Osama Bari, CTO at D24 Fintech, predicts five key blockchain trends that will dominate in 2026, building on its growing role as enterprise infrastructure and projected to reach a $2 trillion market by 2030.

• The blockchain market is estimated by McKinsey to reach $2 trillion by 2030.
• The five trends identified are: the modular blockchain era, evolving smart contracts, institutional tokenization, the convergence of AI and Blockchain, and advancements in Zero-Knowledge (ZK) and confidential computing.
• Bari highlights that Ethereum wallets are becoming smart accounts, offering features like gasless transactions and social recovery, and that banks are issuing tokenized treasuries and bonds that trade 24/7 on-chain.