Crypto & Finance Glossary
Your guide to understanding cryptocurrency and finance terminology. From Bitcoin basics to advanced DeFi concepts.
Showing 1–33 of 33 terms starting with "T"
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Take Profit
tradingAn order that automatically sells your position when price reaches a target level to lock in gains.
Taker Fee
tradingThe fee charged when your order removes liquidity from the order book by filling immediately against existing orders.
Technical Analysis
tradingStudying price charts and patterns to predict future movements.
Telegram Trading Bot
tradingA crypto trading bot that operates through Telegram messages, letting you buy, sell, and snipe tokens directly from chat.
Testnet
blockchainA blockchain environment for testing where tokens have no real value.
The Graph
blockchainA decentralized protocol for indexing and querying blockchain data.
Threshold Signature
blockchainA 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.
Tick Size
tradingThe minimum price increment at which an asset can trade.
Time in Force
tradingA trading parameter that determines how long an order stays active before it's cancelled.
Time-Weighted AMM
defiAn AMM design that factors in the duration of liquidity provision, rewarding long-term liquidity providers more than short-term ones.
Timelock
blockchainA smart contract mechanism that enforces a waiting period before certain actions take effect.
Token
cryptocurrencyA digital asset created on an existing blockchain rather than its own chain.
Token Burn
cryptocurrencyPermanently removing tokens from circulation by sending them to an unreachable address.
Token Gating
cryptocurrencyRestricting access to content, communities, or experiences based on whether someone holds a specific token or NFT.
Token Generation Event
cryptocurrencyThe moment when a new token is created and becomes available.
Token Standard
blockchainA set of rules that tokens on a blockchain must follow so wallets, exchanges, and dApps can interact with them.
Token Unlock
cryptocurrencyWhen locked tokens from team allocations, investor rounds, or ecosystem funds become available for trading.
Tokenomics
cryptocurrencyThe economic design of a token including supply, distribution, utility, and incentives.
TON
blockchainThe Open Network, a Layer 1 blockchain originally designed by Telegram.
Total Addressable Market (TAM)
traditional-financeThe maximum revenue opportunity available for a product or service if it captured 100% of its market.
Total Supply
cryptocurrencyAll tokens that currently exist, including locked or reserved ones.
Touch Grass
cryptocurrencyTelling someone to go outside and take a break from the internet, crypto charts, or CT (Crypto Twitter).
TPS (Transactions Per Second)
blockchainHow many transactions a blockchain can process per second.
Trading Volume
tradingThe total amount of an asset traded over a period, usually 24 hours.
Trailing Stop
tradingA dynamic stop-loss order that moves with the price when it goes in your favor.
Transaction
blockchainA transfer of value or data recorded on a blockchain.
Travel Rule
traditional-financeA FATF regulation requiring financial institutions to share sender and receiver information for transactions above a certain threshold.
Treasury (Protocol)
defiFunds controlled by a protocol or DAO, usually held in a multi-sig wallet.
Treasury Bonds
traditional-financeDebt securities issued by the US government.
Trustless
blockchainSystems that work without requiring trust in any single party.
Trustless Bridge
blockchainA cross-chain bridge that relies on cryptographic proofs rather than trusted intermediaries to verify transactions.
TVL (Total Value Locked)
defiThe total value of assets deposited in a DeFi protocol.
TWAP (Time-Weighted Average Price)
tradingAn order execution strategy that breaks a large trade into smaller chunks spread over a set time period to minimize price impact.
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