The UK Financial Conduct Authority, which registers crypto firms for AML and is expanding a fuller crypto regime.

High fully diluted valuation with tiny float, so price looks rich versus eventual supply.

A composite sentiment score from 0 (extreme fear) to 100 (extreme greed) built from volatility, volume, social, and dominance signals.

The U.S. central bank. It supervises large banks, runs wholesale payment rails, and researches a potential digital dollar.

An arrangement in which separate systems accept identity information under shared trust agreements and protocols.

A federated ecash mint design for community custody with threshold trust.

The Federal Reserve's instant-payment service for U.S. banks.

The Federal Reserve's RTGS system for U.S. dollar wholesale payments.

The swap fee a pool charges, such as 0.05 percent or 1 percent, guiding where flow goes.

In-group slang implying the poster saw a thesis early.

Fiat-backed Stablecoin is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.

A major U.S. asset manager and crypto custodian, issuer of the FBTC spot Bitcoin ETF and related products.

Fidelity's spot Bitcoin ETF product.

Figure Markets Democratized Prime is a Lending protocol active on Provenance. Democratized Prime connects your cash or crypto with borrowers seeking liquidity on their collateral

Figure Markets Exchange is a OTC Marketplace protocol active on Provenance. A crypto exchange designed for traders who demand more.

The point after which a block is treated as irreversible under the protocol's rules.

The G20-linked body that coordinates financial-regulation standards, including crypto-asset and stablecoin recommendations.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the U.S. Treasury bureau that writes AML rules and receives suspicious activity reports.

An institutional custody and transfer platform used by exchanges, funds, and banks.

Institutional transfer network for settling between members without exposing hot keys.

Jump Crypto's independent Solana validator client aimed at performance and client diversity.

The U.S. Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, a House-passed bill that would split CFTC and SEC oversight of digital assets.

The Financial Information eXchange protocol used by traditional venues for orders and market data.

Settling many pool interactions as one net balance change at the end of a transaction.

An uncollateralized loan that must be borrowed and repaid inside the same transaction, used for arb and liquidations.

Research and infrastructure for MEV auctions and private transaction submission on Ethereum.

In stress, traders dump alts for BTC, ETH, or stablecoins.

The hypothetical moment Ethereum market cap overtakes Bitcoin. A perennial headline, not a law.

The freely trading supply. Low float plus hype can produce violent squeezes both ways.

Instadapp's liquidity layer that combines lending and swapping in one vault design.

Fluid DEX is a Dexs protocol active on Ethereum, Plasma, Arbitrum. With Smart Collateral, LPs are now able to utilize their position as collateral in Fluid and deploy it as AMM liquidity on the DEX.

Fluid Lending is a Lending protocol active on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Plasma. An ever-evolving DeFi protocol and financial system of the future by Instadapp

Fluid Lite is a Yield Aggregator protocol active on Ethereum. Automated vaults

Fear of missing out. Buying because price already ran, often near local tops.

A protocol path for submitting a transaction through a settlement layer or alternative queue when a rollup sequencer does not include it normally.

A split in chain history or protocol rules. Can be accidental (two tips) or intentional (an upgrade).

The rule a node applies to select its preferred chain head when more than one valid branch is available.

Mathematical proofs about contract behavior, complementary to audits and tests.

Mathematically proving that code matches a spec, used on high-value vaults and zk circuits.

Forward Industries SOL is a Liquid Staking protocol active on Solana. Staked SOL on Forward Industries, receive fwdSOL tokens.

A common structure: nonprofit foundation holds IP or treasury, for-profit lab builds the product.

A BNB Chain memecoin launchpad in the same genre as Pump.fun.

Splitting a high-value asset into many tokens so smaller buyers can hold a slice. Legal title design matters more than the token UI.

Franklin Templeton's tokenized money-market fund experiment, an early public example of fund shares on public rails.

A stablecoin and DeFi family that has used fractional reserves, AMO strategies, and liquid staking.

The key that can block an address from transferring a token, common on Solana stables and some RWAs.

A SocialFi experiment on Base that tokenized Twitter accounts as keys. A cycle case study more than a standard.

Seeing a pending transaction and inserting your own ahead of it for profit.

International policy recommendations for consistent regulation, supervision, and oversight of crypto-asset activities and relevant stablecoin arrangements.

A collapsed centralized exchange whose 2022 failure froze customer funds and reshaped U.S. enforcement.

The November 2022 failure of FTX and Alameda, a defining custody and fraud event for the industry.

As FTX failed, unexplained large withdrawals moved from the platform, compounding customer losses beyond the insolvency itself.