Have you noticed a very strange phenomenon? Public blockchains are shouting about decentralization, but governments and large institutions simply don't dare to use them; enterprise chains are compliant, but end up being as closed as a local area network. This gap has always gone unfilled.

ADI Chain @ADIChain_ seems to be targeting this very gap.

Recently, they announced a partnership with Mastercard. My first reaction was—wait, Mastercard? The payment giant covering over 210 countries? After a closer look, the collaboration focuses on stablecoin settlement, asset tokenization, and cross-border payment infrastructure. It feels like ADI Chain aims to become the underlying channel for compliant payments in the Middle East.

Technologically, they are adopting a ZK rollup approach, with the settlement layer anchored to Ethereum, and native support for compliance modules at the L3 level. This design is quite clever, as it preserves the openness of public chains while meeting regulatory KYC requirements. They also launched a Dirham-pegged stablecoin, clearly targeting the wallets of Gulf oil tycoons.

Currently, RWA and compliance narratives are indeed heating up, but few projects are truly implementable. Whether ADI Chain can succeed depends largely on how well the Mastercard collaboration can be executed.

I will personally keep observing, as partnering with traditional financial giants is a game-changer; if it fails, it wouldn't be surprising.