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Pros
  • + Developing quickly with lots of capital and community presence
  • + Positioned well in the Entertainment Space as the market leader
  • + Development focus is for large commercial adoption
  • + Can support effective private networks
  • + Built for enterprise implementations
  • + Applies the hyperledger fabric to its business focused application
  • + Large development community
  • + Quick to develop applications on
  • + Wide array of use cases
Cons
  • - Still a while before large scale viability
  • - Controversey with copying Ethereum's platform
  • - Not targeted for Private Enterprise use
  • - Only centralized aspect is the Certificate Authority (CA) who issues certificates to eligible parties
  • - Support dependent on IBM’s help centre
  • - Still relatively young in development
  • - Public blockchain creates security concerns
  • - Uses cryptocurrency as fuel for transactions
  • - Forks can cause complications
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Overview
The Tron Protocol aims to host entertainment applications and digital content on a decentralized platform fuelled by the TRX token economy. Developed originally on the Ethereum protocol, Tron has invested significant development effort to create their own, scalable protocol and launch their main net in June 2018.
Modular Blockchain Environment using Hyperledger Fabric, delivered via IBM Cloud
Generic, open-source,  blockchain based distributed computing platform for applications to be built upon.
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  Crypto Assets  
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Cryptocurrency
None
Ether (ETH)
  Logic  
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Smart Contract Functionality
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% Providers with experience
93% (Hyperledger)
0.93
  Community  
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Size of Developer Team
Large in house team
Large
Large
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Support Team / Community
Modearte. Some developer resources on Wiki and GitHub. Active telegram group.
Large. IBM has a direct support line.
Large
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Partnerships / Alliances / Size
Moderate
Large. Latest: Veridium Labs, Stellar - Generating and Tracking Carbon Credits on the Blockchain
EEA - 150+ companies
  Updates  
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Frequency of Updates
Moderate
Frequent
High
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Future Planned Work
Great Voyage 2020-2021: focus on ICO capabilities, dividend payments, managing supporters and measuring income.
Scale into multiple industries
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Maturity
TRON ICO: August 2017
TRON testnet: March 2018
TRON mainnet: June 2018
IBM unveiled its “Blockchain as a Service” offering in March 2017.
Live first in July 2015 (first public blockchain)

First stable release March 2016
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Governance
TRON Foundation. TRON Super Representatives upon main net launch
IBM Proprietary BaaS Platform

Linux Foundation
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Enterprise Focus
Not enterprise focused, but has the capabilities to support adoption
Strong Focus. Major contributor to the Hyperledger Fabric project.
Moderate Focus. Through forks, Quorum and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
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Production Ready
No
Yes
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Website
Link
Link
Link
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Security model
Public Blockchain with security features built in.

Lamport digital signature algorithm. Claims to be resistant to quantum computer attacks.

Customized P2P network with data storage encryption, location transparency, source nontraceability

Merkle Patricia Trie data structure
Similar security models to Hyperledger Fabric, but also incorporates the IBM Cloud Services as an added security layer when using the platform.
No data encryption or channel partition and is public.

Merkle Patricia Trie Data structure
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Permissions
Permissionless
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Privacy
Based on zero knowledge proof. Hides the send, receipt address and transfer amount.
Private channels
Limited (zk-SNARKs, Ring signatures)
  Algorithms  
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Consensus
Fast Paxos PoS variant.

The consensus of TRON adopts a three-step strategy.
Plugable consensus (PBFT)
PoW & PoS
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Transaction Time
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Moderate
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Block Confirmation Time
Varies
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Proprietary Codebase
Open source but goverened by the TRON organization
Hyperledger Fabric is open source. IBM Blockchain is a proprietary layer that sits on top of Hyperledger as a simple to use platform accessing the blockchain
Open Source
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Blockchain / DLT type
Public
Federated / Consortium, Permissioned Network
Public with Private Forks
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Modularity
Similar to Ethereum:
Generic, with DApp and Smart Contract support for wider applications
Plug + Play Architecture

Easy to operate software platform to build out use case, test, and implement
Generic, with DApp and Smart Contract support for wider applications
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Scalability
Currently supports 15 TPS as it is on the Ethereum platform. Will be able to support up to 1000 TPS once main net launches
Supports 1000 TPS. Designed for high throughput business applications. Scales relative to Hyperledger Fabric new developments.
limited by PoW

currently supports a maximum of 15 TPS
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Storage Capacity
Varies
500 transactions per block
Varies
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  Utilities  
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Energy Consumption
Low - Moderate
Low
Low
  Change Management  
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Ease of Integration in Legacy Systems
Hard
Easy
Hard
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Difficulty to Use
Moderate
Low
Moderate
  Maintenance  
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Required ongoing Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
  Pricing  
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Cost to Use
Low
Free starter version, then $1000/month + $1000/month for each peer deployed
Low
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  Licensing  
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Licensing
GPL
Apache 2.0
Varous licenses for different parts of code
  industry focus  
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Industry
Entertainment Industry. Focused on consumer dApps.
Cross-industry
Cross-industry
  Developers  
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Development Environment (Languages/SDKs)
Java, Scala, C++, Python, Go
Execution Runtimes (four are currently supported)
JavaScript SDK
Command Line Interface
REST Server
LoopBack Connector
Playground Web User Interface
Yeoman code generator
VSCode and Atom editor plugins
Golang, C++, Rust, Python, Solidity
  Third Party Support  
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API Support
Yes
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  Engagements  
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% share of engagements
12% (Hyperledger)
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  Uses  
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Number of Use Cases / Implementations
Moderate
Large
Large
  Industry Focus  
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Retail
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Finance
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Logistics
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Health Care
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Government
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Agriculture
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Entertainment
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Automotive

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  • The Linux Foundation
  • IBM
  • Ethereum Foundation
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