Crypto Glossary

This is a glossary of terms related to Crypto and Blockchain

Last Updated May 2024

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A

AML (Anti-Money Laundering)

API (Application Programming Interface)

Altcoins

Assets Under Management (AUM)

Atomic Swap

Authentication

B

Bitcoin

Block Reward

Blockchain

Blockchain Explorer

Bounty

C

CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency)

Centralized Exchange (CEX)

Circulating Supply

Collateral

Confirmation Time

Crypto Payment Gateway

Crypto Payment Link

Crypto Payout

Custodial Payment Gateway

D

DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)

DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging)

DYOR (Do Your Own Research)

Dapp (Decentralized Application)

DeFi (Decentralized Finance)

Decentralized Exchange (DEX)

E

ERC-20

EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine)

Ethereum

F

FPS (Faster Payments Service)

Fiat

Forex (FX)

Fungibility

G

GAS

GM (web3 slang)

GWEI

Genesis Block

H

HODL

Halving

Hash

Hash Rate

I

ICO (Initial Coin Offering)

IDO (Initial DEX Offering)

IEO (Initial Exchange Offering)

IPFS (InterPlanetary File System)

Interoperability

Isolated Margin

K

KYB (Know Your Business)

KYC (Know Your Customer)

L

Layer 1

Layer 2

Layer 3

Ledger

Lightning Network

Limit Order

Liquid Staking

Liquidity Provider

Listing

M

Mainnet

Market Cap

Maximum Supply

Metaverse

Minting

N

NFT (Non-Fungible Token)

NFT Floor Prices

Node

Non-Custodial Payment Gateway

O

Off-Chain

Off-Ramp

On-Chain

On-Ramp

Order Book

P

Peer to Peer (P2P)

Phishing

PoR (Proof of Reserves)

PoS (Proof of Stake)

PoW (Proof of Work)

Ponzi Scheme

Price Action

Private Key

Public Key

Pump and Dump

R

RSI (Relative Strength Index)

RWAs (Real-World Assets)

Real-time payments (RTP)

Recurring Crypto Payments

Rekts

Rug Pull

S

SAFU (Secure Asset Fund for Users)

SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)

SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area)

SPL (Solana Program Library)

SRC-20 Tokens

SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication)

Satoshi

Satoshi Nakamoto

Seed Phrase

Sharding

Slippage

Smart Contract

Smart Contract Wallet

Snapshot

Social Recovery Wallet

Solidity

Stablecoins

Staking Pool

T

TGE (Token Generation Event)

TPS (Transactions Per Second)

TVL (Total Value Locked)

Testnet

Token

Token Lockup

Token Sale

Tokenomics

Total Supply

Transaction Hash

U-Z

Utility Token

VASP License Overview

Virtual IBAN

Virtual Machine

Volatility

WAGMI (We're All Going to Make It)

WETH (Wrapped Ether)

Wallet

Wash Trading

Web1

Web2

Web3

Whale

Whitelist

Yield Farming

ZK-Rollup

ZK-SNARK (Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge)

ZK-STARKs (Zero-Knowledge Scalable Transparent Arguments of Knowledge)

Zero Knowledge Proof

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