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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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- 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
