Crypto & Finance Glossary
Your guide to understanding cryptocurrency and finance terminology. From Bitcoin basics to advanced DeFi concepts.
Showing 1–31 of 31 terms starting with "R"
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Rage Quit
defiA mechanism in some DAOs that lets dissatisfied members withdraw their proportional share of the treasury and leave.
Rally
tradingA sustained increase in prices after a period of decline or consolidation.
Raydium
defiA major AMM and DEX on Solana that provides liquidity to the Serum/OpenBook order book.
Real World Assets (RWA)
defiPhysical or traditional financial assets like real estate, government bonds, or commodities that get tokenized and put on a blockchain.
Real Yield
defiYield that comes from actual protocol revenue like trading fees, rather than from token emissions that dilute holders.
Realized PnL
tradingThe actual profit or loss from a trade after you've closed the position.
Rebalancing
tradingAdjusting your portfolio back to its target allocation by buying underweight assets and selling overweight ones.
Rebase Token
defiA token that automatically adjusts its supply to maintain a target price or distribute rewards.
Recession
macroAn economic downturn typically defined as two consecutive quarters of declining GDP.
Reentrancy Attack
blockchainA smart contract vulnerability where an attacker calls back into the vulnerable contract before the first function call finishes, draining funds repeatedly.
Rehypothecation
defiUsing deposited collateral for additional purposes beyond the original loan, essentially using the same asset multiple times.
Rekt
tradingCrypto slang for 'wrecked,' meaning you lost most or all of your investment.
Relayer
blockchainA service that facilitates transactions between parties without taking custody of funds.
Resistance
tradingA price level where selling pressure tends to overcome buying pressure, causing price to stall or reverse.
Restaking
defiUsing already-staked crypto to provide security to additional protocols and earn extra yield.
Retroactive Airdrop
cryptocurrencyA token distribution that rewards past users of a protocol who used it before any token or incentive existed.
Revenue
traditional-financeTotal income generated by a company or protocol before expenses.
Ribbon Finance
defiA DeFi protocol that runs automated options strategies through vaults.
Risk Management
tradingStrategies for limiting potential losses in your investments.
Risk-Free Rate
traditional-financeThe theoretical return on an investment with zero risk, typically represented by government treasury yields.
Risk-Reward Ratio
tradingThe relationship between your potential loss and potential gain on a trade.
Roadmap
cryptocurrencyA project's planned development milestones and timeline.
Rocket Pool
defiA decentralized Ethereum staking protocol that lets anyone run a validator node with just 8 ETH instead of 32.
ROI (Return on Investment)
tradingThe percentage gain or loss on an investment relative to its cost.
Rollup
blockchainA Layer 2 scaling solution that bundles many transactions together before posting them to the main chain.
RPC (Remote Procedure Call)
blockchainThe communication protocol that lets your wallet or dApp talk to a blockchain node.
RSI (Relative Strength Index)
tradingA momentum oscillator that measures the speed and size of recent price changes on a scale from 0 to 100.
RSI Divergence
tradingWhen the RSI indicator moves in the opposite direction of price, signaling a potential reversal.
Rug Pull
cryptocurrencyA scam where developers abandon a project and run off with investor funds.
Rugged
cryptocurrencyGetting rugged means losing your money because a project turned out to be a scam.
RWA Tokenization
defiThe process of representing real-world assets like real estate, bonds, commodities, or art as tokens on a blockchain.
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