A slang label for selling quickly under stress.

A crypto-native investment firm known for research and large protocol bets.

2017 multisig library bugs that froze or drained large amounts of ether, a warning about shared contract dependencies.

A regulated U.S. trust company that issues PYUSD and has issued other dollar tokens for partners.

An ERC-4337 contract that sponsors gas so a user can pay in tokens or transact for free under a policy.

A state channel used for repeated payments, the Lightning Network being the best-known example.

The network that moves value: card schemes, RTGS, stablecoins, or Lightning.

A settlement method where two currency transfers are linked so one cannot complete alone.

A payments company that offers crypto buying and issued PYUSD, a dollar stablecoin with Paxos.

In-app crypto buy/sell and PYUSD distribution inside a mainstream payments brand.

Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance. A classic voting protocol that finalizes if fewer than one third of voters are dishonest.

A network where nodes talk to each other directly instead of through a single server.

The target price a stablecoin or wrapped asset is designed to hold.

A protocol for trading future yield separately from principal by wrapping yield-bearing positions into standardized yield tokens and splitting their economic rights into dated principal and yield tokens.

Pendle V2 is a Yield protocol active on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Monad. Pendle Finance is a protocol that enables the trading of tokenized future yield on an AMM system.

China's central bank and the issuer of the digital yuan.

An Ethereum frog memecoin that defined the 2023 meme wave and spawned endless copies.

A DLT where only approved nodes validate. Common in bank and enterprise pilots, unlike public permissionless chains.

Uniswap's signature-based allowance system that reduces some approval friction and introduces new signing surfaces.

When perpetual futures trade rich to spot, usually paid by longs via funding.

A futures contract with no expiry. Funding payments keep it near the spot index.

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

The postwar habit of invoicing oil in dollars, the backdrop for petroyuan and de-dollarization talk.

The idea of invoicing oil in yuan instead of dollars. A geopolitical narrative more than a single product.

Profile-picture NFT used as an avatar and social signal.

The leading Solana-first wallet, later expanded to other chains.

Phantom SOL is a Liquid Staking protocol active on Solana. With Phantom, you can easily stake your SOL natively or opt for liquid staking—whatever suits your strategy.

Phase Delegation is a Liquid Staking protocol active on Solana. pdSOL is a multi-validator liquid staking pool on Solana

Tricking you into signing a bad transaction or handing over a seed via fake sites, DMs, or ads.

A fast Solana trading terminal aimed at snipers and trench execution.

The romance-investment scam pattern that funnels victims into fake crypto platforms.

Pionex is the best crypto trading bot currently available, 24/7 trading automatically in the cloud.

Brazil's instant-payment system, often cited in BRICS and CBDC conversations as a public rail.

An earlier L2 design that commits roots to L1 and relies on exits. Largely superseded by rollups.

Games that pay tokens for play. Often collapse when token emissions outrun new player demand.

Plume Vaults is Plume's flagship real-world asset protocol, built to enable onchain access to real world yield through structured vaults

A massive Asian high-yield crypto scam whose unwind was linked to large Bitcoin sell pressure lore in 2019 to 2020.

PointPay is a centralized exchange listed with country Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Off-chain scores that hint at a future airdrop. They are not tokens and can be changed or cancelled.

Farming off-chain points for a hoped airdrop instead of immediate token emissions.

A token whose narrative is a politician, campaign, or partisan meme. Extreme volatility and ethics conflicts are the point, not utility.

Poloniex is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange platform where users can deposit, trade, and withdraw a wide range of digital assets…

A 2021 cross-chain exploit notable for the attacker's later return of funds.

Polygon Bridge is a Chain protocol active on Ethereum. Ethereum sidechain

The team building Polygon's scaling and AggLayer roadmap.

The leading crypto prediction market, built on Polygon and later expanded.

Polymarket International is a Prediction Market protocol active on Polygon. Polymarket is an information markets platform that lets you trade on the world’s most highly-debated topics (e.g.

A cryptographic commitment to a polynomial that lets a prover substantiate selected evaluations without sending the entire polynomial.

Returns paid mainly from new capital rather than productive cash flow. Many farms drift here.

How much notional an AMM can trade before price moves a given percent.

A Solana memecoin based on the pop-cat meme, traded as a pure attention asset.

Portal is a Bridge protocol active on Ethereum, Algorand, Binance. A token bridge built on Wormhole.