Overview of smart contract platforms

[ticterine]

Does anyone have a good primer on the different platforms offering token/smart contract creation? Everyone knows Ethereum is the most popular and widely used platform for these services, but what about others like NEO, Waves, QTUM, etc. They're all valued very highly, but what makes them special? There are quite a few of these offerings now and a brief overview would be a great help for investors evaluating their options.

[jerkoin]

Still dunno why folks call it smart contracts and not just contracts It's a case of ... IF THIS, THEN THAT scenario... IFTTT :d

[tsaroz]

There needs to be a comparative study of all sidechain supporting currencies which would make it easier for token creators as well as investor to decide their choice.

[Kuingsudaqila]

smart congtract from ETH still the best
because ETH price is good, and all investor still interest use ETH is compare another paltform
and dev serious , ussualy ico use ETH smart contrac succes in ico selling, and good price in market exchanger

[Boxxl]

There are some new ones:
Qtum
Neo
Tezos
Xtrabytes

[Tipstar]

Ethereum, Neo, Lisk, to name a few I've been through.
Tezos is something like platform within a platform.
District0x is a much complicated form of them.

[sotisoti]

There are some new ones:
Qtum
Neo
Tezos
Xtrabytes

Haven't heard of Xtrabytes. It's a bitcoin fork, right?

[gomei]

Does anyone have a good primer on the different platforms offering token/smart contract creation? Everyone knows Ethereum is the most popular and widely used platform for these services, but what about others like NEO, Waves, QTUM, etc. They're all valued very highly, but what makes them special? There are quite a few of these offerings now and a brief overview would be a great help for investors evaluating their options.

I think for most investors, you do not have much choice to evaluate the contrast platform since it is always decided by the ICO dev team. As far as I know, most investor do not care too much about the contract platform.

[BTCwriter]

Ark going to have smart contracts and instant blockchain creation into one, it is much better. I think Eth is just full of bugs and that clogging/blocking issue really scare me for long term, no fix for it because how Eth is designed. Within 1 year we will going to see many game changing cryptos but don't take my word for it.
Next summer will be bloodbath battles in this altcoins scene.

[Zloren]

- the developer would want the project to end successfully, then the token must be sold a lot or at least reach the minimum target.
- investors also want to buy tokens easily.
- we know that ethereum is popular and most likely owned by most investors.
these may be the reasons most use smartcontract ETH