PANews reported on October 15th that Tria, a self-custodial digital bank, has completed $12 million in pre-seed and strategic funding rounds. This round attracted participation from P2 Ventures, Aptos, Tria's own community, and executives from Polygon, the Ethereum Foundation, Wintermute, Sentient, 0G, Concrete, and Eigen. Polychain and Polygon served as advisors for the pre-seed round.
Tria is a self-custodial new bank that consolidates spending, transactions, and returns across multiple blockchains without the need for bridges, gas, or custodians. Built for both humans and AI, Tria makes currency programmable, enabling traders or AI agents to conduct native transactions on-chain. Powered by its interoperability layer, BestPath AVS, Tria simplifies the complexity of cryptocurrency to deliver instant, global, and autonomous finance.



Bitcoin’s market cycles may stretch longer as ISM manufacturing data remains weak, hinting at extended macro headwinds and slower business recovery. The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) has historically aligned with major peaks in Bitcoin’s market cycles — a pattern that, if repeated, could imply a longer-than-usual cycle this time around.The correlation between the ISM PMI and Bitcoin’s (BTC) price was first popularized by Real Vision’s Raoul Pal and has since gained traction among macro-focused crypto analysts.“All 3 past Bitcoin cycle tops have broadly aligned with this monthly, oscillating index,” analyst Colin Talks Crypto noted, referencing the recurring overlap between Bitcoin’s market highs and the PMI’s cyclical peaks.Read more