Universal Blockchains Buckle Under Real-World Demands in 2026

General-purpose blockchains such as Ethereum and Solana fail most of the time to consider industry, specific disputes and regulatory requirements. The more companies are choosing blockchain solutions, the more the deficiencies of these networks become clear. Specialized layer 1s are now coming to the rescue, being state audit trail and regulatory compliance, oriented.

Industry-Specific Disputes Require Simpler Blockchains

For example, in construction and equipment leasing disputes, often arise from casual agreements and data tampering. The use of a blockchain-based audit trail can resolve the issue of “who said what and when” beyond any doubt, thus greatly limiting the number of law suits. Such state audit trails are stateless as they only need immutability and ordering to derive the sequence of events.

Specialized layer 1s are capable of handling these postings concurrently and thus can omit both the complex signature verification and smart contract execution, resulting in a massive reduction in the use of processing power.

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Financial Regulations Demand More Control

Conventional finance is built on regulatory control, which general-purpose blockchains are not able to offer. With the rise of decentralised finance, real-world assets are being put on-chain by institutions and are thus subjected to KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) regulations.

Specialized blockchains can natively integrate such demands, thus not only ensuring compliance but also facilitating features such as wallet blacklisting and transaction reversibility. Kinexys of JPMorgan and Tempo of Stripe are two such examples.

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Summary

Purpose, built networks are the future of blockchain, each network focusing on the specific needs of the industry and at the same time using well, established chains for their security. When adoption by the public becomes widespread, one should anticipate the rise of an ecosystem of specialized blockchains that will be at the forefront of innovation and will provide solutions to the existing problems.

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