Further Asset Management Embeds Chainlink ACE in Anubis for ADGM Compliance

Further Asset Management, an asset manager based in Abu Dhabi, has adopted the Chainlink Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) to power tokenized-asset compliance workflows in Anubis, its new platform for machine-readable regulations, Chainlink Labs announced on October 27, 2026. Initial deployment is focused on compliance within Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the UAE capital’s international financial center, with workflows designed to support compliance with applicable Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) requirements.

According to the release, Anubis is Further’s contribution to the infrastructure needed to advance institutional tokenization in the UAE backed by jurisdiction-specific compliance workflows. The compliance engine is delivered through various methodologies, including Chainlink’s ACE, which evaluates digital asset transactions and applies configured policies against ADGM-defined rules before execution.

Through ACE, Anubis translates regulatory requirements into institutional controls governing who can hold and transact tokenized assets. To automate compliance review at the point of transaction, Anubis implements rule sets covering FSRA’s digital asset requirements for issuance, KYC, AML, ownership, trading, custody, and sanctions compliance. The release states that Further selected ACE to support consistent policy application, traceable compliance decisions, and flexible controls within Anubis as regulatory requirements and institutional needs evolve.

Rulepacks, Decision Statuses, and Oversight Tools

The Anubis platform states that it evaluates tokenized-asset transactions against ADGM and Dubai VARA rulepacks spanning sanctions, investor classification, PEP and country risk, and offer exemptions, and that it returns an auditable gating decision with a full rule-level trace.

Decision outputs are graded COMPLIANT, REQUIRES_EDD, NON_COMPLIANT, INCOMPLETE, or NOT_MONITORED, and the site states the engine fails closed: missing facts return INCOMPLETE and unregistered assets return NOT_MONITORED rather than a transaction being waved through on absent data. Anything not registered in the platform’s asset registry returns NOT_MONITORED.

The Anubis site also describes an asset registry for registering tokenized assets and declaring gating fields such as jurisdiction, permitted investor tiers, and offer exemptions; a compliance playground that lets users mutate input attributes and watch the rule engine’s response using synthetic data; a regulator oversight dashboard offering a live feed of compliance decisions with fact-level provenance and cryptographically signed exports; and a wallet demo in which a MetaMask Snap surfaces the Anubis compliance verdict inside the wallet before a transaction is signed. Every rule carries its citation to FSRA COBS/AML and VARA rulebook sections, served verbatim at the platform’s /v1/rules endpoint, according to the site.

ACE Launch and Prior Institutional Use

Chainlink launched ACE on June 30, 2025, as a standard built on the Chainlink Runtime Environment in collaboration with Apex Group, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), and the ERC-3643 Association, according to Chainlink’s launch post. Chainlink describes ACE as enabling real-time policy enforcement, secure identity management, and streamlined monitoring and reporting across public and private blockchains.

The launch post states that ACE’s CCID format links onchain wallets to the Legal Entity Identifier and verifiable LEI credentials of real-world legal entities, and includes KYC/AML and AI/QP verification attributes carried through verifiable credentials issued by virtual asset service providers, identity-verification solutions, and KYC providers. Documented use cases in the post include pre-transaction eligibility checks against KYC, AML, CFT, sanctions, jurisdictional, and accreditation credentials; transaction volume rate limits; secure minting that verifies a token’s total supply against proof-of-reserve data attesting to offchain reserves prior to minting; role-based access control; and hold policies that can place a hold on assets in user wallets, for example when a holder has been sanctioned.

The post also states that, under the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s e-HKD+ program, the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol and ACE enabled the exchange of ANZ Bank’s A$DC stablecoin with Hong Kong’s e-HKD+ CBDC, which was later used to facilitate the purchase of a Fidelity International tokenized fund. In that work, ACE read investors’ identity information from ANZ’s offchain identity registry and provided a verification onchain in the form of CCID, according to the post.

The release states that ADGM introduced one of the world’s first comprehensive regulatory frameworks for virtual assets in 2018, and it describes the FSRA as a global pioneer in digital asset regulation. ADGM is today home to more than 347 financial institutions and 171 asset and fund managers overseeing more than 244 funds, according to the release.

Further Asset Management is based on Al Maryah Island in Abu Dhabi and describes itself as a global investment platform connecting financial infrastructure with global capital markets and providing institutional investors with access to regulated opportunities across venture, structured products, and digital assets. The firm’s official website lists three product lines: Further Ventures, which builds and invests in companies in financial-market and digital-asset infrastructure; the Further Liquidity Crypto Fund; and the Further Fund of Funds, which invests in global venture and digital asset managers. The site identifies Further Ventures Limited as manager of the Ventures and Fund of Funds lines and Further Asset Management Holdings Ltd as manager of the Liquidity Crypto Fund.

“Institutional tokenization needs secure infrastructure that connects jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements with how assets are held and transacted,” said Faisal Al Hammadi, Managing Partner of Further Asset Management. “We believe that Anubis will serve as a data layer that acts on top of oracles such as Chainlink to power compliance workflows in the UAE and beyond.”

Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer of Chainlink Labs, said: “By adopting Chainlink ACE, Further enables institutions to verify every transaction against ADGM-defined rules before execution while allowing compliance teams to update those rules in real time without having to redeploy token contracts.”

Further plans to extend Anubis to additional jurisdictions and counterparties, using ACE to enforce policies onchain, according to the release. A planned dashboard will provide virtual asset service providers and regulators with visibility into how transactions involving supported assets are assessed against configured compliance rules. Further and Chainlink plan to announce further milestones as the first wave of institutions adopts Anubis.