How does WAVES differ from NXT?

[Lorenzo]

As I understand it, the WAVES devs were originally part of the NXT community but decided to make their own coin?

I've read the [ANN] thread and much of the stuff (e.g. creation/trading of tokens via an asset exchange, encrypted messaging, voting system, automated transactions, tokens like coinoUSD, multigateway) seem quite similar to NXT's current/planned features.

Not criticizing. Just curious.

[lurker10]

The best way to find out is to install both clients and compare. Three clients really because Ardor (testnet client only available until Q3 mainnet launch) conceptually is different enough from NXT to be considered a separate thing.