ACH - Automated Clearing House
AI - Artificial Intelligence
AKA - Also Known As
Altcoin(s) - Alternative Coin(s)
AMM - Automated Market Maker
AML - Anti-Money Laundering
APAC - Asia Pacific
API - Application Programming Interface
APY - Annual Percentage Yield
AR - Augmented Reality
ASIC - Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
ATH - All Time High (In reference to the price)
ATM - Automated Teller Machine
AUM - Assets Under Management
BaaS - Blockchain-as-a-Service
BAYC - Bored Ape Yacht Club
BIP - Bitcoin Improvement Proposal
BP - Basis Points
B2B - Business to Business
B2C - Business to Consumer
B2G - Business to Government
CAGR - Compound Annual Growth Rate
CAPTCHA - Completely Automated Pubic Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
CBDC - Central Bank Digital Currency
CEO - Chief Executive Officer
CIO - Chief Investment Officer
CIS - Commonwealth of Independent States
CFO - Chief Financial Officer
CFTC - Commodity Futures Trading Commission
CMO - Chief Marketing Officer
COO - Chief Operating Officer
CrossFi - CrossFi is a combination of traditional finance's stability and blockchain technology's transparency and security.
CRM - Customer Relations Management
CSO - Chief Strategy Officer
CTO - Chief Technical Officer
DAO - Decentralized Autonomous Organization
dApp - Decentralized Application
DCA - Dollar Cost Average
DeFi- Decentralized Finance
DEX - Decentralized Exchange
DLT - Distributed Ledger Technology
DPT - Digital Payment Token
DNS - Domain Name System
DYOR - Do Your Own Research
dWallet - Decentralized Wallet
EBITDA - Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization
ENS - Ethereum Name Service
EoT - Economy of Things
ERCOT - Electric Reliability Council of Texas
ESG - Environmental, Social, and Governance
EVM - Ethereum Virtual Machine
EU - European Union
EV - Electric Vehicle
FATF - Financial Action Task Force
FCA - Financial Conduct Authority
FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Fintech - Financial Technology
FINMA - The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority
FOMO - Fear of Missing Out
FEZ - Free Economic Zone
Forex - Foreign Exchange
FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
GAAP - Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
GameFi - Game Finance
GDP - Gross Domestic Product
GPU - Graphic Processing Unit
IBC - Inter-Blockchain Communications
ICO - Initial Coin Offering
IDO - Initial DEX (Decentralized Exchange) Offering
IEO - Initial Exchange Offering
ILO - InitIal Liquidity Offering
IoT - Internet of Things
IP - Intellectual Property
IPFS - InterPlanetary File System
IPO - Initial Public Offering
ISO - International Organization for Standards
ISPO - Initial Stake Pool Offering
IT - Information Technology
IRA - Individual Retirement Account
KYC - Know Your Customer
L1 - Layer-One
LaaS - Liquidity-as-a-Service
LLC - Limited Liability Company
LP - Liquidity Provider
MIT - Massachusets Institute of Technoloy
Marketcap - Market Capitalization
MC - Master of Ceremonies
MEV - Maximum Extractable Value
MOU - Memorandum of Understanding
MPC - Multi-Party Computations
M&A - Merger & Acquisition
M2E - Move-to-Earn
Multisig - Multisignature
NASDAQ - National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Questions
NFT - Non-Fungible Token
NYDFS - New York Department of Financial Services
NYSE - New York Stock Exchange
OCC - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
OTC - Over-the-Counter
P&L - Profit & Loss
PFP - Profile Picture
PoS - Proof-of-Work
PoS - Proof-of-Stake
PSP - Payment Service Provider
P2E - Play-to-Earn
P2P - Peer-to-Peer
QR - Quick Response
R&D - Research and Development
ROI - Return On Investment
RSI - Relative Strength Index
SAAS - Software as a Service
SAFT - Simple Agreement for Future Tokens
SDK - Software Development Kit
SDN - Specially Designated Nations (in reference to sanctions)
SEA - Southeast Asia
SEC - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
SEPA - Silngle Euro Payments Area
SIPC - Securities Investor Protection Corp.
SIM - Subscriber Identity Number
SMB - Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
SME - Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
SPAC - Special Purpose Acquisition Company.
SPAC - Special Purpose Acquisition Company
SQL - Structured Query Language
Subnet - Sub Network
tbh - To Be Honest
TLDR - Too Long Didn't Read
TMC - Total Market Capitalization
TPS - Transactions Per Second
TradFi - Traditional Finance
TSX - Toronto Stock Exchange
TX - Transaction
TVL - Total Value Locked
UAE - United Arab Emirates
UGC - User-Generated Content
UI - User Interface
USB - Universal Serial Bus
USSD - Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
UTXO - Unspent Transaction Outputs
UX - User Experience
VASP - Virtual Asset Service Provider
VAT - Value Added Tax
VC - Venture Capital [Firms]
VFX - Visual Effects
VIP - Very Important Person
VPN - Virtual Private Network
WAGMI - We're All Going To Make It
W3TLD - Web3 Top-Level Domain