Ritual is described by vendor materials as infrastructure intended to allow protocols, applications, and smart contracts to integrate AI models using provided developer tooling. Public materials describe a two-part system:
1. Infernet — a decentralized oracle/compute network intended to connect smart contracts to off-chain AI and heterogeneous compute workloads.
2. Ritual Chain — an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain that the vendor describes as supporting AI-related primitives (model execution, model objects, heterogeneous compute). Ritual Chain is described in public documentation as running in a private testnet at the time of the snapshot.