Glossary & Crypto Primer

Comprehensive cryptocurrency glossary with 99 terms and an educational primer

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Address (Cryptocurrency Address)

Air-gapped

Airdrop

Altcoin

Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

API (Application Programming Interface)

Arbitrage

ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit)

Atomic Swap

Binance

Bitcoin (BTC)

BitLicense

Blockchain

Bridge (Cross-Chain Bridge)

Broker-Dealer (Crypto Context)

Burn/Burning (Coin Burn)

CeFi (Centralized Finance)

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission)

Chain (Blockchain Network)

Circulating Supply

Coin

Coinbase (Exchange)

Cold Storage

Cold Wallet / Cold Storage

Consensus (Consensus Algorithm)

Consensus Mechanism

Cryptography

DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)

dApp (Decentralized Application)

DeFi (Decentralized Finance)

DEX (Decentralized Exchange)

Digital Asset

Double Spend

DYOR (Do Your Own Research)

ERC-20

Ethereum (ETH)

Exchange (Cryptocurrency Exchange)

Fiat Currency

FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network)

Fork (Blockchain Fork)

Futures (Crypto Futures)

Gas (Ethereum Gas)

Genesis Block

Halving (Bitcoin Halving)

Hard Fork

Hardware Wallet

Hash / Hashing

Hash Rate / Hash Power

HODL

Hot Wallet

Initial Coin Offering (ICO)

KYC (Know Your Customer)

Layer 1 (L1)

Layer 2 (L2)

Lightning Network

Liquidity

Liquidity Pool

MakerDAO

Market Capitalization (Market Cap)

Mining

Mixer / Tumbler

Mooning

Multisignature (Multisig)

NFT (Non-Fungible Token)

Node

OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control)

Oracle

OTC (Over-The-Counter)

Peer-to-Peer (P2P)

Proof of Keys

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Proof of Work (PoW)

Public Key / Private Key

Ripple (Payment Protocol / Company)

Rug Pull

Satoshi (Unit)

Satoshi Nakamoto

Scaling Solution

SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)

Security (Cryptoasset as a Security)

Self-Custody / Self-Hosted Wallet

Sharding

Smart Contract

Stablecoin

Staking

Swap

Token

Tokenization

Transaction Fee

Travel Rule

Trustless

Validator

Volatility

Wallet

Web3

Whitelist (ICO context)

Whitelist / Blacklist

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