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# 1.4 - How does Samurai differ from RING?

Besides operating on a more efficient, scalable, affordable and faster chain (Fantom), Samurai also employs the use of protocol owned liquidity to seek additional revenue-generating opportunities.

Although, the protocol's codebase remains to be largely based off of RING, Samurai has deviated from RING's underlying model in numerous ways, ranging from utilising a NaaS (Nodes as a Service model), NFT nodes, dynamic rewards pool, tokenomics and much more.