Essential Cryptocurrency Terminology Dictionary (A-Z Order · 100 Words Compiled)#
1-10 Basic Concepts#
- ATH - All-Time High
- Aggregators - Aggregators: A new type of decentralized exchange platform that integrates liquidity pools from multiple exchanges to achieve optimal transaction prices.
- APY - Annual Percentage Yield: The actual annual return including compound interest.
- Arbitrage - Cross-platform arbitrage: A profit strategy based on buying low and selling high.
- APR - Annual Percentage Rate: The annual return rate excluding compound interest.
- AMM - Automated Market Makers: An algorithm-driven liquidity management model.
- AML - Anti-Money Laundering: Regulatory measures to prevent the legitimization of illegal funds.
- AMA - Ask Me Anything: A direct communication format between the team and the community.
- BD - Business Development: Operational functions covering partnership connections and user acquisition.
- Byzantine Fault Tolerance - The consensus problem in distributed systems: The challenge of balancing decision efficiency and consistency as the number of nodes increases.
11-20 Consensus Mechanisms#
- Impossible Triangle - The blockchain trilemma: The difficulty of optimizing decentralization/security/ scalability simultaneously.
- Super Mario - High-control projects: Presenting a K-line pattern with severe fluctuations.
- Genesis Block - The initial block of a blockchain network.
- Collateral - Collateral assets: The security for debt fulfillment.
- CEX - Centralized Exchange: An asset custodial trading platform.
- CeFi - Centralized Finance: The crypto version of traditional financial institutions.
- veToken - Governance token model: Acquiring voting rights through locking assets (e.g., CRV/BAL).
- Governance Token - Governance Token: A token that grants decision-making power to the protocol.
- Token Weighted Voting - A governance model where the amount of tokens held determines voting power.
- Time Weighted Voting - A governance mechanism where the duration of locked assets affects decision-making power (e.g., UNI/COMP).
21-30 Decentralized Ecosystem#
- Doxx - Real-name disclosure / Undoxx: Identification of anonymous projects.
- DYOR - Do Your Own Research.
- Floor Price - The lowest listing price of an NFT series.
- DAO - Decentralized Autonomous Organization: An on-chain governance entity based on smart contracts.
- DEX - Decentralized Exchange: User self-custodied asset trading.
- DeFi - Decentralized Finance.
- DApp - Decentralized Application.
- EVM - Ethereum Virtual Machine: The operating environment for smart contracts.
- ERC-1155 - Multi-instance NFT protocol: Supports batch generation of assets in the same series.
- ETF - Exchange-Traded Fund: A financial product that tracks the price fluctuations of underlying assets.
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