As the blockchain technology has grown, so have the number of companies offering blockchain services. Just like with individual blockchain projects, we can expect that many of these companies will go away and the more successful ones will become dominant inside of their ecosystems. In some cases, this was the original economic play: IBM wrote much of the Hyperledger fabric and provided it as open source, and now provides an extensive consulting service in the space.

As with Amazon and Microsoft offering blockchain services, there will be an increase in the number of off-the-shelf products for businesses. Currently, custom blockchain development is prohibitively expensive for many businesses, as well as risky. Once standard and dominant players become more clear, it will be easier for startups to provide targeted blockchain-as-a-service and blockchain integration to existing enterprises. It will be at this stage that blockchain adoption genuinely becomes mainstream.