And the civilized NXT community is what sets it apart...
But what about the technology NXT uses? This is after all what was asked by the OP, not some pissing contest of trading/transaction volumes or market caps of assets
And Sukrim,
You also didn't explain how it works, only that it gets used, apparently successfully.
If you really want to know how NXT AE works, please go to technical section of
nxtforum.org and read-ask whatever you want.
Any good overviews of the technology/whitepapers available? Looking through 22(!) subforums where specific questions are asked and piecing together a crude idea of how everything works is not really how I want to spend this evening... Maybe there are some technical wikis somewhere?