Crypto & Finance Glossary

A mechanism in some DAOs that lets dissatisfied members withdraw their proportional share of the treasury and leave.

A sustained increase in prices after a period of decline or consolidation.

A major AMM and DEX on Solana that provides liquidity to the Serum/OpenBook order book.

Physical or traditional financial assets like real estate, government bonds, or commodities that get tokenized and put on a blockchain.

Yield that comes from actual protocol revenue like trading fees, rather than from token emissions that dilute holders.

The actual profit or loss from a trade after you've closed the position.

Adjusting your portfolio back to its target allocation by buying underweight assets and selling overweight ones.

A token that automatically adjusts its supply to maintain a target price or distribute rewards.

An economic downturn typically defined as two consecutive quarters of declining GDP.

A smart contract vulnerability where an attacker calls back into the vulnerable contract before the first function call finishes, draining funds repeatedly.

Using deposited collateral for additional purposes beyond the original loan, essentially using the same asset multiple times.

Crypto slang for 'wrecked,' meaning you lost most or all of your investment.

A service that facilitates transactions between parties without taking custody of funds.

A price level where selling pressure tends to overcome buying pressure, causing price to stall or reverse.

Using already-staked crypto to provide security to additional protocols and earn extra yield.

A token distribution that rewards past users of a protocol who used it before any token or incentive existed.

Total income generated by a company or protocol before expenses.

A DeFi protocol that runs automated options strategies through vaults.

Strategies for limiting potential losses in your investments.

The theoretical return on an investment with zero risk, typically represented by government treasury yields.

The relationship between your potential loss and potential gain on a trade.

A project's planned development milestones and timeline.

A decentralized Ethereum staking protocol that lets anyone run a validator node with just 8 ETH instead of 32.

The percentage gain or loss on an investment relative to its cost.

A Layer 2 scaling solution that bundles many transactions together before posting them to the main chain.

The communication protocol that lets your wallet or dApp talk to a blockchain node.

A momentum oscillator that measures the speed and size of recent price changes on a scale from 0 to 100.

When the RSI indicator moves in the opposite direction of price, signaling a potential reversal.

A scam where developers abandon a project and run off with investor funds.

Getting rugged means losing your money because a project turned out to be a scam.

The process of representing real-world assets like real estate, bonds, commodities, or art as tokens on a blockchain.