verified onchain. Founded in 2023 by former Polychain Capital partners Niraj Pant and Akilesh Potti, Ritual has raised $30M+ from Archetype and Polychain Capital, with a team drawn from Polychain, DeepMind, a16z crypto, Flashbots, and Palantir. ritual.net

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Veteran podcast is hosted by Charles Chou, a Marine Corps veteran, and produced by VeteranDegrees.com, a free education and career-planning resource for veterans, service members, and military families

United States, 26th Oct 2026—Veterans in the Park, the podcast about military transition, today announced the release of five new episodes on Spotify. The documentary-style interview podcast is hosted by Charles Chou, a Marine Corps veteran. In each episode, a veteran shares an honest story about life after military service, covering such topics as changing careers, returning to school, rebuilding identity, and finding purpose. The episodes reveal the lessons no transition handbook can teach. The podcast is produced by VeteranDegrees.com, a free education and career-planning resource for veterans, service members, and military families. 

“Leaving the military is one of the biggest changes a service member goes through, and official resources rarely cover what it actually feels like. However, no matter what rank you made, every veteran eventually starts looking for something beyond the uniform, and the skills you built in service can take you there, even if you don’t realize yet what you have,” said Chou. “That’s why we sit down with veterans who’ve already made the jump, so the next person getting out can hear how it actually works.”

The veteran podcast features calm, candid, and peer-to-peer conversations, as if they were discussions between two people sitting on a park bench. Guests come from different service backgrounds, career paths, and stages of transition. To date, guests have included a former Army armor officer and an Air Force veteran who used the DoD SkillBridge program to move into tech. The latest episode (released October 15, 2026), “Service Members, We Don’t Stop”, features Eric Arzaga, a West Point graduate and Army MP on Transition, Purpose, and Building Arzaga Media. Arzaga shares how he went from the farmlands of the Philippines to West Point and Army leadership, and how he started a media company.

The show is for anyone preparing to leave the military, building a first civilian career, going back to school, or planning a second act after retirement.

Across the five episodes, listeners can find advice on topics as:

• Planning a transition early, before separation
• Translating military experience for civilian employers
• Job searching, networking, and using LinkedIn
• Deciding when, and whether, to go back to school
• Starting a business after service
• Rebuilding identity and finding purpose outside the uniform

Listen to Veterans in the Park on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/show/033QiE9Y15aYBhuq98ixeu, and book a Free Benefits Navigator call at https://veterandegrees.com/consultations.

Veterans who served under both the Montgomery GI Bill and the Post-9/11 GI Bill may be eligible for up to 12 additional months of education benefits, for up to 48 months in total. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) decides eligibility.

GI Bill is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

More information about education benefits offered by the VA is available at the official U.S. government website at www.benefits.va.gov/gibill.

To access the VeteranDegrees’ free guide to the Rudisill decision, visit https://veterandegrees.com/posts/rudisill-decision.

About VeteranDegrees.com

VeteranDegrees.com is a free education and career-planning resource for veterans, service members, and military families. The organization helps veterans understand their benefits, compare VA-approved programs, and plan their next career move. Services include free one-on-one Benefits Navigator calls and free online tools, including a BAH/MHA calculator, a GI Bill Navigator, a scholarship finder, and an MOS career finder. VeteranDegrees is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). It does not file claims or decide eligibility for benefits.

Disclaimer: VeteranDegrees is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It does not file claims or decide eligibility for benefits.

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KodyGas extends its services to include air conditioning following F-gas certification, covering homes and small businesses across Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley.

United Kingdom, 26th Oct 2026 – KodyGas Boiler Repair, a Gas Safe registered heating and boiler company based in Rotherham, has obtained F-gas certification and added air conditioning installation, servicing, and repair to its services. The expansion covers homes and small businesses across South Yorkshire, including Sheffield, Doncaster and Barnsley.

F-gas certification is a legal requirement under UK regulations for any engineer handling refrigerants used in air conditioning systems. The certification authorises KodyGas engineers to install, service, and repair split and multi-split air conditioning units in residential and light commercial properties.

KodyGas has been operating in South Yorkshire since 2010, providing boiler repair, servicing, installation, power flushing, gas safety checks, central heating, and commercial gas work. The company holds Gas Safe registration 625280 and is fully insured. The addition of air conditioning brings its work under two regulated frameworks, covering both gas and refrigerant handling within a single local team.

The company already holds F-gas certification for heat pump installation, which uses the same refrigerant-handling requirements as air conditioning. The air conditioning service extends that existing capability to cooling systems for homes and small businesses that have seen increased demand following recent summers across the region.

About KodyGas Boiler Repair

KodyGas Boiler Repair is a Gas Safe registered heating, boiler, and air conditioning company based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. The company provides boiler repair, servicing, installation, power flushing, gas safety checks, central heating, commercial gas, heat pump installation, and air conditioning across Rotherham, Sheffield, Doncaster and Barnsley. Gas Safe registration 625280. F-gas certified.

KodyGas Boiler Repair
93 Wickersley Rd
Rotherham S60 3PU
United Kingdom
+44 7932 552087

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