A crypto-collateralized dollar stablecoin originally minted by Maker vaults, now part of the Sky/Maker family.

A decentralized autonomous organization. On-chain votes steer a treasury and parameters, with very uneven real-world standing.

A decentralized application whose backend logic runs in smart contracts and whose users keep their own keys.

A private venue where size can trade without showing the full order to the public book first.

Checking randomly selected pieces of encoded block data to gain confidence that enough data is available for reconstruction without downloading every piece.

Efforts by some states to invoice trade, hold reserves, or settle payments outside the U.S. dollar.

Multiple controls: audits, monitoring, limits, timelocks, and circuit breakers together.

Decentralized finance. Lending, trading, and derivatives run by contracts instead of a single broker.

Deceiving a user into authorizing account delegation to code that can exercise unintended control over the account.

An option's sensitivity to a $1 move in the underlying. Market makers hedge delta by trading spot or futures.

Using a dedicated machine or phone for signing and a different one for browsing CT.

A decentralized identifier, a W3C-style id that can resolve to keys without a central registry.

The rebranded Libra project under the Diem Association. Wound down after failing to win U.S. regulatory clearance; talent later seeded Aptos and related efforts.

The Bank of Russia's central-bank digital currency, with broader public availability through participating banks announced for September 1, 2026.

A proof, created with a private key, that a specific message was authorized by the key holder.

China's retail CBDC issued by the People's Bank of China, used for domestic payments and pilots.

A shared database replicated across many machines, of which a blockchain is one design.

Distributed ledger technology. The broader category that includes blockchains and other shared ledgers.

Terraform Labs co-founder, central figure of the LUNA/UST collapse and later legal pursuit.

The original memecoin, a Litecoin/Bitcoin-family proof-of-work coin that became a cultural and payments token.

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.

Binding a cryptographic message to a specific application, protocol, network, or purpose so that matching data is not confused across contexts.

The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act, which sets cyber and outsourcing rules for financial entities including many CASPs.

Attempting to spend the same coins in two conflicting transactions. Consensus exists to make this fail.

The peak-to-trough decline of a price or portfolio, a core measure of pain and risk.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the U.S. post-trade utility that clears and settles most American securities.

Delivery versus payment. Asset and cash move together, a goal for tokenized securities systems.

Delivery versus payment. Simultaneous exchange of securities and cash to cut settlement risk.