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a
- Aave
- Account Model
- Accredited Investor
- Acquirer Node (Crypto.com)
- Adaptive State Sharding (Elrond Network)
- Aeternity Blockchain
- Airdrop
- Airnode (API3)
- Algorithmic Stablecoin
- Algorithmic Trading
- All-Time High (ATH)
- All-Time Low (ATL)
- Allocation
- Alpha Coefficient
- Alpha Version (Software Release)
- Altcoin
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Amortizing
- Andre Cronje
- Angel Investor
- Annual Percentage Rate (APR)
- Annual Percentage Yield (APY)
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
- Aping In
- Application Binary Interface (ABI)
- Application Blockchain Interface (ABCI)
- Application Layer
- Application Programming Interface (API)
- Approved Address
- Arbitrage
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- ASIC Miner (ASIC Mining)
- ASIC-Resistance
- Asset
- Assets Under Management (AUM)
- Asymmetric Encryption
- Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance (aBFT)
- Atomic Swap
- Auction
- Audit (Blockchain or Smart Contract)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Automated Market Maker (AMM)
- Ava Labs
- Average Directional Index (ADX)
- Axie Infinity
b
- BABE Consensus Mechanism (Polkadot)
- Back End (Computing Architecture)
- Back-End Software Development
- Backdoor
- Backtesting
- Backwards Compatibility
- Bag
- Balancer
- BandChain
- Bandwidth
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
- Base Currency
- Basic Attention Token (BAT)
- Basket of Currencies
- Beacon Chain
- Bear Flag (Technical Formation)
- Bear Market
- Bear Trap
- Benchmark Index
- BEP-2 Tokenization Standard
- BEP-20 Tokenization Standard
- Beta Coefficient
- Beta Version (Software Release)
- Bid-Ask Spread
- Big Tech
- Binance (Cryptocurrency Exchange)
- Binance Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
- Binance Labs
- Binance Launchpad
- Binance USD (BUSD)
- Binary Code
- bitcoin
- Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Cash
- Bitcoin Core
- Bitcoin Dominance (BTCD)
- Bitcoin Genesis Block
- Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)
- Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 32
- Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 38
- Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 39
- Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 44
- Bitcoin Network
- Bitcoin Next Generation (Bitcoin-NG)
- Bitcoiner
- Bitcointalk
- BitLicense
- Black Hat Hacker
- Black Swan Event
- Block
- Block Difficulty
- Block Explorer
- Block Header
- Block Height
- Block Producer
- Block Reward
- Block Size
- Block Space
- Block Time
- Block Trade
- Blockchain
- Blockchain Bridge
- Blockchain Transmission Protocol (BTP) (ICON Network)
- Blockchain Trilemma
- Bloomberg
- Bloomberg Tradebook
- BNB (Build and Build)
- BNB Beacon Chain
- BNB Smart Chain
- Bollinger Bands
- Bonding
- Bonding Curve
- Boneh–Lynn–Shacham (BLS) Signature
- Bootstrapping
- Borderless
- Bored Ape Kennel Club (BAKC)
- Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC)
- Botnet
- Bounty
- Brain Wallet
- Brave Browser
- Breakdown
- Breakout
- Brokerage Account
- Brute Force Attack
- Bubble
- Bug Bounty
- BUIDL (Build)
- Bull Flag (Technical Formation)
- Bull Market
- Bull Run
- Bull Trap
- Bullish
- Burn/Burning
- Buy Side/Sell Side
- Buy the Dip
- Buy Wall
- Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)
- Byzantine Fault Tolerance Delegated Proof of Stake (BFT-DPoS)
- Byzantine Generals' Problem
c
- Call Option
- Call Provision
- Candlestick
- Candlestick Body
- Candlestick Wick
- Capitulation
- Cardano (ADA)
- Casper (Ethereum)
- Casper Friendly Finality Gadget (CFFG)
- Cboe Options Exchange
- Celo
- Censorship Resistance
- Central Bank
- Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
- Central Limit Order Book (CLOB)
- Central Processing Unit (CPU)
- Central Processing Unit (CPU) Miner
- Centralization
- Centralized Decentralized Finance (CeDeFi)
- Centralized Exchange (CEX)
- Centralized Finance (CeFi)
- CENTRE
- Certificate Authority (CA)
- Certificate of Deposit (CD)
- Chain Migration
- Chain Reorganization
- Chainlink (LINK)
- Change Address
- Changpeng Zhao (CZ)
- Channel (Technical Formation)
- Charles Hoskinson
- Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)
- Ciphertext
- Circle
- Circular Economy
- Circulating Supply
- Clearing
- Cleos Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Client-Server Model
- Close
- Cloud Computing
- Cloud Mining
- Code Repository
- Coin Mixer
- Coin Swap (or Token Swap)
- Coinbase (Cryptocurrency Exchange)
- Coinbase Transaction (Generation Transaction)
- CoinJoin
- Cold Storage
- Cold Wallet
- Collateral
- Collateral Factor
- Collateral Token
- Collateralization
- Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO)
- Collateralized Debt Position (CDP)
- Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO)
- Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO)
- Colored Coins
- Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Commit Chain
- Commodities
- Commodity Exchange Act (CEA)
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
- Commodity-Backed Stablecoin
- Compiler
- Compliance
- Composability
- Compound
- Computational Backlog
- Compute-To-Data
- Confirmation Time
- Consensus Mechanism
- ConsenSys
- Consortium Blockchain
- Constant Product Formula
- Constant Reserve Rate (CRR)
- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
- Consumer to Business (C2B)
- Consumer to Consumer (C2C)
- Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Continuous Order Book
- Contract for Difference (CFD)
- Convergence
- Cookie (Data Packet)
- Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
- Copy Trading
- Corporate Bond
- Correction
- Cosmos (ATOM)
- Cosmos Hub
- Cosmos Software Development Kit (SDK)
- CosmWasm
- Cost Basis
- Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF)
- Counterparty (Blockchain Protocol)
- Counterparty Risk
- Coupon Payment
- Credit Rating
- Credit Risk
- Cronos (CRO)
- Cross Margin (Derivatives Trading)
- Cross-Chain Communication
- Crypto Mining Processor (CMP)
- Crypto Ransomware
- Crypto Token
- Crypto-Backed Loan
- Crypto-Backed Stablecoin
- Crypto-Collateralized Loan
- Crypto.com
- Cryptoart
- Cryptocurrency
- Cryptocurrency Address
- Cryptocurrency Exchange
- Cryptocurrency Faucet
- Cryptocurrency Pair (Trading Pair)
- Cryptocurrency Wallet
- Cryptographic Proof
- Cryptographically Verifiable
- Cryptography
- Cryptography Mailing List
- Cryptojacking
- CryptoKitties
- Cryptomining
- CryptoPunks
- Currency Crisis
- Curve (CRV)
- Custodial Wallet
- Custodian
- Custody
- Customer Due Diligence (CDD)
- Customer Identification Program (CIP)
- Cyber Attack
- Cybersecurity
- Cypherpunk
d
- Daemon
- DAI
- Dark Web
- Data Access Layer (DAL)
- Data Packet
- Data Science (DS)
- Data Scraping
- Day Trader
- Dead Cat Bounce
- Dead Coin
- Death Cross
- Debt Instrument
- Debugger
- Decentralization
- Decentralized Application (dApp)
- Decentralized Application Programming Interface (dAPI)
- Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
- Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
- Decentralized Exchange (DEX) Aggregator
- Decentralized Exchange (DEX) Protocol
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Decentralized Governance
- Decentralized Identifier (DID)
- Decentralized Network
- Decentralized Oracle Network (DON)
- Decentralized Storage Network (DSN)
- Decryption
- Deep Web
- Deflation
- Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance (dBFT)
- Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS)
- Delegation
- Delegator
- Delisting
- Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attack
- Deposit (Cryptocurrency Transaction)
- Deposit Contract
- Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
- Depth-Limited Search (DLS) Algorithm
- Derivative
- Deshielding Transaction
- Design Axiom (DA)
- Desktop Wallet
- Deterministic Module
- Devnet (Development Network)
- Digital Art
- Digital Asset
- Digital Currency
- Digital Dollar
- Digital Identity
- Digital Signature
- Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA)
- Dilution
- Direct Market Access (DMA)
- Direct Public Offering (DPO)
- Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)
- Directional Trading
- Discord
- Discounted Cash Flow Model
- Disk Operating System (DOS)
- Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack
- Distributed Hash Table (DHT)
- Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
- Distributed Randomness Generation (DRG)
- Divergence
- Diversification
- Dividend
- Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP)
- DNV (Accredited Registrar Enterprise)
- Do Your Own Research (DYOR)
- Docking
- Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA)
- Domain Name Service (DNS)
- Double-Spending Problem
- Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)
- Drawdown
- Due Diligence
- Dust
- Dust Limit
- Dusting Attack
- Dutch East India Company
- Dynamically Typed Programming Language
e
- E-business
- E-Signature
- Earnings Per Share (EPS)
- Ecommerce
- EIP-1559
- Electronic Retailing (E-tailing)
- Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)
- Elrond eGold (EGLD)
- Encryption
- Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
- Enterprise Adoption
- Enterprise Blockchain
- Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
- Epoch
- Equity Stake (Equity)
- Erasure Encoding
- ERC-1155 Tokenization Standard
- ERC-20 Tokenization Standard
- ERC-2222 Token Standard
- ERC-223 Tokenization Standard
- ERC-721 Tokenization Standard
- ERC-777 Tokenization Standard
- Escrow
- Esports
- Ethash
- Ether (ETH)
- Ethereum
- Ethereum Consensus Layer
- Ethereum Deposit Contract
- Ethereum Dominance (ETHD)
- Ethereum Foundation
- Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)
- Ethereum Request for Comment (ERC)
- Ethereum Transaction
- Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)
- Ethermint
- European Central Bank (ECB)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Exchange
- Exchange Coin (Exchange Token)
- Exchange-Traded Commodity (ETC)
- Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)
- Exchange-Traded Note (ETN)
- Exchange-Traded Product (ETP)
- Execution Price
- Exit Scam
- Exploit Kit
- Exponential Decay Model
- Extended Private Key (XPRIV)
- Extended Public Key (XPUB)
f
- Fair Launch
- Fast Byzantine Fault Tolerance (FBFT)
- Fast Exit Problem
- FATF (Financial Action Task Force)
- Faucet
- FBA (Federated Byzantine Agreement)
- FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
- Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)
- Federated Blockchain
- Fiat Currency
- Fiat Off-Ramp
- Fiat On-Ramp
- Fiat-Backed Stablecoin
- Fibonacci Ratio
- FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) Score)
- Finality (Settlement Finality)
- Finality Rate
- Financial Inclusion
- Financial Instrument
- Financial Securities
- Financial Technology (FinTech)
- Finney Attack
- FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority)
- Firewall
- First-Mover Advantage (FMA)
- Fiscal Crisis
- Fiscal Policy
- Fixed Supply (Price Elasticity)
- Flag (Technical Formation)
- Flippening
- Flipping
- Floor Price
- Forex (FX)
- Forging
- Fork
- Formal Verification
- FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) Miner
- Fractional Ownership
- Fraud Proof
- Front-End (Computing Architecture)
- Front-End Software Development
- Frontier (July 2015)
- Frontrunning
- FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt)
- Full Domain Hash (FDH) Signature
- Full Stack Software Engineer
- Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)
- Functional Programming Language
- Fund
- Fund of Funds (FOF)
- Fundamental Analysis (FA)
- Fungibility
- Futures
g
- Game Finance (GameFi)
- Gas (Ethereum)
- Gas Fees
- Gas Fees
- Gas Limit
- Gateway
- Gavin Wood
- General Availability (GA) Version
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Genesis Block
- Geographic Information System (GIS)
- Git
- GitHub
- Go Programming Language
- Golden Cross
- Google Authenticator
- Governance
- Governance Token
- Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) Mining
- Gravity Bridge
- Grayscale (Institutional Investment Firm)
- Greenlist
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
- Gross Merchandise Value (GMV)
- Gwei
h
- Hack
- Hackathon
- Hacker
- Hal Finney
- Halving
- Hard Cap
- Hard Fork
- Hard Peg
- Hardware Wallet
- Hash Function
- Hash Rate
- Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLCs)
- Hashes per Second (H/s)
- Hashing
- HashLock Key
- Hashmasks
- Head and Shoulders (Technical Formation)
- Hedge
- Hedge Fund
- Hidden Cap
- Hierarchical-Deterministic (HD) Wallet
- High
- High-Frequency Trading
- High-Level Programming Language
- High-Net-Worth Individual (HNWI)
- High-Yield (Junk) Bonds
- HMAC-Based One-Time Password (HOTP)
- HODL (Hold)
- Homestead (March 2016)
- Homomorphic Encryption (HE)
- Honest Geppetto Attack
- HoneyBadger BFT (HBBFT)
- Horizontal Scalability
- Hot (Online) Wallet
- Howey Test
- Hybrid Blockchain
- Hyperinflation
- Hyperledger
- Hyperledger Fabric
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
i
- Iceberg Order
- Identity Data
- Ignite (formerly Tendermint)
- Immutability
- Impermanent Loss
- In the Money
- Index Fund
- Index Token
- Indexing Server
- Inflation
- Information Technology (IT)
- Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
- Initial DEX Offering (IDO)
- Initial Exchange Offering (IEO)
- Initial Farm Offering (IFO)
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Insider Trading
- Institutional Investment Fund
- Institutional Investor
- Institutional Trading Software
- Institutional-Grade
- Insurance
- Intangible Asset