Crypto & Finance Glossary

The ability to combine different DeFi protocols like building blocks to create new financial products.

A DeFi lending protocol on Ethereum where you can supply assets to earn interest or borrow against collateral.

Interest calculated on both the initial principal and accumulated interest from previous periods.

A DeFi innovation where liquidity providers choose a specific price range to deploy their capital instead of spreading it across all prices.

The method a blockchain uses to agree on which transactions are valid and in what order.

The math equation x * y = k that most basic AMMs use to price trades.

A measure of average price changes for a basket of consumer goods and services.

The unique blockchain address where a smart contract lives.

When a technical indicator moves in the same direction as price, that's convergence and confirms the trend.

A protocol built on top of Curve Finance that boosts CRV rewards for liquidity providers without requiring them to lock CRV themselves.

Rationalizing a bad investment decision or finding excuses for why a losing position will eventually work out.

A system that performs complex computations off-chain and provides verified results to smart contracts.

Automatically replicating the trades of another trader in real-time.

A price decline of 10% or more from a recent high, but less than the 20% that defines a bear market.

A network of independent blockchains that can communicate with each other through the IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication) protocol.

The original price you paid for an asset, including fees.

A financial contract that acts like insurance against a borrower defaulting on their debt.

The EVM-compatible blockchain built by Crypto.

A margin mode where your entire account balance acts as collateral for all open positions.

The ability to move assets, data, or messages between different blockchain networks.

Protocols that enable smart contracts on different blockchains to communicate with each other.

Rules governing how institutions store and safeguard crypto assets on behalf of clients.

Digital money secured by cryptography and typically running on a blockchain.

Crypto Twitter.

A DEX optimized for stablecoin and pegged asset swaps with extremely low slippage.

The competition between DeFi protocols to accumulate voting power on Curve Finance to direct token emissions to their pools.

Who holds and controls your crypto assets.

Services that securely store cryptocurrency on behalf of institutional investors.

The full version of Ethereum's data scaling plan, which proto-danksharding (EIP-4844) partially implements.

An organization run by code and governed by token holders instead of a traditional management structure.

An application that runs on a blockchain rather than centralized servers.

A private trading venue where large orders are executed without showing up on public order books.

The guarantee that transaction data is published and accessible to anyone who needs to verify it.

A specialized blockchain or service that stores transaction data so anyone can verify it, without handling execution.

A technique that lets nodes verify data availability without downloading all of it by randomly sampling small portions.

A temporary recovery in price during a larger downtrend.

A bearish technical pattern where the 50-day moving average crosses below the 200-day moving average.

Not controlled by any single entity, authority, or server.

A network of distributed GPU and CPU providers that offer computing power for AI training, inference, and rendering without relying on centralized cloud providers like AWS or Google Cloud.

A system where you control your own digital identity using blockchain instead of relying on companies like Google or Facebook.

Financial services built on blockchain without traditional intermediaries.

Emerging regulatory approaches to decentralized finance protocols.

When prices across the economy decline over time, increasing money's purchasing power.

Short for 'degenerate gambler,' now used affectionately in crypto for someone who takes high-risk bets on new coins, yield farms, or NFTs.

When a stablecoin or pegged asset loses its target price.

Crypto projects that use token incentives to build real-world infrastructure like wireless networks, storage, and computing power.

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

Financial contracts whose value is based on an underlying asset.

A wallet that generates all its addresses from a single seed phrase using a mathematical formula.

A development network used for early-stage testing of blockchain protocols and smart contracts.