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1,343 crypto, Web3, and DeFi terms — plain-English definitions from the BlockInsider editorial desks.
A
- AI Coins
- API
- AR Token (Arweave)
- ASIC
- ASIC-Resistant
- Abenomics
- Abnormal Return
- Absolute Advantage
- Absolute Return
- Abstract
- Abstraction Scalability
- Accepting Risk (Acceptance)
- Account
- Account Abstraction
- Account Balance
- Account Number
- Accountability
- Accounting Conservatism
- Accounting Method
- Accounting Token
- Accredited Investors
- Accretion (of a Discount)
- Accrual Accounting
- Accrue
- Accrued Income
- Accrued Interest
- Accrued Liabilities
- Accrued Revenue
- Accumulation Phase
- Acid Test Ratio
- Acquisition
- Acquisition Cost
- Acquisition Premium
- Active Management
- Activist Investor
- Ad Hoc
- 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
- Air Gap
- Airdrop
- Airnode
- Alan Greenspan
- Algo-Trading (Algorithmic Trading)
- Algorithm
- Algorithmic Market Operations (AMOs)
- Algorithmic Stablecoin
- All Risks Coverage
- All or None Order (AON)
- All-Time High (ATH)
- All-Time-High (ATH)
- All-Time-Low (ATL)
- Allocated Gold
- Allocation
- Allocation Efficiency
- Allotment
- Alpha
- Alphanumeric
- Altcoin
- Altcoin Trader
- Alternative Investments
- Amalgamation
- Amazon S3
- Amended Return
- Anarcho-capitalism
- Angel Investor
- Animal Spirits
- Annual Percentage Rate (APR)
- Annual Percentage Yield (APY)
- Annual Report
- Annualized Rate of Return
- Anonymous
- Anti Money Laundering (AML)
- Anti-Fragile
- Anti-Malware
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
- Anti-dump/Anti-Dumping Policy
- Antitrust Law
- Antivirus
- Antpool
- Apeing
- Application Layer
- Application Programming Interface (API)
- Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
- Arbitrage
- Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT)
- Arbitrageur
- Arm Virtual Machine (Qtum)
- Aroon Indicator
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Ascending Channel
- Ashdraked
- Asset
- Asset Class
- Asset Financing
- Asset Management
- Asset Swap
- Asset-Backed Tokens
- Asset-Based Approach
- Asset-Based Lending
- Assets Under Management (AUM)
- Asynchronous
- Atomic Swap
- AtomicDEX
- Attack surface
- 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)
- aNFT (Autonomous NFT)
B
- B-Tokens
- BEP-2
- BEP-2 (Binance Chain Tokenization Standard)
- BEP-20
- BEP-721
- BEP-95
- BNB
- BRC-20
- BUIDL
- Back-to-Back Letters of Credit
- Backflush Costing (Backflush Accounting)
- Backlog
- Backorder
- Backstop
- Backtesting
- Backward Compatibility
- Bagholder
- Bags
- Bail-Out
- Bait and Switch Scam
- Bakers
- Baking
- Balanced Fund
- Balanced Investment Strategy
- Balloon Loan
- Balloon Payment
- Bandwagon Effect
- Bandwidth
- Bank Run
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
- Banking Secrecy Act (BSA)
- Banking as a Service (BaaS)
- 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
- Beta (Coefficient)
- Beta (Release)
- Bid Price
- Bid-Ask Spread
- Big Tech
- Binance Chain Explorer
- Binance Community Vote
- Binance Ecosystem Fund (BEF)
- Binance Labs
- Binance Launchpad
- Binancian
- Binary Code
- Bit
- BitLicense
- BitPay
- Bitcoin
- Bitcoin ATM (BTM)
- Bitcoin Core
- Bitcoin DApps
- Bitcoin Dominance
- Bitcoin Dominance (BTCD)
- Bitcoin ETF
- Bitcoin Halving
- Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)
- Bitcoin Maximalists
- Bitcoin Misery Index (BMI)
- Bitcoin NFTs
- Bitcoin Pizza
- Bitcoin Virtual Machine (BitVM)
- Bitcoiner
- Bitcointalk
- Bits
- Bitstream
- Black Hat Hacker
- Black Swan Event
- Blake-256
- Block Explorer
- Block Header
- Block Height
- Block Lattice (Nano)
- Block Producer
- Block Reward
- Block Size
- Block Time
- Block Trade
- Blockchain
- Blockchain 1.0
- Blockchain 2.0
- Blockchain 3.0
- Blockchain Charity Foundation
- Blockchain Explorer
- Blockchain Mutual Credit
- Blockchain Transmission Protocol (BTP)
- Blockchain Tribalism
- Blockchain Trilemma
- Blockchain-As-a-Service (BaaS)
- Blockchain-Enabled Smart Locks
- Blockweave
- Bloom Filter
- Blue-Chip Token
- Bluesky Crypto Protocol
- Bollinger Band
- Bonding Curve
- Bottleneck
- Bounty
- Brave Browser
- Breakeven Multiple
- Breaking
- Breakout
- Brian Armstrong
- Bridges
- Browser Extension
- Brute Force Attack (BFA)
- 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
C
- C++
- COMP Token
- CPU Miner
- Call Options
- Candidate Block
- Candlestick
- Candlesticks
- Capital
- Capital Funds
- Capitulation
- Casascius Coin
- Cascading Liquidations
- Cash
- CashToken
- Casper (Ethereum)
- Cathie Wood
- CeDeFi
- Censorship
- Censorship Resistance
- Censorship-resistance
- Central Bank
- Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
- Central Ledger
- Central Processing Unit (CPU)
- Centralized
- Centralized Exchange
- Centralized Exchange (CEX)
- Centre (Consortium)
- Certificate of Deposit (CD)
- Chain Reorganization
- Chain Split
- Change
- Change Address
- Changpeng Zhao (CZ)
- Chargeback
- ChatGPT
- Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)
- Chunk (NEAR)
- Cipher
- Ciphertext
- Circle
- Circulating Supply
- Client
- Close
- Cloud
- Cloud Mining
- Code
- Code Repository
- Coin
- Coin Mixer
- Coin-Margined Trading
- Coinbase
- Coinbase Transaction
- Cold Storage
- Cold Wallet
- Collaborative Venture Building (CVB)
- Collateral
- Collateral Cap
- Collateral Factor
- Collateral Margin
- Collateral Tokens
- Collateralization
- Collateralized Debt Obligation
- Collateralized Debt Position (CDP)
- Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO)
- Collateralized Stablecoin
- Colocation
- Commingling
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
- Composability (DeFi)
- Composable DeFi
- Composable Token
- Compound Interest
- Concentrated Liquidity
- Confirmation
- Confirmation Time
- Confirmations
- Confluence
- ConsenSys
- Consensus
- Consensus Algorithm
- Consensus Layer
- Consensus Mechanism
- Consolidation
- Consortium Blockchain
- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
- Contract
- Contract Account
- Contract for Difference (CFD)
- Coordinator
- Copy Trading
- Core Wallet
- Corporate Treasury
- Correction
- Counter-Terrorism Financing
- Counterparty Risk
- Craig Wright
- Credentials
- Credit Rating
- Credit Risk
- Cross Margin
- Cross-Border Trading
- Cross-Chain
- Cross-Chain Bridges
- Cross-Chain Communication
- Cross-chain Contract Calls
- Crowdfunding
- Crowdloan
- Crypto Debit Card
- Crypto ETFs
- Crypto Fear and Greed Index
- Crypto Invoicing
- Crypto Loan
- Crypto Protocol
- Crypto Winter
- CryptoPunks
- Cryptoasset
- Cryptocurrency
- Cryptocurrency Money Laundering
- Cryptocurrency Pairs
- Cryptographic Hash Function
- Cryptography
- Cryptojacking
- Cryptology
- Currency
- Currency Crisis
- Curve AMO
- Custodian
- Custody
- Cypherpunk
D
- DAO Summoning
- DRC-20
- DYCO (Dynamic Coin Offering)
- DYOR
- Daedalus Wallet
- Daemon
- Danksharding
- Dark Web
- Darknodes
- Data Privacy
- Data Scraping
- Data Validation
- Date of Launch
- Day Trading
- DeFi Aggregator
- DeFi Degens
- Dead Cat Bounce
- Dead Coin
- Death Cross
- Decentralization Maximalism
- Decentralization Ratio
- Decentralized
- Decentralized API (dAPI)
- Decentralized Application (DApp)
- Decentralized Applications (DApps)
- Decentralized Autonomous Cooperative (DAC)
- Decentralized Autonomous Initial Coin Offerings (DAICO)
- Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO)
- Decentralized Currency
- Decentralized Database
- Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Decentralized Governance
- Decentralized Identifier (DID)
- Decentralized Indexes
- Decentralized Marketplace
- Decentralized Network
- Decentralized Order Book
- Decentralized Payment Network
- Decentralized Social Media
- Decentralized Stablecoin
- Decryption
- Deep Web
- Deflation
- Delayed Proof of Work (dPoW)
- Delegated Proof-of-Stake (dPOS)
- Delisting
- Demurrage
- Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attack
- Depeg
- Depth Chart
- Derivative
- Derivatives Market
- Design Flaw Attack
- Desktop Wallet
- Deterministic Wallet
- Dex Aggregator
- Dharma Protocol
- Diamond Hands
- Difficulty
- Difficulty Bomb
- 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)
- Dildo
- 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
- Do Your Own Research (DYOR)
- Documentation
- Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA)
- Dolphin
- Dominance
- Dorian Nakamoto
- DotSama
- Double Spend Attack
- Double Spending
- Drawdown
- Drivechain
- Dual Governance
- Dual-Token Economy/Model (Two-Token Economy)
- Dump
- Dumping
- Dust Transactions
- Dusting Attack
- dPoSec (Distributed Proof of Security)
E
- E-Signature
- EIP-1559
- ELI5
- EMA (Exponential Moving Average)
- ERC 7512
- ERC-1155
- ERC-20
- ERC-721
- ERC-777
- ERC-827
- ERC-884
- ERC-948
- ETF
- ETH/BTC
- Eclipse Attack
- Economic Utility
- Edge Nodes
- Effective Proof-of-Stake
- Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)
- Electrum Wallet
- Elliott Waves
- Email Spoofing
- Emission
- Encryption
- Enterprise Blockchain
- Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
- Epoch
- Equity
- Erasure Coding
- Escrow
- Esports
- Ethash
- Ether
- Ethereum Classic
- Ethereum Difficulty
- Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)
- Ethereum Request For Comment (ERC)
- Ethereum Transaction
- Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)
- Event Triggers
- Exchange
- Exit Scam
F
- FATF Travel Rule
- FOMO
- FUD
- FUDster
- Fakeout
- Falling Knife
- Falling Wedge
- Fan Token
- Fan Tokens
- Faucet
- Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO)
- Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD)
- Fee Tiers
- Fiat
- Fiat On-Ramp
- Fiat-Pegged Cryptocurrency
- Fibonacci Retracement Level
- Field Programmable Gate Array
- Fill Or Kill Order (FOK)
- Finality
- Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
- Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
- Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC)
- First In, First Out
- Fiscal Policy
- Fish
- Flappening
- Flash Crash
- Flash Loan
- Flash Loan Attack
- Flash Loans
- Flashbots
- Flatcoin
- Flippening
- Flipping
- Forced Liquidation
- Forex (FX)
- Fork
- Fork (Blockchain)
- Fork (Software)
- Fork Choice Rule
- Formal Verification
- Fractional Stablecoins
- Fraud Proof
- Fren
- Front Running
- Full Node
- Fully Diluted Value (FDV)
- Fully Homomorphic Encryption
- Fundamental Analysis (FA)
- Funding Payments
- Fungibility
- Fungible
- Fusion Rollups
- Futures
- Futures Contract
G
- GM (Good Morning)
- GPG Encryption
- Gains
- Game Channels
- Game Theory
- GameFi
- Gas
- Gas Limit
- Gas Price
- Gas Station Networks (GSN)
- Gavin Wood
- Gems
- General Public License
- Genesis Block
- Geth
- GitHub
- Goguen Phase
- Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency
- Golden Cross
- Google Authenticator
- Gossip Protocol
- Governance
- Governance Token
- Graphical Processing Unit (GPU)
- Gray Swan Event
- Greater Fool Theory
- Green Candle
- Group Mining
- Gwei
H
- HODL
- Hackathon
- Hacker
- Hacking
- Haha Money Printer Go Brrrrr
- Hal Finney
- Halving
- Hard Cap
- Hard Fork (Blockchain)
- Hard Fork Combinator
- Hard Landing
- Hard Peg
- Hardware Security Module
- Hardware Wallet
- Hash
- Hash Function
- Hash Power / Hash Rate
- Hash Rate
- Hashed Timelock Contract (HTLC)
- Hashgraph Consensus Mechanism
- Haskell Programming Language
- Hedge Contract
- Hedge Fund
- Hidden Cap
- Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet (HD Wallet)
- High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
- Higher High
- Higher Low
- Honeypot
- Hostage Byte Attack
- Hosted Wallet
- Hot Storage
- Hot Wallet
- Howey Test
- Human-Readable Names
- Huobi BTC (HBTC)
- Hybrid PoW/PoS
- Hydra (Cardano)
- Hyperinflation
- Hyperledger (Hyperledger Foundation)
I
- IOU
- IP Address
- Iceberg Order
- Immutability
- Immutable
- Impermanent Loss
- In-the-Money / Out-of-the-Money
- Index
- Infinite Approval
- Infinite Mint Attack
- Inflation
- Initial Bounty Offering (IBO)
- Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
- Initial Dex Offering (IDO)
- Initial Exchange Offering
- Initial Exchange Offering (IEO)
- Initial Farm Offering (IFO)
- Initial Game Offering (IGO)
- Initial NFT Offering (INO)
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Initial Stake Pool Offering (ISPO)
- Initial Token Offering (ITO)
- Input-Output Hong Kong (IOHK)
- Insider Trading
- Instamine
- Instant Settlement Network Layer
- Institutional Investor
- Insurance Fund
- Integrated Circuit (IC)
- Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- Intellectual Property (IP)
- Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC)
- InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)
- Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
- Interest Rates
- Intermediary/Middleman
- Internal Transaction
- Internet Layer
- Internet Memes
- Internet of Things
- Interoperability
- Intrinsic Value
- Invest
- Investment Vehicles (Crypto-tied)
- Isolated Margin
- Issuance
J
K
L
- LINK (Chainlink)
- LMD GHOST
- Lachesis
- Lambo
- Large Cap
- Laser Eyes
- Latency
- Law of Accelerating Returns
- Law of Demand
- Layer 0
- Layer 2
- Layer-1 Blockchain
- Leased Proof of Stake (LPoS)
- Ledger
- Leverage
- Leveraged Tokens
- Library
- Light Node
- Lightning Network
- Limit Order
- Limit Order/Limit Buy/Limit Sell
- Linux
- Liquid Market
- Liquid Proof of Stake (LPoS)
- Liquid Staking
- Liquid Staking (Fantom)
- Liquid Staking Derivatives
- Liquidation
- Liquidity
- Liquidity Crisis
- Liquidity Mining
- Liquidity Pool
- Liquidity Provider
- Liquidity Provider Tokens (LP Tokens)
- Liquidity Ratios
- Listing
- Liveness
- Loan-to-value (LTV)
- Location Swap
- Long
- Longing (Long Position)
- Lovelace
- Lower High
- Lower Low
- libp2p
M
- Mainchain
- Mainnet
- Mainnet Swap
- Maker
- Maker Protocol (MakerDAO)
- Malware
- Man-in-the-Middle Attack (MITM)
- Margin Call
- Margin Trading
- Market
- Market Balances
- Market Capitalization
- Market Capitalization/Market Cap/MCAP
- Market Maker, Market Taker
- Market Making as a Service (MMaaS)
- Market Momentum
- Market Order
- Market Order/Market Buy/Market Sell
- Market Signal
- Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA)
- Marlowe
- Masternode
- Masternodes
- Matching Engine
- Max Supply
- Maximal Extractable Value (MEV)
- Maximum Supply
- Medium of Exchange
- Megahashes Per Second
- Meme Economy
- Memecoin
- Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
- Mempool
- Mercenary Capital
- Merged Mining
- MetaMask
- Metadata
- Metatransaction
- Metaverse
- Metaverse-as-a-Service (MaaS)
- Metcalfe’s Law
- Micro Cap
- MicroBitcoin (uBTC)
- Micropayment
- Microtransaction
- Mid Cap
- MilliBitcoin
- Mimetic Theory
- Mineable
- Minecraft
- Miners
- Minimum Collateralization Ratio (MCR)
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Mining
- Mining Algorithm
- Mining Contract
- Mining Difficulty
- Mining Farm
- Mining Pool
- Mining Reward
- Mining Rewards
- Mining Rig
- Mining as a Service (MaaS)
- Minnow
- Minting
- Mnemonic Phrase
- Mnemonics
- Mobile Wallet
- Moloch DAO
- Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
- Monetary Policy
- Money
- Money Flow Index (MFI)
- Money Laundering
- Money Market
- Money Transfer License
- Money Transmitter
- Monitoring Tag
- Monopoly
- Moon
- Moore’s Law
- Motoko Programming Language (DFINITY)
- Move (Programming Language)
- Move-to-Earn
- Moving Average (MA)
- Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD)
- Multi-Chain
- Multi-Coin Wallet
- Multi-Party Computation
- Multi-Party Computation as-a-Service
- Multi-Signature (Multi-Sig)
- Multi-level Marketing
- Multisignature
- Mutual Credit Line
- My Story (VeChain)
N
- NFT Floor Prices
- NFT Mystery Boxes
- NFT Royalties
- NGMI
- Name Wrapper
- Negative Volume Index (NVI)
- Network
- Network Latency
- Network-Enhanced Virtual Machine (NEVM)
- Newb
- Nick Szabo
- Nifty Gateway
- No-Coiner
- Node
- Node.js
- Nominators
- Non-Custodial
- Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
- Non-fungible Assets
- Nonce
- Nonce Error
- Notarization on Blockchain
O
- OCO Order
- OHM Fork
- ORC-20 Tokens
- Odysee
- Off-Chain
- Off-Chain Governance
- Off-Chain Transaction
- Off-Ledger Currency
- Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
- Offline Signing Orchestrator (OSO)
- Offline Storage
- Offshore Account
- On-Balance Volume (OBV)
- On-Chain
- On-Chain Governance
- On-Ledger Currency
- Onchain Fiat
- One Cancels the Other Order (OCO)
- Online Storage
- Open Interest
- Open Source
- Open-Source Software (OSS)
- Open/Close
- OpenSea
- Opera Mainnet (Fantom)
- Operating System (OS)
- Optimistic Oracle
- Optimistic Rollup
- Option
- Options Market
- Oracle
- Oracle Manipulation
- Order Book
- Ordinals
- Orphan
- Orphan Block
- Ouroboros Praos
- Over-Collateralization
- Over-the-Counter (OTC) Trading
- Overbought
- Oversold
P
- P2P Bridge
- P2P DEX
- P2P Trading
- Pair
- PancakeSwap
- Paper Trading
- Paper Wallet
- Parachain
- Participation Node
- Passive Income
- Passive Management
- Password Manager
- Paul Le Roux
- Payee
- Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
- Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending
- Peg
- Pegged Currency
- Permissioned Ledger
- Permissionless Blockchain
- Perpetual Contracts
- Phishing
- Phone Phishing
- Physical Bitcoins
- Plasma
- Platform
- Play-to-Earn (Play2Earn)
- Player Payout
- Politeia (Decred)
- Polkadot Crowdloan
- Ponzi Scheme
- Portfolio
- Portfolio Tracking
- Position Size
- Post-Mine
- Pre-IDO
- Pre-Mine
- Pre-Sale
- Prediction Market
- Price Action
- Price Impact
- Prisoner’s Dilemma
- Private Blockchain
- Private Key/Secret Key
- Private Sale
- Procedural Programming
- Profit and Loss (P&L) Statement
- Programmability
- Programmable Privacy
- Progressive Web application (PWA)
- Proof Market
- Proof of Attendance Protocol (POAP)
- Proof of Reserves (PoR)
- Proof of Stake (PoS)
- Proof of Stake Authority (PoSA)
- Proof of Work (PoW)
- Proof-of-Authority (PoA)
- 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-Time (PoT)
- Proof-of-Validation
- Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS)
- Proto-Danksharding
- Protocol
- Protocol Layer
- Pseudonymous
- Pseudorandom
- Public Address
- Public Blockchain
- Public Key
- Public Sale
- Public-Key Cryptography
- Public-Key Infrastructure
- Pump-and-dump
- Pure Proof of Stake (PPoS)
- Put Option
- Pyramid Scheme
Q
R
- REKT
- ROI
- Race attack
- 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
- Relative Strength Index (RSI)
- Relay Chain
- Relay Nodes
- Renewable Energy
- Repair Miners
- Replay Attack
- Replicated Ledger
- Replicated Security (RS)
- Resistance
- Resistance (Line/Level)
- Retargeting
- Return on Investment (ROI)
- Revenue Participation Tokens
- Reverse ICO
- Reverse Indicator
- Ring CT (Confidential Transactions)
- Ring Miners
- Ring Signature
- Roger Ver
- Roth IRA
- Rough Consensus
- Routing Attack
- Ruby (Programming Language)
- Rug Pull
- Rust
- Ryuk Ransomware
S
- S&P 500 (Standard and Poor’s 500)
- SHA-256
- SHO (Strong Holder Offering)
- SIM-Swap
- SPAC
- SPL
- Sandwich Trading
- 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
- Security Audit
- Security Token
- Security Token Offering
- Seed Funding
- Seed Phrase
- Seed Tag
- Segregated Witness (SegWit)
- Selfish Mining
- Sell Wall
- Semantic Web
- Sentiment
- Series B Funding
- Settlement
- Settlement Layer
- Shamir’s Secret Sharing
- Shanghai Upgrade
- Shard Chain
- Sharding
- Sharpe Ratio
- Shelley Phase
- Shiba Inu Token (SHIB)
- Shielded Address
- Shielded Transaction
- Shilling
- Shitcoin
- Short
- Short Squeeze
- Side Channel Attack
- Sidechain
- Sidechains
- Signal
- Silk Road
- 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
- Social Recovery Wallet
- Social Trading
- SocialFi
- Soft Cap
- Soft Fork (Blockchain)
- Soft Landing
- Soft Peg
- Software Library
- Software Stack
- Software Wallet
- Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)
- Solidity
- Source Code
- Spear Phishing
- Speculative Investment
- Spoon (Blockchain)
- Spot
- 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
- Supercycle
- Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Attack
- Supply and Demand
- Support
- Support Level
- Surge (Ethereum)
- Swarm
- Swing Failure Pattern (SFP)
- Swing Trading
- Sybil Attack
- Symbol
- Symmetric Key Cryptography
- Synthetic Asset
T
- T-Address (Zcash)
- TRC-10 (TRON)
- TRC-20 Token
- Taint
- Take Profit
- Taker
- Tamper-Proof Ledger
- Tangle
- Tank
- Taproot
- Tardigrade (Storj)
- Technical Analysis/Trend Analysis (TA)
- Technical Indicators
- Tendermint
- Terahashes Per Second
- Testnet
- The Barbell Strategy
- The Cantillon Effect
- The DAO
- 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
- Token Lockup
- Token Migration
- Token Sale
- Token Standard
- Token Standards
- Token Swap
- TokenSets (Set Protocol)
- Tokenization
- Tokenized Carbon Credits
- Tokenized Securities
- Tokenized Stocks
- Tokenomics
- Toll Bridge
- Tor
- Total Exchange Volume
- Total Supply
- Total Value Locked (TVL)
- TradFi
- Trade Volume
- Trading Bot
- Trading Tournament
- Trading Volume
- TradingView
- Transaction (TX)
- Transaction Fee
- Transaction ID (TXID)
- Transaction Triggers
- Transactions Per Second (TPS)
- Treasury Bills (T-Bills)
- Treasury Bond (T-Bond)
- Trojan
- TrueUSD (TUSD)
- Trust
- Trustless
- Tumbler
- Turing Complete
- Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
- Type Checking
- TypeScript Programming Language
- Typosquatting
U
- UNI Token
- US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
- UTC Time
- Unbanked
- Uncle Block (Ommer Block)
- Unconfirmed
- Understanding CZ’s Number 4
- Unit of Account
- United States House Committee on Financial Services
- Unpermissioned Ledger
- Unrealized Profit & Loss
- Unregulated
- Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO)
- Unstoppable Domains
- Use Case
- User Interface (UI)
- Utility Mining
- Utility Token
V
W
- WAGMI
- Wallet
- Wallstreetbets (WSB)
- WannaCry Ransomware
- Wasabi Wallet
- Watchdog Organization
- Watcher (OMG Foundation)
- Watchlist
- Weak Hands
- Weak Subjectivity
- Web 1.0
- Web 2.0
- Web 3.0
- Web3 Foundation
- WebSocket
- Wei
- Whale
- When Lambo
- When Moon
- Whiskers
- White Hat Computer Hacker
- White Label
- White Label Staking
- White Swan Event
- Whitelist
- Whitepaper
- Wick
- Win Rate
- Winding Down
- Winding Up
- Wrapped Ether (WETH)
- Wyckoff
