12.5. Comparison to other systems

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	✅	✅	✅	✅	🚫