Another partnership in line with what’s been happening regularly these days: a payment service teams up with a web3/stablecoin player. But this time, there are some notable twists.

The payment player is M-Pesa, the lighthouse digital payment service that rewrote payments in Africa and beyond. Launched 18 years ago, it now serves over 70 million people in 170 countries—34 million in Kenya alone—all on plain mobile tech.

The blockchain partner is ADI Chain. Even those deep in the space might ask: Who is ADI?

It’s a Dubai-based Layer 2, claims to be the first institutional chain in the MENA region, and has serious backing: founded by Sirius International Holding (the digital arm of IHC, a $240B holding company and the largest listed firm in MENA). It went live on mainnet this autumn, with a clear mission, as usual with the big numbers: bring 1 billion people on-chain by 2030, focusing on markets in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa that lack access to blockchain’s real-world benefits. Its cryptocurrency is pegged to the UAE Dirham and regulated by UAE authorities.

This isn’t just another announcement—it’s a signal of institutional blockchain adoption at scale.

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