- ADI Foundation launches ADI Chain mainnet and native ADI utility token, unlocking a purpose-built Layer-2 blockchain for governments, regulated institutions, and real-world applications.
- Backed by a fast-growing ecosystem, ADI Foundation now counts partnerships with 50+ institutions in 20+ countries, with over 500 million people within reach, and pilots for identity, payments, energy, registries, and real estate.
The ADI Foundation, an Abu Dhabi-based organization building sovereign-grade blockchain infrastructure, announced today the launch of ADI Chain’s mainnet and ADI Utility Token, marking a major milestone in its mission to bring one billion people onchain by 2030. This launch introduces a new class of compliance-ready blockchain infrastructure that is designed specifically for governments, regulated institutions and real-world systems across emerging markets.
ADI Chain is the first institutional-grade L2 blockchain in MENA, with the technology and financial depth necessary to support large-scale adoption. ADI Chain’s modular architecture, which supports optional L3 chains, enables institutions worldwide to launch applications tailored to jurisdictional or sectoral requirements without sacrificing interoperability, scalability, or security powering real-world adoption.
The Foundation established partnerships across 50 major institutions and over 20 countries, with 500 million people within reach. With the launch of mainnet, these partners will begin migrating pilots and initiating onchain deployments.
One of the first flagship projects on ADI Chain will be a Dirham-backed stablecoin being developed by FAB and IHC within the UAE’s regulatory framework. The Dirham-backed stablecoin serves as a national proof of concept designed specifically for the UAE demonstrating how a regulated stablecoin can operate within a country’s legal and financial system. It also forms the foundation of ADI Chain’s long-term vision for a multi-currency environment in which countries can issue their own sovereign digital currencies on shared, interoperable, and policy-aligned infrastructure, maintaining monetary sovereignty while enabling more efficient cross-border liquidity.
Supporting this infrastructure is the ADI token, the native utility token for all activity across the L2 and its customizable L3 domains. The ADI token handles transaction fees, smart-contract execution, and settlement between users, developers, enterprises, and validators. From launch, the ADI utility token will be listed on major exchanges, ensuring global visibility and frictionless utility from day one.
“The launch of ADI Chain’s Mainnet marks the beginning of a new phase in digital infrastructure, where blockchain becomes the trusted rail for real economies,” said Ajay Bhatia, Principal Council Member of ADI Foundation and CEO of Sirius International Holding. “By combining compliance, security and efficiency, ADI Chain provides the foundation for national digital currencies, tokenized finance, and inclusive economic participation across emerging markets.”
“Public infrastructure has always been the foundation of nation-building. Today, that foundation must extend to the digital space through Digital Public Infrastructure – trusted systems for identity, payments, and data”, said Huy Nguyen Trieu, Council Member of the ADI Foundation. “ADI Chain was built as sovereign-grade infrastructure to help governments deliver such inclusive, interoperable, and policy-aligned digital services”.
The Foundation has signed multiple strategic partnerships with institutions, government agencies, and enterprise partners across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe, including the Abu Dhabi Real Estate Centre, Emirates Driving Company, and Esyasoft Holding, to explore the creation of blockchain applications for identity, payments, energy systems, digital registries, and real-estate modernization. These partnerships represent early production pathways for national-scale services such as tokenized ownership records, secure workflow automation, verifiable digital identities, and compliant digital payment rails, all of which will begin migrating onto ADI Chain following the mainnet launch.
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