Glossary

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• 24H Change

• 24H Volume

• 51% Attack

A

• Absolute Advantage

• Active Management

• Actively Validated Services (AVS)

• Ad Hoc

• Address

• Address Delegation

• Aevo (AEVO)

• Airdrop

• Algorithm

• Algorithmic Stablecoin

• All or None Order (AON)

• All-Time High (ATH)

• All-Time Low (ATL)

• Allocation

• Alpha

• Altcoin

• Angel Investor

• Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

• Anti-Phishing Code

• Application Programming Interface (API)

• Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)

• Arbitrage

• ARC-20

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• ASIC Resistant

• Ask Me Anything (AMA)

• Ask Price

• Atomic Swap

• Attack Surface

• Auction

• Automated Market Maker (AMM)

• Automatic Replay Protection

B

• B-Tokens

• Backward Compatibility

• Bagholder

• Bags

• Bakkt

• Bank Run

• Batch Auction

• Beacon Chain

• Bear Flag Pattern

• Bear Market

• Bear Trap

• Bearish

• Benchmark

• BEP-1155

• BEP-20

• BEP-721

• BEP-95

• Beta (Coefficient)

• Beta (Release)

• Bid Price

• Bid-Ask Spread

• Binance Ecosystem Fund (BEF)

• Binancian

• Bitcoin

• Bitcoin ATM

• Bitcoin Core

• Bitcoin Dominance

• Bitcoin ETF

• Bitcoin Evangelist

• Bitcoin Halving

• Bitcoin Halving

• Bitcoin Maximalists

• Bitcoin Pizza

• Black Swan Event

• Block

• Block Confirmation

• Block Explorer

• Block header

• Block Height

• Block Producer

• Block Reward

• Blockchain

• Blockchain Charity Foundation

• Blockchain Interoperability

• Blockchain Oracle

• Blockchain Trilemma

• Bloom Filter

• Blue-Chip Token

• Bollinger Band

• Bond

• Bonding

• Bounty

• BRC-20

• BRC-20 Tokens

• Break-Even Point (BEP)

• Breakeven Multiple

• Breakout

• Bridge

• BscScan

• BTC Wallet Address

• BTFD

• Burn

• Burned Tokens

• Burner Wallet

• Buy the Fin Dip (BTFD)

• Buy Wall

• Byzantine Fault

• Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)

• Byzantine Generals Problem

C

• Calldata

• Candidate Block

• Candlesticks

• Capitulation

• CC0 NFT

• Censorship-resistance

• Central Bank

• Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

• Central Ledger

• Central Processing Unit (CPU)

• Centralized

• Centralized Exchange

• Cipher

• Ciphertext

• Circulating Supply

• Cloud

• Cloud Mining

• Coin

• Cold Storage

• Cold Wallet

• Collateral

• Collateralisation

• Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO)

• Collection Value

• Colocation

• Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

• Composability

• Confirmation Bias

• Confirmation Time

• Consensus

• Consensus Algorithm

• Consortium Blockchain

• Consumer Price Index (CPI)

• Contango and Backwardation

• Copy Trading

• Counterparty Risk

• Cross-Chain

• Cross-Chain Bridges

• Crypto Asset

• Crypto Bubble

• Crypto ETFs

• Crypto Fear and Greed Index

• Crypto Prepaid Card

• Crypto Protocol

• Crypto Winter

• Cryptocurrency

• Cryptocurrency Act of 2020

• Cryptocurrency Exchange

• Cryptocurrency Wallet

• Cryptographic Hash Function

• Cryptographic Key

• Cryptographic Proof

• Cryptography

• CryptoPunks

• Custodial Wallet

• Custody

• Cypherpunk

D

• Daemon

• Daily Active Addresses (DAA)

• Danksharding

• Dead Cat Bounce

• Death Cross

• Decentralisation

• Decentralized

• Decentralized Application (DApp)

• Decentralized Autonomous Cooperative (DAC)

• Decentralized Autonomous Organisation (DAO)

• Decentralized Exchange (DEX)

• Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

• Decentralized Indexes

• Decryption

• Deflation

• Degen

• Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS)

• Derivatives

• Derivatives Market

• Descending Triangle

• Descending Wedge

• DevP2P

• DEX Aggregator

• Diamond Hands

• Difficulty

• Difficulty Bomb

• Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)

• Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack

• Distributed Ledger

• Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)

• Dominance

• Double Bottom

• Double Spending

• Double Top

• Dump

• Dusting Attack

• DYOR (Do Your Own Research)

E

• Eclipse Attack

• EigenLayer

• EIP

• EIP-1559

• EIP-3074

• EIP-4844

• EIP-7251

• Emission

• Encryption

• Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)

• ERC

• ERC-1155

• ERC-20

• ERC-223

• ERC-404

• ERC-721

• ERC-777

• ERC-827

• ERC-884

• ERC-948

• Ethereum

• Ethereum Classic

• Ethereum Foundation

• Ethereum Name Service (ENS)

• Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)

• Exchange

• Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)

• Exit Liquidity

• Exit Strategy

• Exogenous Variable

• Explain Like I’m Five (ELI5)

• Externally Owned Account (EOA)

F

• Fakeout

• Falling Knife

• Falling Wedge Pattern

• Fan Tokens

• Faucet

• Fear & Greed Index

• Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO)

• Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD)

• Fiat

• Fiat-Collateralised Stablecoin

• Fiat-Pegged Cryptocurrency

• Fibonacci Retracement

• Fill Or Kill Order (FOK)

• Finality

• First-Mover Advantage (FMA)

• Flappening

• Flashbots

• Flippening

• Flow Variable

• Flux (FLUX)

• Forced Liquidation

• Forks

• Formal Verification

• Fraud Proof

• Fren

• Froth

• Full Node

• Full Pay-Per-Share (FPPS)

• Fully Diluted Valuation (FDV)

• Fundamental Analysis (FA)

• Funding Fees

• Fungibility

• Fungible

• Futures

• Futures Contract

G

• GameFi

• Gas

• Gas (ETH)

• Gas Limit

• Gas Price

• GDP Deflator

• General Public License

• Genesis Block

• GitHub

• GM (Good Morning)

• Goblin Town

• Golden Cross

• Golden Ratio

• Goldilocks

• Gossip Protocol

• Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

• Gwei

H

• Hackathon

• Hacker

• Haha Money Printer Go Brrrrr

• Hal Finney

• Halving Event

• Hard Cap

• Hard Fork

• Hard Landing

• Hash

• Hash Rate

• Hashed TimeLock Contract (HTLC)

• Hashing

• Hashpower

• Hedging

• Herd Instinct

• Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) Wallet

• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)

• HODL

• HODLer

• Honeypot

• Hooks

• Hot Wallet

• Hybrid PoW/PoS

• Hyperledger (Hyperledger Foundation)

I

• Iceberg Order

• Immutable

• Impermanent Loss (IL)

• Impossible Trinity

• Index

• Index Funds

• Initial Coin Offering (ICO)

• Initial DEX Offering (IDO)

• Initial Exchange Offering (IEO)

• Initial Public Offering (IPO)

• Inscription

• Integrated Circuit (IC)

• Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC)

• Interest Rates

• Internet of Things (IoT)

• Interoperability

• InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)

• IOU

• Isolated Margin

• Issuance

J

• JOMO

K

• Keccak

• Kimchi Premium

• Know Your Customer (KYC)

L

• Laspeyres Index

• Layer 1

• Layer 2

• Layer-0

• Ledger

• Left-Translated Cycle

• Leverage

• Leveraged Tokens

• LFG

• Library

• Lightning Network

• Limit Order / Limit Buy / Limit Sell

• Linux

• Liquid Proof of Stake (LPoS)

• Liquid Staking

• Liquid Staking Token (LST)

• Liquidity

• Liquidity Crisis

• Liquidity Provider

• Liquidity Ratios

• Listing

M

• Mainnet

• Mainnet Swap

• Maker

• Malware

• Margin Call

• Margin Trading

• Market capitalization (Market Cap)

• Market Maker

• Market Momentum

• Market Order / Market Buy / Market Sell

• Market Taker

• Masternode

• Matching Engine

• Maximum Supply

• Mempool

• Merged Mining

• Merkle Tree

• Metadata

• Metaverse

• MicroBitcoin (uBTC)

• Microtransaction

• Mineable

• Miners

• Mining

• Mining Contract

• Mining Farm

• Mining Pool

• Mining Reward

• Minting

• Mnemonic Phrase

• Mnemonics

• Monetary Policy

• Money Markets

• Money Printer Go Brrr

• Monitoring Tag

• Moon

• Moving Average Envelopes

• Moving Average Ribbon

• Mt. Gox

• Multisignature

• Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC)

N

• Nakamoto Consensus

• NFT Floor Prices

• NFT Mystery Boxes

• NGMI

• Node

• Non-Custodial Wallet

• Non-Fungible Token (NFT)

• Nonce

O

• OCO Order

• Off-Chain

• Offline Signing Orchestrator (OSO)

• Offline Staking

• Offshore Account

• On-Chain

• opBNB

• Open Price

• Open Source

• Open-Source Blockchain

• Open-Source Software (OSS)

• Open/Close

• opML (Optimistic Machine Learning)

• Opportunity Cost

• Optimistic Rollup

• Oracle

• ORC-20 Token

• Order Book

• Ordinals

• Orphan Block

• Overbought

• Oversold

P

• PancakeSwap

• Paper Hands

• Paper Wallet

• Parachain

• Passkey

• Pectra

• Peer-to-Peer (P2P)

• Pegged Currency

• Permissioned Blockchain

• Permissionless Blockchain

• PFP

• Phishing

• Plaintext

• Plasma

• Play-to-Earn (P2E)

• Politically Exposed Person (PEP)

• Ponzi Scheme

• Portfolio

• Pre-sale

• Premining

• Price Action

• Price Discovery

• Private Chain

• Private Keys

• Private Sale

• Progressive Web Application (PWA)

• Proof of Activity (PoA)

• Proof of Attendance Protocol (POAP)

• Proof of Authority (PoA)

• Proof of Burn (PoB)

• Proof of Developer (PoD)

• Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET)

• Proof of History (PoH)

• Proof of Importance (PoI)

• Proof of Reputable Observations (PRO)

• Proof of Reserves (PoR)

• Proof of Stake (PoS)

• Proof of Staked Authority (PoSA)

• Proof of Work (PoW)

• Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS)

• Protocol

• Public Blockchain

• Public Chain

• Public Key

• Pump-and-dump

Q

• QR Code

• Quantitative Easing (QE)

• Quantitative Tightening (QT)

• Quantum Computing

R

• Race Attack

• Rank

• Ransomware

• Real World Assets (RWAs)

• Recency Bias

• Recession

• Recursive Inscription

• Rekt

• Relative Strength Index (RSI)

• Remittances

• Replay Attack

• Resistance Level

• Return on Investment (ROI)

• Revenge Trading

• Roadmap

• Routing Attack

• Rug Pull

S

• Sahm Rule

• Salt (Cryptography)

• Satoshi

• Satoshi Nakamoto

• Scalability

• Scalability Trilemma

• Security Audit

• Security Token

• Security Token Offering (STO)

• Seed Phrase

• Seed Tag

• Segregated Witness (SegWit)

• Selfish Mining

• Sell Wall

• Sharding

• Sharpe Ratio

• Shilling

• Short Selling

• Side Chain

• Sim Swapping

• Simple Moving Average (SMA)

• Slashing

• Slippage

• Smart Contract

• Smart Contract Wallet

• Snapshot

• Social Recovery Wallet

• Social Trading

• SocialFi

• Soft Cap

• Soft Fork

• Soft Landing

• Software Development Kit (SDK)

• Software Wallet

• Solana Program Library

• Solidity

• Sound Wallet

• Source Code

• SPL

• SRC-20 Tokens

• Stablecoin

• Stagflation

• Staking

• Staking Pool

• State Channel

• stETH

• Stock Variable

• Store of Value

• Super Staker

• Supercomputer

• Supply Chain

• Support

• Support Level

• Sybil Attack

• Symmetrical Triangle

T

• Taker

• Taker Fee

• Tank

• Technical Analysis

• Testnet

• The DAO Hack

• The Graph (GRT)

• Ticker

• Ticker Symbol

• Time to Finality (TTF)

• Timestamp

• Token

• Token Burn

• Token Generation Event (TGE)

• Token Lockup

• Token Merge

• Token Sale

• Token Standards

• Tokenization

• Tokenomics

• Total Supply

• Total Value Locked (TVL)

• TradFi

• Trading Fees

• Trading Volume

• Transaction Fee

• Transaction ID (TXID)

• Transaction Volume

• Transactions Per Second (TPS)

• Treasury Bills (T-Bills)

• TrueUSD (TUSD)

• Trustless

• Turing Complete

U

• Understanding CZ’s Number 4

• Unit of Account

• Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO)

• URI Schemes

• User Interface (UI)

• UTC Time

• Utility Token

V

• Validation

• Validator

• Value (ETH)

• Vapourware

• Variable Buy/Sell Tax

• Vault

• Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs)

• Verification Code

• Verkle Tree

• Vest / Vesting Period

• Virtual AMM (vAMM)

• Virtual Machine

• Vladimir Club

• Volatility

• Volume

W

• WAGMI

• Wallet

• Wallet Address

• Wash Trade

• Wash Trading

• Weak Hands

• Weak Subjectivity

• Web 1.0

• Web2

• Web3

• Web3 Wallet

• Wei

• Weighted Moving Average (WMA)

• Whale

• When Lambo

• When Moon

• Whiskers

• White Paper / Whitepaper

• Whitelist

• Wick

• Win Rate

• Witness

• Wrapped Ether (WETH)

• Wyckoff

Y

• Yield

• Yield Farming

• YTD

Z

• Zero Confirmation Transaction

• Zero-Knowledge Proof

• Zk-rollup

• Zk-rollup

• ZK-SNARK

• ZK-STARK

• zkML (Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning)

• zkOracle