Aster USDF is a Basis Trading protocol active on Binance. USDF is a yield-bearing stablecoin issued by Aster, convertible with USDT at a 1:1 ratio.

Key pairs where the public key verifies what only the private key can sign or decrypt.

Both legs of an exchange succeed or fail together, reducing Herstatt risk.

A hash-locked exchange that either completes both legs or neither, used across chains or pairs.

An Alternative Trading System, a U.S. SEC-registered venue that can match securities without being a full national exchange.

A validator vote that a block is valid and belongs on the canonical chain.

A time-boxed review of contract code. It reduces risk. It does not eliminate it.

The dealer allowed to create and redeem ETF shares, the arb that pins price to NAV.

A pool formula that prices trades from balances instead of a human order book. Constant-product is the classic form.

Automated Market Maker (AMM) is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.

A modular DA project aimed at rollup and appchain data publishing.

Avalanche Core Bridge is a Canonical Bridge protocol active on Ethereum, Bitcoin. Native Bitcoin Bridge. ETH EVM support.

Avalon CeDeFi is a Anchor BTC protocol active on Ethereum. Powering ₿itcoin's On-Chain Capital Markets.

Avalon Superearn is a Yield protocol active on Ethereum. Earn yield with real-time APY.

Avant avUSD is a Onchain Capital Allocator protocol active on Avalanche. Avant is a DeFi platform established in June 2024 with the mission to create a more inclusive financial system through a DeFi-powered…

An Actively Validated Service on EigenLayer, a sidecar network that borrows Ethereum restaked security.

Extra slashing conditions an EigenLayer operator accepts when opting into an AVS.

A proof-of-stake interoperability chain for general message passing.

Play-to-earn game whose scholarship economy boomed then busted; its Ronin bridge was later hacked.