“Can a blockchain-native, AI-agentic payments layer eliminate the friction, cost, and latency of traditional correspondent banking for cross-border transactions at institutional scale?”
Founded in 2023 by Akshay Naheta, a former SoftBank executive behind the 'Nasdaq whale' options trades and the attempted Nvidia-ARM merger, DTR was purpose-built to modernize global payments infrastructure by merging traditional fiat rails with blockchain and stablecoin technology. The company's Unblock Payments API targeted cross-border payments, global payroll, merchant checkout, and treasury management for businesses. In 2025-2026, Bakkt acquired DTR to embed stablecoin capabilities into Bakkt's regulated institutional infrastructure, effectively folding DTR's agentic AI-native compliance stack and stablecoin rails into a larger publicly traded entity.
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DTR was founded by Akshay Naheta and is founded in 2023, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland (also registered in Lithuania).
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