when we started @useTria, the goal was simple - to prove that on-chain consumer finance is fundamentally superior to fiat. it's instant, global, and self-owned. you can engineer how you pay, how you earn and trade. consumer crypto gives billions the access to instruments typically gatekept by institutional finance - credit, liquidity, yields and programmability. ------ but the truth is, the early experience of crypto didn’t live up to that ideal (and sometimes still doesnt) people love the idea of self-custody, but hate using it. everything is broken up - bridges, wallets, gas tokens, fees and defi - you know the drill. i remember one of our earliest "web2.5" user trying crypto wallets and defi and said “this can’t be the future of money.” that sentence stuck with me. so we built Tria to make programmable finance usable. a neobank that doesn’t sit on banks - it is the bank. fully on-chain, self-custodial with a mainstream UX. and it worked. ------ we launched quietly, with a small beta. word spread faster than we expected. in 3 months of beta, Tria powers 30,000+ users, with $40m+ volume - all before our public launch. ...