12.5. Comparison to other systems
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| Parameter | RGB | Liquid | Ethereum, RSK etc | Stacks | CMYK ("Taro") |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Native currency
✅ BTC
⚠️ LBTC (federated peg)
🚫 ETH
🚫 ?
✅ BTC
Requires token
✅ No
✅ No
🚫 Yes (except RSK)
🚫 Yes
✅ No
Issues token
✅ No
✅ No
🚫 Yes
🚫 Yes
✅ No
Gas
✅ No
✅ No
🚫 Yes
?
✅ No
Non-token smart contracts
✅
🚫
✅
?
🚫
Data network for NFTs and attachments
✅ Storm on LN paid in sats
🚫
⚠️ IPFS (no incentivation)
?
Unknown
Support for arbitrary structured data
✅
🚫
✅
🚫
🚫
Virtual machine
Bitcoin Script + AluVM
Bitcoin Script
EVM, sometimes EWASM
?
Bitcoin Script
Turing completeness
✅
🚫
✅
?
🚫
Separation of state from ownership
✅
🚫
🚫
🚫
✅
Client-side-validation (scalability & privacy)
✅
🚫
🚫
🚫
✅
Zero knowledge
✅ Bullet proofs
✅ Range proofs
⚠️ n/a, maybe STARKs
🚫
🚫
Breaks transaction graph & chainanal
✅
🚫
🚫
🚫
🚫
Released / used in production
✅
✅
✅
✅
🚫