ADI Chain: US$50M Investment – Expands Layer-2 Network

The ADI Foundation announced that ADI Chain has secured a US$50 million strategic investment to scale its sovereign-grade Layer-2 blockchain across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The capital will be used to expand network infrastructure, accelerate institutional integrations, grow the developer ecosystem and provide incentives to drive enterprise adoption. Key team members named in the announcement include Andrey Lazorenko (CEO), Mohammad Rajab (CMO) and Anna Datsenko (COO).

"Infrastructure only becomes meaningful when it is used. Over the past year, we have focused relentlessly on building institutional partnerships, securing regulatory alignment, and developing real-world applications. Today, those efforts are becoming operational," said Andrey Lazorenko, CEO of ADI Foundation. He added: "What differentiates ADI Chain is that our growth is being driven by genuine utility rather than speculation."

ADI Chain has positioned itself as a Layer-2 network designed specifically for regulated institutional adoption rather than retail speculative activity. Over the past 12 months the foundation says it moved several projects from announcement into production, targeting use cases such as stablecoins, institutional payment settlement, government digital infrastructure, tokenised real-world assets (RWAs), enterprise financial applications and global digital commerce.

Notable live deployments cited include ADI Predictstreet, which powers settlement infrastructure for the official FIFA World Cup Prediction Market, and a partnership with Kalshi that routes prediction and settlement transactions onto ADI Chain. One of the network's largest institutional integrations is DDSC, a UAE dirham-pegged stablecoin developed in collaboration between First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), International Holding Company (IHC) and Sirius International Holding. DDSC operates exclusively on ADI Chain and is intended to support institutional payments, treasury operations and cross-border financial transactions.

How the US$50 million will be deployed

• Network infrastructure: Expand Layer-2 scalability and resilience
• Ecosystem development: Support enterprise and institutional growth
• Developer incentives: Increase blockchain application development
• Institutional integrations: Accelerate government and financial-sector adoption

The ADI Foundation framed the investment as timely given growing regional interest in digital infrastructure, tokenisation and regulated digital assets. Organisations and initiatives cited as accelerating institutional demand include Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), Hub71 and Saudi Arabia’s NEOM. ADI Chain is being marketed as sovereign infrastructure that prioritises regulatory compliance, enterprise-grade scalability and security for real-world financial applications.

Operational activity on the network is expected to increase as the announced projects generate transaction volumes: prediction market settlements, stablecoin settlements via DDSC, government digital services and tokenisation of assets. The foundation argues that these deployments foreground utility — payments, settlement and enterprise finance — rather than speculative trading, strengthening the case for institutional uptake.

Looking forward, ADI Foundation expects the funding to accelerate rollouts across the MEA and Asia regions, with the US$50 million intended to underpin the next phase of commercial deployments and integrations with governments and financial institutions throughout 2026 and beyond.