What factors will satisfy us that blockchain technology is on track for realizing its potential?
Actually blockchain tech have interested many corporations and big banks to start research on it which may lead to a day when this big banks will start making their distributed ledger using blockchain tech. And even i have heard that visa have already adopted it to make banktobank transfer (but i am not quite sure about it).
Blockchain tech is also being tested to use in decentralized cloud storage and decentralized trading system and we may see it working in next few years.