Crypto & Finance Glossary

A cryptocurrency exchange that operates without a central authority, using smart contracts to facilitate trades.

A tool that searches across multiple decentralized exchanges to find you the best price for a token swap.

Holding an investment through extreme volatility without selling.

An automatic recalibration of how hard it is to mine a new block, ensuring consistent block times regardless of how much mining power joins or leaves the network.

When smart money sells their holdings to retail investors at high prices after a big run-up.

Spreading investments across different assets to reduce risk.

A portion of a company's profits distributed to shareholders.

An attack where hackers redirect a legitimate website's domain to a malicious server.

Investing a fixed amount at regular intervals regardless of price.

A measure of the U.

An attack where someone spends the same cryptocurrency twice.

A sudden, significant price drop usually caused by large sell-offs.

Sending tiny amounts of crypto (dust) to many wallet addresses to track and de-anonymize them.

A sale where the price starts high and gradually decreases until someone buys.

A decentralized exchange focused on perpetual futures trading.

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A company's profits, typically reported quarterly.

An Ethereum protocol that lets you restake your staked ETH to secure additional services and earn extra yield.

A design document proposing new features or changes to Ethereum.

The Ethereum Improvement Proposal that introduced blob transactions (proto-danksharding) in the Dencun upgrade of March 2024.

The mathematical foundation behind Bitcoin and Ethereum's key generation system.

A crypto wallet integrated directly into an application so users don't need to install a separate wallet app or browser extension.

The plan for how new tokens are released into circulation over time.

A naming system on Ethereum that lets you replace your long wallet address with a human-readable name like 'yourname.

A fixed period of time in a blockchain's operation, typically used in proof-of-stake networks.

Ownership stake in a company, represented as shares of stock.

A multi-token Ethereum standard that can handle both fungible and non-fungible tokens in a single contract.

The technical standard for tokens on Ethereum.

The Ethereum standard for account abstraction without changing the core protocol.

A token standard that gives NFTs their own smart contract wallets (token-bound accounts).

The Ethereum token standard for non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

A mechanism that lets users withdraw their funds from a Layer 2 rollup directly through the Layer 1 chain, even if the rollup operators go offline or censor transactions.

An investment fund that trades on stock exchanges like a regular stock.

The net amount of money entering or leaving exchange-traded funds, closely watched in crypto since spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in January 2024.

A DeFi protocol that creates USDe, a synthetic dollar backed by staked ETH and a corresponding short futures position.

The protocol behind USDe, a synthetic dollar that maintains its peg through delta-neutral hedging.

A blockchain platform that enabled smart contracts and decentralized applications.

Data emitted by smart contracts during execution that gets stored in transaction receipts.

Ethereum Virtual Machine.

A marketplace where cryptocurrencies are bought and sold.

The part of a blockchain that processes transactions and runs smart contracts.

The people who buy when insiders or early investors are selling.

When project developers abandon a project after raising money, disappearing with investors' funds.

A type of moving average that gives more weight to recent prices, making it react faster to new information than a simple moving average.

A token launch where everyone has equal opportunity to buy, with no pre-mine, team allocation, or insider advantages.

A Layer 1 blockchain using a DAG-based consensus mechanism called Lachesis for high speed and low fees.

The ratio between a token's fully diluted valuation and its current market cap.

A metric that measures market sentiment on a scale from extreme fear to extreme greed.

The central bank of the United States that sets monetary policy.

A phrase used after sharing an insight or take that the speaker believes is deeply important but not widely recognized.