Crypto Glossary

This is a glossary of terms related to Crypto and Blockchain maintained by BoomFi.

Last Updated May 2024

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A
B
BitcoinBitcoin
Block RewardBlock Reward
BlockchainBlockchain
Blockchain ExplorerBlockchain Explorer
BountyBounty
C
CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency)
Centralized Exchange (CEX)
Circulating Supply
Collateral
Confirmation Time
Crypto Payment Gateway
Crypto Payment Link
Crypto Payout
Custodial Payment Gateway
D
DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)
DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging)
DYOR (Do Your Own Research)
Dapp (Decentralized Application)
DeFi (Decentralized Finance)
Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
E
ERC-20
EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine)
Ethereum
F
FPS (Faster Payments Service)
Fiat
Forex (FX)
Fungibility
G
GAS
GM (web3 slang)
GWEI
Genesis Block
H
HODL
Halving
Hash
Hash Rate
I
ICO (Initial Coin Offering)
IDO (Initial DEX Offering)
IEO (Initial Exchange Offering)
IPFS (InterPlanetary File System)
Interoperability
Isolated Margin
K
KYB (Know Your Business)
KYC (Know Your Customer)
L
Layer 1
Layer 2
Layer 3
Ledger
Lightning Network
Limit Order
Liquid Staking
Liquidity Provider
Listing
M
Mainnet
Market Cap
Maximum Supply
Metaverse
Minting
N
NFT (Non-Fungible Token)
NFT Floor Prices
Node
Non-Custodial Payment Gateway
O
Off-Chain
Off-Ramp
On-Chain
On-Ramp
Order Book
P
Peer to Peer (P2P)
Phishing
PoR (Proof of Reserves)
PoS (Proof of Stake)
PoW (Proof of Work)
Ponzi Scheme
Price Action
Private Key
Public Key
Pump and Dump
R
RSI (Relative Strength Index)
RWAs (Real-World Assets)
Real-time payments (RTP)
Recurring Crypto Payments
Rekts
Rug Pull
S
SAFU (Secure Asset Fund for Users)
SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)
SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area)
SPL (Solana Program Library)
SRC-20 Tokens
SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication)
Satoshi
Satoshi Nakamoto
Seed Phrase
Sharding
Slippage
Smart Contract
Smart Contract Wallet
Snapshot
Social Recovery Wallet
Solidity
Stablecoins
Staking Pool
T
TGE (Token Generation Event)
TPS (Transactions Per Second)
TVL (Total Value Locked)
Testnet
Token
Token Lockup
Token Sale
Tokenomics
Total Supply
Transaction Hash
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Y
Z
VASP License Overview
Virtual IBAN
Virtual Machine
Volatility
WAGMI (We're All Going to Make It)
WETH (Wrapped Ether)
Wallet
Wash Trading
Web1
Web2
Web3
Whale
Whitelist
Yield Farming
ZK-Rollup
ZK-SNARK (Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge)
ZK-STARKs (Zero-Knowledge Scalable Transparent Arguments of Knowledge)
Zero Knowledge Proof
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