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Crypto glossary

Plain-English definitions of 56+ terms you'll see across CEGOAT and the wider crypto world.

A

Airdrop: Free distribution of tokens to qualifying wallets.
AMM: Automated market maker — DEX using pool pricing.
APR: Annual percentage rate, before compounding.
APY: Annual percentage yield, after compounding.
Ask: Lowest price a seller will accept right now.

B

Bid: Highest price a buyer will pay right now.
Block: Batch of transactions added to the chain.
Bridge: Protocol for moving assets between chains.
Burn: Permanently removing tokens from circulation.

C

Candle: OHLC bar showing price over a time interval.
Cold wallet: Wallet kept offline for higher security.
Collateral: Asset pledged to borrow another asset.
Custody: Holding of crypto on behalf of an owner.

D

DAO: Decentralized autonomous organization.
DeFi: Decentralized finance — peer-to-peer financial apps.
DEX: Decentralized exchange.
Drawdown: Peak-to-trough fall in portfolio value.

E

ETF: Exchange-traded fund holding the underlying asset.

F

Fee: Cost paid to trade or move on-chain.
Fork: Blockchain split creating two histories.
Funding rate: Periodic perp payment between longs and shorts.

G

Gas: Fee to execute computation on Ethereum-style chains.

H

Halving: Bitcoin block reward halving every ~4 years.
Hash: Output of a cryptographic one-way function.
Hot wallet: Wallet connected to the internet.

I

ICO: Initial coin offering — primary token sale.
Impermanent loss: LP loss from pool rebalancing vs HODL.

K

KYC: Know your customer — identity verification.

L

L1: Layer 1 blockchain (e.g. Bitcoin, Ethereum).
L2: Layer 2 scaling solution on top of an L1.
Leverage: Borrowed exposure beyond your collateral.
Limit order: Order to trade only at a specified price.
Liquidation: Forced closure of a margin position.

M

Maker: Order that rests on the book providing liquidity.
Mainnet: Live production network of a blockchain.
Margin: Funds posted to back a leveraged position.
Market order: Order to trade at best available price.

N

Nonce: One-time number used in cryptography or txns.
NFT: Non-fungible token — unique on-chain asset.

O

Oracle: Service feeding off-chain data on-chain.

P

Perp: Perpetual futures contract — no expiry.
Private key: Secret key that controls a wallet.
PoS: Proof of stake consensus mechanism.
PoW: Proof of work consensus mechanism.

R

Restaking: Reusing staked ETH for additional security.
Rollup: L2 batching txns and posting proofs to L1.

S

Seed phrase: Mnemonic that recovers a wallet.
Slippage: Difference between expected and filled price.
Smart contract: Self-executing on-chain program.
Spot: Immediate-delivery market for the asset.
Stablecoin: Token pegged to a fiat currency.
Staking: Locking tokens to secure a PoS network.

T

Taker: Order that crosses the book consuming liquidity.
TVL: Total value locked in a protocol.

V

Validator: Node that proposes/attests blocks in PoS.

Y

Yield farming: Chasing returns across DeFi protocols.