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Feature Ripple Ethereum Mastercoin / Omni NXT Open Transactions Counterparty Bitshares Open Assets / Coinprism Colored Coins Crypti NEM eMunie Hyperledger Qora
Initial draft discussed with
Stephen Tual. Final
revision still pending Verified by Ron Gross and Information provided by
Comparison data Have the people involved in the project Based on development experience of official Ethereum release other members of the Information provided by Matt Young and Evan Information provided by Information provided by
verified verified the data in this chart? ThePiachu and subject to change. Mastercoin team Jimmy Song from Monetas Wagner Nathan Hourt, expanded later Max Kordek
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/
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
https://github.
com/OpenAssets/open-assets-
protocol/blob/master/specification
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/ .mediawiki http://crypti.me/crypti.pdf http://nem.io/NEM_techRef.pdf
Does the platform have a
downloadable wallet, or does it rely on
Downloadable wallet a website https://download.ripple.com/ http://nxt.org/ No? https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares/releases http://crypti.me/download
On average how fast a "confirmation" 10 minute Bitcoin
Network speed 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 blocks 10 second blocks
Does the network store data on its own
blockchain, or does it piggyback on Bitcoin blockchain with extra
Own blockchain some other network? Own ledger Own blockchain data? Own blockchain Centralized servers Bitcoin blockchain? Own blockchain Bitcoin blockchain Bitcoin blockchain Own blockchain Own blockchain Own blockchain
Pre-purchase only + 9%
How the coins are distributed - through Some pre-purchase, "Dev mastercoin" vesting IPO with BTC, capped at
Coin distribution mining, sales, etc. All distributed by creators infinite mining afterwards over the years Pre-purchase only NA Proof-of-burn IPO with BTC and PTS NA NA 750BTC
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
Premined not. Yes Yes No No NA No No No NA Yes
Proof-of-knowledge / PoS-
PoW hybrid / To be
Block creation How blocks are created Consensus decided Consensus Proof-of-stake NA Consensus Delegated proof of stake NA NA Delegated-Proof-of-Stake Proof of Importance Consensus? Proof of Stake
Fixed (30XRP) fees for activating new 0.5 XCP flat free for
What fees user pay in the system. If addresses and (5XRP) granting trust. Fixed fee per operation asset creation. No fees
fee is flat, it can be considered small if
Minimal fees for transactions. Custom with each different 0.3% fees for fundraisers, for fundraisers,
it's under 1 cent, minimal if well under
1 cent. Percentage fees should be fees (usually around 0.2%) set by operation having a betting and distributed decentralized exchange, Standard Bitcoin
Fees listed Gateways for using IOUs different base fee exchange Configurable or betting Flat fees? Standard Bitocin fees fees? 0.10%
Address activation and trust set - fees
are locked in the address. Transaction
fees are burned. Gateway fees are Fees are converted to Delegates, which can burn 10% to Crypti Foundation,
Fees go to... Who earns the fees? earned by the Gateway Miners Mastercoin and burned Notary servers Fees are burned them? Bitcoin Miners Bitcoin miners? 90% to delegates
Master Core - forked off
Bitcoin Core
https://github.
https://github. com/BitShares/bitshares_toolk
Reference com/mastercoin- it , https://bitsharestalk.
Implementation Core implementation rippled - https://github.com/ripple/rippled MSC/mastercore https://bitbucket.org/JeanLucPicard/nxt/src
https://github.com/Open-Transactions
github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterpartyd
org/index.php?topic=5303.195 http://github.com/crypti
BTC-MSC only right now
Does the network include a distributed
/ decentralized exchange running MSC-X exchange TBD in
Decentralized exchange inside of the network? Yes Through script Q3 2014 or early Q4 Yes Yes Yes Yes Planned Through dapp Yes?
Automatic order Are orders in the orderbook matched
matching automatically? Yes Through script No, manual order matching Yes? Yes Yes Yes No Through dapp
BTC<->XCP, BTC<-
>user-created assets,
Can a user trade between any
Can trade between any currency pairs, or are there some No - only anything XCP<->User-created
currencies? restrictions? Yes Through script Yes? to and from NXT Yes assets Yes Yes Through dapp Yes?
Gateways can charge a Transit Fee for
people using (sending or trading) their
What incentive does the system offer IOUs in the system. They will earn a Can charge a premium (off
Incentive for Gateways to various Gateways? percentage of each transaction amount. Through script protocol) No No gateways Can charge transaction fees? No Through dapp
Integrated messaging Like Bitmessage No Through script None yet Yes Yes No Yes No Through dapp
Agnostic - Namecoin
Integrated DNS Like Namecoin No Through script None yet Yes integration is orking No No No Through dapp
Integrated betting No Through script Planned, Q4 2014 Yes? No Yes Possible No Through dapp
Contract for Difference,
Other financial Futures, contract for difference, short, long, leverage, Shorting of market-issued
functionality shorting, etc. Demurrage? Through script Yes, many are supported derivatives assets NA Through dapp
Yes - Voting pools.http:
//opentransactions.
org/wiki/index.
php/Voting_Pool_Deposit_
Multisignature support Not yet Through script Yes, since block 322000 Process No Yes Yes Yes, N-of-M
Can trades occur as a part of a money
Automated trading transfer (rather than an implicit,
between currencies? separate currency exchange) Yes Through script Planned for some usecases Possibly? Yes Yes? Planned No No No
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 Converted from
IOU limits limited by any asset No No No NXT No No? Limited to integers Limited to integers Limited to integers? -
Programable script? Or turing-complete scrypt or the like To be added Yes Planned (Q4 2014?) No? Yes No Yes (Bitcoin script) No Yes
What other notable features are Distributed Dapps, Side Chains,
Other features present in the system Payment rippling - marketplace Dapp Store
Boris Povod, Pavel
Nekrasof, Vera
Nekrasofa, Stas Oskin,
Mike Doty, Max Kordek,
Based on team size, crypto and Olivier Beddows,
Development team programming expertise, funding, etc. Strong Strong Strong Small Monetas - Strong Small Lean and Agile team ? Sebastian Stupurac ?

About 5 core members +

How many people are working on the 20 regular GitHub 14-16 fulltime + community 20 in Monetas + open 8 devs + 4 other team
Size of Dev Team project contributors contributions source community 3 Around 20 Small members

Google Ventures, Core Innovation

Big companies investing in the team or Capital, Venture 51, Camp One
Backers / Investors technology Ventures, IDG Capital Partners None yet BitAngels, DApps Fund Confidential Bitfund.pe -
As of June 2014:
How much the team raised for
developing the technology and through $9M from Google Ventures and others, 3000 BTC + > 13,343.1927 $800k from pre- None, self-funded and ~$4M, budget primarily from
Development budget? what means also secured by XRPs From presale MSC purchase Entering third round nonprofit AGS funding None 750 BTC from presale
Swarm, maybe
Bitstamp, Fidor Bank, http://www.xrpga. MaidSafe ... more coming Overstock in the future
Big adopters Big companies that use the service org/gateways.html None yet soon. ? for dual-listing their stock - - -
Is it centralized (reliant on one party),
distributed (a few key parties), or
decentralized (not relying on a few Federated Servers (Server
Decentralization parties) Distributed Decentralized Decentralized Decentralized has no power over users.) Decentralized Decentralized Decentralized Decentralized
Is everything requried to run the project Yes, MIT & Unlicense
Open source open source? Yes, after 5 months Yes, MIT license licenses Yes Yes Yes Yes Under Development No, in a few months
Vitalik Buterin, Charles
Hoskinson, Anthony
DiIorio, Mihai Alisie, Gavin J.R Wilett, Ron Gross. Chris Odom (open source) Robby Dermody, Adam Boris Povod, Stas Oskin,
Wood, Joseph Lubin, Probablly David A. Johnston + Johann Gevers and Krellenstein, Evan Daniel and Stan Larimer, Bo Matthew Cox, Arman
Founders Who founded the project Jed McCaleb, Chris Larsen, Arthur Britto Jeffrey Wilcke, Amir Chetrit as well. Chris Odom (Monetas) Wagner Shen, Charles Hoskinson Flavien Charlon Manukyan, Mike Doty
Radical.
Budget, board meeting Weekly blog posts about
notes developments, Everyone
How transparent the project is with its Active community engagement on the Aims to be radical upon 99% of discussions are on can join team chat and
Transparency development, finance, etc. forum: https://ripple.com/forum/ launch public forums and github. Completely transparent Radical Completely transparent ask any question
Ripple Labs is a for profit and based in
San Francisco that maintains and For-profit company Invictus Innovations is a For-profit company (Coinprism)
develops the Ripple Protocol and Non-profit Delaware (Monetas) coupled with an corporation based in the US coupled with an open source
Corporate Structure ecosystem Not for profit stiftung organization open source project None developing the ecosystem project Foundation
https://cryptichain.
Price Chart http://www.ripplecharts.com/ http://coinmarketcap.com/msc_180.html https://bter.com/trade/xcp_btc NA me/marketWatcher
http://www.mynxt.
info/blockexplorer/ ,
How many users / accounts there are http://www.ripplecharts.com/#/accounts , http://charts.nxt.
User / account statistics on the system, etc. https://www.stellar.org/stats/ for Stellar org/ http://xcp.blockscan.com/ https://cryptichain.me
Bitshares is not a coin; its a
Implementation details ecosystem for DACs Multiple https://www.youtube.
Other information not covered under
elsewhere but still relevant to projects' Burdened by being labeled as scam may still change before (distributed autonomous implementations that com/watch?
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Social Channels
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
https://ripple.com/forum/ , https://xrptalk.
Forum 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
http://www.reddit.com/r/ripplers , http:
Reddit //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
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
https://www.facebook.
com/pages/Crypti/146849
Facebook 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 7296767839
https://twitter.com/Ripple, https://twitter. http://twitter.
Twitter com/Ripplelabs https://twitter.com/MSCprotocol twitter.com/CounterpartyXCP
https://twitter.com/_bitshares https://twitter.com/coinprism com/cryptiteam
https://plus.google.
com/b/112818205922585
372230/11281820592258
Google+ https://plus.google.com/+Ripplepay http://google.com/+EthereumOrgOfficial
https://plus.google.com/communities/117331355001800275452 https://plus.google.com/109866598728356866398/posts 5372230/about
Quora https://www.quora.com/Ripple-Labs https://www.quora.com/Mastercoin
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