Crypto Glossary

A consensus algorithm in which a block is validated via mathematical hashing

The set of rules in a network in which participating members comply to allow proper communication.

An open sourced blockchain where participation is public and permissionless

The alphanumeric string which serves as a public receiving address in cryptocurrencies.

A market manipulation method to drive up the price of an asset before profiting by driving it back down.

Abbreviation "Quick Response Code", QR code is a machine readable optical label that stores up to 3Kb of data

Moons are a new way for people to be rewarded for their contributions to r/CryptoCurrency

A shorthand slang for “wrecked”, typically describes bad trades that results in losses.

Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a popular technical indicator used to analyse financial markets. By charting the current and historical closing prices to evaluate overbought/oversold conditions, RSI oscillates between 0 - 100, with <30 indicating oversold and >70 indicating overbought.

A replay attack is a form of network attack when valid data transmission is fraudulently intercepted, then delayed or resent to mislead the receiver into doing what the hacker wants.

A type of digital signature performed in a group where it becomes impossible to determine which member's key in the group were used for the digital signature.

Short for “Return on Investment”, the ratio between the net profit and cost of investing.

Sudden removal of liquidity which typically leads to asset prices crashing from the lack of liquidity to absorb buy/sells.

In cryptography, a salt is the additional random input that is added to password or passphrase to make the password hash unique. It prevents from the hashed output password to be cracked so easily by the hacker.

A unit measure for the smallest divisible unit of a bitcoin. 1 bitcoin is equal to 100 Million Satoshi.

The pseudoym used in publishing the Bitcoin Whitepaper. Identity is unknown.

One of the hashing algoritm used in proof-of-work protocol, scrypt requires more memory in order to performing mining functions

Secondary network or framework built atop an existing blockchain to address transaction speed and scalability issues.

A feature created by Binance which contains reserve funds that can be used to reimburse users in case of a catastrophic event (eg. exchange hack)

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, an independant agency of the US Federal government which oversees federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry.

A value used to initiate generation of pseudorandom number, ususally a string of 12 commen English words.

A soft fork implementation to change the Bitcoin Protocol's transaction format to address Bitcoin's scalability issues whilst introducing new features.

Anomalously large sell order(s) at a single price point that reflects as a "wall" in the order book.

Abbreviation of "Secure Hashing Algoritm - 256", SHA-256 is part of the SHA2 that allows one-way hashing of any data into a 64 character string.

A form of database partitioning which breaks up data into smaller segments.

One who poses as a enthsiastic customer to swindle others as a form of covert advestising.

A coin with no obvious potential value or usage.

A separate blockchain ledger that runs parallel with the primary blockchain.

It is a tactic where hacker overtake the mobile phone to exploit the two-factor authentication and two-step verification.

Self executing contracts on the blockchain without needing human executors or notary.

Targeted fund raising limit of an ICO

A backward-compatible update to a decentralized blockchain protocol.

It is a collection of software development tools in one package installation. It is designed to help developing applications for a specific device or operating system (OS).

Object oriented programming languaged used in various smart contract blockchains.

A Qtum PoS miner using their own coins for staking. Qtum blockchain launched with Solo Stakers and will continue to have this available after offline staking launches.

Cryptocurrency with a price peg to fiat currencies or commodity.

The state of locking-in significant amount of token to participate as a validator of a Proof-of-Stake network.

Double mined blocks that are not included in the blockchain.

Secondary payment channel occuring off-chain

Security Token Offering (STO) refers to a public offering for tokenized digital securities, or in short security tokens traded in cryptocurrency exchanges.

Conditional market order to sell at the next available price, excuted if the price of an asset falls below set-upon limit

A Qtum Core wallet (full node) providing Proof of Stake for delegated addresses, and keeping a small part of each block reward as their fee for providing the staking services.

The name for IOTA's Directed acylic graph (DAG) based transaction settlement layer.

Shorthand for "Test Network", testnets are staging areas for experimenting new blockchain features.

A ticker is a stock or asset symbol that abbreviates the asset name and it can be used as an identifier of the asset.

Blockchain based unit of value issued by an organization, which grants token holders a right to participate in a network.

An event in which tokens are verifiably removed permanently removed from circulation.

An event in which new tokens (ussually on a smart contract platform) are created and distributed to the public.

All the tokens and coins that will exist in a cryptocurrency network.

Total Value Locked (TVL) represents the number of assets that are currently staked in a protocol or the total quantity of underlying amount of funds that a DeFi protocol has secured.

The amount of the cryptocurrency that has been traded in the last 24 hours.

A payment to the network for performing a transaction to be recorded on the blockchain.

It is number of transactions done per second. For example, there are 10 transactions of Bitcoin done in 1-minute. The TPS would be 10 transactions/60 seconds = ~0.17 TPS.

Entirely verifiable, without needing to trust or assume an action is done completely and in good faith.

A "turing complete" code or blockchain refers to the ability to read program-written codes.

(abbv. "UTXO") Coins that are unspent in the wallet. UTXO virtually represents the cryptocurrency one own in the wallet.

"Universal Time Coordinated", can be used interchangably with Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Cryptocurrency tokens with specific utilities on a network besides being used as medium of exchange and investment vehicle.

A block-signing participant of a Proof of Stake blockchain network, whom have significant tokens staked on the network.

On-chain buy sell tax rate that is not fixed, whereby it is possible for contract owners to change at will.

Capital (funds) that is invested in a company that needs a substantial pool of funds to initiate.

The vAMM functions similarly like an AMM but does not contain an actual asset pool.

Software client that handles storage of cryptocurrencies and allows users to send cryptocurrencies.

The address in which cryptocurrency can be stored, sent to and receive.

Meaningless back and forth trading between a single party with the aim of inflating trade volume.

A personally defined list of values to watch over for activity or changes.

Web3 Wallet is the software that allows you to interact with web 3.0.

The smallest fraction of an Ether, with each Ether to 1000000000000000000 Wei.

Someone who holds an enormous amount of cryptocurrency and has the ability to wave the market

An expression used by investors to ask when the value of their investment could buy them a Lamborghini

An expression used by investors to ask when the price of a coin would hit a peak

List of approved participants that will be given access to a token sale (ICO, IEO, STO etc...)

An introductory paper to consicely explain an issue and a possible solution on the issue.

Yield farming involves putting cryptocurrency into a DeFi protocol to collect interest on trading fees.

Acronym for Year-to-date

Another name for "unconfirmed transaction"

Cryptographic proof for 2 parties to verify a value without revealing what the value is.

An acronym for Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge, zk-SNARKs refers to a protocol where one can prove posession of a given piece of information (eg a string or hash) without revealing that information and also without any interaction between both the prover & verifier.