Crypto glossary
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A127
- Abenomics
- Abnormal Return
- Absolute Advantage
- Absolute Return
- Abstract
- Abstraction Scalability
- Accepting Risk (Acceptance)
- Account
- Accountability
- Account Abstraction
- Account Balance
- Accounting Conservatism
- Accounting Method
- Accounting Token
- Account Number
- Accredited Investors
- Accretion (of a Discount)
- Accrual Accounting
- Accrue
- Accrued Income
- Accrued Interest
- Accrued Liabilities
- Accrued Revenue
- Accumulation/Distribution Indicator
- Accumulation Phase
- Acid Test Ratio
- Acquisition
- Acquisition Cost
- Acquisition Premium
- Active Management
- Activist Investor
- Adam Back
- Adaptive State Sharding
- Address
- Administrative Expenses
- Adoption Curve
- Advance/Decline Line (A/D Line)
- Aeternity Blockchain
- Affiliate
- Affiliate Marketing
- Agency Problem
- Agency Theory
- Agent
- Aggregate Demand
- Aggressive Investment Strategy
- Airdrop
- Air Gap
- Airnode
- Alan Greenspan
- Algo-Trading (Algorithmic Trading)
- Algorithm
- Algorithmic Market Operations (AMOs)
- Algorithmic Stablecoin
- All-Time-High (ATH)
- All-Time-Low (ATL)
- Allocated Gold
- Allocation
- Allocation Efficiency
- Allotment
- All Risks Coverage
- Alpha
- Alphanumeric
- Alpha Version
- Altcoin
- Altcoin Trader
- Alternative Investments
- Amalgamation
- Amazon S3
- Amended Return
- AMLD5
- Anarcho-capitalism
- Anchoring and Adjustment
- aNFT (Autonomous NFT)
- Angel Investor
- Animal Spirits
- Annualized Rate of Return
- Annual Percentage Rate (APR)
- Annual Percentage Yield (APY)
- Annual Report
- Anonymous
- Anti-dump/Anti-Dumping Policy
- Anti-Fragile
- Anti-Malware
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
- Antitrust Law
- Antivirus
- Antpool
- API
- Application Layer
- Arbitrage
- Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT)
- Arbitrageur
- Arm Virtual Machine (Qtum)
- Aroon Indicator
- AR Token (Arweave)
- Ascending Channel
- Ashdraked
- ASIC
- ASIC-Resistant
- Ask Price
- Asset
- Asset-Backed Tokens
- Asset-Based Approach
- Asset-Based Lending
- Asset Class
- Asset Financing
- Assets Under Management (AUM)
- Asset Swap
- Astroturfing
- Asynchronous
- AtomicDEX
- Atomic Swap
- Attestation Ledger
- Auction
- Audit
- Auditor
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Authentication
- Authority Masternode (VeChain)
- Automated Market Maker (AMM)
- Autonomous Economic Agent (AEA)
- Average Annual Growth Rate (AAGR)
- Average Annual Return (AAR)
- Average Daily Trading Volume (ADTV)
- Average Directional Index (ADX)
- Average Return
- Average Selling Price (ASP)
B123
- Back-to-Back Letters of Credit
- Backflush Costing (Backflush Accounting)
- Backlog
- Backorder
- Backstop
- Backtesting
- Backward Compatibility
- Bag
- Bagholder
- Bail-In
- Bail-Out
- Bait and Switch Scam
- Bakers
- Baking
- Balanced Fund
- Balanced Investment Strategy
- Balloon Loan
- Balloon Payment
- Bandwagon Effect
- Bandwidth
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
- Banking as a Service (BaaS)
- Banking Secrecy Act (BSA)
- Bank Run
- Bankruptcy
- Bar Chart
- Basis Point
- Basket
- Basket of Goods
- Batch Auctions
- Bayes’ Theorem
- Beacon Chain
- Bear
- Bear Call Spread
- Bear Hug
- Bear Market
- Bear Trap
- Bearwhale
- Behavioral Finance
- Benchmark
- Benchmark Index
- Benefit-Cost Ratio
- BEP-2 (Binance Chain Tokenization Standard)
- BEP-20
- BEP-95 (Bruno Hard Fork Upgrade)
- BEP-721
- Beta (Release)
- Bid-Ask Spread
- Bid Price
- Big Tech
- Binance Chain Explorer
- Binance Labs
- Binance Launchpad
- Binary Code
- Bit
- Bitcoin
- Bitcoin ATM (BTM)
- Bitcoin DApps
- Bitcoin Dominance (BTCD)
- Bitcoiner
- Bitcoin ETF
- Bitcoin Halving
- Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)
- Bitcoin Misery Index (BMI)
- Bitcoin NFTs
- Bitcoin Pizza
- Bitcointalk
- Bitcoin Virtual Machine (BitVM)
- BitLicense
- BitPay
- Bits
- Bitstream
- Black Hat Hacker
- Black Swan Event
- Blake-256
- Block
- Blockchain
- Blockchain-As-a-Service (BaaS)
- Blockchain-Enabled Smart Locks
- Blockchain 1.0
- Blockchain 2.0
- Blockchain 3.0
- Blockchain Explorer
- Blockchain Mutual Credit
- Blockchain Transmission Protocol (BTP)
- Blockchain Tribalism
- Blockchain Trilemma
- Block Explorer
- Block Header
- Block Height
- Block Lattice (Nano)
- Block Producer
- Block Reward
- Block Size
- Block Time
- Block Trade
- Blockweave
- Bluesky Crypto Protocol
- Bollinger Band
- Bonding Curve
- Bots
- Bottleneck
- Bounty
- Brave Browser
- BRC-20
- Breaking
- Brian Armstrong
- Bridges
- Browser Extension
- Bubble
- Bug Bounty
- Bug Exploit
- Bull
- Bull Market
- Bull Run
- Bull Trap
- Burn/Burned
- Buy The (F*****) Dip (BTD/BTFD)
- Buy Wall
- Byron Phase
- Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)
- Byzantine Generals’ Problem
- Byzantium Fork
C81
- C++
- Call Options
- Candlesticks
- Capital
- Capital Efficiencies
- Capital Funds
- Capitulation
- Casascius Coin
- Cascading Liquidations
- Cash
- CashToken
- Casper (Ethereum)
- Cathie Wood
- CeDeFi
- Censorship
- Censorship Resistance
- Central Bank
- Central Bank Digital Currency
- Centralized
- Centralized Exchange (CEX)
- Central Ledger
- Central Processing Unit
- Centre (Consortium)
- Certificate of Deposit (CD)
- Chain Reorganization
- Chain Split
- Change
- Change Address
- Changpeng Zhao (CZ)
- Chargeback
- Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)
- Chunk (NEAR)
- Cipher
- Ciphertext
- Circle
- Circulating Supply
- Client
- Close
- Cloud
- Cloud Mining
- Co-Signer
- Code
- Code Repository
- Coin
- Coinbase
- Coinbase Transaction
- Coin Mixer
- Cold Storage
- Cold Wallet
- Collaborative Venture Building
- Collateral
- Collateral Cap
- Collateral Factor
- Collateralization
- Collateralized Debt Obligation
- Collateralized Debt Position
- Collateralized Mortgage Obligation
- Collateralized Stablecoin
- Collateral Margin
- Collateral Tokens
- Commingling
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Composability (DeFi)
- Composable DeFi
- Composable Token
- COMP Token
- Concentrated Liquidity
- Confirmation
- Confirmations
- Consensus
- Consensus Layer
- Consensus Mechanism
- ConsenSys
- Consolidation
- Consortium Blockchain
- Consumer Price Index
- Contract
- Contract Account
- Contract for Difference
- Core Wallet
- Corporate Treasury
D84
- Daedalus Wallet
- DAO Summoning
- Darknodes
- Dark Web
- Data Privacy
- Data Scraping
- Data Validation
- Date of Launch
- Day Trading
- Dead Cat Bounce
- Dead Coin
- Death Cross
- Decentralization Maximalism
- Decentralization Ratio
- Decentralized
- Decentralized API (dAPI)
- Decentralized Applications (DApps)
- Decentralized Autonomous Initial Coin Offerings (DAICO)
- Decentralized Currency
- Decentralized Database
- Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
- Decentralized Governance
- Decentralized Identifier (DID)
- Decentralized Marketplace
- Decentralized Network
- Decentralized Order Book
- Decentralized Payment Network
- Decentralized Social Media
- Decentralized Stablecoin
- Decryption
- Deep Web
- DeFi
- DeFi Aggregator
- DeFi Degens
- Deflation
- Delayed Proof of Work (dPoW)
- Delegated Proof-of-Stake (dPOS)
- Delisting
- Demurrage
- Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attack
- Depth Chart
- Derivative
- Derivatives Market
- Desktop Wallet
- Deterministic Wallet
- Dex Aggregator
- Dharma Protocol
- Diamond Hands
- Difficulty
- Digital
- Digital Art
- Digital Asset
- Digital Asset Custodian
- Digital Asset Ecosystem
- Digital Barter Economy
- Digital Commodity
- Digital Currency
- Digital Dollar
- Digital Identity
- Digital Signature
- Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA)
- Dip
- Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)
- Discord
- Distributed Consensus
- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack
- Distributed Ledger
- Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
- Distributed Network
- Distribution Phase
- Diversification
- Diversified Proof of Stake
- Documentation
- Dolphin
- Dominance
- Dorian Nakamoto
- Double Spend Attack
- Double Spending
- Drawdown
- Drivechain
- Dual-Token Economy/Model (Two-Token Economy)
- Dual Governance
- Dump
- Dumping
E40
- E-Signature
- Economic Utility
- Edge Nodes
- Effective Proof-of-Stake
- EIP-1559
- Electrum Wallet
- ELI5
- Elliott Waves
- EMA (Exponential Moving Average)
- Email Spoofing
- Emission
- Encryption
- Enterprise Blockchain
- Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
- Epoch
- Equity
- Erasure Coding
- ERC-20
- ERC-223
- ERC-721
- ERC-777
- ERC-827
- ERC-884
- ERC-948
- ERC-1155
- ERC 7512
- Escrow
- Esports
- ETH/BTC
- Ethash
- Ether
- Ethereum Difficulty
- Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)
- Ethereum Request For Comment (ERC)
- Ethereum Transaction
- Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)
- Event Triggers
- Exchange
- Exchange Traded Fund (ETF)
- Exit Scam
F43
- Fakeout
- Falling Knife
- Falling Wedge
- Fan Token
- FATF Travel Rule
- Faucet
- Fee Tiers
- Fiat
- Fiat-Pegged Cryptocurrency
- Fiat On-Ramp
- Fibonacci Retracement Level
- Field Programmable Gate Array
- Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
- Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
- Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC)
- First-Mover Advantage (FMA)
- First In, First Out
- Fish
- Flashbots
- Flash Crash
- Flash Loan
- Flash Loan Attack
- Flash Loans
- Flatcoin
- Flippening
- Flipping
- FOMO
- Fork (Blockchain)
- Fork (Software)
- Fork Choice Rule
- Fractional Stablecoins
- Fraud Proof
- Front Running
- FUDster
- FUD [2021]
- Full Node
- Fully Diluted Value (FDV)
- Fully Homomorphic Encryption
- Fundamental Analysis (FA)
- Funding Payments
- Fungible
- Futo
- Futures
G26
- Gains
- GameFi
- Game Theory
- Gas
- Gas Limit
- Gas Price
- Gas Station Networks (GSN)
- Gavin Wood
- Gems
- Genesis Block
- Geotagged NFT
- Geth
- GitHub
- Goguen Phase
- Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency
- Golden Cross
- Google Authenticator
- Governance
- Governance Token
- GPG Encryption
- Graphical Processing Unit (GPU)
- Gray Swan Event
- Greater Fool Theory
- Green Candle
- Group Mining
- Gwei
H32
- Hacking
- Hal Finney
- Hard Cap
- Hard Fork (Blockchain)
- Hard Fork Combinator
- Hard Peg
- Hardware Security Module
- Hardware Wallet
- Hash
- Hashed Timelock Contract (HTLC)
- Hash Function
- Hashgraph Consensus Mechanism
- Hash Power
- Haskell Programming Language
- Hedge Contract
- Hedge Fund
- Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet (HD Wallet)
- Higher High
- Higher Low
- HODL
- Honeyminer
- Honeypot
- Hosted Wallet
- Hot Storage
- Hot Wallet
- Howey Test
- Human-Readable Names
- Huobi BTC (HBTC)
- Hybrid PoW/PoS
- Hydra (Cardano)
- Hyperinflation
- Hyperledger (Hyperledger Foundation)
I35
- Immutable
- Impermanent Loss
- Inflation
- Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
- Initial Dex Offering (IDO)
- Initial Exchange Offering
- Initial Farm Offering (IFO)
- Initial Game Offering (IGO)
- Initial NFT Offering (INO)
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Input-Output Hong Kong (IOHK)
- Insider Trading
- Instamine
- Instant Settlement Network Layer
- Institutional Investor
- Insurance Fund
- Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- Intellectual Property (IP)
- Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC)
- Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Moderate
- Interest Rates
- Intermediary/Middleman
- Internal Transaction
- Internet Layer
- Internet Memes
- Internet of Things
- Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- Interoperability
- InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)
- Intrinsic Value
- Invest
- Investment Vehicles (Crypto-tied)
- IOU
- IP Address
- Isolated Margin
J4
L39
- Lachesis
- Lambo
- Large Cap
- Laser Eyes
- Law of Accelerating Returns
- Layer-1 Blockchain
- Layer 0
- Layer 2
- Leased Proof of Stake (LPoS)
- Ledger
- Leverage
- Leveraged Tokens
- libp2p
- Lightning Network
- Light Node
- Limit Order
- Limit Order/Limit Buy/Limit Sell
- LINK (Chainlink)
- Liquidation
- Liquidity
- Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool (LBP)
- Liquidity Mining
- Liquidity Pool
- Liquidity Provider
- Liquidity Provider Tokens (LP Tokens)
- Liquid Market
- Liquid Proof of Stake (LPoS)
- Liquid Staking
- Liquid Staking (Fantom)
- Liquid Staking Derivatives
- Liveness
- LMD GHOST
- Loan-to-value (LTV)
- Location Swap
- Long
- Longing (Long Position)
- Lovelace
- Lower High
- Lower Low
N19
O36
- Odysee
- Off-Chain
- Off-Chain Governance
- Off-Chain Transaction
- Off-Ledger Currency
- Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
- Offline Storage
- Offshore Account
- OHM Fork
- On-Balance Volume (OBV)
- On-Chain
- On-Chain Governance
- On-Ledger Currency
- Onchain Fiat
- One Cancels the Other Order (OCO)
- Online Storage
- Ontorand Consensus Engine (Ontology)
- Open/Close
- Open Interest
- OpenSea
- Open Source
- Opera Mainnet (Fantom)
- Operating System (OS)
- Optimistic Rollup
- Option
- Options Market
- Oracles
- Order Book
- Orphan
- Orphaned Block
- Ouroboros Praos
- Over-Collateralization
- Over-the-Counter (OTC)
- Over-the-Counter (OTC) Trading
- Overbought
- Oversold
P74
- P2P Bridge
- P2P DEX
- P2P Trading
- Pair
- Paper Trading
- Paper Wallet
- Parachain
- Participation Node
- Passive Income
- Password Manager
- Paul Le Roux
- Payee
- Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
- Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending
- Peg
- Pegged Currency
- Permissioned Ledger
- Permissionless
- Perpetual Contracts
- Phishing
- Phone Phishing
- Physical Bitcoins
- Platform
- Play-to-Earn (Play2Earn)
- Play2Earn (Play-to-Earn)
- Player Payout
- Plutus (Cardano)
- Politeia (Decred)
- Ponzi Scheme
- Portfolio
- Portfolio Tracking
- Position Size
- Post-Mine
- Pre-IDO
- Pre-Mine
- Pre-Sale
- Prediction Market
- Price Impact
- Private Blockchain
- Private Key/Secret Key
- Procedural Programming
- Profit and Loss (P&L) Statement
- Programmability
- Programmable Privacy
- Proof-of-Authority (PoA)
- Proof-of-Burn
- Proof-of-Burn (PoB)
- Proof-of-Developer (PoD)
- Proof-of-Donation
- Proof-of-History (PoH)
- Proof-of-Immutability (PoIM)
- Proof-of-Replication
- Proof-of-Spacetime
- Proof-of-Stake (PoS)
- Proof-of-Time (PoT)
- Proof-of-Validation
- Proof-of-Work (PoW)
- Proof Market
- Proof of Attendance Protocol
- Proof of Reserves (PoR)
- Proof of Stake Authority (PoSA)
- Protocol
- Protocol Layer
- Pseudonymous
- Public-Key Cryptography
- Public-Key Infrastructure
- Public Address
- Public Blockchain
- Public Key
- Public Sale
- Pump and Dump (P&D) Scheme
- Pure Proof of Stake (PPoS)
- Put Option
- Pyramid Scheme
Q6
R37
- Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
- Rage-quit
- Raiden Network
- Rank
- Ransomware
- Real World Assets (RWAs)
- Rebalancing
- Rebase
- Recovery Seed
- Recursion
- Redundancy
- Regenerative Economy
- Regenerative Finance (ReFi)
- Regens
- Regional/Local/Community Currencies
- Regulated
- Regulatory Compliance
- Rehypothecation
- REKT
- Relay Chain
- Relay Nodes
- Renewable Energy
- Replay Attack
- Replicated Ledger
- Resistance (Line/Level)
- Retargeting
- Revenue Participation Tokens
- Ring CT (Confidential Transactions)
- Ring Signature
- Roadmap
- Roger Ver
- ROI
- Roth IRA
- Rough Consensus
- Rug Pull
- Rust
- Ryuk Ransomware
S110
- S&P 500 (Standard and Poor's 500)
- Satoshi (SATS)
- Satoshi Nakamoto
- Scaling Problem
- Scaling Solution
- Scam
- Scamcoin
- Scammer
- Scholarship/Scholar
- Script
- Scripting Programming Language
- Scrypt
- Second-Layer Solutions
- Secondary Market
- Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU)
- Secure Element
- Secure Multi-Party Computation (sMPC)
- Secure Proof of Stake (SPoS)
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Security Token
- Security Token Offering
- Seed Funding
- Seed Phrase
- Segregated Witness (SegWit)
- Selfish Mining
- Sell Wall
- Semantic Web
- Series B Funding
- Settlement
- Settlement Layer
- SHA-256
- Shamir’s Secret Sharing
- Shanghai Upgrade
- Shard
- Sharding
- Shelley Phase
- Shiba Inu Token (SHIB)
- Shielded Address
- Shitcoin
- SHO (Strong Holder Offering)
- Short
- Short Squeeze
- Sidechain
- Side Channel Attack
- Signal
- Silk Road
- SIM-Swap
- Simple Agreement for Future Token (SAFT)
- Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP)
- Simplified Payment Verification (SPV)
- Skynet
- Slashing
- Slippage
- Slot (Cardano)
- Smart Contract
- Smart Contract Audit
- Smart Home
- Smart Money
- Smart Token
- Smart Treasury (Balancer)
- Snapshot
- Social Engineering
- Soft Cap
- Soft Fork (Blockchain)
- Software Library
- Software Stack
- Software Wallet
- Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)
- Solidity
- Source Code
- SPAC
- Spear Phishing
- Speculative Investment
- Spoon (Blockchain)
- Spot
- Spot Market
- Spot Trading
- Spyware
- Stablecoin
- Stacking Sats
- Stagflation
- Staking
- Staking Pool
- Stale Block
- State Channel
- Stochastic Oscillator
- Stock-to-Flow Ratio
- Stop-Loss Order
- Storage (Decentralized)
- Storage Miners
- Storage Node
- Store of Value
- Stroop
- Subgraph Manifest
- Subnet
- Substrate
- Succinct Proofs of Random Access (SPoRA)
- Supercomputer
- Supply and Demand
- Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Attack
- Support Level
- Surge (Ethereum)
- Swarm
- Swing Failure Pattern (SFP)
- Swing Trading
- Sybil Attack
- Symbol
- Symmetric Key Cryptography
- Synthetic Asset
T70
- T-Address (Zcash)
- Taint
- Take Profit
- Tamper-Proof Ledger
- Tangle
- Taproot
- Tardigrade (Storj)
- Technical Analysis/Trend Analysis (TA)
- Technical Indicators
- Tendermint
- Terahashes Per Second
- Testnet
- The Barbell Strategy
- The Cantillon Effect
- The DAO
- The Merge (Ethereum 2.0)
- Think Long Term (TLT)
- This Is Gentlemen
- Throughput
- Ticker
- Ticker Symbol
- Time-Weighted Automated Market Maker (TWAMM)
- Time-weighted Average Price (TWAP)
- Timelock/Locktime
- Timestamp
- Tipset
- Token
- Token Economy
- Token Generation Event (TGE)
- Token Issuance
- Tokenized Carbon Credits
- Tokenized Securities
- Tokenized Stocks
- Token Lockup
- Token Migration
- Tokenomics
- Token Sale
- TokenSets (Set Protocol)
- Token Standard
- Token Swap
- Toll Bridge
- Tor
- Total Exchange Volume
- Total Supply
- Total Value Locked (TVL)
- Trade Volume
- Trading Bot
- Trading Tournament
- TradingView
- Trading Volume
- Transaction (TX)
- Transaction Fee
- Transaction ID (TXID)
- Transactions Per Second (TPS)
- Transaction Triggers
- TRC-10 (TRON)
- TRC-20 Token
- Treasury Bills (T-Bills)
- Treasury Bond (T-Bond)
- Trojan
- Truffle
- Trust
- Trustless
- Tumbler
- Turing-Complete
- Turing Completeness
- Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
- Type Checking
- TypeScript Programming Language
- Typosquatting
U17
- Unbanked
- Uncle Block (Ommer Block)
- Unconfirmed
- Underbought
- United States House Committee on Financial Services
- Unit of Account
- UNI Token
- Unpermissioned Ledger
- Unrealized Profit & Loss
- Unregulated
- Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO)
- Unstoppable Domains
- Use Case
- User Interface
- US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
- UTC Time
- Utility Token
V14
W27
- Wallet
- Wallstreetbets (WSB)
- WannaCry Ransomware
- Wasabi Wallet
- Wash Trade
- Watchdog Organization
- Watcher (OMG Foundation)
- Watchlist
- Web 1.0
- Web 2.0
- Web3 Foundation
- Web 3.0
- WebSocket
- Wei
- Whale
- What Is a Soft Peg?
- What Is the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)?
- When Lambo
- When Moon
- White Hat Computer Hacker
- White Label
- White Label Staking
- Whitelist
- Whitepaper
- White Swan Event
- Winding Down
- Winding Up
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