Crypto & Finance Glossary

An order that automatically sells your position when price reaches a target level to lock in gains.

The fee charged when your order removes liquidity from the order book by filling immediately against existing orders.

Studying price charts and patterns to predict future movements.

A crypto trading bot that operates through Telegram messages, letting you buy, sell, and snipe tokens directly from chat.

A blockchain environment for testing where tokens have no real value.

A decentralized protocol for indexing and querying blockchain data.

A cryptographic scheme where multiple parties each hold a piece of a private key, and a minimum number of them must cooperate to produce a valid signature.

The minimum price increment at which an asset can trade.

A trading parameter that determines how long an order stays active before it's cancelled.

An AMM design that factors in the duration of liquidity provision, rewarding long-term liquidity providers more than short-term ones.

A smart contract mechanism that enforces a waiting period before certain actions take effect.

A digital asset created on an existing blockchain rather than its own chain.

Permanently removing tokens from circulation by sending them to an unreachable address.

Restricting access to content, communities, or experiences based on whether someone holds a specific token or NFT.

The moment when a new token is created and becomes available.

A set of rules that tokens on a blockchain must follow so wallets, exchanges, and dApps can interact with them.

When locked tokens from team allocations, investor rounds, or ecosystem funds become available for trading.

The economic design of a token including supply, distribution, utility, and incentives.

The Open Network, a Layer 1 blockchain originally designed by Telegram.

The maximum revenue opportunity available for a product or service if it captured 100% of its market.

All tokens that currently exist, including locked or reserved ones.

Telling someone to go outside and take a break from the internet, crypto charts, or CT (Crypto Twitter).

How many transactions a blockchain can process per second.

The total amount of an asset traded over a period, usually 24 hours.

A dynamic stop-loss order that moves with the price when it goes in your favor.

A transfer of value or data recorded on a blockchain.

A FATF regulation requiring financial institutions to share sender and receiver information for transactions above a certain threshold.

Funds controlled by a protocol or DAO, usually held in a multi-sig wallet.

Debt securities issued by the US government.

Systems that work without requiring trust in any single party.

A cross-chain bridge that relies on cryptographic proofs rather than trusted intermediaries to verify transactions.

The total value of assets deposited in a DeFi protocol.

An order execution strategy that breaks a large trade into smaller chunks spread over a set time period to minimize price impact.