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Welcome to our crypto glossary! Crypto terminology can be quite difficult to understand and new words appear on the internet nearly every day. On this page, we gathered all the most used words in blockchain terminology and topics related to the metaverse with their definitions. Enjoy all сryptocurrency terms in one place!

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A

Accounting Token

Accumulation/Distribution Indicator

Adaptive State Sharding

Aeternity Blockchain

Algo-Trading (Algorithmic Trading)

Algorithmic Market Operations (AMOs)

Algorithmic Stablecoin

All-Time-High (ATH)

All-Time-Low (ATL)

Anarcho-capitalism

Annual Percentage Rate (APR)

Annual Percentage Yield (APY)

Anti-dump/Anti-Dumping Policy

Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

Application Layer

AR Token (Arweave)

Aroon Indicator

Asset-Backed Tokens

Assets Under Management (AUM)

Attestation Ledger

Augmented Reality (AR)

Automated Market Maker (AMM)

Autonomous Economic Agent (AEA)

Average Directional Index (ADX)

B

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Banking as a Service (BaaS)

Banking Secrecy Act (BSA)

Benchmark Index

BEP-2 (Binance Chain Tokenization Standard)

BEP-95 (Bruno Hard Fork Upgrade)

Binance Launchpad

Bitcoin ATM (BTM)

Bitcoin Dominance (BTCD)

Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)

Black Hat Hacker

Black Swan Event

Blockchain Explorer

Blockchain Transmission Protocol (BTP)

Blockchain Trilemma

Blockchain-Enabled Smart Locks

Brian Armstrong

Browser Extension

Brute Force Attack (BFA)

Buy The (F*******) Dip (BTD/BTFD)

Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)

Byzantine Generals’ Problem

C

Capital Efficiencies

Casper (Ethereum)

Censorship Resistance

Central Bank Digital Currency

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Centralized Exchange (CEX)

Centre (Consortium)

Certificate of Deposit (CD)

Chain Reorganization

Changpeng Zhao (CZ)

Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)

Circulating Supply

Coinbase Transaction

Collateral Tokens

Collateralization

Collateralized Debt Obligation

Collateralized Debt Position (CDP)

Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO)

Collateralized Stablecoin

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Composable DeFi

Composable Token

Concentrated Liquidity

Consensus Mechanism

Consortium Blockchain

Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Contract Account

Contract for Difference (CFD)

Corporate Treasury

Creator economy

Cross-Border Trading

Cross-Chain Communication

Crypto Debit Card

Crypto Invoicing

Cryptocurrency Pairs

Cryptographic Hash Function

Currency Crisis

Custody solution

D

Daedalus Wallet

Dead Cat Bounce

Decentralization

Decentralization Maximalism

Decentralization Ratio

Decentralized API (dAPI)

Decentralized Applications (DApps)

Decentralized Autonomous Initial Coin Offerings (DAICO)

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)

Decentralized Currency

Decentralized Database

Decentralized Exchange (DEX)

Decentralized Governance

Decentralized Identifier (DID)

Decentralized Marketplace

Decentralized Network

Decentralized Payment Network

Decentralized Social Media

Decentralized Stablecoin

DeFi Aggregator

Delegated Proof-of-Stake (dPOS)

Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attack

Derivatives Market

Deterministic Wallet

Dharma Protocol

Digital Asset Custody

Digital Asset Ecosystem

Digital Barter Economy

Digital Commodity

Digital Currency

Digital Holograms

Digital Identity

Digital Signature

Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA)

Direct-to-Avatar (D2A)

Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)

Distributed Consensus

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack

Distributed Ledger

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)

Distributed Network

Diversification

Dorian Nakamoto

Double Spend Attack

Double Spending

Dual-Token Economy/Model (Two-Token Economy)

Dust Transactions

DYCO (Dynamic Coin Offering)

I

Immersive Avatars vs Traditional Avatars

Impermanent Loss

In-the-Money / Out-of-the-Money

Infinite Approval

Infinite Mint Attack

Initial Bounty Offering (IBO)

Initial Coin Offering (ICO)

Initial Dex Offering (IDO)

Initial Exchange Offering

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

Instant Settlement Network Layer

Institutional Investor

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Intellectual Property (IP)

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)

Intermediary/Middleman

Internal Transaction

Internet of Things

Internet Service Provider (ISP)

Interoperability

InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)

Intrinsic Value

Investment Vehicles (Crypto-tied)

Isolated Margin

J

K

Klinger Oscillator

Know Your Customer (KYC)

M

Maker Protocol (MakerDAO)

Man-in-the-Middle Attack (MITM)

Market Balances

Market Capitalization/Market Cap/MCAP

Market Maker, Market Taker

Market Order/Market Buy/Market Sell

Medium of Exchange

Megahashes Per Second

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

Mercenary Capital

Metatransaction

Metaverse-as-a-Service (MaaS)

Metcalfe’s Law

MicroBitcoin (uBTC)

Microtransaction

Miner Extractable Value (MEV)

Minimum Collateralization Ratio (MCR)

Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Mining Algorithm

Mining as a Service (MaaS)

Mining Contract

Mining Difficulty

Mixed Reality (MR)

Mnemonic Phrase

Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)

Monetary Policy

Money Flow Index (MFI)

Money Laundering

Money Transfer License

Money Transmitter

Motoko Programming Language (DFINITY)

Moving Average (MA)

Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD)

Multi-Coin Wallet

Multi-level Marketing

Multi-Party Computation

Multi-Party Computation as-a-Service

Multi-Signature (Multi-Sig)

My Story (VeChain)

N

Negative Volume Index (NVI)

Network Latency

Network-Enhanced Virtual Machine (NEVM)

Non-Fungible Token (NFT)

Notarization on Blockchain

P

Participation Node

Password Manager

Peer-to-Peer (P2P)

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending

Pegged Currency

Permissioned Ledger

Perpetual Contracts

Persistent Virtual Worlds

Photorealistic art

Physical Bitcoins

Plutus (Cardano)

Politeia (Decred)

Prediction Market

Private Blockchain

Private Key/Secret Key

Procedural Programming

Profit and Loss (P&L) Statement

Programmability

Proof of Attendance Protocol

Proof-of-Authority (PoA)

Proof-of-Developer (PoD)

Proof-of-Donation

Proof-of-History (PoH)

Proof-of-Immutability (PoIM)

Proof-of-Replication

Proof-of-Spacetime

Proof-of-Stake (PoS)

Proof-of-Validation

Proof-of-Work (PoW)

Public Blockchain

Public vs Private Cloud

Public-Key Cryptography

Public-Key Infrastructure

Pump and Dump (P&D) Scheme

Pure Proof of Stake (PPoS)

Q

Quant Zone (FTX Exchange)

Quantum Bit (Qubit)

Quantum Computing

Quasar Smart Contract (OMG Foundation)

Quorum (Governance)

S

S&P 500 (Standard and Poor’s 500)

Scaling Problem

Scaling Solution

Scholarship/Scholar

Second-Layer Solutions

Secondary Market

Secondary sale/Secondary market

Secure Multi-Party Computation (sMPC)

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Security Token Offering

Segregated Witness (SegWit)

Settlement Layer

Shielded Address

Shielded Transaction

SHO (Strong Holder Offering)

Side Channel Attack

Simplified Payment Verification (SPV)

Smart Contract Audit

Social Engineering

Social Immersion

Soft Fork (Blockchain)

Software Library

Software Wallet

Speculative Investment

Spoon (Blockchain)

Stochastic Oscillator

Stop-Loss Order

Storage (Decentralized)

Subgraph Manifest

Supply and Demand

Supply Chain Attack

Swing Failure Pattern (SFP)

Synthetic Asset

U

Unpermissioned Ledger

Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO)

Unstoppable Domains

V

Virtual Automated Market Makers (vAMMs)

Virtual Reality (VR)

Vitalik Buterin

W

Wallstreetbets (WSB)

Watchdog Organization

Weak subjectivity

Web3 Foundation

X

Y

Z

Zero Confirmation/Unconfirmed Transaction

Zero Knowledge Proof

Zero Knowledge Rollups

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