| Parameter | RGB | Liquid | Ethereum, RSK etc | Stacks | CMYK ("Taro") |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native currency | ✅ BTC | 🚫 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 | 🚫 | ? | 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 | 🚫 | 🚫 | |
| Breaks transaction graph & chainanal | ✅ | 🚫 | 🚫 | 🚫 | 🚫 |
| Released / used in production | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 🚫 |