What will it take to bring stablecoins to institutional scale? @ADI_Foundation's CEO, @AndreyLazorenko, and Head of Markets, @LiliaSeverina1, will be at @kbwofficial, meeting stakeholders in accelerating the adoption. Building institutional finance? Let’s meet in Seoul.

How can an employer trust a worker’s qualifications? In the UAE, the answer now takes seconds. The UAE has quietly built the first blockchain-verified professional credential system in the Middle East, replacing days of certification paperwork with a single on-site QR code scan. The framework brings three institutions onto one shared record: 1. @QCCAbuDhabi accredits the credential. 2. UAC issues the certification. 3. ADI Chain anchors it on-chain, giving employers a tamper-evident record they can verify in seconds. For an economy running at the pace of its own infrastructure buildout, that means qualified workers reach real job sites faster, and every credential carries an audit trail regulators can trust. Watch how the full flow works, from paper certificate to onchain verification ↓

Bringing regulated industries onchain requires more than a single compliance model. ADI Chain is designed as a common settlement layer for regulated verticals that cannot share the same execution environment. Each vertical operates through a dedicated ADI Enterprise Layer, where the relevant authority defines its governance, access controls, and legal framework. Credentials, assets, and financial instruments can each retain the controls their respective sectors require. $ADI provides the common layer beneath them. Every Enterprise Layer uses $ADI for execution, with transactions settling back to ADI Chain in $ADI. This gives institutions regulatory independence at the execution layer and settlement across the chain.

What happens when money goes digital, but financial systems remain disconnected? Global payments are heading toward a hybrid future, where banking rails, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, CBDCs and programmable settlement systems all operate side by side rather than one replacing the others. That is the central thesis of "Beyond Speed: Building Trusted Interoperability in the Future of Cross-Border Payment," an @ADGMAcademy paper produced with @swiftcommunity and @ADGlobalMarket FSRA, with contributions from @ADI_Foundation. Making these systems work together takes more than faster rails. It takes shared standards, common infrastructure, and a settlement layer where traditional finance and digital assets can recognize each other. Abu Dhabi is positioned to advance this work by connecting mature and developing markets, while bringing regulation and innovation into the same financial ecosystem. This is the role ADI Chain is built to support: the infrastructure connecting traditional finance with digital settlement across borders. Read the full report: academy.adgm.com/publication…

Would you let an AI agent settle a trade because it said: “Task complete”? As autonomous agents take on higher-value tasks, validation becomes its own infrastructure layer and its own builder opportunity. ERC-8004 on ADI Chain supports multiple types of validators: 1. Staked validators that re-execute tasks, 2. zkML systems that verify model execution, 3. TEE oracles that attest to how work was performed, 4. Independent specialists who review specific outputs. This opens a new category for builders. Instead of launching another agent, build the validator that applications rely on before accepting an agent’s output. Agents create actions. Validators make those actions usable in environments where evidence, accountability, and independent review matter. Learn more: docs.adi.foundation/core-com…

Trust is the hardest thing to build in finance. This is why ADI Chain is building it twice. Every transaction batch on ADI Chain gets verified by zero-knowledge proofs before it settles. That path has carried the chain since day one, and the cryptography behind it underpins the chain's settlement guarantees. A second verification path is now taking shape alongside it. The same verifier runs inside Intel TDX, hardware that seals off the code and can prove to the outside world exactly what was loaded. Inside that sealed environment, the verifier replays the batch, signs off using the approval format the chain already accepts, and returns the result through the route it always takes. Trust in financial infrastructure is rarely built on a single guarantee. Institutions moving real value want to know that if one check fails, another one still holds. Zero-knowledge proofs confirm the math is correct. A hardware-isolated verifier confirms that the environment producing the result is the one it claims to be. Two different jobs, and neither one replaces the other. This is how ADI Chain is designed to serve the institutions moving onto it.

Finance is moving onchain. Who will be building the infrastructure behind it? Our Head of Blockchain at @ADI_Foundation, Ilia Shirobokov, will join Brian Butler, Payments Lead at @0xPolygon, Gagan Mac, VP of Product at @circle, and @protofire's Andrei Yurkevich and Luis Medeiros for The Protocol Roundtable: “Who’s Building the New Financial System?” Together, we'll explore how public blockchains, institutional networks, and stablecoins can support the next phase of financial adoption. Register for reminders: luma.com/hofipj5j

How much capital should an AI agent be allowed to move before a human has to intervene? That question is becoming less theoretical. Three developments are beginning to converge: financial assets are moving onchain, transaction rules are becoming enforceable through code, and AI systems are becoming capable of acting on increasingly complex financial instructions. The opportunity is clear. So is the risk. @ismiMatthew from @ethereuminsti joined us to discuss where institutions should draw the boundary between automation and control, how permissioned assets change that equation, and why the next phase of institutional adoption may depend as much on governance as on intelligence. Watch the conversation 👇

Sending money across a border still takes longer than sending a photo across the planet. We are proud to have contributed to Beyond Speed: Building Trusted Interoperability in the Future of Cross-Border Payments, released this week by @ADGMAcademy in collaboration with Swift and ADGM FSRA. Three institutions looking at the payment system from very different angles reach the same conclusion: the future is hybrid. Traditional banking rails, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, central bank digital currencies, and programmable settlement infrastructure will operate simultaneously. In that world, interoperability itself becomes the advantage. Common standards like ISO 20022, regulatory cooperation across jurisdictions, and credible settlement assets are what turn a fragmented set of technologies into an interoperable one. Read the full publication: academy.adgm.com/publication…

The Gulf's first self-verifying professional credential is live. The Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council, Union Assessment and Certification, and @ADI_Foundation have launched the Gulf's first blockchain-verified Digital Skill Card, enabling anyone, anywhere to verify a professional qualification in seconds. QCC provides the national accreditation framework, and UAC delivers the assessment that awards each credential, while ADI Chain writes the record to a public ledger that any employer or regulator can verify with a QR scan. What used to require calls to the issuing body and days of waiting now closes in a single on-chain interaction. Credential verification is no longer an operational bottleneck for employers or regulators. Any accredited body in the region can now issue credentials on the same rail, and every credential issued on it travels with the worker across employers, institutions, and borders. Read the full story: gulfnews.com/business/market…

Your money moves slowly for one reason: the core banking system underneath it is too old to move fast and too risky to replace. Our partnership with DCM is built around that constraint. DCM's Side-core platform is designed to operate alongside a bank's existing infrastructure, sitting between the core and ADI Chain so that institutions can issue, manage and settle tokenized deposits on-chain without rebuilding what they already run. DCM will serve as ADI's exclusive Tokenized Deposit Solutions provider across MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa, and ADI will serve as DCM's exclusive distribution channel for those solutions on ADI Chain in the same region. Both sides are building toward the same outcome: tokenized deposits that a bank can put into production using the systems it already runs. Full release: globenewswire.com/news-relea…

Africa loses $5 billion a year to payment infrastructure it doesn't own. Now, Africa is building the rail to replace it The African Continental Free Trade Area covers 54 states, 1.4 billion people, and $3.4 trillion in output. Legal barriers came down years ago, but Africans still conduct only about one-seventh of their trade with one another due to infrastructure inefficiencies. Around four-fifths of Africa's cross-border payments route through correspondent banks outside the continent, at a cost PAPSS estimates at roughly $5 billion a year in fees and conversion. ADI Chain partners with @AfCFTA to build the African Digital Sovereign Stack that settles trade in Africa on the infrastructure that carries it. On one rail, verified trade documents can automatically release a letter of credit, provenance can be cryptographically proven in seconds, and settlement can clear in local currency. The result? Cross-border trade that used to take weeks of paperwork closes in minutes.

The next phase of stablecoins will be built around real financial use. Three @ADI_Foundation leaders will attend @money2020 Middle East: Ramana Kumar (President of Stablecoin Ecosystem), James Smith (Chief Strategy Officer), and Mohammad Rajab (Chief Marketing Officer). The focus at Money20/20 is clear: how regulated stablecoins, local-currency settlement, and public blockchain infrastructure can move from emerging rails into everyday financial infrastructure. It is an opportunity to compare what is working, understand what institutions still need, and discuss the infrastructure required to close that gap. See you at Money20/20.