Crypto & Finance Glossary

Transactions or data stored outside the main blockchain.

A technical indicator that uses volume flow to predict price movements.

Transactions and data recorded directly on the blockchain.

The practice of analyzing blockchain data to understand market behavior, track whale movements, and identify trends.

Running machine learning model inference on or verified by a blockchain.

A system for evaluating an address's trustworthiness based on its blockchain activity history.

Operation code.

The total number of outstanding derivative contracts (like futures or options) that haven't been settled.

In the context of restaking and EigenLayer, an operator is an entity that runs infrastructure to validate AVSs (Actively Validated Services).

An Ethereum Layer 2 network that uses optimistic rollup technology to process transactions faster and cheaper while inheriting Ethereum's security.

A Layer 2 scaling solution that assumes all transactions are valid and only runs computation if someone challenges a transaction.

Contracts giving the right, but not obligation, to buy (call) or sell (put) an asset at a set price before expiration.

A service that brings external data onto the blockchain.

An attack where a hacker manipulates the price data that oracles feed to smart contracts.

A decentralized system of nodes that delivers real-world data to smart contracts.

A user-friendly DEX on Solana known for its clean interface and concentrated liquidity pools called Whirlpools.

A list of all buy and sell orders for an asset, organized by price.

A visualization of all open buy and sell orders for an asset at different price levels.

The stream of buy and sell orders coming into a market, revealing who's trading and in what direction.

A trading approach focused on analyzing the actual buy and sell orders hitting the market rather than just looking at price charts.

Trading done directly between parties rather than on an exchange.

Requiring borrowers to deposit more collateral than the amount they're borrowing.