Cointelegraph reported on Dec. 30, citing Hasib Qureshi, managing partner at crypto venture capital firm Dragonfly, that Big Tech companies will roll out crypto wallets in 2026 and Fortune 100 companies will build their own blockchains.

Qureshi said on social media platform X that blockchain adoption by Fortune 100 companies in finance and fintech is expected to rise. He said the companies are likely to use existing crypto toolkits such as the Avalanche blockchain and OP Stack, Orbit and ZK Stack to build more private, permissioned networks while maintaining connectivity to public blockchains.

Financial services companies such as JPMorgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and IBM have already built private blockchains, but most are still in testing or are used only in limited ways.

Qureshi said one Big Tech company such as Google, Meta or Apple is likely to launch or acquire a crypto wallet in 2026. He said attempts by fintech companies to launch layer 1 blockchains to compete with public blockchains such as Ethereum and Solana are expected to fail.

Prediction markets are expected to keep growing, but AI is expected to fail to find a practical link to crypto beyond security. Qureshi said AI agents will not trade with each other or spend meaningful amounts of money in 2026.

Earlier, Galaxy Digital forecast that at least one Fortune 500 bank, cloud provider or e-commerce platform will launch a layer 1 blockchain that handles more than $1 billion in economic activity in 2026.