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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 testFigma, Inc. • Robinhood Token (FIG) is a crypto asset primarily associated with robinhood.
This project is building the foundational protocol layer for institutional debt markets on blockchain.
Figure Markets Democratized Prime is a Lending protocol active on Provenance. Democratized Prime connects your cash or crypto with borrowers seeking liquidity on their collateral
Figure Markets Exchange is a OTC Marketplace protocol active on Provenance. A crypto exchange designed for traders who demand more.
A decentralized storage market where miners earn FIL for providing space and retrieval.
The point after which a block is treated as irreversible under the protocol's rules.
The G20-linked body that coordinates financial-regulation standards, including crypto-asset and stablecoin recommendations.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the U.S. Treasury bureau that writes AML rules and receives suspicious activity reports.
An institutional custody and transfer platform used by exchanges, funds, and banks.
Institutional transfer network for settling between members without exposing hot keys.
Jump Crypto's independent Solana validator client aimed at performance and client diversity.
What is the project about? First Digital USD (FDUSD) aim to revolutionize the digital asset landscape.
First Ever Bitcoin Cat (NEKO) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
The U.S. Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, a House-passed bill that would split CFTC and SEC oversight of digital assets.
The Financial Information eXchange protocol used by traditional venues for orders and market data.
Flare is the blockchain for data, providing developers with secure decentralized access to high-integrity data from other chains and the internet.
Settling many pool interactions as one net balance change at the end of a transaction.
An uncollateralized loan that must be borrowed and repaid inside the same transaction, used for arb and liquidations.
Research and infrastructure for MEV auctions and private transaction submission on Ethereum.
In stress, traders dump alts for BTC, ETH, or stablecoins.
The hypothetical moment Ethereum market cap overtakes Bitcoin. A perennial headline, not a law.
The freely trading supply. Low float plus hype can produce violent squeezes both ways.
FlokiFi Locker is the industry's most innovative protocol for securing digital assets.
Instadapp's liquidity layer that combines lending and swapping in one vault design.
Fluid DAI (FDAI) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
Fluid DEX is a Dexs protocol active on Ethereum, Plasma, Arbitrum. With Smart Collateral, LPs are now able to utilize their position as collateral in Fluid and deploy it as AMM liquidity on the DEX.
Fluid Lending is a Lending protocol active on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Plasma. An ever-evolving DeFi protocol and financial system of the future by Instadapp
Fluid Lite is a Yield Aggregator protocol active on Ethereum. Automated vaults
Flying Tulip Lend is a custom lending market live on Sonic and Ethereum.
Fear of missing out. Buying because price already ran, often near local tops.
A protocol path for submitting a transaction through a settlement layer or alternative queue when a rollup sequencer does not include it normally.
A split in chain history or protocol rules. Can be accidental (two tips) or intentional (an upgrade).
The rule a node applies to select its preferred chain head when more than one valid branch is available.
Mathematical proofs about contract behavior, complementary to audits and tests.
Mathematically proving that code matches a spec, used on high-value vaults and zk circuits.
Fortive xStock (FTVX) is a crypto asset primarily associated with arbitrum-one.
Fortuna Protocol (FP) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
A common structure: nonprofit foundation holds IP or treasury, for-profit lab builds the product.
Four (FORM) is a decentralized cryptocurrency designed to facilitate efficient peer-to-peer transactions while enabling users to participate in governance and staking.
A BNB Chain memecoin launchpad in the same genre as Pump.fun.
Splitting a high-value asset into many tokens so smaller buyers can hold a slice. Legal title design matters more than the token UI.
FRAME (FRAME) is a crypto asset primarily associated with base.
Franklin Templeton's tokenized money-market fund experiment, an early public example of fund shares on public rails.
Franklin U.S. Equity Index xStock (USPXX) is a crypto asset primarily associated with arbitrum-one.
A stablecoin and DeFi family that has used fractional reserves, AMO strategies, and liquid staking.
Frax Ether (FRXETH) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
Frax USD (frxUSD) is a fiat-redeemable, fully-collateralized stablecoin issued by the Frax Finance Protocol.
Fraxtal, launched by Frax finance, is an L2 ETH scaling solution featuring a modular rollup design on the OP stack.
The key that can block an address from transferring a token, common on Solana stables and some RWAs.
A SocialFi experiment on Base that tokenized Twitter accounts as keys. A cycle case study more than a standard.
Frogs ($FROGS) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
Seeing a pending transaction and inserting your own ahead of it for profit.
Frax's ETH liquid-staking asset, paired with sfrxETH as the yield-bearing share.
International policy recommendations for consistent regulation, supervision, and oversight of crypto-asset activities and relevant stablecoin arrangements.
FTAI Aviation rStock (RFTAI) is a crypto asset primarily associated with arbitrum-one.
A collapsed centralized exchange whose 2022 failure froze customer funds and reshaped U.S. enforcement.
FTX (FTT) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
The November 2022 failure of FTX and Alameda, a defining custody and fraud event for the industry.
As FTX failed, unexplained large withdrawals moved from the platform, compounding customer losses beyond the insolvency itself.
Investments and token deals tied to FTX that complicated bankrupt estate recovery.
The period when FTX and Alameda heavily backed Solana, then nearly killed confidence when they failed.
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Negative narrative used to scare holders into selling.
Fuel (FUELX) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
A node that verifies every block and transaction against consensus rules instead of trusting a third party.
Full Sail (SAIL) is a crypto asset primarily associated with sui.
Providing liquidity from price zero to infinity, the Uniswap v2-style position.
Max or total supply multiplied by current price. What market cap would be if every token were in circulation.
Function FBTC is a Bridge protocol active on Bitcoin. Function is building the standard infrastructure that transforms Bitcoin into a capital-efficient, hyperliquid, and composable asset…
Harvesting perpetual funding by holding a hedged long-and-short book across spot and perps.
Perp funding so high or negative that a squeeze becomes likely. A timing tool, not a thesis.
A periodic payment between longs and shorts on a perpetual future so the contract tracks the spot index.
A contract to buy or sell an asset at a set date and price. Crypto futures are often cash-settled.
fx Protocol is a Dual-Token Stablecoin protocol active on Ethereum. f(x) Protocol is a decentralized on-chain trading platform that enables stress-free leverage on ETH and WBTC while delivering the highest…
The group of large economies that sets high-level financial-stability and FATF-aligned crypto agendas.
GALA is designed to power the Gala Games ecosystem to support gaming re-imagined to benefit creators and players, alike.
GalaConnect Bridged WBTC (GalaChain) (GWBTC) is a crypto asset primarily associated with galachain.
A crypto merchant bank and asset manager founded by Mike Novogratz.
Galaxy USDC Quality (Base) (BASEETH:GUSDCQ) is a crypto asset primarily associated with base.
Gambling (GambleFi) is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Gaming (GameFi) is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
How fast delta changes. High gamma near expiry can force dealers to buy rips and sell dips, or the reverse.
Garmin Ltd. rStock (RGRMN) is a crypto asset primarily associated with arbitrum-one.
The unit of computational work on Ethereum-style chains. Every opcode costs gas, paid in the network fee token.
You pay for computation. Busy networks raise fees. Wrong chain or token approvals waste money.
The maximum gas a transaction or block may consume. A low limit can cause a transaction to fail mid-execution.
The amount paid per unit of gas, usually quoted in gwei; effective fees and inclusion depend on the network's fee rules and transaction conditions.
Gate is a CEX protocol active on Ethereum, Bitcoin, Binance. Established in 2013, Gate is a cryptocurrency exchange serving over 58 million+ global users.
Established in 2013, Gate is a cryptocurrency exchange serving over 58 million+ global users.
A voting target that directs emissions to a specific pool.
Gauntlet is a Risk Curators protocol active on Base, Binance, Ethereum. Our vaults provide risk-adjusted DeFi yields for institutional capital at scale.
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