Niraj Pant

Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder of Ritual, a technology enterprise building infrastructure for artificial intelligence systems on blockchains, and is currently based in New York, USA. Prior to establishing this new venture, he served as a General Partner at the prominent cryptocurrency investment firm Polychain Capital. In this executive capacity, he led strategic capital allocations and directed venture investments specifically focused on the development of next-generation cryptographic systems and decentralized networks. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During his undergraduate studies, he also conducted specialized privacy research within the academic institution's Decentralized Systems Lab. Pant's current professional focus centers on developing foundational infrastructure that integrates advanced artificial intelligence capabilities with blockchain networks to enable reliable, decentralized computational actions across the broader cryptocurrency ecosystem.