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Functional Differences of Neo and Ethereum as Smart Contract Platforms

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Abstract

While Ethereum is currently the most popular smart contract platform, there are interesting alternatives like Neo. However, Neo only rarely appears in scientific literature. Moreover, comparisons of smart contract platforms hardly employ a structured approach, but rather apply different criteria to each platform.

This work performs an in-depth comparison between Ethereum and Neo in a structured manner. We derive a catalogue of criteria from related work and use it to identify differences and similarities worthy of discussion. We show how Ethereum and Neo differ in key aspects, ranging from the general goal to technical issues like the execution and fee model and practical aspects like the maturity of its features and documentation.

This paper is a condensed version of the comparison described in [2].

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  1. Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien, Favoritenstr. 9-11, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Marco Bareis, Monika di Angelo & Gernot Salzer

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  1. BISITE Research Group, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Javier Prieto

  2. Politecnico do Porto and INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal

    António Pinto

  3. Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research, IIIT, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Ashok Kumar Das

  4. Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy

    Stefano Ferretti

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Bareis, M., di Angelo, M., Salzer, G. (2020). Functional Differences of Neo and Ethereum as Smart Contract Platforms. In: Prieto, J., Pinto, A., Das, A., Ferretti, S. (eds) Blockchain and Applications. BLOCKCHAIN 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1238. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52535-4_2

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