#324: Niraj Pant, Co-founder of Ritual, on The Future of Crypto, Decentralized AI, and Applying ML to DeFi

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Niraj Pant is Co-Founder of Ritual, the decentralized execution layer for AI. Prior to founding Ritual, Niraj spent six years as a General Partner at Polychain, leading investment rounds in startups like Offchain Labs, EigenLayer, and Compound. He began his career as a cryptography researcher in the Decentralized Systems Lab at UIUC.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- The relationship between crypto and AI
- The future of AI and crypto
- Building autonomous worlds and games
- Applying ML to DeFi
- Smart Agents
- Building decentralized AI infrastructure
- Story Protocol
- Exciting developers
- AI-based DApps
- GPU as a service
Ritual
Website: ritual.net
X: @ritualnet
Discord: discord.ritual.net
Niraj Pant
X: @niraj
LinkedIn: Niraj Pant

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