ADI wallet

What is ADI (ADI)?

ADI is the native coin of ADI Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 built by the ADI Foundation on zkSync's ZK Stack. The chain is aimed less at retail DeFi and more at government, enterprise and institutional systems: payments rails, e-invoicing, registries and stablecoin issuance, with modular Layer 3 chains that a country or a company can spin up with its own compliance rules. Transactions are batched and proven with zero-knowledge proofs, then settled on Ethereum, which is what gives the network its low fees and its security anchor.

For a holder, the practical point is that ADI lives in two places. On ADI Chain it is the gas coin: every transfer or contract call on that network is paid in ADI itself, the same way ETH pays for Ethereum. On Ethereum it exists as an ERC-20 token, and there a transfer costs ETH, not ADI. So an ADI balance on Ethereum with no ETH beside it cannot move until you top up gas, while an ADI balance on ADI Chain pays its own way.

Both are the same asset with the same ticker, but they sit on different networks and are not interchangeable without a bridge. In Tangem they show up as two entries in the same wallet, one per network, and the network you are sending from is a line you pick, not something inferred for you. If a counterparty asks for ADI "on Ethereum" and you send from the ADI Chain entry, that is your choice to catch, so the visible split is worth a second look before signing. Holding ETH in the same wallet for the Ethereum side keeps both entries usable. Supported networks in Tangem (2): ADI, Ethereum.

ADI Chain is EVM-compatible, so the address is the same on both networks and the token behaves like any standard EVM asset: no rebase, no token account to open, no balance that changes on its own. What changes is only which network you are on and which coin pays the fee.