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Crypto Glossary
1,343 crypto, Web3, and DeFi terms — plain-English definitions from the BlockInsider editorial desks.
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- 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)
