Sure, ethereum is a great platform from which to build. Alot of thought has went into it and goes into it. So there are a few things we wanted to change.

We changed the following...

- blockreward
- genesis block
- diff retargeting divisor
- higher max gas
- slower blocktime to make mining more efficient, will be lowered once a solid PoS solution is created.

We are taking a more modular approach that is loyal to only the best solutions. Currently the best solution is near vanilla ethereum,but in the future that might not always be the case. Especially with new and competing system being developed, like hyperledger.

The stack basically looks like this. From top to bottom.

DAPPS - mostly done in javascript
Solidity - for writing contracts
EVM - the ethereum virtual machine
Proof of Work - consensus mechinism
Distributed Ledger
Local storage

Alot of these pieces can be swapped out. For instance, Do we always want proof of work? Or maybe DPOS might be good, or maybe something new that hasnt been invented yet. What about the the virtual machine, why not use docker or unikernels also?