Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Dictionary
A
Address
Airdrop
Altcoin
ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit)
Atomic Swap
Automated Market Maker (AMM)
Avalanche (Protocol)
B
Bagholder
Block
Block Reward
Block Time
BNB (Binance Coin)
BSC (Binance Smart Chain)
Burn (Token Burn)
Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)
C
Centralized Exchange (CEX)
Chainlink
Cold Wallet
Consensus Mechanism
Cryptography
Cryptocurrency
Custodial Wallet
Cypherpunk
D
DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)
Dapp (Decentralized Application)
Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS)
Difficulty
Digital Signature
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
Double Spending
E
ERC-20 Token
ERC-721 Token
Ethereum
Exit Scam
Explorer (Blockchain Explorer)
Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA)
F
Faucet
FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)
Fork (Hard Fork / Soft Fork)
Fractional Reserve
Fuel (Gas Fees)
G
Gas
Gas Limit
Gas Price
Genesis Block
Governance Token
Gwei
H
Halving
Hard Cap
Hash
Hash Rate
Hot Wallet
HODL
Hybrid Consensus
I
ICO (Initial Coin Offering)
Immutable
Inflation (crypto context)
Initial Exchange Offering (IEO)
Initial Farm Offering (IFO)
Interoperability
J
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
Jump Trading
JOMO (Joy of Missing Out)
Just-in-Time Compilation (JIT)
K
KYC (Know Your Customer)
Key Pair
Kill Switch
Kadena
Komodo (KMD)
L
Layer 1
Layer 2
Ledger
Liquidity Pool
Liquidity Mining
Lightning Network
Limit Order (crypto context)
Litecoin (LTC)
M
Market Cap (crypto context)
Masternode
Memo
Miner
Mining Pool
Mutable
Multi-signature Wallet
MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
N
Node
Nonce
Network Fee
Nakamoto Consensus
Native Token
NFT Marketplace
Null Address
O
Off-chain
On-chain
Oracles
Open Source
Order Book
OTC (Over The Counter)
P
Paper Wallet
Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
Permissionless
Private Key
Proof of Authority (PoA)
Proof of Stake (PoS)
Proof of Work (PoW)
Public Key
Pump and Dump
Q
Quantum Computing
QR Code
Quorum
R
Rekt
Replay Attack
Rewards
Ripple (XRP)
Roadmap
ROI (Return on Investment) (crypto context)
Round
Rug Pull
S
Satoshi Nakamoto
Satoshi (Unit)
Scalability
Scam
Scrypt
Sharding
Shitcoin
Smart Contract
Soft Cap
Soft Fork
Solana (SOL)
Stablecoin
Staking
Supply
Swap
Sybil Attack
T
Token
Tokenomics
Trezor (Hardware Wallet)
Transaction
Transaction Fee
Trustless
Turing Complete
Tether (USDT)
U
Unconfirmed Transaction
Uniswap
Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO)
V
Validator
Vanity Address
Vesting
Volatility (crypto context)
Vote
W
Wallet
Whale
Whitepaper
Wrapped Token
Web3
Wormhole
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)
X
XLM (Stellar Lumens)
XMR (Monero)