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NEW MONTH. NEW ENERGY. NEW GOALS. 🔥
Welcome to October, Hydro family! 💙
May this month bring growth, victories and unforgettable moments.
Happy New Month! 🎉
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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…
Cross-border payments have spent the last decade chasing speed.
Faster settlement, better visibility, fewer intermediaries, and real progress has been made on all three. But speed was never the finish line.
Our latest paper, developed with insights from ADGM's Financial Services Regulatory Authority, the ADI Foundation and Swift, looks at what comes next. Coexistence, not competition.
Traditional banking rails, stablecoins, tokenised deposits and CBDCs are set to operate side by side, which means the real work ahead is building the standards, trust and regulatory alignment that let them talk to one another.
We've shared six key findings, but the full paper goes further, exploring what this shift means for institutions and why the UAE is well placed to help shape it.
Read the full paper here: academy.adgm.com/publication…
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Digital public infrastructure only becomes durable when the countries running it also own it outright.
Dr. Svyatoslav Senyuta, Chief Business Officer at @ADI_Foundation, sat down with @FINTECHTVglobal to explain how the AfCFTA partnership is structured to enable African governments to own the infrastructure themselves.
"We are at the brink of massive changes in the financial industry. If you measure the macroeconomic effect and compare today's GDP trajectory with the trajectory under the ADSS (African Digital Sovereign Stack), the surplus is $900 billion.”
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Can East Africa make cross-border payments feel like one system without actually building a new one?
That is what makes the EAC’s new payments masterplan interesting. Its markets are trying to become more connected while keeping their own currencies, domestic payment systems, and regulatory frameworks.
That is also where @ADIChain_'s approach becomes relevant.
Through the ADI Enterprise Layer, markets can maintain their own compliance, governance, and settlement requirements while connecting through shared infrastructure.
For regional payments, the opportunity is in the layer between existing systems: making them interoperable enough that businesses can move money across borders without needing to understand the infrastructure on either side.
Regional payments can be simplified without requiring regional financial systems to be identical.
Trade barriers aren't just tariffs on a spreadsheet; they are disconnected payment gateways, fragmented rail tracks, and unaligned standards. Fixing these everyday friction points is how we convert policy into real jobs."
The African Union is moving decisively from policy formulation to operational execution across the continent. To translate the legal frameworks of the hashtag#AfCFTA into tangible economic outcomes, the AU organ architecture and specialized agencies are actively deploying institutional solutions to address systemic non-tariff barriers.
Financial Integration & Monetary Sovereignty: Through the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS)developed in partnership with Afreximbank-the AU is operationalizing local currency commercial settlements, reducing reliance on third-party clearing currencies and retaining an estimated $5 billion annually within African commercial ecosystems.
Accelerated Implementation (Guided Trade Initiative): Via the AfCFTA Secretariat, the Guided Trade Initiative (GTI) is enabling commercially viable cross-border supply chains under preferential tariff regimes, backed by synchronized digital customs protocols and harmonized rules of origin.
Physical Connectivity & Corridor Development: Under the framework of PIDA PAP 2, the African Union Commission is coordinating 69 strategic multi-sector infrastructure projects ($161 billion portfolio) to integrate regional transport corridors, energy pools, and digital networks.
Quality Infrastructure & Technical Harmonization: In collaboration with the African Organisation for Standardisation (ARSO), continental technical standards are being aligned to eliminate redundant conformity assessment procedures at border posts.
Through the strategic alignment of trade facilitation frameworks, infrastructure priority programs, and regional financial market integration, the African Union is driving the realization of #Agenda2063:
#AfCFTA
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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…
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What if the regulation slowing bond tokenization were actually accelerating it on the ADI Enterprise Layer?
Every issuer has to work through the same questions:
1. Which rules apply to the asset?
2. What will the regulator accept for settlement?
3. Who is liable when something breaks?
Jurisdictions with clear frameworks can shorten that process. Standardized requirements give issuers a defined path for issuance and settlement, rather than forcing each issuer to negotiate the same questions from scratch.
The ADI Enterprise Layer addresses this at the infrastructure level. Enterprise chains can be configured to meet each jurisdiction's compliance and governance requirements, giving issuers a regulated environment aligned with their market's rules.
Clearer regulations make tokenized issuance easier to repeat, scale, and deploy.
Learn more: docs.adi.foundation/adi-netw…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Local-currency stablecoins could become an important piece of Africa’s digital financial infrastructure.
A recent UN Economic Commission for Africa discussion put local-currency stablecoins alongside cross-border payments, financial stability, consumer protection and monetary sovereignty.
Those issues belong in the same conversation.
A local-currency stablecoin can bring programmability and faster settlement to digital payments while keeping the underlying unit of account tied to the domestic monetary system. But doing that at an institutional scale requires more than issuing a token.
Reserve structures, issuance controls, compliance, and settlement must all operate within a regulated framework.
ADI’s enterprise layer is designed around that reality. Enterprise chains can operate with market-specific compliance, governance, and settlement requirements while remaining connected to shared underlying infrastructure.
That creates room for regulated digital currencies to develop around the requirements of their own markets while still participating in a broader financial network.
Trade barriers aren't just tariffs on a spreadsheet; they are disconnected payment gateways, fragmented rail tracks, and unaligned standards. Fixing these everyday friction points is how we convert policy into real jobs."
The African Union is moving decisively from policy formulation to operational execution across the continent. To translate the legal frameworks of the hashtag#AfCFTA into tangible economic outcomes, the AU organ architecture and specialized agencies are actively deploying institutional solutions to address systemic non-tariff barriers.
Financial Integration & Monetary Sovereignty: Through the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS)developed in partnership with Afreximbank-the AU is operationalizing local currency commercial settlements, reducing reliance on third-party clearing currencies and retaining an estimated $5 billion annually within African commercial ecosystems.
Accelerated Implementation (Guided Trade Initiative): Via the AfCFTA Secretariat, the Guided Trade Initiative (GTI) is enabling commercially viable cross-border supply chains under preferential tariff regimes, backed by synchronized digital customs protocols and harmonized rules of origin.
Physical Connectivity & Corridor Development: Under the framework of PIDA PAP 2, the African Union Commission is coordinating 69 strategic multi-sector infrastructure projects ($161 billion portfolio) to integrate regional transport corridors, energy pools, and digital networks.
Quality Infrastructure & Technical Harmonization: In collaboration with the African Organisation for Standardisation (ARSO), continental technical standards are being aligned to eliminate redundant conformity assessment procedures at border posts.
Through the strategic alignment of trade facilitation frameworks, infrastructure priority programs, and regional financial market integration, the African Union is driving the realization of #Agenda2063:
#AfCFTA
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$ADI Staking: 5 Most Frequently Asked Questions
Since the program was announced, five questions have come up more than any others across communities.
See the answers below 👇
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The next generation of payments will be shaped by how tokenized money and real-time rails work together across existing financial infrastructure.
At @GffFintechfest, Ramana Kumar, President at the @ADI_Foundation, will join Jo Yeo of @MAS_sg, Manasi Pandey of @HSBC, and Ritesh Pai of @PhonePe, and Rakesh Dosi of @ProteanEgovTech for The New Money Stack: Rewiring Payments with Tokens and Real-Time Rails.
The panel will explore interoperability, settlement, treasury use cases, and the safeguards required to build trusted payment infrastructure at scale.
📍 Global Fintech Fest 2026
📅 September 11
See you in Mumbai.
Obtain diverse perspectives and deep insights from a panel discussion featuring industry leaders:
Ms. Jo Yeo- Monetary Authority of Singapore @MAS_sg
Ms. Manasi Pandey - @HSBC
Mr. Ramana Kumar A - @ADI_Foundation
Mr. Ritesh. Pai - @PhonePe
Mr. Rakesh Dosi - @ProteanEgovTech
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Africa loses up to $100 billion a year to fragmented digital trade systems.
ADI Foundation and @AfCFTA have signed a strategic partnership agreement to build the infrastructure that closes that gap, across a $3.4 trillion economy and 54 member states.
Full breakdown 👇
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How much power should an AI agent earn after one successful task?
Today, most agents receive permissions upfront. They can access a system, execute transactions, or control capital before establishing their reliability.
ERC-8004 on ADI Chain enables a different model.
Every interaction can add signed feedback to the agent’s public reputation history. Applications can use that record to decide:
1. Which tasks can the agent perform,
2. How much capital can it control,
3. Whether it needs additional validation,
4. When its permissions should expand or contract.
Reputation becomes more than a score. It becomes infrastructure for progressively granting autonomy. The better an agent performs, the more responsibility it can earn.
Learn more about AI agent for asset management on our AMA tomorrow: x.com/i/spaces/1qKDzWOAWzzJV
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AI Agents Managing Real Money AMA: What's Actually Possible?
The rails for autonomous agents managing real capital are live, and institutions are moving to deploy them for asset management in their daily operations.
Join @xidea0404, Head of Dev-Rel at @ADI_Foundation, hosting @ismiMatthew from @ethereuminsti to unpack what shipping an institutional-grade agent for asset management actually looks like.
We're covering:
→ Which AI agent use cases are banks and asset managers already using in practice
→ How ERC-8004's Identity, Reputation, and Validation registries change what you can deploy this quarter
→ The compliance gaps regulators haven't closed, and how builders are routing around them
→ What agent-led fund servicing looks like end-to-end, and where humans still sit in the loop
If you're building an agent that will eventually handle real money, this is the hour to show up.
Set your reminder: x.com/i/spaces/1qKDzWOAWzzJV
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Moving institutional capital onchain starts with knowing who is authorized to move it.
@safe now supports ADI Chain, bringing established smart account infrastructure into treasury operations, asset management, protocol administration, and other high-value workflows.
Multisig authorization allows transactions to require approval from multiple parties. Programmable account infrastructure gives teams a foundation for defining how teams access assets and distribute authority.
For institutions, these controls matter as much as the transaction itself.
Safe support adds another layer of operational infrastructure for organizations deploying capital and applications on ADI Chain.
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🚨🎖️| BREAKING: PSG & Liverpool F.C have REACHED an agreement for Bradley Barcola for a total fee worth € 140M package. — € 116M + 24M in add-ons. @David_Ornstein
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B-drillz retweeted
🚨💣 BREAKING: Liverpool reach verbal agreement to sign Bradley Barcola, HERE WE GO! 🔴
Initial fee worth £100m plus add-ons — up to €140m possible total package for PSG.
Documents to be exchanged in 24 hours.
#LFC get their top target: never in doubt and now done.
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