Crypto Glossary
Clear explanations of key crypto and blockchain terms.
A
- Aave —
- Abi —
- Abi Encoding —
- Access Control —
- Account —
- Account Abstraction —
- Account Model —
- Account Nonce —
- Accumulation —
- Accumulation Phase —
- Active Address —
- Adaptive Block Size —
- Address —
- Address Poisoning —
- Address Reuse —
- Aggregated Proof —
- Aggregator —
- Aggressive Buyers —
- Aggressive Sellers —
- Air Gapped Wallet —
- Airdrop —
- Airdrop Farming —
- Algorithmic Stablecoin —
- All Time High —
- All Time Low —
- Allowance —
- Alpha Group —
- Alpha Leak —
- Altcoin —
- Alternative Data Availability —
- Aml —
- Amm —
- Amm Curve —
- Amm Pool —
- Anonymous Team —
- Anti Sybil Mechanism —
- Anytrust —
- Ape Market —
- Ape Strategy —
- Apeing —
- Api Key —
- Application Layer —
- Approval Exploit —
- Apr —
- Aptos —
- Apy —
- Arbitrage —
- Arbitrage Bot —
- Archive Node —
- Ask Price —
- Ask Volume —
- Asset Backed Token —
- Asynchronous Execution —
- Atomic Swap —
- Attack Surface —
- Attack Tree —
- Attack Vector —
- Attestation —
- Attestation Slot —
- Auction Mechanism —
- Audit —
- Audit Report —
- Authentication —
- Authority Set —
- Authorization —
- Authorization Layer —
- Auto Compounding —
- Auto Deleveraging —
- Automated Liquidation —
- Avalanche —
- Average Entry Price —
- Average True Range —
B
- Backtesting —
- Bagholder —
- Balancer —
- Basis —
- Basis Risk —
- Basis Trade —
- Batch Auction —
- Batched Transactions —
- Bear Market —
- Bear Rally —
- Bear Trap —
- Bft Consensus —
- Bid Ask Spread —
- Bid Price —
- Bid Volume —
- Bitcoin —
- Bitcoin Dominance —
- Bitcoin Halving —
- Blob Fee —
- Blob Transaction —
- Blobspace —
- Block —
- Block Availability —
- Block Builder —
- Block Building —
- Block Censorship —
- Block Confirmation —
- Block Dag —
- Block Execution —
- Block Explorer —
- Block Finality —
- Block Gas Limit —
- Block Header —
- Block Height —
- Block Inclusion —
- Block Propagation —
- Block Proposal —
- Block Reorg —
- Block Reorganization —
- Block Reward —
- Block Root —
- Block Size —
- Block Template —
- Block Time —
- Block Validation —
- Blockchain —
- Blockspace —
- Blockspace Market —
- Blockweave —
- Blue Chip Nft —
- Bnb —
- Bonding Curve —
- Bonding Curve Pricing —
- Bonding Curve Token —
- Borrow Apr —
- Borrow Apy —
- Borrowing Rate —
- Breakdown —
- Breakdown Level —
- Breakout —
- Breakout Trading —
- Bribe —
- Bribery Attack —
- Bridge —
- Bridge Aggregator —
- Bridge Attack —
- Bridge Exploit —
- Bridge Fee —
- Bridge Hack —
- Bridge Latency —
- Bridge Liquidity —
- Bridge Slippage —
- Bridged Asset —
- Bug Bounty —
- Bull Market —
- Bull Run —
- Bull Trap —
- Bundler —
- Bundler Mempool —
- Bundler Network —
- Burn —
- Buy The Dip —
- Buy Wall —
C
- Call Option —
- Candlestick Pattern —
- Cardano —
- Cbdc —
- Celestia —
- Cex —
- Chainlink —
- Chainweb —
- Checkpoint —
- Circulating Supply —
- Cliff —
- Coinbase —
- Coinbase Transaction —
- Cold Wallet —
- Collateral Factor —
- Collateral Ratio —
- Compiler —
- Compliance —
- Compound —
- Consensus —
- Consensus Layer —
- Continuation Pattern —
- Copy Trading —
- Core —
- Cosmos —
- Cross Chain —
- Cross Chain Swap —
- Cross Chain Validator —
- Cross-Chain Messaging —
- Cross-chain Messaging Protocol —
- Ct Crypto Twitter —
- Curve —
- Cvd —
D
- dag —
- DAI —
- Danksharding —
- DAO —
- Data Availability —
- Data Shard —
- Day Trading —
- decentralized compute —
- decentralized network —
- decentralized storage —
- DeFi —
- degen —
- delegated proof of stake —
- Delegated Staking —
- Delegated Voting —
- Delegation —
- Delta —
- Delta Volume —
- Depeg —
- Deployment —
- DEX —
- Difficulty —
- digital identity —
- Distribution —
- Dogecoin —
- Dune Dashboard —
- Dust Attack —
- Dust Limit —
- dYdX —
E
- economy —
- ecosystem —
- EigenLayer —
- Emission Schedule —
- Endpoint —
- enterprise —
- enterprise blockchain —
- Epoch —
- Epoch Reward —
- Ethereum —
- ethereum fork —
- Etherscan —
- EVM —
- Execution Layer —
- Execution Payload —
- Execution Shard —
- Execution Speed —
- Exploit —
F
- Fair Launch —
- Fair Value Gap —
- Faucet —
- FDV —
- Fee Burn —
- Fee Market —
- Fiat On-ramp —
- Finality —
- Flash Crash —
- Flash Loan —
- Flashbots —
- FOMO —
- Footprint Chart —
- Fork —
- Fork Choice Rule —
- Fraud Proof —
- FRAX —
- Front-running —
- FUD —
- Full Node —
- Funding Rate —
- Futures —
G
- Gaming —
- Gamma —
- Gas Auction —
- Gas Fee —
- Gas Limit —
- Gas Price —
- Gas Refund —
- Gasless Transaction —
- Gauge Voting —
- Genesis Block —
- GMX —
- governance —
- Governance Forum —
- Governance Token —
- gpu —
- Greeks —
- Grid Bot —
H
- Halving —
- Hard Fork —
- Hardware Wallet —
- Hash Rate —
- Hashed Timelock Contract —
- Heatmap —
- Hedge —
- Hedging —
- Honey Pot —
- Hot Wallet —
- Hybrid Consensus —
I
- Ibc —
- Iceberg Order —
- Imbalance —
- Impermanent Loss —
- Implied Volatility —
- Index Price —
- indexing —
- Inflation —
- infrastructure —
- Intent —
- Intents Mempool —
- Internet Computer —
- Interoperability —
- iot —
K
- KYC —
L
- Latency —
- Layer 1 —
- Layer 2 —
- Lending Pool —
- Leverage —
- Lido —
- Light Client —
- Limit Order —
- Liquid Staking Token —
- Liquidation —
- liquidity —
- Liquidity Bridge —
- Liquidity Depth —
- Liquidity Fragmentation —
- Liquidity Grab —
- Liquidity Mining —
- Liquidity Pool —
- Liquidity Sweep —
- Liquidity Void —
- Litecoin —
- LRT —
- LSD —
M
- Macro Trend —
- Mainnet —
- Maker —
- Mark Price —
- Market Cap —
- Market Maker —
- Market Manipulation —
- Market Order —
- Market Profile —
- Market Sentiment —
- Market Structure —
- Marketplace —
- Max Supply —
- Meme Coin —
- Mempool —
- Merged Mining —
- Merkle Proof —
- Merkle Tree —
- Meta-governance —
- Metadata —
- Metaverse —
- MEV —
- Micro Trend —
- Miner —
- Mining —
- Mining Pool —
- Mint —
- Mobile Payments —
- Modular Blockchain —
- Monolithic Blockchain —
- Multi-sig —
- Multi-sig Wallet —
- Multichain Wallet —
N
- Native Bridge —
- Near Protocol —
- NFT —
- Node —
- Node Pruning —
- Nonce —
O
- Off-chain —
- On-chain —
- On-chain Analytics —
- On-chain Data —
- On-chain Governance —
- op stack —
- Opcode —
- Open Interest —
- Optimism —
- Optimistic Bridge —
- Option Expiry —
- Option Greeks —
- Options —
- Options Chain —
- Options DEX —
- Options Premium —
- Oracle —
- Order Block —
- Order Book —
- Order Execution —
- Order Flow —
- Orderbook —
- Orphan Block —
- Orphan Rate —
- Osmosis —
P
- parachain —
- PBS Market —
- Peg —
- PEPE —
- permanent storage —
- Perp DEX —
- Perpetual Futures —
- Points Program —
- Polkadot —
- Polygon —
- Portfolio —
- Position Sizing —
- Pre-image —
- Premium Discount Zones —
- Price Impact —
- Price Oracle —
- Priority Fee —
- privacy —
- Private Key —
- Proof of Authority —
- Proof of Burn —
- proof of coverage —
- Proof of History —
- Proof of Stake —
- proof of storage —
- proof of transfer —
- Proof of Work —
- Proposer-Builder Separation —
- Protocol Revenue —
- Proxy Contract —
- pure proof of stake —
- Put Option —
Q
R
- Range Trading —
- Rarity Score —
- real world asset rwa —
- Real Yield —
- Recovery Mode —
- Reentrancy —
- Reentrancy Attack —
- Regulation —
- Regulatory Risk —
- relational blockchain —
- Relayer —
- Reorg —
- Resistance —
- Restaking —
- Restaking Token —
- Reversal Pattern —
- Ring Signature —
- Risk Management —
- Risk Profile —
- Rollup —
- RPC —
- RPC Endpoint —
- RSI —
- Rug Pull —
- RWA —
S
- Sandwich Attack —
- Scalability —
- Scam —
- Security Audit —
- Security Token —
- Seed Phrase —
- Selfish Mining —
- Sell Wall —
- Sequencer —
- Session Key —
- Session Range —
- Settlement Layer —
- Sharding —
- Sharpe Ratio —
- Shiba Inu —
- Short Squeeze —
- Sidechain —
- Signature Scheme —
- Simulation —
- Slashing —
- Slashing Condition —
- Slippage —
- Slot —
- Smart Contract —
- Smart Money Concepts —
- Smart Wallet —
- Snapshot —
- Social Token —
- Soft Fork —
- Solana —
- Solidity —
- Sortino Ratio —
- Spoofing —
- Spot Market —
- Spread —
- Stable Swap —
- Stablecoin —
- Stablecoin Basket —
- Staking —
- Stale Block —
- State Commitment —
- State Pruning —
- State Root —
- State Sync —
- Stop Hunt —
- Stop-Loss Order —
- Strategy —
- Strike Price —
- Subgraph —
- Sui —
- Supply APR —
- Supply Cap —
- Supply Chain —
- Support —
- Support and Resistance —
- SushiSwap —
- Swing High —
- Swing Low —
- Sybil Attack —
- Synthetic Asset —
T
- Take-Profit Order —
- Test Coverage —
- Testnet —
- Theta —
- Thorchain —
- Throughput —
- Time Lock —
- Token —
- Token Gated Access —
- Token Launch —
- Tokenization —
- Tokenomics —
- Toncoin —
- TPS —
- Trading —
- Trading Bot —
- Trading Pair —
- Tranche —
- Transaction —
- Transaction Fee Market —
- Treasury —
- Treasury Bill Token —
- Treasury Management —
- Trend —
- Tron —
- TUSD —
- TWAP —
U
- Uniswap —
- Upgradeable Contract —
- USDC —
- USDT —
- Utility Token —
V
- Validator —
- Validator Set —
- Validity Proof —
- Value Area High —
- Vault —
- Vesting —
- veTokenomics —
- Volatility —
- Volatility Compression —
- Volatility Index —
- Volume —
- Volume Profile —
- Voting —
- VWAP —
W
- Wallet —
- WASM —
- WBTC —
- Web3 —
- WETH —
- Whale —
- White Hat —
- Whitelist —
- Whitelisting —
- Wrapped Token —
X
- XRP —
Y
- Yearn Finance —
- Yield —
- Yield Farming —