FTX founder convicted after the 2022 collapse. Shorthand SBF for the scandal era.

Legal prohibitions on dealing with listed people, entities, or jurisdictions. On-chain, this often means frozen addresses.

Sanctum Infinity is a Dexs protocol active on Solana. Infinity is a multi-LST liquidity pool.

Sanctum Validator LSTs is a Liquid Staking protocol active on Solana. A Sanctum validator LST is a type of LST for which stake pools were deployed with the SanctumSPL Program.

A form of MEV that buys just before a victim swap and sells just after, extracting their slippage.

A suspicious activity or suspicious transaction report filed with a financial-intelligence unit.

The anonymous author of the Bitcoin whitepaper and the first Bitcoin software in 2008 to 2009.

Saturn is a dual-token Bitcoin-backed credit protocol where USDat is a stablecoin backed by tokenized treasuries and sUSDat is a…

Market shorthand for a spot Bitcoin ETF listing. The product holds BTC, not futures.

Dust tokens that lure you to a fake site to 'claim' or 'revoke'. Do not interact.

The locking script on a Bitcoin output that defines how it can be spent.

An Ethereum rollup that executes EVM-compatible transactions on Layer 2 and uses validity proofs, published data, and Ethereum contracts to settle its state.

OpenSea's open marketplace protocol for NFT orders.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which polices securities offerings, exchanges, and advisers.

Major U.S. enforcement action against Binance and CZ era outcomes that reshaped exchange compliance posture.

A U.S. civil enforcement case filed in 2023 concerning Coinbase's securities-related activities and dismissed by agreement in February 2025.

The long U.S. case over whether XRP sales were securities, shaping token classification debates.

U.S. penalties on third-country firms that deal with a primary sanctioned party, a key SWIFT-risk topic.

The U.S. law that requires registration or an exemption before securities are offered to the public.

The U.S. law that governs exchanges, brokers, and ongoing disclosure for public securities.

A transfer-agent platform that issues and services tokenized securities.

A multisig that can pause or upgrade an L2 in emergencies. A trust assumption to understand.

Basics every user needs: seed secrecy, URL checks, and never signing blind approvals.

A token that is a security under applicable law: ownership, debt, or investment-contract rights, usually with transfer restrictions.

A word-based wallet recovery backup, often using BIP-39; successful restoration can also require a passphrase, derivation paths, and the correct wallet format.

Any screenshot, cloud backup, or support scam that exposes the mnemonic. Funds are gone once it is used.

Bitcoin's 2017 capacity and malleability fix. Addresses start with 3 or bc1.

Control of the keys or authorization policy needed to use an on-chain account, with responsibility for protecting and recovering that authority.

Write the seed offline, verify receive addresses, and practice a small recovery before moving size.

Push size into a trade with conviction, often ignoring risk sizing.

The delay between an event, its appearance in sentiment inputs, and publication of a score or trading signal.

The rules used to select, transform, and combine observations into a measure of market mood.

Sentora Curator is a Risk Curators protocol active on Ethereum, Ink, Solana. Sentora provides the institutional-grade foundation for powering the next generation of DeFi solutions.

Single Euro Payments Area. Euro credit transfers and direct debits across participating countries.

The party that orders L2 transactions. A centralized sequencer is fast and is also a censorship point.

Famous VC apology and write-down after FTX, a symbol of due-diligence failure in the boom.

Intentionally misspelled sir. Friendly or ironic address in crypto chats.

An NFT (and sometimes ERC-20) permission that lets an operator move every token you own in that contract.

The layer that makes transfers final and resolves disputes. For many L2s that layer is Ethereum.

The asset in which a contract's realized obligations or profit and loss are paid, which may differ from its quote or collateral currency.

The moment a payment can no longer be unilaterally reversed under the system's rules.

The chance one side delivers and the other does not, classic in cross-border and OTC crypto.

A 256-bit hash function from the SHA-2 family. Bitcoin uses it for proof of work and address hashing.

Splitting state or execution across many committees so the network scales beyond one machine.

A sequencer set shared across many rollups to improve censorship resistance and interoperability.

Excess return per unit of volatility. A simple way to compare strategies after adjusting for swing size.

Promoting a token, often while hiding that you are paid or already long.

A dismissive label for a low-quality or zero-utility token. Often accurate, sometimes premature.

A position that profits if price falls, typically via a borrowed asset or a derivative.

A forced buy-back cascade when shorts are liquidated into a rising tape.

Forced buying of shorts as price rips, often accelerated by thin order books and high leverage.

A separate chain with its own validators that bridges assets to a parent chain. Security is independent.