Securitize Adds ADI Chain to Multichain Tokenization Ecosystem

ADI Foundation announced on September 30, 2026 that Securitize is integrating with ADI Chain, a move the organizations said expands the network’s institutional tokenization capabilities and creates new infrastructure for regulated financial assets to move onchain. The announcement carried an Abu Dhabi, UAE and Miami dateline.

The integration will connect Securitize’s tokenization infrastructure with ADI Chain, which the announcement describes as institutional blockchain infrastructure built to move digital assets, payments and real-world value seamlessly across global markets.

Integration Mechanics and Conditions

Under the arrangement, ADI Chain will become part of Securitize’s growing multichain ecosystem, creating a pathway for eligible tokenized financial products issued through Securitize to leverage ADI Chain infrastructure. That pathway remains subject to applicable regulatory, product and jurisdictional requirements, according to the announcement.

Securitize provides regulated, end-to-end infrastructure spanning the issuance, management, distribution and trading of tokenized securities, and it works with some of the world’s largest asset managers. The integration brings that institutional capability into an ADI ecosystem the organizations describe as increasingly focused on tokenized assets, regulated digital currencies, payments and global settlement infrastructure. For ADI Foundation, the integration represents a step in building the infrastructure required for financial institutions and asset managers to participate in the onchain economy through institutional-grade rails.

Andrey Lazorenko, chief executive officer at ADI Foundation, said: “Tokenization is fundamentally changing how the world thinks about ownership, capital and financial markets. Securitize has built one of the most important institutional bridges between traditional finance and the onchain economy. Bringing that infrastructure to ADI Chain is a major step towards our ambition of creating a network where real-world value can be issued, distributed and settled seamlessly across global markets.”

Carlos Domingo, co-founder and chief executive officer of Securitize, said: “The Global South is home to 85% of the world’s population and some of the fastest-growing communities of new investors. India alone now has more than 230 million investment accounts. But access to high-quality global financial products remains uneven. Tokenization can help close that gap, and we see the UAE as a natural hub for connecting investors across these markets with regulated financial products from around the world. Integrating with UAE-based ADI Chain is an important first step toward building the distribution infrastructure needed to make that vision possible.”

The organizations said the integration further strengthens ADI Chain’s growing tokenized asset ecosystem and its ambition to become a core infrastructure layer connecting traditional capital markets with the emerging onchain economy.

ADI Chain Architecture and Ecosystem

ADI Foundation’s official documentation describes ADI Chain as a public blockchain for regulated finance at institutional scale, built on a three-layer settlement architecture. Ethereum acts as the settlement layer: ADI Chain submits validity proofs to Ethereum’s base layer, which verifies each proof and finalizes the corresponding state. All layer-3 networks deployed under ADI Chain inherit Ethereum-level security through that path, according to ADI.

ADI Chain itself operates as the execution layer of the stack. ADI states that transactions run on the network at up to 8,000-plus transactions per second, with 0.2-second soft confirmation, two-second finality and fees of approximately $0.01 paid in $ADI, the network’s native gas token. A component called the Airbender prover compresses each batch of transactions into a zero-knowledge proof that Ethereum then verifies.

The third layer consists of specialized rollups, which ADI calls L3 enterprise networks, built on top of ADI Chain. Each configures its own compliance rules, governance and gas policies, allowing institutions to deploy under the requirements of a specific jurisdiction or sector while retaining sub-second confirmation and configurable fees, according to ADI.

ADI Foundation states that it is an Abu Dhabi-based blockchain project founded by Sirius International Holding, the digital arm of IHC, one of the largest investment companies in the world. Its stated aim is to onboard 1 billion people onto blockchain by 2030, beginning with markets across the Middle East, Asia and Africa, and it lists ecosystem partners including Mastercard, M-Pesa, BlackRock and Franklin Templeton.

ADI describes its network as a single programmable settlement rail connecting emerging and established markets, with identified settlement corridors covering the Gulf and Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Europe, and a settlement hub in Abu Dhabi. Its site identifies DDSC as a stablecoin denominated in UAE dirhams that settles Gulf payments on ADI Chain. Other applications listed as built on the network include Apeiro, which verifies healthcare claims in Kenya, and Good Energy, which verifies renewable-energy claims in the United Kingdom. ADI’s ecosystem directory also names infrastructure providers including Fireblocks and Chainlink, and tokenization and real-world-asset platforms including Brickken, SettleMint and Shipfinex.