With all the buzz words, it’s becoming really hard to differentiate projects in the blockchain space. And this is especially true for protocols.

For example, to find the differences between the decentralized exchanges of 0x, Kyber and OmegaOne you would need to dive in the whitepapers and even then there is still gray area.

And yet, it is important for everyone to understand in what we are contributing as trading is not gambling.

Sometimes, the best way to define a project is by defining its weaknesses.

Ethereum project lead, Vitalik Buterin, defining the current weaknesses of Ethereum

And sometimes, the best way to define it is by analyzing point by point what are the differences with the other ones.

Request Network has been compared with OmiseGo, however, we have many differences and we are more complementary than competitors.

Here are the differences as seen by our analysis at Request. We try to be objective but it has to be taken with hindsight as this is a study concentrated on our own use cases. Any feedback is also welcome.

The main take away from this analysis is: