Institutional Crypto Custody: ADI Chain Partners The Vault

Institutional crypto custody has become the gate that banks and asset managers must pass through before they move money on-chain, and ADI Chain has just closed it. The ADI Foundation, the Abu Dhabi body behind the institutional blockchain, has signed a strategic partnership with The Vault, a digital-asset custody provider, to bring multi-party computation custody to the network and to research quantum-resistant security together. Announced on 11 November 2026, the agreement targets the two questions institutions raise first about tokenised assets: who controls the keys today, and whether that control holds once quantum computing arrives.

The timing follows a market that has outgrown its early-adopter phase. Tokenised real-world assets on public blockchains reached record levels through 2026, and the total stablecoin supply now sits above $300 billion, drawing regulated money toward infrastructure that was first built for retail traders.

What have ADI Chain and The Vault actually agreed?

The Vault will integrate ADI Chain into its institutional custody platform, adding support for the ADI token and for assets issued on the network, including DDSC, the dirham-backed stablecoin licensed by the Central Bank of the UAE. Once the integration is live, institutions using The Vault's platform will be able to hold and move supported ADI Chain assets under the same transaction-authorisation policies and multi-party computation controls they already apply to other holdings.