Tributary

The non-custodial capital automation layer for Solana

Raising $250k Pre-Seed.

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The Problem

Stablecoins are a $300B+ asset class.
Yet every financial action on-chain is still manual.

  • Payments
  • DCA
  • Treasury management
  • Yield allocation
  • Agent spending

Every action requires a signature. Every signature requires a human.

On Solana, money has no automation layer.

Our Insight

Most companies automate money by taking custody.
We believe custody is the problem.

Instead of holding your funds, Tributary uses Solana-native delegation:

Approve once. Automate forever. Keep your keys.

The Product

Tributary is the automation layer on Solana.
Users define rules. The protocol executes them.

  • Recurring payments
  • DCA into assets
  • Treasury rebalancing
  • Yield deployment
  • AI agent budgets

DeFiSaver for Solana — powered by a native automation primitive.

Why We Win

Others offer
  • Custodial automation
  • Single-purpose schedulers
  • Isolated DeFi products
We provide
  • Non-custodial execution
  • Cross-protocol composability
  • Developer platform + SDKs
  • Full automation stack

We're building infrastructure for everyone, products for profit.

Traction with v0 for Payments only

Payments is live on Solana mainnet (subscriptions, milestones and pay-as-you-go)

4,000+Payments executed
$12k+Volume processed
6+Inbound integrations
$0Marketing spend
95%+Test coverage

All before raising capital to build v1 with the composability branch.

Business Model

Protocol fee on automated transaction volume.
Every automated action becomes revenue.

  • Payments
  • DCA
  • Treasury operations
  • Yield routing
  • Agent spending

We scale with transaction flow, not custody risk.

Why Now

The next wave of digital money is capital automation.
Every dollar moving on-chain will eventually need:

  • Rules
  • Policies
  • Automation

Tributary becomes the execution layer underneath that activity.

Market Landscape

The market proved demand for financial automation. Solana is missing a non-custodial layer.

Company Chain What they automate
DeFi Saver Ethereum/EVM Leverage, liquidation protection, yield
Summer.fi Ethereum/EVM CDP, borrowing, leverage automation
Instadapp Ethereum/EVM Smart accounts, DeFi automation
Enzyme Finance Ethereum/EVM Portfolio & vault management

DeFi Saver and Summer.fi are the closest analogues. No one operates on Solana.

The Difference

Most competitors automate actions. Tributary automates money.

WHEN → PULL → ROUTE

enables:

  • Pay a subscription
  • DCA into an asset
  • Stake idle capital
  • Rebalance a treasury
  • Fund an AI agent
  • Route capital across protocols
  • ...

Team

Fabian Schuh, Dr.-Ing

  • web3 veteran with 10+ years building in crypto
  • BitShares, Steemit, MakerDAO, exbet.io, Mash.fun, repo.trade
  • Successfully built products across all of web3
  • 4 prior exits
  • Built the entire Tributary stack solo
  • Live protocol before funding
  • github/@xeroc ⋅ twitter/@xer0c ⋅ linkedin

Unique founder-market fit for this category.

The Vision

Today: Recurring and programmable payments

Tomorrow: Automated capital allocation

Long term: The operating system for on-chain money

Stablecoins made money internet-native.
Tributary makes it programmable.