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.

A privacy-oriented network of sync domains aimed at institutional tokenized assets and workflows.

Cap is a stablecoin protocol that provides credible financial guarantees via two products: the dollar-denominated cUSD and the…

State limits on moving money across borders. Crypto is often used to route around them, with legal risk.

Former Alameda CEO whose testimony was central to the FTX criminal cases.

Return from funding, staking, or basis while holding a hedged book, as opposed to betting on price.

Each forced close pushes mark price into the next liquidation band, accelerating the move.

Block's retail app feature for buying and sending Bitcoin, a major U.S. on-ramp.

An ETF create/redeem that uses dollars instead of the coin, adding tracking and tax friction.

Harvesting futures or ETF basis when spot and derivatives diverge, a desk strategy after ETFs launched.

Crypto-asset service provider, MiCA's licensed category for exchanges, custodians, and brokers in the EU.

A central bank digital currency. A digital liability of the central bank, not a commercial-bank deposit and not Bitcoin.

Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol for moving tokens and messages across networks.

Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol, which burns and mints native USDC instead of wrapping it.

Coins marketed with a famous name or endorsement. Often a liquidity event for insiders more than a fan club.

A modular data-availability network used by some rollups instead of posting all data to Ethereum.

A CeFi lender that froze withdrawals in 2022 and entered bankruptcy after risky yield strategies.

A company-run venue that holds custody, matches orders, and lists pairs. Users deposit to the exchange wallet.

Centralized Exchange (CEX) Token is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.

A protocol and stack for bringing real-world credit and invoices on-chain as RWAs.

A security firm known for audits and on-chain monitoring scores, not a guarantee against hacks.

CEXs are convenient and custodial. DEXs keep keys with you and shift risk to contracts and signatures.

Backlogs during stress. A signal to watch solvency and your own custody choices.

CEX.IO is a centralized exchange listed with country United Kingdom.

Combating the financing of terrorism, usually paired with AML programs.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees commodity derivatives and has treated Bitcoin and ether as commodities.

Chain Abstraction is a market sector used to group crypto assets with similar use or design.

A numerical identifier included in supported blockchain signatures to distinguish the network on which an authorization is intended to work.

When a node switches to a heavier or longer fork and drops recently accepted blocks.

Retail phrase for bridging. Nothing teleports; messages and custody models move risk around.

A blockchain analytics firm used by exchanges and governments for compliance and investigations.

A JIT-AMM cross-chain DEX that aims for native BTC and ETH swaps.

The leading oracle network for prices, proofs, and cross-chain messages (CCIP).

The team that develops Chainlink oracle networks, CCIP, and related middleware.

The UTXO sent back to yourself when you spend more than the payment amount.

Capacity to send or receive on Lightning depends on how channels are balanced.

Ethereum co-founder who later launched Cardano.