Tria: Chain Abstraction Architecture and Technical Challenges, and Competitive Positioning The chain abstraction architecture of @useTria is designed around two key components: BestPath AVS and Unchained. BestPath AVS is a permissionless chain abstraction marketplace inspired by the global financial system, aimed at solving complex onboarding and asset fragmentation issues. It abstracts technical differences by routing users' trading intentions (e.g., swaps, transfers, etc.) across various blockchains, with routing agents known as solvers competing to present the optimal path. In this process, it utilizes both on-chain and off-chain liquidity and executes user intentions in a verifiable manner. Unchained is Tria's modular chain abstraction infrastructure, recently integrated into the @injective ecosystem. Users can manage assets across multiple chains without additional wallets, bridging, or gas tokens, and can onboard through single sign-on (SSO). This supports integrated asset management, seamless trading and staking, and gas abstraction. This integration aims to connect the multi-chain DeFi experience into a single interface. Tria supports technical abstraction across heterogeneous virtual machine (VM) environments such as EVM, Move, and Cosmos, allowing developers to leverage the liquidity and user base of various ecosystems. There is no need for bridging or gas token management, and developers and users can easily implement cross-chain interactions through SDKs and APIs. However, this structure faces several key challenges. First, from a user experience perspective, the current multi-chain environment remains fragmented due to asset bridging, multi-wallet management, and securing various gas tokens. Tria's goal is to integrate this chain state into a single abstracted interface, but this requires advanced messaging protocols and a solver network. Technically, key challenges include latency and slippage in cross-chain transactions, maintaining state consistency across chains, ensuring the security of solver proposals, and addressing liquidity fragmentation issues. Since most tokens are deployed on specific chains, the effects of liquidity integration may be limited. Additionally, users still have preferences for specific chains and applications, making it difficult to achieve a fully abstracted user experience in the short term. The Pathfinder marketplace model proposed by Tria features a structure where solvers, simulators, and challengers competitively find and verify the optimal path, similar to traditional financial order routing mechanisms or DeFi aggregation algorithms (e.g., 1inch Pathfinder). This model theoretically possesses high reliability, and in practice, there are cases that validate competitive execution quality in ZKP (Zero-Knowledge Proof) marketplaces or intent-based DEXs (e.g., Across, CowSwap, UniswapX). Tria can be compared to projects based on LayerZero, Router Protocol, and Celestia. While LayerZero focuses on secure and configurable cross-chain messaging, Router Protocol supports inter-chain dApp interactions by reading and modifying chain states through the CAKE framework. Celestia offers a modular structure that separates execution, consensus, and data availability but lacks direct intent routing capabilities. Among these, Tria adopts a unique approach that combines a competitive AVS marketplace with a modular SDK and an integrated user experience. Key indicators to watch over the next 6-12 months include the trading volume and frequency of cross-chain intents, solver participation rates and competition levels, transaction delays and slippage statistics, liquidity integration efficiency, user growth and re-engagement rates, security incident occurrences, and the number of integrations with major dApps and chains. These indicators will be crucial in assessing Tria's technical execution capabilities and ecosystem scalability. In summary, Tria aims to build an integrated operational environment across heterogeneous blockchains by combining the competitive routing system of BestPath AVS with the modular abstraction of Unchained. The core challenges are latency, state consistency, routing security, and liquidity fragmentation, while the Pathfinder model has proven theoretical validity, practical expansion depends on securing ecosystem liquidity and developer participation. Tria's structure, aiming for a higher level of abstraction than LayerZero or Router Protocol, offers a clear differentiation through an integrated user experience, but large-scale adoption will likely require time and ecosystem maturity.