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ADI (ticker: ADI) is the utility token for ADI Chain, an Abu Dhabi-based project building blockchain infrastructure for governments, sovereign entities, regulators, and regulated financial applications. The project describes ADI Chain as an Ethereum-secured Layer-2 execution network with specialized Layer-3 domains for institutional deployments.

ADI launched initially as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum. The official contract published by the ADI Foundation is 0x8b1484d57abbe239bb280661377363b03c89caea. The project says the token is intended to become the native gas token and value-transfer mechanism for ADI Chain, its dApps, institutional applications, and future L3 domains.

The network’s stated focus is compliant on-chain finance, including cross-border payments, real-world-asset tokenization, stablecoin infrastructure, digital identity, and jurisdiction-specific enterprise rollups. ADI Chain uses validity proofs settled to Ethereum, while L3 operators can configure compliance, governance, and fee policies for their own environments.

ADI targets a gap between general-purpose public blockchains and the requirements of regulated institutions. Governments and enterprises often need configurable compliance controls, jurisdictional separation, predictable fees, and infrastructure for real-world assets and payments rather than an unrestricted retail-only network.

The project also positions ADI as an attempt to address access and infrastructure constraints in emerging markets across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Its stated objective is to bring up to one billion people on-chain by 2030, using institutional partnerships and local use cases such as payment rails, health records, utility-data tokenization, and carbon markets. These are project goals rather than independently verified outcomes.

ADI is used as the primary gas token for transactions on ADI Chain and associated L3 domains. According to the token-utility documentation, smart-contract execution, dApp interactions, and transfers use ADI for fees through zkStack’s custom-gas-token capability, so users do not need to manage ETH for ordinary L2 operations. The mainnet documentation identifies ADI Network as chain ID 36900 and provides an ADI-denominated currency symbol.

ADI also serves as an ecosystem settlement and medium-of-exchange asset for payments among users, enterprises, developers, and network services. The project’s architecture places Ethereum at the settlement layer: ADI Chain executes transactions, batches them, and submits validity proofs for Ethereum verification. The website describes ADI Chain as supporting up to 8,000+ TPS, with approximately 0.2-second soft confirmations and 2-second finality targets; these are published project specifications and may vary in production.

Holders can stake ADI into a treasury-backed pool to earn rewards. The documentation says this model avoids minting additional tokens. ADI’s published genesis supply is 999,999,999 tokens. Allocation is 35% community fund, 25% treasury reserves, 12% private investors, 10% partnerships, 10% team, 4% token incentivization pool, and 4% liquidity. Community, investors, partnerships, and team allocations unlock over 72 months (with a 12-month cliff for the latter three); treasury reserves unlock over 108 months; incentivization and liquidity are fully available at TGE.

The token began on Ethereum and is intended to be used natively on ADI Chain through the canonical bridge. The official documentation lists the Ethereum L1 token contract and the ADI mainnet RPC/explorer details, while warning that the primary explorer currently has contract-verification problems and recommending the BLS mainnet explorer for verification.