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Follow a transaction from a key to a shared ledger.
Begin with BlockchainExplore contracts, liquidity, borrowing and the risks between them.
Begin with Smart contractUnderstand what a price, valuation or sentiment indicator can tell you.
Begin with Market capitalizationLearn custody, permissions and how to assess what you sign.
Begin with Hardware walletConnect the original ideas to the incidents that changed the industry.
Begin with A Cypherpunk's ManifestoSeparate technical standards, issuer claims and legal frameworks.
Begin with Howey testAuto-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.
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 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.
Period when majors lag and smaller caps outperform on percentage terms.
Buying and selling the same risk in two venues to lock a price gap, which helps markets stay aligned.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
The dealer allowed to create and redeem ETF shares, the arb that pins price to NAV.
Automated Market Maker (AMM) is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
When futures trade below spot. Short-dated contracts are richer to hold than far ones.
A rush to redeem a stablecoin, ETF, or lending product faster than the issuer can sell reserves.
Base Native is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
The gap between a futures price and the spot index. Contango is positive basis. Backwardation is negative.
Going long spot and short futures (or the reverse) to harvest the futures gap with muted directional risk.
How tightly an asset moves with a benchmark, often Bitcoin, used as a rough risk factor.
The gap between the highest bid and the lowest ask. A wide spread is a hidden trading cost.
Binance Alpha Spotlight is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Binance HODLer Airdrops is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Binance Launchpad is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Binance Launchpool is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Binance Wallet IDO is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
BTC market-cap share of total crypto. Rising dominance often means alt risk-off.
Bitcoin's market cap as a percentage of the whole crypto market. Falling dominance often marks altcoin strength.
Bitcoin Fork is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
A large print negotiated off the screen and reported later, common on listed futures and some CEXs.
Price leaving a range with enough volume that traders treat the move as real.
BlackRock's USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, a tokenized money-market product often cited in RWA adoption stories.
A chart bar that shows open, high, low, and close. The body is the open-close range.
Return from funding, staking, or basis while holding a hedged book, as opposed to betting on price.
Each forced close pushes mark price into the next liquidation band, accelerating the move.
An ETF create/redeem that uses dollars instead of the coin, adding tracking and tax friction.
Harvesting futures or ETF basis when spot and derivatives diverge, a desk strategy after ETFs launched.
Centralized Exchange (CEX) Token is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Chain Abstraction is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
A sideways market that chops both breakout and mean-reversion traders.
Tokens currently available and tradable, excluding locked, reserved, or burned tokens.
Brand names for off-exchange settlement networks that keep keys at a custodian while trading on a CEX.
The first date on a vesting schedule when any tokens become transferable.
A large first unlock after a cliff date, often a volatility event.
U.S. Coinbase spot versus offshore prices, read as a retail flow signal.
CoinList Launchpad is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
When futures trade above spot. Long-futures products bleed as they roll.
The legal document that lets a lender seize custodied crypto if a borrower defaults.
How two prices move together. In stress, many alts correlate near 1 with Bitcoin.
The chance the other side of a trade, loan, or custody arrangement cannot pay or deliver.
The authorized-participant process that keeps an ETF near NAV by delivering or receiving the underlying.
Shared collateral across positions. One winner can keep another loser alive, and one loser can sink both.
Cross-chain Communication is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Crypto Card Issuer is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
When CeFi lenders and funds cannot roll leverage, forced selling hits every correlated asset.
Bundled custody, leverage, and execution for funds, closer to TradFi prime than to retail CEX accounts.
Crypto-backed Stablecoin is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Fiat-backed coin redeemable through an issuer that can freeze addresses and must manage banking partners.
A private venue where size can trade without showing the full order to the public book first.
Data Availability is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Decentralized Exchange (DEX) is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
An option's sensitivity to a $1 move in the underlying. Market makers hedge delta by trading spot or futures.
When a stablecoin trades away from its target. Recovery depends on reserves, redemptions, and confidence.
Decentralized physical infrastructure networks that reward real-world hardware like wireless or GPUs.
DePIN is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
How much size sits at each price level. Deep books tolerate larger market orders.
Derivatives is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
The narrative that Bitcoin is a scarce reserve asset rather than a payments coin.
Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
When a derivative, wrapper, or fund trades below its reference value.
Dog-Themed is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
A candle whose open and close are nearly equal, often read as indecision.
Buying a fixed amount on a schedule so entry price averages across many days instead of one moment.
One asset's share of total crypto market cap. Bitcoin dominance is the most watched figure.
The peak-to-trough decline of a price or portfolio, a core measure of pain and risk.
Delivery versus payment. Simultaneous exchange of securities and cash to cut settlement risk.
What you actually paid versus mid, including impact, not just the quoted spread.
Elon Musk-Inspired is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
New tokens entering circulation on a schedule, from mining, staking rewards, or unlocks.
An exchange-traded fund. Spot Bitcoin and ether ETFs hold the asset and trade as shares on stock venues.
Trading premiums and discounts between ETF shares and spot or perps when arb is available.
Daily creations and redemptions that add or remove primary-market demand for BTC or ETH.
Periods when U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw multi-billion cumulative net creations, treated as structural demand.
Exchange-traded product, the umbrella that includes ETFs, ETNs, and some trusts.
Coins sitting on CEX wallets. Falling reserves can mean self-custody or ETF withdrawals depending on context.
Exchange-based Tokens is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
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