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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 testAn Ethereum Layer 2 network with EVM-compatible execution, ETH-denominated gas, and settlement mechanisms that distinguish rapid local confirmations from Ethereum finality and bridge withdrawals.
Base Bridge enables the transfer of certain digital assets and other data back and forth between Ethereum and Base.
Base Native is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
An encoding that avoids lookalike characters, used by legacy Bitcoin addresses and many other chains.
Slang for authentic or unapologetic. Also a pun on Coinbase's Base chain.
Based Pepe (PEPE) is a crypto asset primarily associated with base.
A rollup that uses L1 proposers for sequencing instead of a centralized sequencer.
Baseline is a DEX built for project tokens, combining token-owned liquidity with a custom AMM curve for efficient market making, MEV protection, guaranteed floor prices and no-liquidation leverage.
BAT the crypto asset for the new Internet economy.
The gap between a futures price and the spot index. Contango is positive basis. Backwardation is negative.
Going long spot and short futures (or the reverse) to harvest the futures gap with muted directional risk.
$BC is the native token of the BC.GAME platform, serving as both a governance and utility token to enhance user experience through diverse incentives and practical applications within BC.GAME’s gaming ecosystem.
Beam is a sovereign network focused on gaming brought to you by MeritCircle
Bean Cat (BEANCAT) is a crypto asset primarily associated with arc.
Building positions while attention and leverage are low. Only works with capital that can wait.
A checksummed address encoding used by Bitcoin SegWit and Taproot (bc1...) and by some other chains.
Bedrock DAO is a governance framework for managing decisions within the Bedrock ecosystem.
Bedrock uniBTC is a Anchor BTC protocol active on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Merlin. BTC staked into babylon
Beefy automates yield farming to make DeFi easy, safe and efficient for all.
The 2021 Christie's sale of Beeple's Everydays collage that mainstreamed NFT price headlines.
Beldex building a decentralized confidential ecosystem in Web3 for secure digital interactions..
Beni (BENI) is a crypto asset primarily associated with base.
Benqi Lending is a Lending protocol active on Avalanche. BENQI is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol, built on Avalanche.
Benqi Staked Avax is a Liquid Staking protocol active on Avalanche. Stake AVAX on BENQI's Liquid Staking Protocol and freely utilize it within powerful Decentralized Financial applications.
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Best Buy xStock (BBYX) is a crypto asset primarily associated with arbitrum-one.
How tightly an asset moves with a benchmark, often Bitcoin, used as a rough risk factor.
BFUSD is a reward-bearing asset redeemable for USD stablecoin.
Kingdom reported to mine BTC with hydro power, an early nation-state mining story.
Biconomy.com is a centralized exchange listed with country British Virgin Islands.
The gap between the highest bid and the lowest ask. A wide spread is a hidden trading cost.
Big Pump (PUMP) is a cryptocurrency aimed at facilitating community-driven investment strategies in the DeFi space.
The policy fear that a platform with billions of users could issue private money that rivals sovereign payment systems.
Bigly (BIGLY) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
BillionHappiness (BHC) is a crypto asset primarily associated with binance-smart-chain.
The world's largest centralized crypto exchange by volume, with a spot book, derivatives, and a large listing machine.
Binance Alpha Spotlight is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Binance Bitcoin (BTCB) is a crypto asset primarily associated with binance-smart-chain.
Binance Bridged USDC (BNB Smart Chain) (USDC) is a crypto asset primarily associated with binance-smart-chain.
Binance CEX is a CEX protocol active on Ethereum, Bitcoin, Binance. Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange which is the largest exchange in the world in terms of daily trading volume of cryptocurrencies
One of the world's deepest crypto perpetual venues by volume.
Hot-wallet theft of about 7,000 BTC. Binance covered users via its SAFU fund narrative.
Binance HODLer Airdrops is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Binance's venture arm (later rebranded in parts) that shaped exchange-linked ecosystem investing.
Binance Launchpad is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Binance Launchpool is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Binance staked ETH is a Liquid Staking protocol active on Ethereum, Binance. A token created by depositing BETH into the BETH wrapper.
Binance Staked SOL (BNSOL) represents your staked SOL plus the staking rewards received, in a tradable and transferable form.
Binance US is a centralized exchange listed with country United States.
Binance Wallet IDO is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Binance-Peg FIRO is a wrapped version of FIRO that is issued by Binance for use on BSC.
What Is Tezos (XTZ)? Tezos is a high-performing blockchain and open-source platform for assets and applications, with a strong focus on code security, on-chain governance, and decentralization.
BingX is a CEX protocol active on Bitcoin, Binance, Tron. Empowering Traders. Elevate your crypto trading game at BingX.
Biotech Accelerationism (BIO/ACC) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal. The design-doc process for Bitcoin protocol, wallet, and process changes.
Hierarchical deterministic wallets. One seed derives a tree of keys so backups stay simple.
The Bitcoin specification for a particular Schnorr signature scheme over secp256k1, used with Taproot spending.
The word-list standard for mnemonic seeds used by most wallets.
A derivation-path convention so the same seed can produce keys for many coins in a predictable tree.
A Solana-focused market data and charting platform popular with trench traders.
Bit2Me (B2M) is a crypto asset primarily associated with ethereum.
Bitazza is a centralized exchange listed with country Thailand.
Bitbank is a centralized exchange listed with country Japan.
The first and largest cryptocurrency. A proof-of-work UTXO chain with a 21 million supply cap, used as digital collateral and a settlement asset.
The psychological round-number milestone traders treated as a cycle marker in the mid-2020s bull market.
Bitcoin's late-2021 peak near $69k before the 2022 bear market.
New highs in 2024 after spot ETF launches and cycle momentum, breaking the 2021 peak.
A proof-of-work cryptocurrency and payment network that split from Bitcoin in August 2017, emphasizing greater transaction capacity on the base chain.
A temporary Bitcoin consensus split caused by differing block-handling behavior between software versions, documented in BIP-50.
BTC market-cap share of total crypto. Rising dominance often means alt risk-off.
Bitcoin's market cap as a percentage of the whole crypto market. Falling dominance often marks altcoin strength.
Bitcoin Fork is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.
Block 0 mined on 3 January 2009, embedding a headline about bank bailouts.
The view that Bitcoin is the only crypto asset that matters long term.
Miniscript and descriptor wallets that require several keys to spend.
22 May 2010, when 10,000 BTC bought two pizzas, remembered as the first retail Bitcoin purchase lore.
Bitcoin SV (BSV) emerged following a hard fork of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain in 2018, which had in turn forked from the BTC blockchain a year earlier.
An August 2010 Bitcoin validation bug that allowed an invalidly large output total, followed by a software fix and a chain reorganization.
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, published 31 October 2008.
An early Bitcoin community site for software and educational resources.
A high-profile lending and trading scam that collapsed in 2018 after promising impossible yields.
Bitdealer (BIT) is a crypto asset primarily associated with solana.
BitFi Basis is a Basis Trading protocol active on Binance, Ethereum, Base. Reliable returns with bfUSD, our yield-bearing stablecoin that fuels stability while amplifying your earnings in a dynamic ecosystem.
A crypto exchange historically tied to Tether's early distribution and to large professional spot flow.
Theft of about 120,000 BTC from Bitfinex. Later U.S. seizures of related coins became a landmark recovery story.
bitFlyer is a centralized exchange listed with country Japan.
Bitget is the leading crypto exchange platform for crypto derivatives trading.
Bitget bgBTC is a Bridge protocol active on Bitcoin. Backed 1:1 by Bitcoin (BTC) on Bitget, BGBTC is designed to help you earn more while keeping your assets flexible and secure.
What is BGB token? BGB is a decentralised token that is the primary token of Morph's blockchain, serving as the gas, governance, and payment token across the layer.
Bitget Wrapped Bitcoin (BGBTC) is a wrapped version of Bitcoin (BTC), pegged 1:1 with BTC on Bitget.
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