Tria (tria.so) raised $12 million in pre-seed and strategic funding rounds to build a global self-custody neobank designed for both humans and AI agents.
P2 Ventures, Aptos, the Tria community, and executives from Polygon, the Ethereum Foundation, Wintermute, Sentient, 0G, Concrete, Eigen, and others participated in the round. Polychain and Polygon served as advisors during the pre-seed round.
Neobanks like Revolut and Monzo have simplified fiat finance by hiding the complexity of legacy systems and now manage over $4 trillion in global transactions. Web3 takes this a step further, completely eliminating intermediaries.
Tria solves the biggest gap in cryptocurrency: its actual use. For the first time, users can spend, trade, and earn—all from a single, self-storing balance, without worrying about gas, bridges, or seed phrases.
From buying coffee in Tokyo to swapping tokens across blockchains, Tria enables instant, seamless, and free transactions. Visa cards operate in over 150 countries and support over 1,000 tokens. Transactions are processed through the BestPath engine for optimized execution, and inactive assets generate revenue that automatically repays the card balance.
Tria's proprietary technology is called BestPath AVS—a decentralized settlement marketplace where solvers, routers, and relayers compete to route transactions instantly across blockchains. BestPath routes payments and trades for over 250,000 users and is used by over 70 protocols and AI ecosystems, including Polygon, Arbitrum, Sentient, and Injective.
Stablecoins, RWAs, and autonomous agents are rewriting the financial stack. Blockchain transaction volume is expected to reach $100 trillion by 2030, but 98% of users are still stuck with legacy user experiences. Revolut unlocked TradFi through design. Web3 now needs the same—without abandoning custody. By 2030, over 25% of global digital payments (approximately $25-30 trillion annually) will be processed by AI agents. Tria is the missing piece: a consumer neobank on top and programmable payments infrastructure underneath.
Founded by Parth Bhalla and Vijit Katta, the Tria team includes alumni from Binance, Polygon, OpenSea, Nethermind, Intel, and other companies—with support from prominent members of the UAE royal family and government officials, as well as leaders from the Ethereum Foundation, Polygon, and Wintermute.
As part of its commitment to building with the community, not just for it, Tria is reportedly preparing a public distribution round. The offering will give users the chance to own a stake in the neobank they use. Official details are expected to be announced soon through Tria's social media channels—X (formerly Twitter, blocked in Russia) and Linktree.
About Tria
Tria is a self-custody neobank that unifies spending, trading, and earning across all blockchains—without bridges, gas, or custodians. Built for both humans and AI, Tria makes money programmable, enabling any person or agent to transact natively on the blockchain. Using its BestPath AVS interoperability layer, Tria abstracts the complexity of cryptocurrency to enable instant, global, and autonomous finance.