A shared database replicated across many machines, of which a blockchain is one design.

Distributed ledger technology. The broader category that includes blockchains and other shared ledgers.

Japanese exchange loss of thousands of BTC in 2024, among the year's largest CEX thefts before Bybit.

Terraform Labs co-founder, central figure of the LUNA/UST collapse and later legal pursuit.

Dog-Themed is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.

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.