Writing

Works & publications from our team

Answering At Any Cost: Frontier LLMs Are Consequence-Insensitive
Aug 2026 · Research · External

Answering At Any Cost: Frontier LLMs Are Consequence-Insensitive

Arka Pal, Micah Goldblum, Rahul Thomas, Louai Zahran, Adam Block

Pinocchio: Estimating the Uncertainty of Black-Box Language Models
Aug 2026 · Research · External

Pinocchio: Estimating the Uncertainty of Black-Box Language Models

Kevin David Hayes, Arka Pal, Haosong Zhang, Tom Goldstein, Micah Goldblum

Optimal, Multi-Unit Auctions with Collusion
Aug 2026 · Research · External

Optimal, Multi-Unit Auctions with Collusion

Naveen Durvasula, Andrew Komo

Adversarial Procurement in Blockchains
May 2026 · Research · External

Adversarial Procurement in Blockchains

Maryam Bahrani

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

Superposition of Execution Models
Apr 2026 · Research · External

Superposition of Execution Models

Ritual

Verifiable Computation with Distributed Proving and Verification
Apr 2026 · Research · External

Verifiable Computation with Distributed Proving and Verification

Ritual

Multi-System Verification Model
Apr 2026 · Research · External

Multi-System Verification Model

Ritual

Extended External Validity
Apr 2026 · Research · External

Extended External Validity

Ritual

Inclusion and Exclusion Guarantees
Apr 2026 · Research · External

Inclusion and Exclusion Guarantees

Ritual

Application-Defined Ordering Guarantees
Apr 2026 · Research · External

Application-Defined Ordering Guarantees

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

Knowing What You Know Is Not Enough: Large Language Model Confidences Don't Align With Their Actions
Dec 2025 · Research

Knowing What You Know Is Not Enough: Large Language Model Confidences Don't Align With Their Actions

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