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1 | Short links: | Crypto 2.0 Comparison Chart | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | tiny.cc/Crypto | Maintained by Piotr "ThePiachu" Piasecki, Provable Inc. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | tiny.cc/Crypto2 | Your input is appreciated - what other data would you like to see? Have any data I am missing? Spotted any mistake? Let me know! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Feature | Ripple | Ethereum | Mastercoin / Omni | NXT | Open Transactions | Counterparty | Bitshares | Open Assets / Coinprism | Colored Coins | Crypti | NEM | eMunie | Hyperledger | Qora | ||||||||||||||||
5 | Comparison data verified | Have the people involved in the project verified the data in this chart? | Based on development experience of ThePiachu | Initial draft discussed with Stephen Tual. Final revision still pending official Ethereum release and subject to change. | Verified by Ron Gross and other members of the Mastercoin team | Information provided by Jimmy Song from Monetas | Information provided by Matt Young and Evan Wagner | Information provided by Nathan Hourt, expanded later | Information provided by Max Kordek | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Website | Official project website | https://ripple.com/ | http://ethereum.org/ | http://www.mastercoin.org/ | http://www.nxtcommunity.org/ | http://opentransactions.org/ | https://www.counterparty.co/ | http://bitshares.org/ | http://www.coinprism.com | http://coloredcoins.org/ | http://crypti.me | http://nem.io/ | http://emunie.com/ | http://hyperledger.com/ | http://www.qora.org/ | |||||||||||||||
7 | Started On | First function-complete public release | 2012-12-22 | 2015-07-30 | 2013-07-31 | 2013-11-24 | 2010-01-01 | 2014-01-02? | 2014-07-19 | 2014-05-14 | 16/06/2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Spec | https://ripple.com/ripple_primer.pdf | http://ethereum.org/ethereum.html | https://github.com/mastercoin-MSC/spec | http://nxt.org/the-ecosystem/ | http://opentransactions.org/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages | http://counterparty.io/docs/ | https://github.com/OpenAssets/open-assets-protocol/blob/master/specification.mediawiki | http://crypti.me/crypti.pdf | http://nem.io/NEM_techRef.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Downloadable wallet | Does the platform have a downloadable wallet, or does it rely on a website | https://download.ripple.com/ | http://nxt.org/ | No? | https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares/releases | http://crypti.me/download | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Network speed | On average how fast a "confirmation" occurs | 2-5 second ledgers | 1 minute blocks | 10 minute Bitcoin blocks | 1 minute blocks | Instant | 10 minute Bitcoin blocks | 10 seconds | 10 minute Bitcoin blocks | 10 minute Bitcoin blocks | 10 second blocks | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | Own blockchain | Does the network store data on its own blockchain, or does it piggyback on some other network? | Own ledger | Own blockchain | Bitcoin blockchain with extra data? | Own blockchain | Centralized servers | Bitcoin blockchain? | Own blockchain | Bitcoin blockchain | Bitcoin blockchain | Own blockchain | Own blockchain | Own blockchain | |||||||||||||||||
12 | Coin distribution | How the coins are distributed - through mining, sales, etc. | All distributed by creators | Some pre-purchase, infinite mining afterwards | Pre-purchase only + 9% "Dev mastercoin" vesting over the years | Pre-purchase only | NA | Proof-of-burn | IPO with BTC and PTS | NA | NA | IPO with BTC, capped at 750BTC | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | Premined | Generating coins that other people have to mine later is premining. Allocating a disproportionate amount of coins to a single entity that others had to buy is a premine. Fair or no pre-purchase with reasonable allocation is not. | Yes | Yes | No | No | NA | No | No | No | NA | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | Block creation | How blocks are created | Consensus | Proof-of-knowledge / PoS-PoW hybrid / To be decided | Consensus | Proof-of-stake | NA | Consensus | Delegated proof of stake | NA | NA | Delegated-Proof-of-Stake | Proof of Importance | Consensus? | Proof of Stake | ||||||||||||||||
15 | Fees | What fees user pay in the system. If fee is flat, it can be considered small if it's under 1 cent, minimal if well under 1 cent. Percentage fees should be listed | Fixed (30XRP) fees for activating new addresses and (5XRP) granting trust. Minimal fees for transactions. Custom fees (usually around 0.2%) set by Gateways for using IOUs | Fixed fee per operation with each different operation having a different base fee | 0.3% fees for fundraisers, betting and distributed exchange | Configurable | 0.5 XCP flat free for asset creation. No fees for fundraisers, decentralized exchange, or betting | Flat fees? | Standard Bitocin fees | Standard Bitcoin fees? | 0.10% | ||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Fees go to... | Who earns the fees? | Address activation and trust set - fees are locked in the address. Transaction fees are burned. Gateway fees are earned by the Gateway | Miners | Fees are converted to Mastercoin and burned | Notary servers | Fees are burned | Delegates, which can burn them? | Bitcoin Miners | Bitcoin miners? | 10% to Crypti Foundation, 90% to delegates | ||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Reference Implementation | Core implementation | rippled - https://github.com/ripple/rippled | Master Core - forked off Bitcoin Core https://github.com/mastercoin-MSC/mastercore | https://bitbucket.org/JeanLucPicard/nxt/src | https://github.com/Open-Transactions | github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterpartyd | https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares_toolkit , https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=5303.195 | http://github.com/crypti | ||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Decentralized exchange | Does the network include a distributed / decentralized exchange running inside of the network? | Yes | Through script | BTC-MSC only right now MSC-X exchange TBD in Q3 2014 or early Q4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Planned | Through dapp | Yes? | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | Automatic order matching | Are orders in the orderbook matched automatically? | Yes | Through script | No, manual order matching | Yes? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Through dapp | ||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Can trade between any currencies? | Can a user trade between any currency pairs, or are there some restrictions? | Yes | Through script | Yes? | No - only anything to and from NXT | Yes | BTC<->XCP, BTC<->user-created assets, XCP<->User-created assets | Yes | Yes | Through dapp | Yes? | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | Incentive for Gateways | What incentive does the system offer to various Gateways? | Gateways can charge a Transit Fee for people using (sending or trading) their IOUs in the system. They will earn a percentage of each transaction amount. | Through script | Can charge a premium (off protocol) | No | No gateways | Can charge transaction fees? | No | Through dapp | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Integrated messaging | Like Bitmessage | No | Through script | None yet | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Through dapp | ||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Integrated DNS | Like Namecoin | No | Through script | None yet | Yes | Agnostic - Namecoin integration is orking | No | No | No | Through dapp | ||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Integrated betting | No | Through script | Planned, Q4 2014 | Yes? | No | Yes | Possible | No | Through dapp | |||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Other financial functionality | Futures, contract for difference, shorting, etc. | Demurrage? | Through script | Yes, many are supported | Contract for Difference, short, long, leverage, derivatives | Shorting of market-issued assets | NA | Through dapp | ||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Multisignature support | Not yet | Through script | Yes, since block 322000 | Yes - Voting pools.http://opentransactions.org/wiki/index.php/Voting_Pool_Deposit_Process | No | Yes | Yes | Yes, N-of-M | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Automated trading between currencies? | Can trades occur as a part of a money transfer (rather than an implicit, separate currency exchange) | Yes | Through script | Planned for some usecases | Possibly? | Yes | Yes? | Planned | No | No | No | |||||||||||||||||||
28 | IOU limits | Is the number of tokens that can be created limited by anything (like satoshis or only integer values), or can they represent a floating point not limited by any asset | No | No | No | Converted from NXT | No | No? | Limited to integers | Limited to integers | Limited to integers? | - | |||||||||||||||||||
29 | Programable script? | Or turing-complete scrypt or the like | To be added | Yes | Planned (Q4 2014?) | No? | Yes | No | Yes (Bitcoin script) | No | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Other features | What other notable features are present in the system | Payment rippling | - | Distributed marketplace | Dapps, Side Chains, Dapp Store | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Development team | Based on team size, crypto and programming expertise, funding, etc. | Strong | Strong | Strong | Small | Monetas - Strong | Small | Lean and Agile team | ? | Boris Povod, Pavel Nekrasof, Vera Nekrasofa, Stas Oskin, Mike Doty, Max Kordek, Olivier Beddows, Sebastian Stupurac | ? | |||||||||||||||||||
32 | Size of Dev Team | How many people are working on the project | About 5 core members + 20 regular GitHub contributors | 14-16 fulltime + community contributions | 20 in Monetas + open source community | 3 | Around 20 | Small | 8 devs + 4 other team members | ||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Backers / Investors | Big companies investing in the team or technology | Google Ventures, Core Innovation Capital, Venture 51, Camp One Ventures, IDG Capital Partners | None yet | BitAngels, DApps Fund | Confidential | Bitfund.pe | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Development budget? | How much the team raised for developing the technology and through what means | $9M from Google Ventures and others, also secured by XRPs | From presale | As of June 2014: 3000 BTC + > 13,343.1927 MSC | $800k from pre-purchase | Entering third round | None, self-funded and nonprofit | ~$4M, budget primarily from AGS funding | None | 750 BTC from presale | ||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Big adopters | Big companies that use the service | Bitstamp, Fidor Bank, http://www.xrpga.org/gateways.html | None yet | MaidSafe ... more coming soon. | ? | Swarm, maybe Overstock in the future for dual-listing their stock | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Decentralization | Is it centralized (reliant on one party), distributed (a few key parties), or decentralized (not relying on a few parties) | Distributed | Decentralized | Decentralized | Decentralized | Federated Servers (Server has no power over users.) | Decentralized | Decentralized | Decentralized | Decentralized | ||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Open source | Is everything requried to run the project open source? | Yes, after 5 months | Yes, MIT license | Yes, MIT & Unlicense licenses | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Under Development | No, in a few months | ||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Founders | Who founded the project | Jed McCaleb, Chris Larsen, Arthur Britto | Vitalik Buterin, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony DiIorio, Mihai Alisie, Gavin Wood, Joseph Lubin, Jeffrey Wilcke, Amir Chetrit | J.R Wilett, Ron Gross. Probablly David A. Johnston as well. | Chris Odom (open source) + Johann Gevers and Chris Odom (Monetas) | Robby Dermody, Adam Krellenstein, Evan Wagner | Daniel and Stan Larimer, Bo Shen, Charles Hoskinson | Flavien Charlon | Boris Povod, Stas Oskin, Matthew Cox, Arman Manukyan, Mike Doty | |||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Transparency | How transparent the project is with its development, finance, etc. | Active community engagement on the forum: https://ripple.com/forum/ | Aims to be radical upon launch | Radical. Budget, board meeting notes 99% of discussions are on public forums and github. | Completely transparent | Radical | Completely transparent | Weekly blog posts about developments, Everyone can join team chat and ask any question | ||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Corporate Structure | Ripple Labs is a for profit and based in San Francisco that maintains and develops the Ripple Protocol and ecosystem | Not for profit stiftung | Non-profit Delaware organization | For-profit company (Monetas) coupled with an open source project | None | Invictus Innovations is a corporation based in the US developing the ecosystem | For-profit company (Coinprism) coupled with an open source project | Foundation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Price Chart | http://www.ripplecharts.com/ | http://coinmarketcap.com/msc_180.html | https://bter.com/trade/xcp_btc | NA | https://cryptichain.me/marketWatcher | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | User / account statistics | How many users / accounts there are on the system, etc. | http://www.ripplecharts.com/#/accounts , https://www.stellar.org/stats/ for Stellar | http://www.mynxt.info/blockexplorer/ , http://charts.nxt.org/ | http://xcp.blockscan.com/ | https://cryptichain.me | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Other notes | Other information not covered under elsewhere but still relevant to projects' success | Burdened by being labeled as scam early on | Implementation details may still change before release | Bitshares is not a coin; its a ecosystem for DACs (distributed autonomous companies). | Derived from Colored Coins | Multiple implementations that don't interoperate | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9o5X4xHJnc | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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47 | Contact Email | info@ripple.com | info@mastercoin.org | info@monetas.net | dev@counterparty.co | contact@bitshares.org | https://coinprism.desk.com/customer/portal/emails/new | max@crypti.me | |||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Forum | https://ripple.com/forum/ , https://xrptalk.org/ | https://forum.ethereum.org | http://mastercointalk.org/ | http://opentransactions.org/forum/ | forums.counterparty.co | https://bitsharestalk.org/ | http://forum.coinprism.com | https://forum.crypti.me | ||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | http://www.reddit.com/r/ripplers , http://www.reddit.com/r/ripple | http://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum | http://reddit.com/r/mastercoin | http://reddit.com/r/opentransactions | reddit.com/r/counterparty_xcp | http://www.reddit.com/r/BitShares | http://www.reddit.com/r/coloredcoin | http://reddit.com/r/crypti | |||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Github | https://github.com/ripple | https://github.com/ethereum | https://github.com/mastercoin-MSC | https://github.com/Open-Transactions | https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/Counterparty | https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares_toolkit | https://github.com/OpenAssets | https://github.com/crypti | ||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | https://www.facebook.com/RippleLabs | https://www.facebook.com/ethereumproject | https://www.facebook.com/groups/mastercoin | https://www.facebook.com/CounterpartyXCP | https://www.facebook.com/officialbitshares | https://www.facebook.com/Coinprism | https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crypti/1468497296767839 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | https://twitter.com/Ripple, https://twitter.com/Ripplelabs | https://twitter.com/MSCprotocol | twitter.com/CounterpartyXCP | https://twitter.com/_bitshares | https://twitter.com/coinprism | http://twitter.com/cryptiteam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Google+ | https://plus.google.com/+Ripplepay | http://google.com/+EthereumOrgOfficial | https://plus.google.com/communities/117331355001800275452 | https://plus.google.com/109866598728356866398/posts | https://plus.google.com/b/112818205922585372230/112818205922585372230/about | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Quora | https://www.quora.com/Ripple-Labs | https://www.quora.com/Mastercoin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Skype | skype:?chat&blob=sRDE8A1RuNGS0NouJ-FcNwptlxpMMoeG_8Ja9l6dWQ8O0O31HylD7Rc | skype:?chat&blob=fpPjx6YGM8T8EBDZjf8Bga_sX_F5M1Z6m6oNIThtknPqlyf4oY2g0UQzRq7HJXl_9mYHKYYS7Fme3zG9yjjD-C8hVu1mwIzokEG_8i04nuvr9lMJ28lIKssNyZRXoh79Qll06ryqYRIWm7HsPmVNZxX4XinBWAYg2SX_qMAbUi6X-YduWyQrUEIl2uf_RHEkD5BfRiNJwFJcfLiP0jgFvogKWEfXU3kMAZE_mG8 | max.kordek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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