Top Enterprise Blockchain Solutions in 2026

Written by Max Crawford

Published on January 20, 202611 min read

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Before 2024, much of the narrative around using blockchain suggested that companies would abandon TradFi systems entirely and rebuild their operations on enterprise blockchains. That still hasn’t happened.

However, in 2025, blockchain finally reached a maturity level to be practical for retail and enterprise use cases, and now, more enterprises than ever are building onchain.

Rather than seeing enterprise blockchain solutions as an all-in gamble, organizations are using the tech for specific and well-defined problems that deliver measurable advantages. Think settlement, reconciliation, cross-border coordination, data integrity, and shared state across institutions.

Today, enterprise blockchain is no longer about grand rewrites of business infrastructure. It is about targeted deployment, architectural trade-offs, and choosing the right network for the job.

What is an Enterprise Blockchain?

Enterprise blockchains are blockchain networks that are purpose-built for companies and organizations. They are designed to enable enterprises to reap all the benefits of blockchain while protecting their interests, like keeping internal documents secure, protecting user information, and maintaining regulatory compliance.

Early blockchains emphasized transparency and open participation. Nobody could exclude anybody from being part of the network. That openess, however, kept enterprises from adopting blockchain for business operations because companies need control and predictability.

Think about it: if you are running a wealth management company, you wouldn’t want to store all your clients’ data on an open network where anybody could access personal information. Instead, you’d want a solution that could only be accessed by portfolio managers and would also comply with local law. That’s what an enterprise blockchain provides.

What Are Enterprises Building Onchain?

The conversation in boardrooms has changed from “should we build anything onchain?” to “what should we build onchain?” Blockchains solve specific high-value business problems, particularly those that involve multiple parties who need to share data without fully trusting each other, track complex supply chains with verifiable authenticity, or automate processes that conventionally require extensive manual reconciliation.

Enterprise products that benefit from onchain deployment can fall into one of the following categories (note that this is not an exhaustive list):

• Stablecoins and banking

• Tokenized assets

• Supply chain

• Healthcare software

Stablecoins are often the starting point because they turn blockchains into usable financial rails. Banks and payment companies use them to move money globally without correspondent banking delays, operate 24/7, and lower cross-border costs.

As you read this, a group of global banks including Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and UBS are working on jointly backed stablecoins for G7 currencies.

Once money moves onchain, assets tend to follow.

Asset managers are tokenizing treasury and fund products to modernize settlement and collateral usage. BlackRock’s BUIDL fund tokenizes U.S. Treasuries, which are already used as onchain collateral, while BNY Mellon and Goldman Sachs are tokenizing money market fund shares for institutional clients.

Outside of finance, enterprises use blockchains to coordinate operations across supply chains. Walmart tracks 500+ food products onchain to reduce traceability from weeks to seconds. In trade finance, Maersk and Citibank have automated guarantees and settlement using smart contracts, replacing paperwork with programmable logic tied to real-world events.

Healthcare applications include secure sharing of patient records, clinical trial data verification, and pharmaceutical supply chain protection. The blockchain healthcare market reached $11.33 billion in 2024 and is growing at 63.3% annually through 2030.

What Is an Enterprise Blockchain Solution?

At a high level, enterprise blockchain solutions are infrastructure and platforms that make blockchains easier to build on/integrate with. They sit between blockchain protocols and enterprise production systems and either facilitate a connection and interaction between a business and a public chain or, often, run a chain on behalf of the business.

Most enterprises face a fundamental choice when implementing blockchain: build it in-house or partner with a specialized vendor.

Building in-house means you need a team with deep technical blockchain expertise, which takes time and operational overhead to scale up and maintain. Alternatively, you could partner with a vendor. By doing so, your business runs as usual while a small team works with the vendor to bring the product to life. This introduces third-party dependencies, which introduces some risk, but it comes with the savings of letting you keep a leaner internal team and leverage faster time to market.

Alchemy Rollups is one such third party option. With our infrastructure, you maintain ownership of your chain, customize it to your specific requirements, and control your deployment. Everything else you outsource to us: managing the underlying infrastructure, monitoring it, scaling it, and ensuring your chain’s performance is reliable.

This model helps you:

• Deploy faster without losing control

• Predict operational costs reliably

• Flexibly integrate with your existing tech stack

The model that suits your needs depends on many variables like how technically capable your team is, what is the expected time to market, the total budget for the project/product, the degree of customization required, and more.

How To Choose An Enterprise Blockchain Solution?

Broadly, there are 8 things you need to look at when evaluating a blockchain solution for your enterprise:

1. Data privacy: Blockchain data is historically public, but enterprises understandably don't want all of their data to be public, whether to protect their customer information, proprietary behavior, and everything in between. Different solutions offer different levels of data privacy. Choose one that fits your privacy needs.

2. Composability: Composability is how easily apps and smart contracts work together on a blockchain. It matters when payments, assets, and settlements need to move as a single, coordinated flow. 

3. Modularity: Regulations, teams, and technologies evolve, and so should your stack. Modularity lets you swap components without breaking the system. Rigid designs slow growth, and different solutions offer different degrees of flexibility. 

4. Ease of integration: If the chain doesn’t integrate cleanly with existing systems for you, your team, and your customers, adoption will slow. Clear documentation, solid SDKs, and familiar tooling can make a big difference. 

5. Hierarchy controls: Enterprises run on clear roles and approvals. An enterprise blockchain should support permissions, overrides, and audit paths so teams know who can act, who can approve, and how decisions move.

6. Upgradeability: Apps and code will break at some point. It’s the nature of development. The question is how forgiving the system is in enabling upgrades and patches to rapidly fix those breaks.

7. Regulatory adherence: Enterprise blockchains need built-in auditability, reporting, and compliance support so businesses can explain what happened, when, and why, without rebuilding that functionality from the ground up themselves. 

8. Cost: Cost predictability matters more than being cheap. A system that costs slightly more but behaves predictably is often easier to deploy and more sustainable than a cheaper but unstable one.

Best Enterprise Blockchain Solutions

Enterprises are not converging on a single “best” blockchain or solution for building onchain. They are choosing different approaches based on control, compliance, scale, and integration requirements. In practice, enterprise onchain activity falls into four distinct models.

1. Enterprises using rollup services to launch customized L2 blockchains

2. Enterprises operating on public blockchains

3. Enterprises launching their own L1 blockchains

4. Traditional enterprise blockchain platforms

1. Enterprises Using Rollup Services to Launch Custom Chains

Rollup services allow enterprises to deploy custom execution environments while inheriting security from established ecosystems. This model offers application-level control without requiring in-house infrastructure teams.

Alchemy Rollups

Alchemy Rollups is our managed rollup infrastructure for enterprises and large-scale apps. Instead of choosing between public L1 constraints or heavy permissioned DLTs, Alchemy Rollups lets enterprises deploy dedicated rollups that inherit Ethereum security while retaining control over execution, fees, and governance.

Today, we support the OP, Arbitrum, and zkSync ZK rollup stacks. This breadth of frameworks allow enterprises to choose the trade-offs that best fit their product and regulatory environment.

Conduit

Conduit is a popular rollup infrastructure provider. It focuses on teams that want control over their rollups and are technically mature enough to operate closer to the metal.

Caldera

In contrast to Conduit, Caldera focuses on providing a completely hands-off experience to its clients. The provider’s goal is to help clients launch an appchain with minimal operational overhead by handling the core infra, upgrades, and maintenance of a chain.

2. Enterprises Operating Directly on Public Blockchains

Some enterprises are building directly on public blockchains and treating them as neutral financial or coordination infrastructure. These chains are typically used when global reach, interoperability, and existing liquidity matter more than full control.

For example, BlackRock launched its first tokenized fund, BUIDL, on Ethereum in March 2024. This was one of the earliest landmark moments of a major financial institution building directly on a public chain. By 2025, the fund surpassed the billion-dollar mark and ignited a global conversation about whether public blockchains could genuinely serve enterprise use cases at scale.

Similarly, in December 2025, JPMorgan arranged a $50 million commercial paper issuance for Galaxy Digital on Solana, with settlement handled entirely in USDC stablecoins. That transaction was among the first debt issuances executed on a public blockchain. It set the record straight, showing that major financial institutions, too, can use public chains for business.

Then there are some public chains that are built specifically for enterprise use. Stellar and XRPL, for instance, are enterprise-focused chains that are optimized for payments and asset issuance (including tokenizing RWAs) with built-in compliance features that make them appealing to regulated institutions.

MoneyGram’s “Ramps” is an example of integrating USDC on Stellar to enable cash-to-USDC and USDC-to-cash workflows.

Similarly, SBI Holdings is one of the most active enterprise users of XRPL. Very recently, in September 2025, SBI partnered with Tobu Top Tours to launch a payment and NFT platform on XRPL for Japan’s tourism sector. And in late 2025, SBI Ripple Asia signed a deal with Doppler Finance to develop the first institutional-grade yield infrastructure on XRPL.

3. Enterprises Launching Their Own L1 Blockchains

Some enterprises choose to go further and launch their own L1 blockchains when public networks cannot meet their operational or regulatory requirements.

Arc

Arc is Circle’s solution for an enterprise-focused Layer 1 blockchain. Circle claims that Arc, unlike other blockchains, is uniquely built to power stablecoin-native applications.

Arc’s architecture deviates from most other blockchains in utilitarian ways. For example, rather than introducing a new cryptocurrency as a gas token, Arc uses USDC to pay for transactions. Similarly, the chain is not built for open composability (a USP for many new public L1’s), but for consistent settlement behavior, and rails that feel like payments infrastructure rather than crypto infrastructure.

The chain’s public testnet went live in October 2025, and mainnet is planned for launch sometime in 2026.

Plasma

Plasma is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain engineered specifically for stablecoin settlement, global money movement, and enterprise-grade payment rails. It is backed by Tether’s sister company Bitfinex and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.

At launch, Plasma debuted its mainnet beta with over $2 billion in stablecoin liquidity and integrations from major DeFi protocols such as Aave, Ethena, Fluid, and Euler.

One of Plasma’s core value props is its zero-fee USDT transfers, which are enabled by its PlasmaBFT consensus layer. And unlike Arc (and similar to most other chains), Plasma uses a separate token, XPL, to pay for transactions and reward network participants.

Plasma's public token sale is among the most oversubscribed sales in recent crypto history, with more than $373 million in commitments to buy $50 million worth of XPL.

Tempo

Tempo is a payments-first Layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for stablecoin transactions and real-world payment flows by Stripe and Paradigm. The team claims to have built it keeping in mind the features that payment companies and financial institutions expect from modern payment infrastructure.

Tempo’s pitch is that mainstream blockchains often optimize for open composability, while payment companies need things like predictable fees, consistent settlement behavior, and rails that can support high-volume flows.

So, if an enterprise roadmap is “stablecoins as a settlement layer,” Tempo is trying to be the chain that feels like a payments infrastructure rather than crypto infrastructure.

Tempo is currently in the public testnet phase.

4. Traditional Enterprise Blockchain Platforms

Some enterprises require permissioned environments by default, especially when operating within consortia or regulated industries. These platforms prioritize identity, privacy, governance, and integration with existing enterprise systems.

Canton Network

Canton Network is a privacy-enabled, interoperable “network of networks” built for regulated financial institutions and real-world assets. The point is to let multiple institutions run their own applications and ledgers, keep their data private, and still do atomic, synchronized transactions across those systems without weeks of reconciliation.

It’s closely associated with Digital Asset’s Daml smart contract language and the Canton protocol, which is essentially the plumbing that links Daml-based applications across organizations while enforcing privacy and authorization rules. 

Most enterprise “DLT” projects hit a wall because you either get a shared ledger where everybody sees too much, or private silos that can’t coordinate without messy integrations and reconciliation.

Canton’s design is trying to keep sovereignty (each participant controls its own domain/app) while still enabling synchronization when two or more parties need to complete a transaction across domains. The Canton Network calls this “privacy-enabled” interoperability.

Enterprises choose Canton when their main goal is to make regulated financial workflows work on shared infrastructure.

In December of 2025, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation chose the Canton Network as the blockchain infrastructure for tokenizing a subset of U.S. Treasury securities. A controlled production launch is planned in 2026, with DTCC also taking a governance role on the network.

Hyperledger Fabric

Hyperledger Fabric is one of the most popular enterprise blockchain solutions. A product of the Hyperledger Foundation (Linux Foundation’s project for enterprise-grade blockchains), Fabric is open-source, permissioned, and designed specifically for organizational use cases.

Like most enterprise blockchain solutions, all participating members in the Hyperledger Fabric network are identifiable (no anonymity). Its headline feature is the ability to share a ledger while keeping sensitive data restricted.

Fabric is best suited for consortia, think banks, insurers, manufacturers, logistics players, etc., each running their own nodes with defined rights and responsibilities. The network helps maintain a shared source of truth while being modular, private, and scalable.

HSBC Orion, HSBC’s proprietary digital assets platform, is a successful example. Built on Hyperledger Fabric, Orion uses DLT capabilities to run permissioned bond issuance, using private channels to restrict data access and compress settlement cycles from T+5 to near T+1 across institutional counterparties.

R3 Corda

R3 Corda is an enterprise DLT platform that places heavy emphasis on permissioned data privacy. Only the parties to an agreement see the data, and consensus is achieved by verifying individual transactions between specific parties rather than a system-wide effort to build a shared chain of blocks.

In Corda, data is exchanged point-to-point, encrypted, and on a need-to-know basis. Every network participant has a personalized view of the ledger. They see only what they are entitled to see.

Corda sacrifices decentralization to achieve enterprise-level performance and privacy. That’s a trade-off that financial consortia are often willing to make.

If your primary requirement is coordinating agreements between known parties without leaking sensitive data, then Corda is an excellent pick. For instance, the limited data sharing USP of Corda works brilliantly where participants are legal entities with compliance obligations, like banks and regulators.

One of the cleanest real-world examples of this is SIX Swiss Exchange. The popular Switzerland-based stock exchange uses Corda as the underlying DLT for its digital asset infrastructure. Notably, this isn’t just a pilot or proof of concept, but a live case of DLT being used in capital markets.

Amazon Managed Blockchain

Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) is AWS’s managed service for blockchain infrastructure. With AMB, enterprises can use popular chains without standing up and babysitting their own node fleets.

AMB has two main capabilities:

1. AMB Access: managed access to public blockchains and private Fabric networks

2. AMB Query: managed APIs to query blockchain data (AWS markets it alongside Access) 

Enterprises do not usually pick AMB because they “want AWS’s blockchain.” They pick it because they want a blockchain network or nodes, but do not want the operational burden.

So, AMB is not really a chain in itself but a product where AWS does the grunt work like provisioning nodes and scaling storage.

Itaú Unibanco, Latin America’s largest private sector bank, is a leading enterprise example using Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB). The bank utilizes AMB Access and AMB Query to power its digital asset custody solution. This implementation allows Itaú to securely manage cryptocurrency assets.

Another is GE Aerospace, a jet manufacturer. The enterprise uses AMB’s fully managed infrastructure to maintain a shared, immutable ledger of complex manufacturing data and parts tracking without the overhead of manual hardware provisioning.

Oracle Blockchain Platform

Oracle Blockchain Platform (OBP) is a managed, enterprise blockchain service built on Hyperledger Fabric. Oracle is not offering a brand-new proprietary chain here. It is offering Fabric-as-a-managed-service, plus Oracle’s own operational console, APIs, and cloud integrations to make Fabric easier to run in production.

With OBP, you essentially pin up a production-ready Fabric network with membership services using Oracle’s managed setup. The service gives you an API Gateway and REST proxy, so apps can invoke and query chaincode more easily than wiring SDKs everywhere.

A big reason why teams may choose Oracle Blockchain Platform is the ease of management. They can reap all the benefits of a permissioned DLT without setting up an entire Fabric operations team in-house.

In January 2025, Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN) launched a new pilot for hazardous cargo documentation using Oracle Blockchain Platform to digitize safety certifications.

At the Money 20/20 conference in October 2025, Oracle announced Digital Assets Data Nexus, a production-ready platform designed for global financial institutions to issue and manage tokenized assets, CBDCs, and stablecoins.

Build with Alchemy

We give enterprises a production-ready foundation to build, ship, and scale without running nodes or stitching together fragile tooling. You get high-performance RPCs, rich data APIs, Webhooks, transaction simulation, and more across all major chains.

For teams that need a dedicated chain, Alchemy Rollups provides managed infrastructure for deploying custom L2s on OP, Arbitrum, or zkSync stacks.

From fintechs and payment platforms to neobanks and consumer apps, teams use Alchemy to move faster while staying focused on product, not infrastructure maintenance. Want to partner with us? Reach out to our sales team to learn how we support enterprise clients with white glove service, SLAs, custom throughput, and more.