This is a quick and dirty table comparison of the three main Directed Acyclic Graph (DAC) Coins. Byteball, IOTA, and Raiblocks are all serious contenders. This table will allow you to pinpoint some of their main differences and similarities.
Last Updated: January 2018
Byteball (GBYTE)
IOTA (MIOTA)
RaiBlocks (XRB)
Address reuse
Yes
Not after sending Yes
Chain type
Main chain DAG PoW DAG dPoS DAG+Blockchain
Confirmation time (theoretical)
30 seconds Instant Instant
Confirmation time (current)
1-2 minutes? Minutes to hours ~10 seconds
Consensus
Mainchain , deterministic Minimal PoW , probabilistic Weighted dPoS voting
Developer ownership
1%? 5%? 4.8%?
Distribution
Free airdrops . 1% premine Public ICO. No premine Manual mining via captcha
Distribution complete
No Yes Yes
Divisibility
1 GBYTE: 1 billion Bytes 1 MIOTA: 1 million IOTA 1 XRB: 1024 Â raw
Fees
Very small, based on size of data stored No fees No fees
Focus
Smart contracts.  Storing arbitrary data . Value  transfer Internet of Things (m2m) Value transfer (h2h)
Inflation
None/Deflationary (minus distribution) None/Deflationary None/Deflationary
Offline transactions
Via blackbytes? Yes Yes?
Partnerships
A few? Many None as of 2014?
Public team
Partially? Yes Yes
Privacy
Yes via Blackbytes Eventually . Test mixer Not on chain
Quantum resistant
Not yet. Via NTRU Yes No?
Smart contracts
Yes Not yet? No?
Supply (Current)
645,222 GBYTE
2,779,530,283 MIOTA
133,248,290 XRB
Supply (Total)
1,000,000 GBYTE
2,779,530,283 MIOTA
133,248,290 XRB
Transaction limit (theory)
Unlimited? Unlimited Unlimited
Transaction limit (current)
20-30 TPS? 500 TPS in stress tests 7k TPS on Testnet?
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