Notably, Ritual’s mainnet launch brings AI compute onto the blockchain itself, rather than treating it merely as an external service.
On October 26, the Ritual Foundation announced the official launch of its mainnet, with the $RITUAL token entering circulation at the same time. The initial supply is 10 billion tokens, with no fixed cap; 18%—1.8 billion tokens—was unlocked at launch.
As for the allocation, core contributors receive 29%, ecosystem growth and R&D 25%, network participation and future incentives 14%, and Lab investors 11.3%. The tokens unlocked at launch mainly come from ecosystem growth and R&D, the foundation treasury, and a 0.5% community airdrop (50 million tokens) for early participants such as Infernet node operators.
The key point is the timing gap: allocations for core contributors and Lab investors are locked for one year, and locked tokens currently cannot be staked and carry no voting rights. The full unlock schedule spans four years. In other words, the variable affecting new supply during 2026 is not in insiders’ hands, but depends on ecosystem usage and fee burns.
The token’s utility appears designed around this same logic: paying transaction fees and AI compute fees, staking, and future governance. Annual issuance is approximately 5%, initially used for staking rewards, while base fees are burned under a mechanism similar to EIP-1559. Whether supply gets out of control depends on whether fee burns can offset this new issuance—not on the circulating supply on day one.
For AI-native chains like this, the assessment can be narrowed down to one question: are real model calls and agent transactions consistently generating fees? If call volume fails to take off, the initial 18% circulating supply is just the starting point; if it does, the lockup structure gives the project a longer window for evaluation than an immediate full unlock would.
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Just my personal opinion; this is not investment advice