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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 testEric Hughes's 1993 statement advocating privacy through cryptography, anonymous transactions, and the development of practical software.
Andreessen Horowitz crypto content and resources aimed at builders and investors.
A7A5 is a digital Rouble collateralized by deposits in trusted banks with a correspondent network linked to Kyrgyzstan and high overnight interest rates.
A leading overcollateralized lending protocol with isolation modes, flash loans, and many-chain deployments.
The development entities behind the Aave protocol family.
Aave CRV (ACRV) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
Aave Horizon RWA is a Lending protocol active on Ethereum. A specialized Aave lending market on Ethereum, where institutions or other qualified users borrow stablecoins against real-world assets…
Aave V2 is a Lending protocol active on Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche. Aave is an Open Source and Non-Custodial protocol to earn interest on deposits and borrow assets
A version of Aave's lending protocol with configurable collateral and borrowing controls, including efficiency and isolation features.
Aave v3 FRAX (AFRAX) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
Aave v3 RPL (ARPL) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
Aave V4 is a modular lending protocol on Ethereum featuring a hub-and-spoke architecture
An Application Binary Interface describes how software encodes contract calls and decodes results, events, and errors.
Aborean (ABX) is a crypto asset primarily associated with abstract.
Making account authorization and behavior programmable, enabling features such as alternative authentication, recovery policies, batching, and sponsored execution.
A ledger design that stores a balance and nonce per address, used by Ethereum and many smart-contract chains.
A U.S. wealth or income test that gates many private crypto and RWA offerings.
Transfer rules that allow only verified accredited or qualified buyers to receive a security token.
Ace Data Cloud (ACE) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
Acet (ACT) is a crypto asset primarily associated with binance-smart-chain.
U.S. Automated Clearing House batch payments, cheaper and slower than wires.
An intents-based bridge that uses bonded relayers and optimistic verification.
LP capital currently in range and earning fees.
A destination on a chain where funds or tokens can be sent. Format varies by network (hex, bech32, base58).
Dusting your history with lookalike addresses so you copy the wrong recipient next time.
Receiving twice to the same address, which links history. Bitcoin culture treats this as a privacy leak.
Auto-deleveraging. When an insurance fund is empty, the exchange closes opposing profitable positions to pay bankrupt ones.
Solana Perps DEX. 100x Leverage.
The risk that the other side only hits your quote when they know more than you.
Aegis YUSD is a decentralized, Bitcoin-backed stablecoin designed to maintain a 1:1 peg to the US dollar while generating yield for its holders.
Aelin (AELIN) is a crypto asset primarily associated with optimistic-ethereum.
Aera V3 is a Onchain Capital Allocator protocol active on Base, Morph, Ethereum. Autonomous onchain treasury management protocol for DAOs, built by the team at Gauntlet.
AerCap Holdings N.V. rStock (RAER) is a crypto asset primarily associated with arbitrum-one.
Aerodrome Finance is a next-generation AMM designed to serve as Base's central liquidity hub, combining a powerful liquidity incentive engine, vote-lock governance model, and friendly user experience.
Aerodrome Slipstream is a Dexs protocol active on Base, Arc. A central trading and liquidity marketplace on Base.
Aerodrome V1 is a Dexs protocol active on Base. A central trading and liquidity marketplace on Base.
Aethir is the only Enterprise-grade AI-focused GPU-as-a-service provider in the market.
Sonic is the highest-performing EVM L1, combining speed, incentives, and world-class infrastructure, powering the next generation of DeFi applications.
Polygon's interoperability layer aimed at unifying liquidity across Polygon chains.
A router that splits a swap or yield path across many pools to improve the net price.
AGIX (AGX) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
A coin marketed as controlled or promoted by an autonomous AI agent. Quality varies from experiment to pure meme.
AI Agents is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Launched in 2023, AI Analysis was formed by a diverse team from around the world to create a Holistic ecosystem centred around the world of trading and the integration of cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology.
AI Applications is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
AI CYCLONE (CYC) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
AI Fruits (AIFRUITS) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
AINFT exclusively uses NFTs as its official governance token within the ecosystem.
AIOZ Network is a DePIN for Web3 AI, Storage and Streaming.
A signing device that never touches the internet, used with QR or SD transaction flows.
A free token distribution to wallets that used a product, held an NFT, or met some other rule.
Using many wallets or wash activity to qualify for a hoped-for token drop.
What is Akash Network? Akash Network is spearheading a paradigm shift in cloud computing, disrupting conventional cloud services, and pioneering a revolution in access to essential cloud resources.
AKEDO is a Multi-Agent AI framework built for Autonomous Content Creation and Intelligent Collaboration.
Aktionariat Fieldoo AG Tokenized Shares (FDOS) is a crypto asset primarily associated with optimistic-ethereum.
The trading firm affiliated with FTX, at the center of the 2022 collapse.
Albatross Protocol (ALBATROSS) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
A leading Web3 developer platform for RPC, webhooks, and account tooling.
Alchemy Pay (ACH) is a cryptocurrency payment gateway that enables businesses to accept both traditional finance and cryptocurrencies.
A pure proof-of-stake chain known for instant finality and institutional tokenization experiments.
A stablecoin that defends its peg with mint/burn or rebase rules rather than full reserves. Most have failed.
Alibaba Group Holding Limited (Derivatives) (BABA) is a crypto asset.
Alitas (ALT) is a crypto asset primarily associated with binance-smart-chain.
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.
Addresses permitted to mint or trade early. Also a phishing lure word in fake mint sites.
Non-obvious information that can make money if acted on early.
This token represents warrants issued by Alpha Bulgaria AD, a publicly traded investment holding company listed on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (ticker: ALFB).
Any crypto asset that is not Bitcoin. The term is broad and says nothing about quality.
A period when most top altcoins outperform Bitcoin. The CMC Altcoin Season Index measures this over 90 days.
Alto DUSD (DUSD) is a stablecoin primarily associated with ethereum.
Period when majors lag and smaller caps outperform on percentage terms.
American Financial Group, Inc. rStock (RAFG) is a crypto asset primarily associated with arbitrum-one.
Anti-money-laundering controls: monitoring, reporting, and blocking illicit flows.
Pools price by formula. Central limit order books price by resting orders. Hybrids exist on newer L1/L2 DEXs.
Algorithmic market operations. Protocol-owned strategies that defend a peg or manage liquidity, used by Frax and others.
Terra's flagship yield product that paid high stable yields on UST deposits, accelerating the 2022 death spiral when confidence broke.
A federally chartered U.S. crypto bank and custodian.
A venture firm whose crypto funds back many Layer 1s, DeFi protocols, and consumer apps.
Anemoy Capital is a RWA protocol active on Ethereum, Base, Celo. Anemoy is a web3 native asset manager powered by Centrifuge, providing investors with exposure to a broad spectrum of superior assets
A decentralized and hosted node provider used for RPC and staking services.
Anonymous participant. Default identity on CT and Discord.
ZCAT is a Solana-based meme token launched through StonkFun with a built-in holder reward mechanism.
A personal code shown in legitimate exchange emails so fakes are easier to spot.
Anubis Bridged ETH (Anubis) (ETH) is a crypto asset primarily associated with anubis.
APEPE is A new meme that combines APE and PEPE to symbolize small investors.
Buying a token with little or no diligence because momentum or a call looks hot.
ApeCoin is an ERC-20 governance and utility token used to empower a decentralized community building at the forefront of web3.
An oracle project that first-party APIs sign data, reducing middleman feeds.
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