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GLOSSARY

Definitions and terminology related to cryptoeconomics, blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

Gas
Gas Token
Genesis Block
Governance Utility
HD Wallet
Hard Cap
Hard Fork
Hard Sink
Hardware Wallet
Hash
Hash Rate (Hash Power)
Hashed TimeLock Contract (HTLC)
Hodl
Howey Test
Iceberg Order
Impermanent Loss
Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
Initial Exchange Offering (IEO)
Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC)
Intermediary
Interoperable
Know Your Customer (KYC)
Layer 2 Scalability
Light Node
Limit Order
Liquidation Ratio
Liquidity Mining
Liquidity Provider
Mainnet
Mainnet Swap
Maker / Taker
Market Making
Maximum Extractable Value (MEV)
Membership Utility
Merkle Tree
Metadata
Metagovernance
Micropayment
Migration Fund
Mining
Mining Node
Mining Pool
Mint
Modular Blockchain
Money Utility
Monolithic Blockchain
Multi-chain Application
Multisignature Transaction
Nakamoto Consensus
Network
Node
Node Operator
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
Nonce
Nothing-at-Stake Problem
One-Way Function
Open-Source
Optimistic Rollup
Oracle
Oracle Problem
Orphan Block (Stale Block)
Over-the-Counter Trading (OTC)
Paper Wallet
Payment Channel
Peg
Permissioned Blockchain
Perpetual Swap Contract
Plasma
Private Key
Private Sale
Proof of Authority (PoA)
Proof of Spacetime (PoSt)
Proof of Stake (PoS)
Proof of Work (PoW)
Proposer
Protocol
Pruned Full Node
Public-key Cryptography
Pump and Dump
Quantum Computing
Recursive Rollup
Rollup
Rollup Sequencer
Satoshi
Scalability
Security Token
Security Token Offering (STO)
Seigniorage
Self-Custodial Wallet
Selfish Mining
Sharding
Sidechain
Signaling Utility
Silk Road Marketplace
Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT)
Simplified Payment Verification (SPV)
Slashing
Slippage
Smart Contract
Social Graph