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Zenon vs. Reality Network

Both projects are early. Both carry execution risk. Credible roadmap items with real specs or real math behind them earn credit for either project. Vapid claims without specification do not. But one axis is not about the future: launch conditions are permanent. If you sell tokens, decentralization is the product.

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Advantage
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Liability
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Trade-off
Zenon Scorecard
33/35
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33
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1
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1
Reality Scorecard
7/35
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7
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3
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25

This is the one axis where implementation status matters — because launch conditions are permanent. You cannot retrofit a fair launch. Zenon shipped one. Reality Network did not. The founder's previous project (Constellation) raised $8.2M in VC funding, and Reality's token distribution is entirely opaque. Everything else in this comparison is about architecture and execution risk. This pillar is about choices already made.

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Zenon Network
Sovereign by Design
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Fair launch: no pre-mine, no ICO, no VC allocation. This is already done and cannot be undone
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Dual-token model (ZNN + QSR) with community-driven emission. Live on alphanet
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Pillar consensus requires 15,000 ZNN lockup, distributed across 100+ independent operators today
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No admin keys, no upgrade proxies, no governance override. Structural, not promissory
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Irreversible: these launch conditions cannot be re-centralized after the fact
5+ 0~ 0-
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Reality Network
Corporate Single-Founder Project
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Founded by one person (Wyatt Meldman-Floch, ex-CTO Constellation) through Rule 110 Inc. Single point of control
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Constellation raised $8.2M from VCs. Reality's funding and $NET allocation are entirely undisclosed
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No fair launch. No public sale structure. No transparent token distribution. These are launch-day decisions
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$NET has no listing, no market, no audit. Token economics are whitepaper concepts, not observable mechanics
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A single founder controlling protocol, codebase, and corporate entity is centralization — regardless of future plans
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Evaluation Framework

Both projects are early-stage with execution risk ahead. This comparison gives credit for credible, architecturally grounded roadmap items — things with formal specs, working simulation code, or mathematical proofs behind them. Reality Network earns credit for 2MEME's entropy-rate Sybil model (published simulations), Cell Monad compile-time consensus checks (working Scala), CoCell compositional modularity (category theory with code), Generative Economics (theoretical framework), and Blockchain Cohomology (published math). These are real contributions. What they are not is decentralized infrastructure. The core asymmetry: Zenon's foundation (fair launch, no admin keys, feeless, dual-ledger) is live and irreversible. Reality's foundation (single founder, corporate entity, opaque tokenomics, fee market by design) contains structural contradictions that no amount of good math resolves. Execution risk is symmetrical. Architectural contradictions are not. And launch conditions are permanent.

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