Ritual mainnet and $RITUAL went live today, 26 Oct 2026.

Ritual Labs @ritualnet posted "Ritual mainnet is now live" at 14:56 UTC. Ritual Foundation @ritualfnd followed at 15:28 UTC: "The next generation of onchain AI starts today. Ritual mainnet is live, and so is $RITUAL. You can build agents that hold their own keys, earn revenue and pay for their own compute." Docs are at https://docs.ritualfoundation.org and skills at https://skills.ritualfoundation.org.

Tokenomics quoted across community threads today: 10B initial supply, 1.8B (18%) unlocked at launch. Allocation cited as Core Contributors 29%, Ecosystem Growth + R&D 25%, Network Participation & Future Incentives 14%, Labs Investors 11.3%, Foundation 10%, Labs Treasury 5%, Frontier AI Grants 4.7%, Foundation Private Sale 1%. Insiders locked at least 1 year, locked tokens cannot be staked. Uses named: pay for onchain AI compute, stake, governance, with ~5% PoS issuance and EIP-1559 burn. These figures are from community summaries, not yet a Foundation tokenomics page in our reads.

Airdrop as announced in the quoted Foundation post: "50M RITUAL is allocated to eligible Infernet operators, Frenrug users and long-time community members. That's 0.5% of initial supply, fully unlocked at launch." Check and claim at airdrop.ritualfoundation.org, which states "Connect the wallet that holds your allocation to claim it on Ritual Mainnet." Eligibility detail beyond those three groups and sybil filtering is not published in the posts we read. Turkish poster @zenerbabax summarized it as "Ritual AirDrop gelmiş. Kontrol edin."

First listing: Foundation says "$RITUAL's first exchange listing is live on @Coinbase" with spot RITUAL-USD opening 26 Oct if liquidity met. LayerZero is named for bridging, with bridged-out tokens locked on Ritual so they do not create new supply. On polling, MEXC quoted RITUAL spot $0.05338 (+113.5% 24h) and perp $0.05001. Treat that as one venue's quote, not a verified launch price.