Aave V4 is a modular lending protocol on Ethereum featuring a hub-and-spoke architecture

An Application Binary Interface describes how software encodes contract calls and decodes results, events, and errors.

Making account authorization and behavior programmable, enabling features such as alternative authentication, recovery policies, batching, and sponsored execution.

A ledger design that stores a balance and nonce per address, used by Ethereum and many smart-contract chains.

A U.S. wealth or income test that gates many private crypto and RWA offerings.

Transfer rules that allow only verified accredited or qualified buyers to receive a security token.

U.S. Automated Clearing House batch payments, cheaper and slower than wires.

An intents-based bridge that uses bonded relayers and optimistic verification.

LP capital currently in range and earning fees.

A destination on a chain where funds or tokens can be sent. Format varies by network (hex, bech32, base58).

Dusting your history with lookalike addresses so you copy the wrong recipient next time.

Receiving twice to the same address, which links history. Bitcoin culture treats this as a privacy leak.

Auto-deleveraging. When an insurance fund is empty, the exchange closes opposing profitable positions to pay bankrupt ones.

The risk that the other side only hits your quote when they know more than you.

Aera V3 is a Onchain Capital Allocator protocol active on Base, Morph, Ethereum. Autonomous onchain treasury management protocol for DAOs, built by the team at Gauntlet.

Aerodrome Slipstream is a Dexs protocol active on Base. A central trading and liquidity marketplace on Base.

Aerodrome V1 is a Dexs protocol active on Base. A central trading and liquidity marketplace on Base.

Polygon's interoperability layer aimed at unifying liquidity across Polygon chains.

A router that splits a swap or yield path across many pools to improve the net price.

A coin marketed as controlled or promoted by an autonomous AI agent. Quality varies from experiment to pure meme.

AI Agents is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.

AI Applications is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.

A signing device that never touches the internet, used with QR or SD transaction flows.

A free token distribution to wallets that used a product, held an NFT, or met some other rule.

Using many wallets or wash activity to qualify for a hoped-for token drop.

The trading firm affiliated with FTX, at the center of the 2022 collapse.

A leading Web3 developer platform for RPC, webhooks, and account tooling.

A stablecoin that defends its peg with mint/burn or rebase rules rather than full reserves. Most have failed.

The highest traded price recorded for an asset.

The lowest traded price recorded for an asset.

Alleged SEC Securities is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.

Addresses permitted to mint or trade early. Also a phishing lure word in fake mint sites.

Non-obvious information that can make money if acted on early.

A period when most top altcoins outperform Bitcoin. The CMC Altcoin Season Index measures this over 90 days.

Period when majors lag and smaller caps outperform on percentage terms.

Anti-money-laundering controls: monitoring, reporting, and blocking illicit flows.

Pools price by formula. Central limit order books price by resting orders. Hybrids exist on newer L1/L2 DEXs.

Algorithmic market operations. Protocol-owned strategies that defend a peg or manage liquidity, used by Frax and others.

Terra's flagship yield product that paid high stable yields on UST deposits, accelerating the 2022 death spiral when confidence broke.

A federally chartered U.S. crypto bank and custodian.

A venture firm whose crypto funds back many Layer 1s, DeFi protocols, and consumer apps.

Anemoy Capital is a RWA protocol active on Ethereum, Base, Celo. Anemoy is a web3 native asset manager powered by Centrifuge, providing investors with exposure to a broad spectrum of superior assets

A decentralized and hosted node provider used for RPC and staking services.

Anonymous participant. Default identity on CT and Discord.

A personal code shown in legitimate exchange emails so fakes are easier to spot.

Buying a token with little or no diligence because momentum or a call looks hot.

An oracle project that first-party APIs sign data, reducing middleman feeds.

A blockchain dedicated to one application or ecosystem, trading shared liquidity for control.

Prefer limited allowances and periodic revokes over infinite approvals to every new dapp.

Annual percentage rate. Simple yearly return without compounding.

Annual percentage yield. Yearly return assuming rewards are compounded.

Buying and selling the same risk in two venues to lock a price gap, which helps markets stay aligned.

An Ethereum scaling ecosystem whose Nitro software powers optimistic rollups, including Arbitrum One, with transaction execution off Ethereum and dispute resolution on the parent chain.