Build a page to compare various distributed ledger base layers

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Goals

• provide a concise high-level comparison of properties that impact usability.
• provide a comprehensive detailed comparison of each project design properties and live metrics.

Note: Focus is on the protocol design and properties derived from the design. Things like network effects, development, and community are not covered

Properties

General

• Operation Fees (value lost during use/transfer)
• Fees (24h, 7d, 1m)
• Finality / Settlement Time (Confirmation Latency)
• Finality Type (Probabilistic, Deterministic)
• Throughput limit
• Throughput (24h, 7d, 1m)
• Throughput available (24h, 7d, 1m) (achieved minus current)
• Throughput achieved
• Scalability Type
• Current measure of wealth dispersion / Gini Coefficient (ideally by entities, not addresses)
• Network energy usage (total)
• Per Transaction energy usage
• Fungibility Type
• Divisibility

Privacy

• Balance transparency
• Transaction transparency
• Balance auditability
• Privacy type / support (mixers, multisig, zk Proofs, ring signatures, holomorphic)
• Traceable
• Linkable

Initial Distribution

• Initial distribution type
• Initial measure of wealth dispersion / Gini Coefficient

Monetary

• Available supply %
• Annual Inflation %
• Fixed Supply

Structure

• Ledger structure (blockchain, block-lattice, tangle)
• Ordering / global canonical (topological, linear)
• Consistency (global, partial)
• Transaction model (Acct, UTXO)

Networking

• information propagation (broadcast, gossiping, broadcast among validators, broadcast among committee

Consensus / Decentralization

• Type & unit representation (block-less, block-based, block-based expanding graph, blockless expanding graph)
• Classification (BA, Proof Protocols, etc)
• Security Nakamoto Coefficient
• Censorship Nakamoto Coefficient
• Liveliness Nakamoto Coefficient (Decentralization)
• Consensus Fault Tolerance %
• Cost of compromising consensus
• Cost of running a full node
• Cost of running a "trustless" pruned node
• Storage costs / requirements
• Permissionless transaction processing (Openness)
• Hardware costs / barrier to entry
• Self-sovereign / denationalized
• Membership selection (assign, elect, PoW, PoS, dPoS)
• Extension Rule (Nakamoto, Natural, async-BA, TSA, Sampling, RTA, GA, smpl-PBFT, PBFT)
• Conflict Solving (Weight, TR, Fee, Vote, Score, Witness, Query, Hash, etc)

Ledger Interoperability

• Support (central exchange, multisig, federation, entangled chain, sidechains, drivechain, hybrid models, plasma, lightning / interledger)

Usability Support

• store of value & transfer of value
• data anchoring
• data propagation
• data immutability
• copyrighting / timestamping
• data storage
• data privacy
• scripting
• asset representation (i.e. token support)

Governance

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Summary

• Openness / Decentralization
• Security / Sustainability
• Censorship Resistance
• Flexibility
  • Interoperability
  • Maintainability
  • Turing-complete scripting
  • Token support
  • Data payload
• Opaqueness
  • Traceability
  • Transaction content visibility
  • User unidentifiability
  • Node controller verificiation
• Policy
  • Auditability
  • Compliance
  • Degree of Decentralization
  • Liability
• Performance
  • Confirmation Latency
  • Resource Consumption
  • Propagation Delay
  • Scalability
  • Throughput
  • Transaction Validation Latency
• Usability / Practicality
  • Transaction Fee
  • Ease of Node Setup
  • Ease of Use
  • Support for Constrained Devices

Features

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