AEON, a versatile AI-powered payment platform that allows AI agents to manage and automate payments, transactions and subscriptions for users, today announced… Strategic partnership With ADI Chain, a layer 2 network that empowers institutions, companies and government agencies (in the MENA region) with stablecoins, real assets and DeFi applications. Through the collaboration, ADI Chain has integrated its Layer 2 network with AEON’s AI payment infrastructure to enhance the accessibility of its native token (ADI) for real-world trading facilities and expand its role in the emerging AI-based economy.
ADI Chain is an Ethereum Layer-2 network developed in Abu DhabiIt aims to enable institutions, central banks and governments located in the MENA region to efficiently manage real assets and stablecoins. The Abu Dhabi-based network launched its mainnet in December 2025, including listing its native token (ADI) on Kraken, KuCoin and eToro for easy access to assets.
The ADI Chain integrates ADI token with everyday, real-world utilities
Through the aforementioned partnership, AEON now supports the ADI token for real-world payments, facilitating broader adoption of the cryptocurrency across online and offline commerce use cases.
Eternity It is a standardized payment platform that standardizes cryptocurrency transactions, connecting digital assets with different chains, users and merchants for unified use. By using AI agents to manage intelligent and automated payments across the Web3 space, AEON simplifies how users interact with crypto assets and fiat domains, enabling greater adoption of cryptocurrencies.
The ADI Token is the settlement currency on the ADI Chain, enabling the exchange of value between users, projects, enterprises and governments across DeFi and enterprise applications. Last month, on February 12, the UAE Central Bank selected the ADI Chain to host the dirham-backed stablecoin on its Layer 2 Blockchain network. The above two scenarios demonstrate the important role that the ADI token plays in enabling institutional financial activity DeFi.
Today’s partnership showcases a strategic move to expand market access for the ADI token. By integrating ADI into AEON’s payment ecosystem, the asset now extends beyond DeFi applications to everyday transactions, connecting DeFi to real-world commerce.
Driving innovation in the digital asset economy
By adopting this partnership, global customers can now seamlessly access and use the ADI token to make payments through AEON Pay, the Web3 mobile payment solution powered by AEON. AEON Pay allows cryptocurrency payments via various real-world utilities such as retail purchase transactions, service delivery payments, food purchases, shopping, and many more. With AEON’s Web3 mobile payment coverage covering more than 50 million merchants across Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Georgia and other emerging markets, this partnership is critical to the ADI chain.
Aside from consumer payments, this collaboration positions the ADI token for user engagement in the growing AI-powered economy. AEON supports next-generation AI payment standards such as ERC-8004 and x402, powering verifiable, high-speed and programmable transactions suitable for autonomous systems and AI agents. By integrating ADI into this infrastructure, the token becomes interoperable with automated commerce flows, as agents participate and transact across various real-world blockchains and payment systems.
The alliance between AEON and ADI Chain signals a broader shift in the use of cryptocurrencies, from speculative trading activities to functional, automatable, AI-driven cross-chain economic infrastructure. By integrating ADI Chain’s DeFi network with AEON’s global payment infrastructure, the ADI token is positioned as a Web3 utility asset and medium of exchange powered by AI agents.
