A Solana meme of a dog in a hat that became a top-tier meme ticker.

A candle whose open and close are nearly equal, often read as indecision.

Buying a fixed amount on a schedule so entry price averages across many days instead of one moment.

Binding a cryptographic message to a specific application, protocol, network, or purpose so that matching data is not confused across contexts.

One asset's share of total crypto market cap. Bitcoin dominance is the most watched figure.

The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act, which sets cyber and outsourcing rules for financial entities including many CASPs.

Attempting to spend the same coins in two conflicting transactions. Consensus exists to make this fail.

The peak-to-trough decline of a price or portfolio, a core measure of pain and risk.

The Dai or Sky savings rate, a protocol yield paid to people who lock the stablecoin in a savings contract.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the U.S. post-trade utility that clears and settles most American securities.

A community SQL analytics platform for blockchain dashboards.

Tiny deposits used to track wallets or poison address histories.

Delivery versus payment. Asset and cash move together, a goal for tokenized securities systems.

Delivery versus payment. Simultaneous exchange of securities and cash to cut settlement risk.

A perpetual-futures DEX that moved from an Ethereum L2 to its own Cosmos-based chain.

Do your own research. Still required even when a call looks clean.

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.

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 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.

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.