Will be really interesting to see the market when the EVM is released. It's the first time in a while I feel this excited about the platform. Great to see so much activity from the key people behind XCP today.
I was trying to get an answer on another thread, with the payment channel, can that be used with EVM to avoid the 10 min block times to process contracts?
No, since contract executions can modify a state shared across the nodes.
However, there are other options, like a side chain of some sort, that could be employed in the future.