ADI Chain, this chain is an institutional-grade L2 that went live and started running by the end of 2025 in Abu Dhabi. From day one, it has been built under ADGM’s regulatory oversight and the UK legal system, specifically for settling stablecoins and RWA.
First, look at the backing. Behind it is IHC—an enormous conglomerate with a market value of about $240 billion USD, with over 1,300 subsidiaries. Sirius is its digital division. This kind of balance sheet support is completely different from a public chain purely funded by VC injections.
Next, see who’s seated at the table: BlackRock (managing $10 trillion), Franklin Templeton ($1.6 trillion), Mastercard ($15 billion+ cardholders), and BNY Mellon (custody of $59 trillion). M-Pesa serves 60 million users in Africa as an entry point. The oracle is Chainlink, and the proof system uses ZKsync’s Airbender. This lineup—no “copycat” chain can match it.
And the trust votes from institutions keep coming in one after another. Recently, ADI also added Open Standard together with BlackRock and Mastercard. There are more than 140 industry players sitting with Open USD—the institutional-grade payments standard.
This World Cup, ADI Predict Street is the official prediction market. With billions watching and massive attention, the hype is turned all the way up. In July alone, ADI Chain just closed a strategic funding round of $50 million—put directly into network infrastructure, developer incentives, and institutional onboarding. Real money on the table, aimed squarely at accelerating the migration of government and institutional business onto-chain.
The key is how
#ADI captures all this. The total supply is capped tightly at 999 million tokens—its sole Gas token across the entire chain. Stablecoin settlement, tokenized assets, World Cup prediction markets—every transaction’s toll has to be paid with
#ADI . The busier the chain, the more “road money” it collects, and the more value is attributed to it. Abu Dhabi is effectively moving an entire economy onto the chain—this is called ADIrhamization.
Long term, watch two real metrics: the on-chain activity of the prediction market, and the actual settlement volume of the central bank’s Dirham stablecoin, DDSC. Let the data speak—then wait for price discovery.