Taking a loan against locked collateral. Interest accrues until you repay or get liquidated.

Price leaving a range with enough volume that traders treat the move as real.

A Base-chain memecoin from the Boy's Club lore that became a flagship Base meme.

A payment to veToken voters to point gauges at a pool. Legal in many DeFi designs, still a conflict of interest.

A grouping of major emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and newer members) that discusses trade, development banks, and alternatives to dollar rails.

A proposed cross-border payment framework among BRICS members, discussed as a complement to SWIFT rather than a live global rail.

A protocol that locks or burns an asset on one chain and mints or unlocks a representation on another.

Bridges add smart-contract and validator risk. Prefer native issuance or canonical bridges when possible.

Exploiting validators, contracts, or message verification on a cross-chain bridge. Historically the largest loss class.

The chance a cross-chain lock-and-mint system is hacked or halted, stranding or forging assets.

A U.S. firm licensed to effect securities transactions for customers or for its own account.

BtcTurk | Kripto is a centralized exchange listed with country Turkey.

BTSE is a centralized exchange listed with country Costa Rica.

A public reward for reporting vulnerabilities before they are exploited.

Paid responsible disclosure for vulnerabilities, often via Immunefi in crypto.

BlackRock's USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, a tokenized money-market product often cited in RWA adoption stories.

Community language encouraging people to build and improve crypto products, tools, and infrastructure; distinct from the BUIDL name used by a tokenized fund.

Late-cycle psychology where risk feels free and leverage feels smart.

A multi-chain trading bot and terminal used for memecoin execution.

A private block package that lands launch buys and LP adds in a chosen order, often used at token genesis.

Tokens pre-allocated to sniper or insider wallets at launch so they can dump into retail FOMO.

An ERC-4337 node that packs user operations into a single transaction for the EntryPoint contract.

A bridge pattern that destroys coins on the source and creates them on the destination so supply stays constant.

Liquidity-provider tokens sent to a dead address. Stronger than a timed lock, still check mint and tax functions.

Buzz Farming collaborates with well-known BTCFi projects such as Babylon, Lombard, and Bedrock, as well as prominent blockchains, offering…

BVOX is a centralized exchange listed with country British Virgin Islands.

A derivatives-heavy centralized exchange known for perpetual futures.

A major derivatives exchange used for perps and copy-trading style products.

Bybit EU is a centralized exchange listed with country Austria.

February 2025 theft of roughly $1.4B to $1.5B from Bybit cold-wallet operations, widely reported as the largest crypto heist to date and linked by investigators to North Korea.

BYDFi is a centralized exchange listed with country Canada.

Byte Exchange is a centralized exchange listed with country Estonia.

The compiled form of a contract that the virtual machine actually runs.

The ability of a network to keep a single honest history even if some nodes lie or go offline.