The Prague-Electra Ethereum upgrade activated in May 2025, combining execution-layer and consensus-layer changes including EIP-7702 account delegation.

The public Ethereum education and documentation hub.

Exchange-traded product, the umbrella that includes ETFs, ETNs, and some trusts.

The central bank of the euro area, developing a digital euro and supervising euro stablecoin issues under MiCA with national authorities.

The Ethereum Virtual Machine, the runtime that executes smart contracts on Ethereum and many compatible chains.

Coins sitting on CEX wallets. Falling reserves can mean self-custody or ETF withdrawals depending on context.

The part of a stack that runs transactions and updates state, such as Ethereum's EVM client.

The buyers who arrive late so earlier wallets can sell.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.