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AEON, an omnichain AI payment platform that allows AI agents to manage and automate payments, transactions, and subscriptions for users, today announced a strategic partnership with ADI Chain, a Layer-2 network that empowers institutions, enterprises, and government agencies (in the MENA region) with stablecoins, real-world assets, and DeFi applications. Through the collaboration, ADI Chain integrated its Layer-2 network with AEON’s AI payment infrastructure to advance its native token (ADI)’s accessibility for real-world commerce utilities and expand its role in the emerging AI-driven economy.

ADI Chain is an Ethereum Layer-2 network developed in Abu Dhabi, aiming to enable institutions, central banks, and governments based in the MENA region to efficiently manage real-world 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 asset accessibility.

AEON partners with @ADIChain_ to bring real-world utility to $ADI. Users can now pay with $ADI via AEON Pay across 50M+ merchants globally from retail and dining to everyday purchases, bringing institutional L2 assets from the chain into real-world commerce and the AI economy.… pic.twitter.com/AbbkBm5WVE

— AEON.XYZ (@AEON_Community) March 31, 2026

ADI Chain Integrates ADI Token With Everyday Real-World Utilities  

Through the partnership above, AEON now supports the ADI token for real-world payments, facilitating wider adoption of the cryptocurrency across both offline and online commerce use cases.  

AEON is a modular payment platform that standardizes crypto transactions, connecting digital assets with various chains, users, and merchants for unified usage. By using AI agents to manage intelligent, automated payments across the Web3 space, AEON simplifies how users interact with crypto assets and fiat realms, enabling greater adoption of cryptocurrencies.  

The ADI token is the settlement currency in the ADI Chain, enabling value exchanges between users, projects, enterprises, and governments across DeFi and institutional-grade applications. Last month, on February 12, the UAE Central Bank selected ADI Chain to host the Dirham-backed stablecoin on the Layer-2 blockchain network. The above two scenarios show the important role that the ADI token plays in enabling DeFi institutional financial activity.

Today’s partnership showcases a strategic move to expand the ADI token’s market accessibility. By integrating ADI into AEON’s payment ecosystem, the asset now extends beyond DeFi applications into day-to-day transactions, connecting DeFi with real-world commerce.

Driving Innovation In The Digital Asset Economy

By embracing this partnership, global customers can now seamlessly access the ADI token and use it to make payments through AEON Pay, a Web3 mobile payment solution driven by AEON. AEON Pay allows crypto payments across different real-world utilities such as retail purchase transactions, service delivery payments, buying foodstuffs, shopping, and many others. With AEON’s Web3 mobile payment coverage spanning over 50 million merchants around Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Georgia, and other emerging markets, this partnership is crucial for ADI Chain.

Apart from consumer payments, this collaboration positions the ADI token for user participation in the growing AI-powered economy. AEON supports next-gen AI payment standards like ERC-8004 and x402, powering verifiable, high-speed, and programmable transactions suitable for autonomous systems and AI agents. By incorporating ADI into this infrastructure, the token becomes interoperable with machine-native commerce flows, where agents engage and transact across various blockchains and real-world payment systems.

The alliance between AEON and ADI Chain indicates a wider shift in crypto usage, from speculative trading activities toward cross-chain functional, automatable, and AI-driven 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 a medium of exchange powered by AI agents.