Announcement
TRISA’s Working Group, Global Directory Service and TRISA Envoy are now under the stewardship of the OpenVASP Association.
No action needed: existing TRISA users can continue operating as normal.
TRISA has joined the OpenVASP Association, bringing the TRISA Working Group, Global Directory Service (GDS), TRISA Envoy and related interoperability work under the stewardship of the Swiss-based Association. Read the full announcement from the OpenVASP Association.
For organizations already using TRISA, the important point is simple: there is no immediate change required.
Existing TRISA implementations, the peer-to-peer network and TRISA Envoy will continue to be maintained and supported.
What changes?
OpenVASP now provides the organizational home for:
- the TRISA Working Group
- the Global Directory Service (GDS)
- the TRISA Envoy open-source codebase
- ongoing TRISA-TRP interoperability work
The TRISA Working Group will continue under OpenVASP, with familiar contributors and leaders remaining involved.
Rotational Labs will continue to operate and support the TRISA infrastructure on behalf of OpenVASP.
What happens to the TRISA network?
The TRISA peer-to-peer network continues. OpenVASP now owns and stewards the TRISA network, while Rotational Labs continues to operate and support the infrastructure on OpenVASP’s behalf.
The GDS will continue providing institutional identity, secure mTLS certificates and counterparty discovery.
Travel Rule information will continue to be exchanged directly between authenticated counterparties. As before, there is no risky central pool of customer Travel Rule data involved.
What happens to TRISA Envoy?
OpenVASP now owns and stewards the MIT-licensed TRISA Envoy open-source codebase.
TRISA Envoy supports both TRISA and the Travel Rule Protocol (TRP), using IVMS101 for Travel Rule messaging. It provides a REST/JSON API and can be self-hosted in an institution’s own environment.
“Open source matters because institutions should be able to understand, deploy and integrate the infrastructure they depend on,” said Benjamin Bengfort, CEO of Rotational Labs. “Rotational Labs has supported TRISA from its early development, and we will continue that work for OpenVASP, preserving continuity for organizations already using the network.”
What happens to TRP interoperability?
OpenVASP already stewards the open, royalty-free Travel Rule Protocol (TRP).
TRISA and TRP established interoperability in 2023. That work continues.
Bringing TRISA and OpenVASP/TRP under a common organizational home gives their open-source communities a clearer place to continue interoperability work and pursue connections with other Travel Rule networks worldwide.
Does the privacy model change?
No.
Privacy-preserving peer-to-peer data exchange remains a core principle.
The GDS provides certificates and counterparty discovery. Travel Rule information is exchanged directly between authenticated counterparties using encrypted and signed Secure Envelopes.
There is no central pool of customer Travel Rule data.
What does this mean for existing TRISA users?
Continue operating as normal.
There is no immediate integration change required because of the move to OpenVASP.
Existing hosted TRISA Envoy arrangements with Rotational Labs also continue under their existing commercial arrangements.
Further technical communications will be provided separately if future changes require action by network participants.
OpenVASP governance
TRISA experience is also joining the OpenVASP board.
Benjamin Bengfort, CEO of Rotational Labs, and Carol Van Cleef, Founder & CEO of Luminous Group, have joined the OpenVASP Association’s board.
Andrew Davidson continues as President of the OpenVASP Association.
Want to know more?
For TRISA onboarding, TRISA Envoy and implementation inquiries, contact info@travelrule.io.
Existing Rotational Labs customers should continue using their normal support contacts.
For practical questions about the transition, read the TRISA + OpenVASP Member FAQ.