Arbitrum Bridge is a Canonical Bridge protocol active on Ethereum. The Arbitrum Bridge acts as a secure channel connecting Ethereum's mainnet (Layer-1) with the Arbitrum Rollup (Layer-2).

Cathie Wood's firm, partner on ARKB, a spot Bitcoin ETF.

An intel platform that deanonymizes and labels on-chain entities for research and trading.

Armitage by Wintermute is a Risk Curators protocol active on Ethereum. Armitage is Wintermute's onchain vault curation arm, applying institutional-grade risk management and trading infrastructure to DeFi yield.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.

The deterministic Solana account that holds a given mint for a wallet.

Aster Bridge is a Bridge protocol active on Binance, Ethereum, Arbitrum. Aster is a decentralized perpetual exchange built for everyone.

Aster USDF is a Basis Trading protocol active on Binance. USDF is a yield-bearing stablecoin issued by Aster, convertible with USDT at a 1:1 ratio.

Key pairs where the public key verifies what only the private key can sign or decrypt.

Both legs of an exchange succeed or fail together, reducing Herstatt risk.

A hash-locked exchange that either completes both legs or neither, used across chains or pairs.

An Alternative Trading System, a U.S. SEC-registered venue that can match securities without being a full national exchange.

A validator vote that a block is valid and belongs on the canonical chain.

A time-boxed review of contract code. It reduces risk. It does not eliminate it.

The dealer allowed to create and redeem ETF shares, the arb that pins price to NAV.

A pool formula that prices trades from balances instead of a human order book. Constant-product is the classic form.

Automated Market Maker (AMM) is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.

A modular DA project aimed at rollup and appchain data publishing.

Avalanche Core Bridge is a Canonical Bridge protocol active on Ethereum, Bitcoin. Native Bitcoin Bridge. ETH EVM support.

Avalon CeDeFi is a Anchor BTC protocol active on Ethereum. Powering ₿itcoin's On-Chain Capital Markets.

Avalon Superearn is a Yield protocol active on Ethereum. Earn yield with real-time APY.

Avant avUSD is a Onchain Capital Allocator protocol active on Avalanche. Avant is a DeFi platform established in June 2024 with the mission to create a more inclusive financial system through a DeFi-powered…

An Actively Validated Service on EigenLayer, a sidecar network that borrows Ethereum restaked security.

Extra slashing conditions an EigenLayer operator accepts when opting into an AVS.

A proof-of-stake interoperability chain for general message passing.

Play-to-earn game whose scholarship economy boomed then busted; its Ronin bridge was later hacked.

When futures trade below spot. Short-dated contracts are richer to hold than far ones.

Debt that remains after collateral is sold, socialized onto a protocol, insurance fund, or other users.

Your position in a token. Heavy bags means a large, often underwater, holding.

Someone still holding a large losing position after a collapse.

An automated market maker protocol that separates shared token accounting from pool-specific pricing, including weighted pools with configurable asset proportions and other specialized pool designs.

A Telegram sniper and trading bot used across several EVM and Solana flows.

A Cosmos-based oracle network used by several non-EVM chains.

An international institution supporting central-bank cooperation, monetary and financial stability, research, and banking services for central banks.

A rush to redeem a stablecoin, ETF, or lending product faster than the issuer can sell reserves.

The U.S. anti-money-laundering statute that requires financial institutions, including many crypto platforms, to know customers and file reports.

A media and education brand focused on Ethereum and DeFi literacy.

Structuring so issuer bankruptcy does not automatically seize the underlying assets. Essential RWA due diligence.

An Ethereum Layer 2 network with EVM-compatible execution, ETH-denominated gas, and settlement mechanisms that distinguish rapid local confirmations from Ethereum finality and bridge withdrawals.

Base Bridge enables the transfer of certain digital assets and other data back and forth between Ethereum and Base.

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

An encoding that avoids lookalike characters, used by legacy Bitcoin addresses and many other chains.

Slang for authentic or unapologetic. Also a pun on Coinbase's Base chain.

A rollup whose transaction sequencing is driven by its base layer's block proposers rather than a separate privileged rollup sequencer.

The gap between a futures price and the spot index. Contango is positive basis. Backwardation is negative.