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Foresight News reported, according to The Block, that self-custody digital bank Tria has completed a $12 million Pre-seed and strategic funding round, with participation from P2 Ventures, Aptos, Tria’s own community, as well as executives from Polygon, Ethereum Foundation, Wintermute, Sentient, 0G, Concrete, Eigen, and other institutions. Polychain and Polygon served as meta Pre-seed round advisors. Tria is a new type of self-custody bank that integrates spending, trading, and yield across multiple blockchains without the need for bridging, gas, or custodians. Tria is built for both humans and AI, making money programmable and enabling both traders and AI agents to conduct native on-chain transactions.

Foresight News reported that early Bitcoin evangelist Roger Ver has officially reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, admitting that he deliberately concealed his Bitcoin holdings when he renounced his U.S. citizenship in 2014. Roger Ver signed a deferred prosecution agreement and paid nearly $50 million in back taxes, penalties, and interest to the IRS. Since 2014, Roger Ver has been a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis. He was arrested in Spain last year and extradited to the United States on related charges. His case was investigated by the IRS Criminal Investigation Cyber Crimes Unit.