DLT in the real world 2026: report

In partnership with ISSA and supported by Accenture, Broadridge and Taurus, the seventh annual study draws on responses from 510 institutional capital markets firms in Q2 2026. 

After seven years of tracking DLT across the capital markets, “it’s all finally happening”. 

DLT in the real world 2026 describes an industry that has moved through multiple phases of exploration and experimentation to enter a critical year of deployment. 

The evidence points to growing strategic importance and practical adoption: 

• DLT budgets are growing at three times the pace of broader industry spend

• 77% of live DLT users see significant improvements versus traditional platforms 

• 12% expect over USD 1 billion per month in DLT transaction volumes in 2027

• 27% of firms are looking to tokenised collateral to unlock billions of dollars in trapped assets

• Over 70% expect to use stablecoins and tokenised deposits in 2027