Airdrop - Airdrop is when a project sends free coins or tokens to wallet addresses to promote a new asset.
Altcoin(s) - Short for alternative coin(s), could be virtually any digital asset besides Bitcoin (BTC) and stablecoins.
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) - AML covers comprehensive requirements to prevent using financial structures, including crypto platforms, to launder money.
Antminer - Antminer is an ASIC miner brand manufacturer.
AnyTask - AnyTask offers professional digital freelance services.
Automated Clearing House (ACH) - ACH is a computer-based electronic network for processing transactions between participating financial institutions.
Application Programming Interface (API) - API is a computing interface that defines interactions between multiple software intermediaries.
Arbitrage - The simultaneous buying and selling of cryptos in different markets or in derivative forms in order to take advantage of differing prices for the same asset.
Argent - Argent is an Ethereum-based digital asset wallet.
ASIC - An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miner is a device that is designed for the sole purpose of mining digital currency.
Async Art - Async is a blockchain-powered platform where one can create, collect, and trade programmable art: digital paintings split into layers.
Automated Market Maker (AMM) - AMM is a system that makes it possible to list and exchange crypto assets without an order book.
Avocado Guild - Avocado is a blockchain gaming association focused on the P2E business model.
Axie Infinity - Axie is a P2E metaverse/NFT game powered by Ethereum.
Bakkt - Bakkt, owned by NYSE parent company ICE, is a digital asset investment platform.
Bandwidth - In computing, bandwidth is the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path.
BEP-20 - BEP20 is the standard for creating tokens on BSC, or using Binance Smart Chain development.
BigQuery - BigQuery, developed by Google, is a fully-managed, serverless data warehouse that enables scalable analysis over petabytes of data.
Bitcoin.com - Bitcoin.com is a crypto exchange with its own mobile wallet, which features news, charts and more.
Bitcoin Core - Bitcoin Core is a software programmed to decide which blockchain contains valid transactions.
Bitcoin Dominance - Bitcoin Dominance is the ratio of Bitcoin's market-cap compared to the rest of the cryptocurrency market.
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) - A BIP is a design document for introducing features or information to the Bitcoin Network.
Bitcoin Treasuries - Bitcointreasuries.net provides a list of treasuries in publicly traded and other companies.
BitInfoCharts - BitInfoCharts is a crypto market data aggregator showcasing a range of different metrics.
Bitkit - Bitkit is a Bitcoin wallet that "hands you the keys to your money, profile, contacts, and web accounts."
BitLicense - BitLicense is the business license issued by the N.Y. State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS), limited to activities involving the state of NY or a NY resident.
BitsCrunch - BitsCrunch is a blockchain and NFT analytics platform.
Blockchair - Blockchair is a private search engine for Bitcoin and other blockchains, enabling searches for transactions, addresses, blocks, and even embedded text data.
Blockdata - Blockdata provides exclusive insights and access to verified data on over 10.000 blockchain and DLT companies and adopters.
BlockSeer - BlockSeer is a blockchain analytics platform with a visual blockchain explorer.
Bourse - Bourse is a stock market in a non-English-speaking country, especially France.
Brave - Brave is a free and open-source web browser based on the Chromium web browser, which blocks ads and website trackers.
BTC.com - BTC.com provides services including a block explorer, mining pool, highly secure mobile and web wallet.
Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI) - CBECI is a dedicated data source for Bitcoin mining.
CBDC - Central bank digital currency is the digital form of fiat money
Climate Tech - Climate tech encompasses a broad set of sectors which tackle the challenge of decarbonizing the global economy.
Codebase - In software development, a codebase is a collection of source code used to build a particular software system, application, or software component.
Coincheck - Coincheck is a Japanese crypto exchange and digital-wallet founded in 2021.
CoinWarz - CoinWarz is a Bitcoin mining calculator and hashrate calculator for mining profitability since 2013.
Commodity Market - A commodity market is a market that trades primary economic sectors rather than manufactured products, such as cocoa, fruit and sugar. Hard commodities are mined, such as gold and oil.
Consensus - Consensus decision-making is a group decision-making process in which group members develop, and agree to support a decision in the best interest of the whole.
Coub.com - Coub is is a video streaming platform available on the web, iOS and Android, whichallows users to create and share looped audio-visual collages up to ten seconds long.
Cryptobuyer - Cryptobuyer offers multiple financial services in the same place.
CryptoCompare (CC) - CC is a global crypto market data provider.
Crypto Fashion Week - Crypto Fashion Week is the premier event putting the worlds of fashion and digital culture in formation.
Crypto Climate Accord - Crypto Climate Accord is a private sector initiative aimed at making the industry's energy consumption 100% renewable by 2030.
Cryptodiffer - CrypCryptodiffer has a full list of ICOs and IDOs rated by experts, including up to date info about ICO/IDO projects: token metrics, ratings, reviews, competitors, news and announcements
CryptoFees.com - CryptoFees tracks which crypto applications people are paying the most to use.
Cryptography - Cryptography is an essential tool for computer systems to protect information.
CryptoPunks - CryptoPunks are 10,000 uniquely generated NFT characters which were initially claimed for free by anybody with an Ethereum wallet.
Cryptovoxels - Voxels is a virtual world and metaverse, powered by the Ethereum blockchain.
C-Suite - C-suite is a reference to the executive management team of a corporation.
Custodigit - Custodigit provides a gateway to digital assets, from AML and custody storage to smart order routing and best execution – Custodigit covers the entire digital asset value chain.
Cypherpunk- A cypherpunk is any individual advocating widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change.
Daemon - In multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user.
Dai - DAI is an unbiased currency and decentralized stablecoin managed by MakerDAO.
Dark Web - The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets, overlay networks that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access.
Dataset - Dataset, or data set, is a collection of data.
Data Union - A Data Union framework provides a way to bundle a user's real-time data together with others and distribute a share of the revenue when someone pays to access it.
Decacorn - A company worth more than $10 billion.
Decentral Games - Decentral Games is a community-owned metaverse casino ecosystem powered by its native $DG token.
Decentraland- Decentraland is a virtual world created and owned by its users.
Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) - A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is an organization represented by rules encoded as a computer program that is transparent, controlled by the organization members and not influenced by a central entity.
DeFi- DeFi is short for decentralized finance. Or, as some would describe it, automated finance. It can also be more specifically in reference to the DeFi Lending sector.
DEX - A decentralized exchange (DEX) is a cryptocurrency exchange which operates in a decentralized way, without a central authority.
Digital Asset- Any form of content that can be stored digitally. In crypto talk digital assets can be anything in a wide spectrum of products. The ICO has created a new meaning for the words "Digital Asset" as virtually anything can now be tokenized and monetized on the blockchain.
Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) - The Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is used to represent the structure of basic blocks, to visualize the flow of values between basic blocks, and to provide optimization techniques in the basic block.
Distributed Governance - Distributed Governance is the specification of principles and methods which enable scalable coordination for forming consensus and to legitimate decisions. In such systems, all participants are treated equally without the presence of a central actor of hierarchy.
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) - Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is a digital system for recording the transaction of assets in which the transactions and their details are recorded in multiple places at the same time. Unlike traditional databases, distributed ledgers have no central data store or administration functionality.
Dollar Cost Average (DCA) - In reference to Investing, not putting all your money down at once, gradually investing the same amount, for example, every week or every month instead.
Domain Name System (DNS) - The domain name system (DNS) is a naming database in which internet domain names are located and translated into internet protocol (IP) addresses. More simply, the Domain Name System (DNS) is the phonebook of the Internet.
Doodles - Doodles is a PFP NFT Collection.
Dtravel - Dtravel is a blockchain-based platform for the home-sharing economy.
Dust - In crypto, dust means a minute amount of cryptocurrency left in your wallet that is too small to send because its transaction fee would be more than the “dust” left.
ERC-1155 Token - ERC-1155 is a novel token standard that aims to take the best from previous standards to create a fungibility-agnostic and gas-efficient token contract.
ERC-20 - ERC-20 tokens are tokens designed and used solely on the Ethereum platform.
ERC-223 - The ERC-223 token standard allows for the transfer of tokens as Ether (ETH) transactions.
ERC-3643 - ERC-3643, previously known as the T-REX protocol, is an open-source suite of smart contracts that enables the issuance, management, and transfer of permissioned tokens.
ERC-721 - A subset of Ethereum tokens, ERC-721 tokens are the standard for NFTs.
Everledger - Through Everledger, producers, buyers, manufacturers, and retailers can identify the origin, ownership, and characteristic of a product.
ETHDenver - ETHDenver is a member-owned Community Innovation Festival.
Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS) - EPNS is a Notification Protocol which enables users (Wallet Addresses) to receive notifications.
Etherscan - Etherscan allows one to explore and search Ethereum network for transactions, addresses, tokens, prices and more.
ETH Gas Station - Ethgasstation.info provides gas price recommendations, transaction count by gas price, confirmation time by gas price and real time gas use.
Ethash - Ethash is the hashing algorithm used natively for the PoW function in Ethereum-based blockchain currencies.
Exahash - One terahash is a trillion hashes per second, one petahash is a quadrillion hashes per second, and one exahash is one quintillion hashes per second ( a one followed by 18 zeros).
Exempt Market Dealer (EMD) - EMDs are fully registered securities dealers who engage in the business of trading securities to qualified exempt market clients.
Exit Scam - In the crypto market an 'exit scam' is when a leader of a company "pulls a fast one" on their investors.
Exodus - Exodus is a non-custodial crypto wallet platform.
Fasset - Digital asset trading platform Fasset, founded in 2019, is headquartered in London.
Fear & Greed Index - Greed & fear Index refers to two opposing emotional states theorized as factors causing the unpredictability and volatility of the markets.
Firefox - Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation
Firewall - Firewall is a computer network security system that restricts internet traffic.
Flash Crash - A flash crash in the crypto market is the same as in a traditional one: a very rapid, deep, and volatile fall in prices occurring within a very short time period.
Flash Loans - Originated in the realm of DeFi, Flash loans are the first uncollateralized loans that allow anyone to borrow easily and instantly, only if the liquidity is returned to the pool within a single transaction block.
Flippening - The possibility that Ethereum may one day surpass Bitcoin in terms of marketcap value.
Flotation - The process of offering a company's shares for sale on the stock market for the first time.
Fork (Software Development) - A project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software.
Front-run - Frontrunning, using the data of pending transactions to maximize profits before the data is confirmed, is a common prohibited practice in financial markets, like insider trading, which traders use to make blockchain trades based on non-public information.
FunFair Technologies - FunFair specializes in decentralized online gaming powered by blockchain technology.
GameFi - The financialization of gaming through NFTs and DeFi.
Gameplay Galaxy - Gameplay is a Web3-powered gaming ecosystem.
Gas Fees - On any given blockchain network, gas is in reference to the cost of performing a transaction on the network. Miners usually set the price of gas and could decline to complete a transaction if it does not meet their price requirements.
Genesis Block - A genesis block is the first block of a blockchain.
Genius X - Genius X is an accelerator program dedicated to provide successful tools to early-stage Cardano startups.
GitHub - Millions of developers and companies build, ship, and maintain their software on GitHub's development platform.
Go Ethereum (Geth) - Go Ethereum is one of the three original implementations (along with C++ and Python) of the Ethereum protocol. It is written in Go, fully open source and licensed under the GNU LGPL v3.
Governance (protocol) - A blockchain governance relies on a set of protocols and code-based rules.
Governance Tokens - Gives the token holders the ability to vote for and decide on the objective of a protocol, its products, and the direction the project wants to go.
GRNGrid - GRNGrid is an environmentally friendly, scalable and stable layer-1 blockchain with novel DeFi features.
Hackathon - A hackathon is a social coding event that brings computer programmers together to improve upon or build a new software program.
Halving - Bitcoin Halving refers to the number of coins that miners receive for adding new transactions to the blockchain being cut in half every four years. Bitcoin (BTC) will halve again every 210,000 blocks until the last bitcoin is mined in 2140.
Hapi - Hapi is a set of cross chain smart contracts that are embedded into DeFI products that allow them to reach a new security level.
Hashcash - Hashcash is a proof-of-work system used to limit email spam and denial-of-service attacks, and more recently has become known for its use in Bitcoin (and other cryptos) as part of the mining algorithm.
Hash Rate - The hash rate is the measuring unit of the processing power of the Bitcoin network. The Bitcoin network must make intensive mathematical operations for security purposes.
Hedge Fund - A hedge fund is an investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction and risk management techniques to improve performance, such as short selling, leverage, and derivatives.
Highlight - Highlight provides a powerful set of tools for building a web3 community
High Performance Computing (HPC) - HPC is the ability to process data and perform complex calculations at high speeds.
Hivemapper - Hivemapper is a decentralized map built by people using the world's first crypto-enabled dashcam.
HODL - To hold a crypto asset investment instead of trading it or selling it. The term is a spin on the word hold. The term was coined when a drunk Bitcoiner texted his friend that he was going to Hodl instead of hold and it stuck!
Holograph - Holograph is an NFT minting protocol built by CXIP Labs.
HTTPS - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet.
Hyperledger Fabric - Hyperledger Fabric is an enterprise-grade permissioned distributed ledger framework for developing solutions and applications.
Illuvium - Illuvium is an RPG adventure game based on the Ethereum blockchain.
Impermenant Loss (IL) - lL is basically when a liquidity provider (LP) loses funds temporarily due to volatility in a trading pair.
Initial Coin Offering (ICO) - Initial Coin Offering or initial currency offering is a type of funding using cryptocurrencies. It is often a form of crowdfunding, however a private ICO which does not seek public investment is also possible.
Initial Decentralized Exchange Offering (IDO) - An IDO, or “initial DEX offering,” is the latest way for crypto projects to sell their tokens to the public by making it available for retail to invest before the token gets listed on exchanges.
Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) - An IEO, executed by exchanges, is a type of Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which allows companies to raise funds from investors by selling tokens.
Initial Liquidity Offering (ILO) - Inital Liquidity Offering is when an exchange allows a token to launch directly on their platform, such as Uniswap.
Industry 4.0 - The Fourth Industrial Revolution is the ongoing automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices, using modern smart technology.
Infura - Infura's development suite provides instant, scalable API access to the Ethereum and IPFS networks.
Injective - Injective is the first fully decentralized smart-contracts platform optimized for building DeFi applications such as exchanges, derivatives, prediction markets and options.
InsurAce - InsurAce is a DeFi insurance protocol.
Integrated Circuit - An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece of semiconductor material that is normally silicon. Large numbers of tiny MOSFETs integrate into a small chip.
International Money Transfer Operators (IMTOs) are financial companies (but usually not banks) engaged in cross border transfer of funds using either their internal system or access to another cross-border banking network.
Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) - ICP is a decentralized blockchain project developed by the DFINITY Foundation.
Internet of Things (IoT) - IoT describes the network of physical objects—“things”—that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet.
Interplanetary File System (IPFS) - The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol and peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system.
Interoperability - Networks being able to communicate with each other through block chains.
IOST - Internet of Services Token is an enterprise-level blockchain system.
iTrustCapital - iTrustCapital is a crypto IRA software platform.
Jadu - An AR game-world¹ built around virtual items² owned by its community³ of players.
Jambo - Web3 “Super App” Jambo is targeting the African market with a mission to build the bridge between Africa and the rest of the world.
Kadena - Kadena is a proof-of-stake platform that scales.
Kin - Kin internet search service developed by tech firm Better Internet Search and built on Partisia Blockchain.
Know Your Customer (KYC) - The know your customer in financial services, usually in reference to exchanges, requires that professionals make an effort to verify the identity, suitability, and risks involved with maintaining a business relationship.
Komodo - Komodo is a multi-chain infrastructure network.
KyberSwap - KyberSwap allows anyone to convert tokens directly from their wallet in an instant, convenient and secure way. No order books, wrapping or deposits.
Ledn - Ledn is a digital assets platform that provides interest-bearing crypto savings accounts and Bitcoin (BTC)-backed loans.
Legacy Markets - Same as traditional markets, legacy markets are the same as the stock market.
Lens Protocol - Lens is a composable and decentralized social graph that lets creators take ownership of their content.
LGND - LGND empowers artists with rightful compensation and offer fans exclusive encrypted music collections.
Liechtenstein Cryptoassets Exchange (LCX) - LCX Exchange Is a regulated trading venue offering a range of digital currencies.
Liquid Network - The Liquid Network is a sidechain-based settlement network that enables faster, more confidential Bitcoin transactions and the issuance of digital assets.
Liquidity Mining - Liquidity mining, also known as yield farming, is the act of providing liquidity via cryptos to DEXs. .
Lightning Network - Lightning is a decentralized network using smart contract functionality in the blockchain to enable instant payments across a network of participants.
Liquidity Provider (LP) - A Liquidity Provider, or a market maker, in finance, is a company or an individual that quotes both a buy and a sell price in a financial instrument or commodity held in inventory, hoping to make a profit on the bid–ask spread, or turn.
LocalBitcoins - LocalBitcoins is a peer to peer Bitcoin (BTC) marketplace that offers over-the-counter trading of local currency for BTC. Users post advertisements on the website, where they state exchange rates and payment methods for buying or selling BTC.
Lolli - Lolli is a rewards application that pays out Bitcoin (BTC) to its users for shopping at over 1,000 stores.
LooksRare - LooksRare is a community-driven NFT marketplace with rewards for participating.
LootMogul - LootMogul is a multiverse blockchain gaming platform for sports influencers and fans to engage.
Machine Learning - Machine learning is the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience and by the use of data. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence.
Mainnet - A mainnet is a blockchain that is fully developed and deployed
Malware - Malware is any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server, client, or computer network. A wide variety of malware types exist, including computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware, rogue software, and scareware.
Maps.me - Maps.me is a mobile app for Android, iOS and BlackBerry that provides offline maps using OpenStreetMap data. It was formerly known as MapsWithMe. In November 2014, it was acquired by Mail.Ru Group and became part of its My.com brand. In September 2015, the app was open sourced.
Market Capitalization (Marketcap) - Market capitalization, commonly called market cap, is the market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares. Marketcap is equal to the share price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding.
Matcha - Matcha is a DEX platform powered by 0x, where users can swap their tokens peer-to-peer.
Megasoft - Megasoft is a software that offers cloud services, cyber security, mobile enablement & IoT solutions and mobile network services.
Mempool - A mempool (a contraction of memory and pool) is a cryptocurrency node's mechanism for storing information on unconfirmed transactions. It acts as a sort of waiting room for transactions that have not yet been included in a block.
Mesh - A mesh network is a group of connectivity devices.
Metadata - Metadata is the hidden data that accompanies every image, video, and file.
MetaMask - MetaMask is a a crypto wallet and gateway to blockchain applications, with a web browser extension for Ethereum powered apps that is also available on mobile phones.
Metaverse - A three-dimensional virtual environment where users can interact, socialize and progress.
Microgrid - A microgrid is a decentralized group of electricity sources and loads that normally operates connected to and synchronous with the traditional wide area synchronous grid.
Miime - Miime is a marketplace where one can buy and sell NFTs such as characters and items from blockchain games with crypto assets.
Miner Extractable Value (MEV) - A dynamic where blockchain miners are able to extract profits at the expense of users by arbitrarily reordering, including, or excluding transactions within a block.
Mining (Bitcoin) - Mining is the process of adding transaction records to Bitcoin's public ledger of past transactions.
Mining Pool Stats - MiningPoolStats is a platform that lists known mining pools with real-time live pool hashrate distribution.
Monero - Monero is a private, secure, untraceable, decentralised digital currency.
Money Transfer Operators (MTO) - MTOs are financial companies (but usually not banks) engaged in cross border transfer of funds using either their internal system or access to another cross-border banking network.
Money Services Business - Money services businesses transmit or convert money.
Moonbirds - Moonbirds is a group of 10,000 Ethereum-based NFTs that took flight on April 16, 2022
Moralis - Moralis is a platform for building, hosting and scaling Web3 and blockchain applications.
Mt. Gox - Mt. Gox was a bitcoin exchange based in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Launched in July 2010, by 2013 and into 2014 it was handling over 70% of all bitcoin transactions worldwide, as the largest bitcoin intermediary and the world's leading bitcoin exchange.
Multi-Party Computation (MPC) - MPC is a kind of cryptography that splits up the private keys used to signify ownership of cryptos and then scatters the keys in order to keep them safe from hacks.
Multisig - Mulitsig is short for multisignature, which is the requirement for a transaction to have two or more signatures before it can be executed. Multisig provides more security than single-signature transactions.
My Ether Wallet (MEW) - Launched in 2015, MEW is an open-source, free Ethereum non-custodial wallet gateway into Web3 with cross-chain capability.
Mysten Labs - Mysten Labs is building foundational infrastructure to accelerate web3 adoption.
Neobank - A neobank is a type of direct bank that operates exclusively online without traditional physical branch networks.
Network Nervous System (NNS) - The NNS Application lets you engage in Internet Computer governance, create computation cycles, and send and receive ICP utility tokens.
Net Asset Value (NAV) - NAV is the value of an entity's assets minus the value of its liabilities, often in relation to open-end, mutual funds, hedge funds and venture capital funds.
NFT.NYC - NFT.NYC is an annual conference event dedicated to the NFT sector, which debuted in New York City in 2018.
NFTBank - NFTBank is a management tool and valuation engine.
NFTb - NFTb is a marketplace for digital goods. Unlocking the world of digital rights ownership.
Node - A node, in the world of crypto, is a computer that connects to a blockchain network, which supports the network through validation and relaying transactions.
Noob - A noob is someone who has just started learning about SOMETHING.
Non-Fungible Token (NFT) - NFT is a special type of cryptographic token which represents something unique.
Off the Charts - In reference to the price, meaning far higher or better, or outside the normal measurement range.
Okcoin - Okcoin is a crypto exchange founded in 2013.
Omniex - Omniex is a fintech firm providing a suite of solutions for the access, trading, and management of crypto and digital assets.
Omnichannel - Omnichannel involves experience across all channels, including in store, mobile, and online.
On-Chain Analysis - Deals with fundamentals aspect of investing and trading, referring to available on-chain data and info-graphic charts.
Open AI - Open AI is an AI research and deployment company, with a mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
OpenAPI Initiative - The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how APIs are described.
OpenSea - OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace where one can buy, sell, or trade rare digital items and crypto collectibles.
Opera Crypto Browser - Opera Crypto Browser is a free browser with crypto functionality.
Oracle - A oracle, in crypto, is a data provider that connects real world data to the blockchain. The biggest oracle by market-cap at the moment is Chainlink.
Orange Coin - Nickname for Bitcoin (BTC).
Orbs - Orbs is a public blockchain infrastructure designed for mass usage applications and close integration with EVM-based L1's such as Ethereum.
Orca - Orca is a DEX and AMM built on the Solana blockchain.
ORIGYN - ORIGYN uses blockchain and AI to create NFTs.
Outside Interactive - Outside is the company behind Outerverse, “an adventure-minded, wellness-driven alternative to the Metaverse.”
Parcel - Parcel is an NFT-based virtual real estate marketplace.
Paris Blockchain Week (PBW) - PBW is a gathering of global blockchain and digital asset companies.
PartyDAO - PartyDAO builds multiplayer crypto products.
Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P) - Computer networks in which each computer can act as a server for the others, allowing shared access to files without a central server.
Peg - A stablecoin can be pegged to a cryptocurrency, fiat money, or to exchange-traded commodities such as precious metals, cars, or real estate.
Phantom - Phantom is a Solana-based wallet.
Phygital - Fusion of physical and digital.
PizzaDAO - PizzaDAO is the team behind the Rare Pizzas NFT project and Bitcoin Pizza Day celebrations.
Plan ₿ Foundation - Plan ₿ is a joint initiative between the City of Lugano and Tether to accelerate the use of blockchain tech.
Pool Data - Pool is building a Query-to-Data engine allowing analytics to be executed on data sets from multiple Data Unions simultaneously.
PoolTogether - PoolTogether is an Ethereum-based lottery protocol.
Polymarket - Polymarket is an Information Markets platform that lets you trade on the world's most highly-debated topics.
PopEx - PopEx enables artists to earn additional income streams and fans to engage with their favorite artists in new and innovative ways.
Prediction Market - Prediction markets are exchange-traded markets created for the purpose of trading the outcome of events.
Project Liberty - Project Liberty seeks to accelerate the world’s transition to an open, inclusive data economy that shifts power from platforms to people.
Proof of Authority - Proof of Authority (PoA) is an algorithm used with blockchains that delivers comparatively fast transactions through a consensus mechanism based on identity as a stake.
Proof of Burn (PoB) - PoB is a consensus mechanism that requires the users to destroy or "burn" a certain amount of coins in order to participate in the network.
Proof of Stake Consensus (PoS) - PoS is a type of consensus mechanisms by which a blockchain network achieves distributed consensus.
Proof of Work (PoW) - PoW is a form of cryptographic zero-knowledge proof in which one party proves to others that a certain amount of computational effort has been expended for some purpose.
Proof of History (PoH) - With POH, one can create a historical record that proves that an event has occurred at a specific moment in time
Prospectus - A prospectus, in finance, is a disclosure document that describes a financial security for potential buyers.
Query - A query, in computing, is a request for data or information from a database.
QR Code - A QR code is type of a barcode label that contains information about the item to which it is attached.
Quivr - Decentralized social-media platform Quivr enables consumers to create their very own social graph, serving as a “digital résumé” that verifies behaviors and interests via badges
Quorum - A quorum is the minimum number of members of a deliberative assembly necessary to conduct the business of that group.
Rainbow - Rainbow is a design-centric Ethereum wallet.
Ransomware - A type of malware that threatens to publish the victim's data or perpetually block access to it unless a ransom is paid.
Rarible - Rarible is an NFT platform where one can create, sell or collect digital items secured with blockchain.
Reflexivity - Coined by on-chain analyst Willy Woo, Reflexivity is a measure of Bitcoin investors’ tendency to hang on to their orange coins as the BTC price increases.
Remittance - A remittance is a transfer of money, often by a foreign worker to an individual in their home country.
Rerating - When the value of a cryptocurrency rises significantly after lagging behind for a long time.
RFID - Radio-frequency identification uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder, a radio receiver and transmitter.
Ripple Labs - Ripple Labs, Inc. is an American technology company which develops the Ripple payment protocol and exchange network. Originally named Opencoin and renamed Ripple Labs in 2015, the company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Robotics - Robotics is the intersection of science, engineering and technology that produces machines that substitute for (or replicate) human actions.
Rocket Pool - Rocket Pool is a decentralized Ethereum staking pool.
Rollups - Optimistic Rollups (ORs) are one type of layer 2 constructions that do not run on Ethereum second layer but on top of it. This enables running smart contracts at scale while still being secured by Ethereum.
Sarcophagus - Sarcophagus is an autonomous, incentivized dead man's switch dApp built on Ethereum and Arweave.
Sandbox - A sandbox is a testing environment that isolates untested code changes and outright experimentation from the production environment or repository.
Satoshi - a satoshi is the smallest denomination of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC).
S&P Down Jones Indices - S&P Dow Jones Indices is a global leader in providing investable and benchmark indices to the financial markets, and a subdivision of S&P Global Inc. launched in 2012.
Scam Ads - Ads that attempt to lure people to send Bitcoin in return for double on platforms such as You-Tube are still running active in the crypto sphere.
Second Layer Solutions - Built on top of the blockchain, second layer solutions are tools that make the chain more more scalable and efficient, particularly for smaller transactions. One example of a second layer solution is Lightning Network.
Security Token - Security tokens are basically contracts, in digital or liquid form, for fractions of an asset that already has value. For example, a painting, land, or a stock could have security tokens with multiple owners.
Security Token Offering - A security token offering (STO) / tokenized IPO is a type of public offering in which tokenized digital securities, known as security tokens, are sold in cryptocurrency exchanges, or security token exchanges.
Securrency - Seccurency is a financial markets infrastructure technology company focused on enhancing capital formation and stimulating global liquidity.
SegWit - Segregated Witness, or SegWit, is the name used for an implemented soft fork change in the transaction format of Bitcoin. The formal title "Segregated Witness" had Bitcoin Improvement Proposal number BIP141.
Sentiment - Market sentiment has to do with the overall consensus. How the majority feel about a given project can also be described as the market sentiment.
Sentry - Self-hosted and cloud-based error monitoring that helps software teams discover, triage, and prioritize errors in real-time.
Separately Managed Account (SMA) - An SMA is a portfolio created by a financial advisor or investment firm for a single investor, while on exchange-traded funds (ETF), investors own shares of the fund instead of the underlying securities.
Service Level Agreement (SLA) - An SLA is a commitment between a service provider and a client. Particular aspects of the service – quality, availability, responsibilities – are agreed between the service provider and the service user.
Sharding - Sharding is a type of database partitioning that separates very large databases into smaller, faster, more easily managed parts called data shards. The word sharding means a small part of a whole.
Shill - A shill is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a project or protocol without disclosing that they have a relationship with the organization.
Sim-Swap Attack - A SIM swap hack is a type of account takeover that generally targets a weakness in two-factor authentication and two-step verification in which the second factor or step is a text message or call placed to a mobile telephone.
Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) - SEPA is a payment integration initiative of the Eu for simplification of bank transfers denominated in euro.
Slippage - Slippage is when traders have to settle for a different price than what they initially requested due to a movement in price between the time the order (say for Bitcoin) enters the market and the execution of a trade.
Smart Contract - A smart contract is a computer program or a transaction protocol which is intended to automatically execute, control or document legally relevant events and actions according to the terms of a contract or an agreement.
Socios - Socios is a European football (soccer) fan influence & rewards app and fan token partner of the world's biggest sports & esports organizations.
SolanaFM - SolanaFM is a Solana blockchain explorer that offers indexing and analytical services.
Solanalysis - Solanalysis is a data platform for NFTs based on Solana.
Solana Pay - Solana Pay is a peer-to-peer payments infrastructure designed to give online merchants and point-of-sale providers the ability to accept and settle payment transactions in a variety of digital assets.
Solidity - Solidity is a statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on Ethereum.
Somnium Space - Somnium Space is a social virtual reality world built atop the Ethereum blockchain.
Sorare - Sorare is an Ethereum-based fantasy soccer game where players buy, sell, trade, and manage a virtual team with digital player cards (NFTs).
Soulbound Tokens (SBT) - The Soulbound Token, or SBT, a new kind of token standard that could potentially form an essential building block for the Decentralized Society (DeSoc).
SPACE - SPACE is a metaverse platform for commerce.
Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) - A SPAC is a “blank check” shell corporation designed to take companies public without going through the traditional IPO process.
Special Purpose Depository Institution - Wyoming-chartered special purpose depository institutions (“SPDIs”) are banks that receive deposits and conduct other activity incidental to the business of banking, including custody, asset servicing, fiduciary asset management, and related activities.
Spoofing - Spoofing is a disruptive algorithmic trading activity employed by traders to outpace other market participants and to manipulate markets.
SQL - SQL, Structured Query Language, is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system, or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system.
Stablecoins - Stablecoins are cryptoassets that can be pegged to a dollar, cryptocurrency, fiat money, or to exchange-traded commodities.
Staking - Staking is the process of actively participating in transaction validation (similar to mining) on a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain.
Staking Rewards - Staking Rewards is a platform that provides data for staking and crypto-growth tools.
State of the Dapps - State of the Dapps is a platform that lists dApps built on different blockchains.
STEPN - STEPN is a Web3 running APP with social and gaming elements.
Stock-To-Flow - Stock-To-Flow is a historic Bitcoin (BTC) prediction model devised by PlanB that is as old as Bitcoin itself.
StormX - StormX is a crypto app that allows users to earn rewards and cashback for their fiat purchases from companies like Uber, eBay and Microsoft.
Strike - Strike is a mobile payments app, built on top of the Bitcoin network, that allows users to send and receive money anywhere.
Swash - Swash enables internet users, developers, and businesses to cultivate new realities of data ownership and value creation through new incentivization streams.
Sweat Economy - Sweat is a health & fitness app that allows users to earn SWEAT tokens for moving, using the M2E model.
Substrate - Substrate is the blockchain framework for the Polkadot ecosystem.
Talisman - Talisman is a community-owned Polkadot Web3 wallet.
Taproot - Taproot is an upgrade to Bitcoin that facilitates more private and secure transactions.
Technical Analysis (TA) - TA forecasts the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume, also with the help of ai and charts.
Teleport - Teleport is a rideshare app built on Solana that enables different companies, drivers, and riders to work together.
Testbed - A testbed is used across many disciplines to describe experimental research and new product development platforms and environments.
Testnet - A testnet is a blockchain that is used for testing.
Tether - Tether is an asset-backed crypto stablecoin.
The Sandbox - The Sandbox is a virtual world where players can play, build, own, and monetize their virtual experiences.
Token - Crypto tokens are digital assets that are on its own blockchain and represent some type of utility.
TokenScript - TokenScript is a programmable smart token interface that accelerates use cases across Web2 and Web3.
Tower Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) - Tower BFT is a mechanism used in distributed systems.
True Tickets - True is a blockchain-based digital ticketing platform.
Total Value Locked (TVL) - TVL represents the amount of assets that are currently being staked in a specific protocol.
TradeTech - TradeTech refers to the use of technology, innovation, and software to support and digitally transform the trade finance industry.
Transcoding - Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital conversion of one encoding to another, such as for movie data files, audio files, or character encoding.
Travel Rule - The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), or Travel Rule, requires all financial institutions to pass on certain information.
Trezor - Trezor is a non-custodial digital asset wallet, which even allows trades through MoonPay.
Truffle - Truffle Suite is a world class development environment for blockchain dApps and smart contracts.
Trust Wallet - Trust Wallet is a crypto wallet that supports BEP2, ERC20 and ERC721 tokens.
Unicorn - A unicorn is a business valued at over $1 billion.
Unstoppable Domains - Unstoppable Domains provides Web3 domains.
Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) - USSD is a communications protocol used by GSM cellular telephones to communicate with the mobile network operator's computers.
Upland - Upland is a metaverse superapp.
USDC - USDC is a stablecoin issued by financial services firm Circle.
USDT - USDT is a stablecoin issued by financial services firm Tether
VeVe - VeVe is an app-based marketplace for premium licensed digital collectibles.
Web3 - Web3 is a new iteration of the internet that incorporates decentralization based on blockchains.
Web3 Domain Alliance (WDA) - WDA is a member-led and-driven organization dedicated to improving the technological and public policy environments for users of Web3 naming services
Web3 Summit (WOW) - Wow is organized around a single rallying call: to facilitate a fully functional and user-friendly decentralized web.
Whatsminer - Whatsminer is a mining hardware brand developed by MicroBT.
Whitehat (hacker) - Whitehats are network users who find vulnerabilities in software.
Whitepaper - A whitepaper is a persuasive, authoritative, in-depth report on a specific topic that presents a problem and provides a
solution.
XX Messenger - XX Messenger is a quantum-resistant, encrypted private messaging app.
Zapper - Zapper is a DeFi platform that features a dashboard for managing, tracking investments.
Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) - ZKP is a method of authenticating the