Self-custodial neofinance App Tria has gone live with an in-app integration of Decibel, an Aptos-based perpetuals exchange.
The integration bringing onchain derivatives trading directly into the same account balance users already use for yield, swaps and payments.
It reduces one of crypto’s most persistent usability problems: fragmented capital spread across separate wallets, apps and venues.
The integration means Tria users can place, match and settle perpetual trades inside the app without moving funds to a separate exchange or giving up custody of assets.
Tria said the product is live from April 21 and positions perpetuals as a native feature inside a broader financial account rather than a separate trading destination.
It’s important because perpetual futures have become one of crypto’s dominant trading formats, but the user experience has often remained split between centralized exchanges, standalone perp DEXs and wallet interfaces not built for active trading.
In 2025, the top 10 perpetual DEXs recorded $6.7 trillion in trading volume, up 346% from 2024, according to a CoinGecko report. This shows the growth of non-custodial derivatives and the scale of demand that wallets and consumer apps are now trying to capture.
Decibel is one of the newer entrants trying to serve that market with fully onchain infrastructure rather than a hybrid setup.
Decibel launched on Aptos mainnet in February 2026.
The platform entered production after a testnet phase that drew more than 700,000 accounts and about $50 million in pre-deposits, with daily testnet activity above 132,000 users with more than 1 million daily trades.
Tria’s pitch is that distribution, not matching speed alone, is now the bottleneck for onchain perps. The company says it serves more than 500,000 users across 150-plus countries and already combines trading, yield and card-linked spending in one self-custodial product.
The company positions Tria as a gasless, seedless, chain-agnostic neobank built around a unified financial account and an interoperability engine called BestPath.
Aptos is central to the pitch because the chain has been positioning itself as infrastructure for high-throughput consumer finance and trading applications. Aptos claims that its architecture is designed for high throughput and low latency through pipelined processing and parallel execution, while the network’s consumer-facing materials emphasize sub-second finality and composability for DeFi and payments use cases.
The Tria-Decibel integration is trying to make self-custodial trading look more like an integrated brokerage account. Instead of bridging assets into a separate derivatives platform, users keep one balance and access more functions from the same interface. That can improve capital efficiency and reduce some operational risk, especially for users who otherwise shuttle funds between wallets, bridges and exchanges.
It also reflects a broader product shift across crypto wallets. MetaMask, for example, launched native perpetual futures trading in October 2025, describing the feature as part of its evolution into an all-in-one self-custodial trading and investment hub.
MetaMask said dusring launch that perpetuals account for roughly 75% of crypto trading volume and argued that adoption of non-custodial perps had been slowed by fragmented infrastructure and poor mobile experiences.
The competitive implication is that wallets and consumer-facing finance apps are no longer content to remain access points to external protocols. They increasingly want to own the interface where trading activity begins. That matters for user retention, fee generation and product differentiation, especially as the line between wallet, exchange and payments app keeps blurring.
The Tria deal addresses the distribution question for Decibel head-on. The exchange may have shown early traction on its own, but embedding its order book inside an app with an existing retail footprint gives it a better shot at becoming infrastructure rather than just another standalone venue.
“Tria was built so that one account can handle everything—trading, earning, and spending,” Tria’s Co-founder, Parth Bhalla, said in a statement shared with AlexaBlockchain. He added that integrating Decibel lets users access perpetuals, earn yield on idle assets and spend from the same self-custodial balance.
A spokesperson for the Decibel Foundation said distribution had been the “missing piece” for onchain perpetuals and that embedding the product inside Tria puts a high-performance trading engine in front of users already managing capital daily in-app.
The larger signal is that onchain finance is moving from standalone protocols toward bundled financial systems. Crypto users have had access to perps, payments and yield for years, but usually through separate interfaces and with added frictions around custody and asset movement.
Tria’s bet is that mainstream adoption will depend less on inventing new primitives than on collapsing those functions into one usable account.
The article “Neofinance App Tria Adds Decibel Perps to Turn A Self-Custodial Account Into a Trading, Yield and Payments Hub” was first published on AlexaBlockchain. Read the complete article here: https://alexablockchain.com/tria-adds-decibel-perps/
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