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Here is this week’s Ritual Research Digest, a newsletter covering the latest work in the world of LLMs and the intersection of privacy, AI, and decentralized protocols. This week, we present an ICML edition, covering some of the many papers we liked at the conference.

ZK has always been the proposed endgame for Ethereum scaling and is advancing faster than anticipated, aggressively pulling forward timelines. Still, there is a lack of clarity around the market design when enshrining ZK in the L1. A short 🧵of my EthCC talk on this topic ↓

In our last blog post, we showed how to break privacy-preserving LLM schemes — decoding permuted model states with near-perfect accuracy. Today, we present our defense: Cascade 🕵️‍♂️✨

🧙 Ritual is headed to ICML 2025! Catch our poster presentation, "Hidden No More: Attacking and Defending Private Third-Party LLM Inference" 📆 July 16 at 4:30pm PST 📍East Exhibition Hall A–B, Room E-2612, Vancouver Convention Centre 🔗 Come say hi and chat with us about our latest research! 👋 #ICML2025

the Ritual lasts long after the reasons have been forgotten

Smart contracts today can only access and interact with what already exists onchain. They can't query APIs, fetch real-time data from the Internet or generally access and interact with Web2 applications. But with Ritual they can, using ❖ Network Calls ❖

What makes smart contracts on Ritual ❖ actually smart ❖ ↓

Which Ritual Chain feature are you most excited to build with? 🧙