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# Tributary

**The non-custodial capital automation layer for Solana**

_Raising $250k Pre-Seed._

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## DeFI is **still manual**

Stablecoins are a **$300B+** asset class.

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

> Every action requires a signature. Vast majority sign manually!

Solana, _the fastest growing of all Blockchains_, has **no automation layer**.

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## DeFi, but without the hoops

Companies automate money through a **custodian**.

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

> Approve once. Automate forever. Keep your keys.

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## We automate your flow

One primitive powers every money motion:

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<span class="flow-step">WHEN</span>
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<span class="flow-step">PULL</span>
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<span class="flow-step good">ROUTE</span>
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**Selected Opportunities**: Pay a subscription &middot; DCA into an asset &middot; Rebalance a treasury &middot; stake idle capital &middot; Fund an AI agent &middot; route yield across protocols &middot; Agents making investment choices up to monthly limits.

> Define rules once. The protocol executes them autonomously.

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## Composable by Default: One Primitive Reaches Every Protocol

Most competitors automate **a single action inside a walled garden**.
Tributary automates **money across the open chain**.

The `ROUTE` step is composable &mdash; the same primitive reaches:

- **Payments** to any merchant or subscriber
- **DCA** via Jupiter and major DEXs
- **Yield** into Kamino, Drift, marginfi
- **Treasury** rebalancing across any token pair
- **Agents** funding any program-controlled wallet

One integration unlocks every money motion on Solana.

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## Non-custodial Infra has No Competitor on Solana

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<div class="col-title bad">Others offer</div>

- Custodial automation
- Single-purpose schedulers
- Isolated DeFi products

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<div class="col-title good">We provide</div>

- Non-custodial execution
- Cross-protocol composability
- Developer platform + SDKs
- Full automation stack

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

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## v0 without the ROUTE

**v0** for recurring payments is live on Solana mainnet (subscriptions, milestones and pay-as-you-go)

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<div class="metric"><span class="num">4,000+</span><span class="label">Payments executed</span></div>
<div class="metric"><span class="num">$12k+</span><span class="label">Volume processed</span></div>
<div class="metric"><span class="num">6+</span><span class="label">Inbound integrations</span></div>
<div class="metric"><span class="num">$0</span><span class="label">Marketing spend</span></div>
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All before raising capital to build v1 with the composability branch.

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## A Protocol Fee on Every Automated Transaction

**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.

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## A $1.4B Market With No Solana Incumbent

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<div class="metric"><span class="num">$1.4B</span><span class="label">TAM &mdash; on-chain automation fees</span></div>
<div class="metric"><span class="num">$224M</span><span class="label">SAM &mdash; Solana's share (~15%)</span></div>
<div class="metric"><span class="num">$6.8M</span><span class="label">SOM &mdash; 3-yr capture (3% of SAM)</span></div>
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<em>Assumptions: $15T global stablecoin settlement/yr (Visa, Chainalysis 2024) &times; 5% automatable &times; 20 bps fee; Solana ~15% of stablecoin flow.</em>

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## A Decade Building Crypto-Native Infrastructure

<img class="headshot" src="https://github.com/xeroc.png" alt="Fabian Schuh" />

### Fabian Schuh, Dr.-Ing &mdash; Founder &amp; CEO

- 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](https://github.com/xeroc) &middot; [twitter/@xer0c](https://x.com/xer0c) &middot; [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabian-schuh-phd-217b55101/)

Unique founder-market fit for this category.

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## Raising $250k to Ship V1 Composability

**Round:** $250k pre-seed &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; **Runway:** 18 months

Capital deployed to ship the composable automation branch:

- **Engineering (60%)** &mdash; Ship v1 composable <tt>WHEN &rarr; PULL &rarr; ROUTE</tt> protocol
- **Security &amp; audits (15%)** &mdash; Independent audit of the composable branch
- **BD &amp; flagship integrations (15%)** &mdash; Onboard 3+ marquee partners
- **Infra &amp; operations (10%)** &mdash; Mainnet reliability, keeper network

Milestones unlocked in 12 months:

> v1 live &middot; 5+ integrations &middot; $100k+ monthly volume &middot; category-defining protocol

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# 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.

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# Let's Build the Automation Layer for On-Chain Money

**Fabian Schuh, Dr.-Ing** &mdash; Founder &amp; CEO, Tributary

[fabian@tributary.so](mailto:fabian@tributary.so)&middot; [github/@xeroc](https://github.com/xeroc) &middot; [twitter/@xer0c](https://x.com/xer0c) &middot; [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabian-schuh-phd-217b55101/)

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