Crypto & Finance Glossary

The data sent along with an Ethereum transaction that tells a smart contract what function to call and with what parameters.

A chart element showing price movement over a specific time period.

How effectively a protocol or strategy uses deposited capital to generate returns.

When investors give up and sell at any price after a prolonged downturn.

Borrowing in a low-interest-rate asset to invest in a higher-yielding one, profiting from the difference.

A digital form of a country's official currency issued and controlled by its central bank.

A modular blockchain that focuses exclusively on data availability and consensus, leaving execution to other chains.

A mobile-first blockchain focused on making crypto payments accessible, especially in developing countries.

The ability of a blockchain to process transactions without any single party being able to block or reverse them.

A cryptocurrency exchange run by a company that holds your funds and matches orders.

In crypto culture, someone who makes bold, confident moves that pay off.

Technology that lets users interact with multiple blockchains without knowing or caring which chain they're on.

The most widely used oracle network in crypto.

A mechanism that halts trading when prices move too much too fast.

The number of tokens currently available and tradeable in the market.

A period during token vesting where no tokens are released, followed by a large unlock at the cliff date.

Malware that monitors your clipboard and replaces copied crypto addresses with the attacker's address.

A cryptocurrency wallet that's not connected to the internet.

Assets you put up as security when borrowing.

A basic good used in commerce that's interchangeable with other goods of the same type.

Following the laws and regulations that apply to financial activities, including crypto.

The ability to combine different DeFi protocols like building blocks to create new financial products.

A DeFi lending protocol on Ethereum where you can supply assets to earn interest or borrow against collateral.

Interest calculated on both the initial principal and accumulated interest from previous periods.

A DeFi innovation where liquidity providers choose a specific price range to deploy their capital instead of spreading it across all prices.

The method a blockchain uses to agree on which transactions are valid and in what order.

The math equation x * y = k that most basic AMMs use to price trades.

A measure of average price changes for a basket of consumer goods and services.

The unique blockchain address where a smart contract lives.

When a technical indicator moves in the same direction as price, that's convergence and confirms the trend.

A protocol built on top of Curve Finance that boosts CRV rewards for liquidity providers without requiring them to lock CRV themselves.

Rationalizing a bad investment decision or finding excuses for why a losing position will eventually work out.

A system that performs complex computations off-chain and provides verified results to smart contracts.

Automatically replicating the trades of another trader in real-time.

A price decline of 10% or more from a recent high, but less than the 20% that defines a bear market.

A network of independent blockchains that can communicate with each other through the IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication) protocol.

The original price you paid for an asset, including fees.

A financial contract that acts like insurance against a borrower defaulting on their debt.

The EVM-compatible blockchain built by Crypto.

A margin mode where your entire account balance acts as collateral for all open positions.

The ability to move assets, data, or messages between different blockchain networks.

Protocols that enable smart contracts on different blockchains to communicate with each other.

Rules governing how institutions store and safeguard crypto assets on behalf of clients.

Digital money secured by cryptography and typically running on a blockchain.

Crypto Twitter.

A DEX optimized for stablecoin and pegged asset swaps with extremely low slippage.

The competition between DeFi protocols to accumulate voting power on Curve Finance to direct token emissions to their pools.

Who holds and controls your crypto assets.

Services that securely store cryptocurrency on behalf of institutional investors.