The official name often used for the digital yuan wallet and payment system.

Bearer Chaumian mints for private small payments, often Lightning-connected. Mint trust is the tradeoff.

The cost to revert a block is so high that a rational attacker will not try.

A repeatable advantage in information, speed, or execution.

edgeX is a 24/7 decentralized trading layer for global assets, offering perpetuals across commodities, equities, and crypto, alongside spot markets.

Eduvantage AI (EAI) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.

What you actually paid versus mid, including impact, not just the quoted spread.

EigenCloud is a Restaking protocol active on Ethereum. Eigen Labs is an AI research lab building tools for human and agent coordination that preserve and maximize individual agency in the…

A data-availability service built on EigenLayer restaking.

The company contributing to EigenLayer restaking infrastructure.

A restaking protocol that lets participants allocate staked economic value to additional services, with service-specific operators, rewards, and slashing conditions beyond ordinary Ethereum validation.

Ethereum Improvement Proposal. The design-doc process for Ethereum core, networking, and standards (ERCs).

Ethereum's fee market: a burned base fee plus a tip. It made fees more predictable and added a burn.

Proto-danksharding. Added blob space so rollups can post data far cheaper than calldata.

Typed structured data signing, the standard behind readable wallet prompts for permits and orders.

An Ethereum transaction mechanism that lets an externally owned account authorize persistent delegation to executable code, introduced through Pectra in 2025.

2021 legal-tender experiment for Bitcoin, plus government accumulation and IMF negotiation drama.

El Sapo Pepe (PEPE) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.

zkSync's branding for a network of interoperable ZK chains.

A crypto compliance and blockchain analytics company.

The family of curves (secp256k1, Ed25519) used by most chains to make compact public keys and signatures.

Elon Musk-Inspired is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.

Ember Earn (EEARN) is a crypto asset primarily associated with sui.

Ember Protocol is a Onchain Capital Allocator protocol active on Ethereum, Sui, Pharos. Ember is the investment platform and infrastructure for launching, accessing, and distributing traditional and onchain financial products…

New tokens entering circulation on a schedule, from mining, staking rewards, or unlocks.

The planned minting of rewards for stakers or LPs. Read it before farming APY screenshots.

Nigeria's CBDC experiment, often contrasted with grassroots stablecoin and Bitcoin usage.

encryptSIM (ESIM) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.

The Ethereum Name Service, which maps human names like vitalik.eth to addresses and records.

Externally owned account. A key-pair wallet, the default Ethereum account type.

A high-profile 2017 to 2018 smart-contract project that raised a record ICO and later faded from leadership.

A fixed number of slots after which validator sets, rewards, or checkpoints update.

A multi-token standard that can hold fungible and non-fungible ids in one contract.

An Ethereum interface allowing a smart contract account to report whether it considers a given message signature valid.

An Ethereum interface standard for fungible token contracts, covering balances, transfers, allowances, and events.

The permit standard so an ERC-20 approval can be signed off-chain and submitted with a swap.

A permissioned token standard family used for compliant security-token transfers (identity and eligibility checks).

The account-abstraction standard that adds user operations, bundlers, and paymasters without changing Ethereum consensus.

A vault standard so yield-bearing shares (like lending receipts) share one deposit and redeem interface.

A vault-accounting attack in which manipulation of assets per share and rounding can cause a depositor to receive too few shares.

A standard vocabulary of custom error types for common ERC-20, ERC-721, and ERC-1155 token failures.

Token-bound accounts. An NFT can own assets and initiate transactions like a wallet.

The Ethereum standard for non-fungible tokens, where each token id is unique.

ESHARE (ESHARE) is a crypto asset primarily associated with base.

A shared sequencing and base-layer project for rollups.

Essex Property Trust xStock (ESSX) is a crypto asset primarily associated with arbitrum-one.

Eternal Stake Finance (ESF) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.

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.

Years of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF denials before the 2024 approvals, shaping the GBTC premium/discount saga.

The protocol behind USDe, a synthetic dollar built from staked ETH and short perpetual hedges.

Ethena is a delta-hedged synthetic dollar with native crypto yield derived from staking and perpetual funding rate

A synthetic dollar that targets $1 using staked ETH and perpetual hedges rather than a full cash reserve.

Ethena USDtb is a RWA protocol active on Ethereum. USDtb is a digital dollar, otherwise known as a USD stablecoin.

USTB’s innovative structure and partnership with established service providers breaks new ground in the private funds space.

Ethereum's native asset, used to pay gas and to stake. Markets usually say ETH even when they mean ether.

Ether's 2021 peak near $4.8k, still the reference high for many cycle charts years later.

ether.fi is a modern crypto neobank that replaces the traditional consumer bank.

A restaking-focused liquid staking protocol that issues eETH.

ether.fi Liquid is a Onchain Capital Allocator protocol active on Ethereum. Liquid is an automated DeFi strategy vault that provides ether.fi users a simple access point to use their eETH in the DeFi ecosystem

ether.fi Stake is a Liquid Staking protocol active on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum. Decentralized and non-custodial Ethereum staking protocol.

The leading smart-contract platform. A proof-of-stake chain that hosts DeFi, NFTs, and most L2 settlement.

The chain that rejected the DAO bailout fork and kept the original Ethereum history.

The view that Ethereum settlement and culture should dominate smart-contract activity.

Decentralised naming for wallets, websites, & more.

The Prague-Electra Ethereum upgrade activated in May 2025, combining execution-layer and consensus-layer changes including EIP-7702 account delegation.

The public Ethereum education and documentation hub.

EtherFi Borrowing Market is a Lending protocol active on Optimism, Scroll. Take control of your crypto. Save, grow, and spend.

EtherFi Cash Liquid is a Crypto Card Issuer protocol active on Optimism, Scroll. Take control of your crypto. Save, grow, and spend.

ETHPad (ETHPAD) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.

Exchange-traded product, the umbrella that includes ETFs, ETNs, and some trusts.

Euler V2 is a Lending protocol active on Monad, Ethereum, Base. Euler revolutionizes DeFi by letting any asset become collateral for a lending market.

EUR CoinVertible (EURCV) is a digital asset designed to facilitate the use of cryptocurrency in everyday transactions by providing a stablecoin backed by the Euro.

Euro Coin is a stablecoin issued by Circle under the same reserve model as USD Coin (USDC).

Eurite (EURI) is a cryptocurrency designed to facilitate transactions within the Eurite ecosystem, promoting decentralized finance and secure trading.

Euro eXchange Token (EURXT) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.

The central bank of the euro area, developing a digital euro and supervising euro stablecoin issues under MiCA with national authorities.

EverRise is a blockchain technology company that offers bridging and security solutions across blockchains through an ecosystem of decentralized applications.

The Ethereum Virtual Machine, the runtime that executes smart contracts on Ethereum and many compatible chains.

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.

The part of a stack that runs transactions and updates state, such as Ethereum's EVM client.

The buyers who arrive late so earlier wallets can sell.

exSat Staking BTC is an EVM-compatible wrapped Bitcoin token that represents BTC staked in the exSat Staking contract at a 1:1 ratio.

Extended Perps is a Derivatives protocol active on Starknet, Ethereum. Extended is a perp DEX, built by ex-Revolut team, on a mission to offer the most extensive product portfolio in DeFi—featuring cross-asset…