Lithosphere Launches Lithic AI-Native Language

Lithosphere, a company under KaJ Labs, has launched Lithic, an AI-native smart contract programming language, alongside the Makalu Testnet. Proposed by J. King Kasr, Lithic aims to integrate artificial intelligence directly into blockchain execution environments, offering features like typed AI primitives, deterministic budget enforcement, and cryptographic provenance standards. This development addresses limitations in current Web3 architectures by formalizing AI as an onchain execution primitive, supported by cryptographically signed receipts and optional zero-knowledge verification. The initiative includes the LEP100 Standards Suite, defining technical standards for AI-native smart contract execution, and provides developers with tools like the Lithic compiler and the Lithosphere Secure Contracts Library (LSCL). This move is seen as a foundational step towards Web4, where AI and blockchain converge into a verifiable, economically governed infrastructure.