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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 testHacash (HAC) is a crypto asset.
A discount applied to collateral value so a protocol or desk has a buffer against a sudden print.
An early Bitcoin contributor and the first known recipient of a Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi.
Bitcoin's programmed cut of the block subsidy every 210,000 blocks, roughly four years.
The story that Bitcoin's programmed supply cut drives multi-year bull markets. Correlation is not a trading plan.
A rule change that old software will reject. Nodes must upgrade or they follow a different chain.
Liquidity removed or mint abused so the token becomes untradeable in one move.
A dedicated device designed to keep signing keys isolated from a general-purpose computer and to authorize transactions through a controlled interface.
Keep meaningful balances on a hardware wallet and verify addresses on the device screen.
A fixed-length fingerprint of data produced by a one-way cryptographic function, used to detect tampering and link blocks.
A BNB Chain-associated security scanner brand used in wallet warnings.
The act of running data through a hash function so the output changes if even one input bit changes.
HashKey Exchange is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange established in 2018 and is registered in Hong Kong.
HashKey Global is a centralized exchange listed with country Bermuda.
Revenue per unit of hashrate. The mining industry's key stress gauge.
The total hashes per second pointed at a proof-of-work network. A security and energy statistic.
HCA Healthcare xStock (HCAX) is a crypto asset primarily associated with arbitrum-one.
Aave-style ratio of collateral value (haircut) to debt. Below 1, the position can be liquidated.
Hedera is a decentralized public network where developers can build secure, fair applications with near real-time consensus.
A decentralized wireless network that rewards hotspots for covering IoT and later mobile radios.
Helius Staked SOL (HSOL) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
HELP ME BEAT CANCER (CANCER) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
Settlement risk named after a bank failure where one side of FX paid and the other did not.
The first high interest blockchain certificate of deposit.
Richard Heart's HEX staking product and later PulseChain ecosystem, repeatedly contested in marketing, lawsuits, and community fights.
Hibt is a centralized exchange listed with country Canada.
Hive Intelligence (HINT) is a crypto asset primarily associated with base.
Hobbes (HOBBES) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
A culture term for holding through volatility instead of trading every swing. From an old typo of hold.
A crypto-community term for holding an asset, popularized by the misspelled title of a December 2013 BitcoinTalk post.
The share of a token's supply associated with a small number of addresses or inferred owners, measured under an explicit method.
holoride (RIDE) is a crypto asset primarily associated with elrond.
homeboy (HOMEBOY) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
Homora V2 is a Leveraged Farming protocol active on Ethereum, Binance, Avalanche. Homora is the first flagship product incubated under Alpha Venture DAO (previously Alpha Finance Lab) deployed on the Ethereum network in…
A token contract that lets you buy but not sell, or that traps approvals.
Tools that simulate sells. Useful signals, easy to fool, never a sole reason to ape.
An early rollup-to-rollup bridge that uses h-tokens and AMMs.
Unfounded optimism about a bag recovering.
What is the project about? Horizen is a modular privacy-first platform designed to make privacy technology, such as zero-knowledge proofs and TEEs accessible and usable across the web.
A wallet whose keys sit on an internet-connected device. Convenient for spending, weaker against remote theft.
Maximum value kept online for operations. Excess should be cold or MPC.
Exchange or custodian loss when hot keys are compromised. Cold storage and MPC reduce but do not erase this risk.
Hotcoin is a centralized exchange listed with country Seychelles.
If you raise money on a promise of profits from a team's work, expect securities analysis.
The U.S. Supreme Court test for an investment contract: money, a common enterprise, and an expectation of profit from the efforts of others.
Hash Timelock Contract. The primitive behind Lightning and many atomic swaps.
HTX is a CEX protocol active on Tron, Bitcoin, Ethereum. Huobi Global is a world-leading cryptocurrency trading exchange.
HTX is the governance token of HTX DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization relying on the collective autonomy of HTX token holders.
Huma Finance is the first PayFi network, powering the financing of global payments with instant access to liquidity - anywhere, anytime.
Huma Finance V2 is a RWA protocol active on Ethereum, Solana, Stellar. Permissionless DeFi yield, powered by real-world payment flows.
Humanity Protocol is a blockchain featuring a native Proof of Humanity (PoH) consensus mechanism that verifies users' uniqueness as humans through decentralized identifiers (DID) and verifiable credentials (VC)…
Combining work and stake, or BFT plus a longest-chain fallback, to pick different tradeoffs.
Hybridge Bridged LINK (LINK0) is a crypto asset primarily associated with hyperevm.
Hyperithm is a premier digital asset manager based in Tokyo and Seoul, active in quant trading and venture investments.
An umbrella of open-source enterprise DLT projects hosted by the Linux Foundation.
A Linux Foundation permissioned ledger stack widely used in enterprise proofs of concept.
HyperLend Pooled is a Lending protocol active on Hyperliquid L1. HyperLend is a high-performance lending protocol on Hyperliquid EVM, built for capital efficiency.
A high-performance perpetual DEX with its own L1 and a large on-chain order book.
Hyperliquid Bridge is a Bridge protocol active on Hyperliquid L1, Arbitrum. Hyperliquid is a Layer 1 blockchain best known for perpetual futures and spot trading.
Hyperliquid HLP is a Derivatives protocol active on Hyperliquid L1. Hyperliquidity Provider (HLP) is a protocol vault that provides liquidity to Hyperliquid through multiple market making strategies…
Hyperliquid Spot Orderbook is a Dexs protocol active on Hyperliquid L1. Hyperliquid is a Layer 1 blockchain best known for perpetual futures and spot trading.
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