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From your first block to the finer details. Explore the ideas, people, and systems behind the market—one useful explanation at a time.
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 testWe are gonna make it. The optimistic twin of NGMI.
Optimistic community language that can become toxic denial during a drawdown.
Wall Street Memes (WSM) is a crypto asset primarily associated with binance-smart-chain.
Software or hardware that holds keys and builds transactions. It does not store coins. The chain does.
A malicious contract or site that requests sweeping approvals and empties tokens and NFTs.
A protocol that links mobile wallets to dapps via encrypted sessions. Verify the domain before approving.
Wallets is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
The coordinated response channel when a protocol is under active exploit.
Trading with yourself or affiliates to fake volume and rank.
A helper that watches Lightning or channel state so a counterparty cannot cheat while you are offline.
A major 2024 exchange breach that froze a large share of user assets and highlighted multisig and custody design risk.
The need for a proof-of-stake node joining or returning after a long absence to obtain a sufficiently recent trusted checkpoint before validating forward.
Web (WEB) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
Web 3 Dollar (USD3) is a stablecoin primarily associated with ethereum.
A shorthand history: static pages, then platform silos, then crypto-enabled ownership narratives.
A marketing and technical label for internet apps that use wallets, tokens, and user-owned state.
Webot is a centralized exchange listed with country United States.
Websea (WBS) is a crypto asset primarily associated with polygon-pos.
Crypto trades 24/7 while TradFi sleeps, so Monday equity opens can gap after Sunday crypto moves.
WEEX is a global cryptocurrency trading platform founded in 2018, serving users in 150+ countries.
Wells Fargo & Co rStock (RWFC) is a crypto asset primarily associated with arbitrum-one.
Global gaming platform with popular game titles
WETH is a wrapped version of Ether, allowing it to be used in ERC-20 transactions on the Ethereum blockchain.
Wexo (WEXO) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
A holder or trader large enough to move a market by acting.
A security researcher who reports or sometimes rescues funds under safe-harbor norms.
WhiteBIT Coin is the native utility token of the WhiteBIT cryptocurrency exchange and the primary asset of the Whitechain blockchain.
An address approved to hold a restricted security token after KYC or accreditation checks.
The founding technical or economic document for a protocol. Read incentives and trust assumptions, not just vision slides.
will go to $1 (DOLLARCOIN) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
A leading crypto market-making firm active on CEXs and DEXs.
An issuer of crypto and tokenized-fund products in the U.S. and Europe.
A stable coin yield protocol, one of several powering WISE: the ETH-backed neutral reserve asset with the largest LP on Uniswap, and a Burn Alliance.
Exchange feature that restricts withdrawals to pre-approved addresses.
The line to unstake or exit a vault. In stress it can be days or longer.
The signature data in a transaction. SegWit moved it to a separate field.
Wolfies (PACK) is a crypto asset primarily associated with cronos.
Wonderman Nation (WNDR) is a crypto asset primarily associated with binance-smart-chain.
Workloop AI (LOOP) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
World Chain is a permissionless Layer 2 blockchain on Ethereum, built with the OP Stack, offering scalability, security, Sybil resistance…
World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is a digital asset designed to facilitate global financial transactions and services.
World Liberty Financial Portfolio is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
A project that issues WLD and a World ID after iris-scanning, aiming at proof of personhood.
The mission of the Worldcoin project is to build the world’s largest identity and financial network as a public utility, giving ownership to everyone.
A guardian-set bridge that attests locked or burned assets so they can be minted elsewhere.
A signature verification exploit that minted unbacked wrapped ether on Solana.
A token on one chain that represents an asset locked elsewhere, introducing custody and bridge risk.
Wrapped Beacon ETH (WBETH) is a token that represents staked Ethereum on the Beacon Chain, allowing users to participate in Ethereum 2.0 staking while maintaining liquidity.
Wrapped Bera (WBERA) is a crypto asset primarily associated with berachain.
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) is an ERC-20 token that represents Bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain, enabling Bitcoin to be used in Ethereum-based applications and decentralized finance (DeFi).
Wrapped Bitcoin (Sollet) (SOBTC) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
An ERC-20 token backed 1:1 by Bitcoin held by a custodian, so BTC can be used in Ethereum DeFi.
Wrapped BNB a wrapped version of the BNB native tokens on the BEP-20 standard on the Binance Smart Chain and other EVM-compatible chains.
Wrapped Gamestop Tokenized stock (xStock) (WGMEX) is a crypto asset primarily associated with okb.
Wrapped iTRY (WITRY) is a stablecoin primarily associated with ethereum.
Wrapped LYX (SigmaSwap) (WLYX) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
Wrapped Procter & Gamble xStock (WPGX) is a crypto asset primarily associated with arbitrum-one.
Wrapped rBTC (WRBTC) is a crypto asset primarily associated with rootstock.
Wrapped Sonic (WS) is a crypto asset primarily associated with sonic.
Wrapped SP500 Tokenized ETF (xStock) (WSPYX) is a crypto asset primarily associated with okb.
Wrapped TAO (WTAO) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
A claim on an asset locked elsewhere, such as WBTC. Wrapper risk sits on top of asset risk.
Wrapped Zera (WZRA) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
Definitions offer a starting point. Detailed readings include the sources behind the explanation.