A trend-following oscillator built from two moving averages and their difference.

The collateralized stablecoin system behind Dai and the predecessor of the Sky ecosystem, with vault debt accounting, stability fees, liquidation mechanisms, and governance-controlled risk parameters.

Collateral posted to open and maintain a leveraged position.

Circulating supply multiplied by current price. The primary ranking metric for crypto assets.

An instruction to buy or sell immediately at the best available prices.

How spot, perps, ETFs, and OTC desks interact to set price.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore, a major licensing venue for crypto and digital-asset service providers in Asia.

A card network that partners with crypto issuers and on-ramps for card-linked spend.

An asset used to buy goods. Lightning and stablecoins compete for this role more than raw BTC for many users.

A token whose value is driven primarily by community attention rather than utility.

The single hash at the top of a Merkle tree, stored in a block header as a compact commitment to every transaction.

A binary tree of hashes that lets a verifier prove a transaction is in a block without downloading the whole block.

The most widely used EVM browser wallet, built by Consensys.

Maximal extractable value. Profit from choosing the order of transactions in a block, including arb and sandwiches.

Markets in Crypto-Assets, the EU regulation that licenses crypto issuers and service providers and sets rules for stablecoins.

A MiCA category for a crypto-asset that seeks to maintain a stable value by referencing one official currency.

A software company that became a leveraged public proxy for Bitcoin by holding a large BTC treasury.

The midpoint between best bid and ask, a common fair-value reference.

A participant in proof of work that expends energy to find a valid block nonce and collect the reward.

A service that pools and shuffles coins to hide the link between sender and receiver. Heavily sanctioned and prosecuted.

An ordered word-based encoding used in wallet recovery; BIP-39 mnemonics encode entropy and a checksum before a separate step derives the wallet seed.

A privacy coin that hides amounts and addresses with ring signatures and stealth addresses.

A state-licensed business that transmits value for customers. Many U.S. exchanges hold these licenses.

Morpho's permissionless lending-market design in which individual markets have fixed core parameters and separate accounting.

A smoothed average of recent closes, used as a trend filter rather than a forecast.

Multi-party computation custody that splits signing so no single machine holds a full key.

An early dominant Bitcoin exchange that collapsed in 2014 after a massive loss of customer BTC.