Decentralized Applications (DApps) using smart contracts offer the promise of fast, secure, and reliable blockchain-ready software. Unfortunately, current blockchain platforms retain design flaws that keep these promises at bay. Until these flaws get resolved, DApps adoption will be hindered by slow transaction speeds, unstable code, unfriendly UI and convoluted coin purchasing.

With that in mind, several forward-thinking developers are creating new platforms that solve these problems. Among the most innovative are EOS and XTRABYTES, two networks seeking to fully disrupt the current DApps paradigm. Both promise faster speeds, novel consensus algorithms and better smart contract functionality. While these two networks display some similarities, they reveal several significant differences as well.