Crypto Glossary
If you’re new to the world of crypto, it’s easy to get lost in the sea of essential blockchain and cryptocurrency terms. Cointelegraph’s crypto glossary explains the major cryptocurrency terms you should know when learning about digital currencies. In this glossary, you will discover links to relevant articles and pages for crypto-related terms.
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- Aave (AAVE)
- Address poisoning attack
- Adoption curve
- Agentic AI
- Airdrop
- Alchemy Pay (ACH)
- Algorand (ALGO)
- Altcoin
- Altcoin trading
- AMLD5
- Amp (AMP)
- Anatoly Yakovenko
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
- Apecoin (APE)
- Appchain
- Aptos (APT)
- Artificial general intelligence (AGI)
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- ASIC
- Asset tokenization
- Atomic swap
- Auction
- Authentication
- Automated market maker (AMM)
- Avalance (AVAX)
- Axie Infinity (AXS)
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- Band Protocol (BAND)
- Base
- Bear market
- Ben Zhou
- Binance
- Bitcoin
- Bitcoin ATM
- Bitcoin bond ETF
- Bitcoin Cash
- Bitcoin core
- Bitcoin futures
- Bitcoin mempool
- Bitcoin mining
- Bitcoin ordinals
- Bitcoin rainbow chart
- Bitcoin Runes
- Bitcoin-backed loan
- Bitcoinlib
- Bittorrent (BTTC)
- Block
- Block explorer
- Block reward
- Block size
- Blockchain
- Blockchain rollups
- Blockchain validator
- Blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS)
- BNB
- Bonds
- BRC-20
- Brian Armstrong
- Bridges
- BscScan
- Bull trap
- Burn (Token)
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- Cardano (ADA)
- Cardano Chang hard fork
- Cathie Wood
- Catizen
- Celsius (CEL)
- Censorship
- Central bank
- Central bank digital currency (CBDC)
- Centralized exchange (CEX)
- Chain
- Chainlink (LINK)
- Changpeng Zhao (CZ)
- Cloud mining
- Cold storage
- Compound (COMP)
- Compressed NFTs
- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
- Cosmos (ATOM)
- Crimeware-as-a-service
- Crocodilus malware
- Cronos (CRO)
- Crypto casino
- Crypto debit card
- Crypto exchange
- Crypto payment gateways
- Crypto slippage
- Crypto-backed mortgages
- Cryptocurrency
- Cryptocurrency pyramid schemes
- Cryptography
- Cryptojacking
- Cynthia Lummis
- Cypherpunk
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- Dai (DAI)
- Dark Skippy attack
- Dash (DASH)
- Data tokenization
- Day trading
- Decentraland (MANA)
- Decentralization
- Decentralized applications (DApps)
- Decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)
- Decentralized exchange (DEX)
- Decentralized finance (DeFi)
- Decentralized prediction markets
- Deepfakes
- DeepSeek
- DeFi staking
- DeFi yield aggregators
- Dencun upgrade
- DePIN
- Diamond hands
- Digital assets
- Digital currency
- Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT)
- Digital twin
- Distributed ledger technology (DLT)
- Do Kwon
- Dogecoin (DOGE)
- Dollar-cost averaging (DCA)
- Donald Trump
- Drainers as a service (DaaS)
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- Iceberg order
- Illegal Bitcoin ATMs
- Impermanent loss
- India
- Initial coin offering (ICO)
- Initial DEX offering (IDO)
- Initial exchange offering (IEO)
- Initial game offering (IGO)
- Initial public offering (IPO)
- Initial stake pool offerings (ISPO)
- Interest rate
- Internet Computer (ICP)
- Internet of Things
- Interoperability
- Iota (MIOTA)
- iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA)
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- PancakeSwap (CAKE)
- Parachains
- Passive income
- Paul Atkins
- Pavel Durov
- Payments
- PayPal USD (PYUSD)
- Pectra
- Peer-to-peer (P2P)
- Pepe (PEPE)
- Phishing
- Phishing attack
- Pig-butchering crypto scams
- Play-to-earn (P2E)
- Political memecoins
- Polkadot (DOT)
- Polygon (MATIC)
- Ponzi scheme
- Project Guardian
- Proof-of-authority (PoA)
- Proof-of-stake (PoS)
- Proof-of-work (PoW)
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- Sam Bankman-Fried
- Sandwich attack
- Satoshi Nakomoto
- Sats
- Scott Bessent
- Sealed-bid token launch
- Secure multi-party Computation (SMPC)
- Security token offering (STO)
- Seed phrase
- Segregated Witness (SEGWIT)
- Sharding
- Shiba Inu (SHIB)
- Shibarium
- Sidechains
- Silk Road
- SIM swap attacj
- Smart contract
- Smart contract security audit
- Social Engineering
- Solana (SOL)
- Solana ETF
- SRC-20
- Stablecoin
- Stacks (STX)
- Staking
- Stellar (XLM)
- StilachiRAT malware
- Storage tokens
- Sushi Swap (SUSHI)
- Synthetic (SNX)
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- TapSwap
- Teardrop attack
- Tether (USDT)
- Tether (USDT)
- The Graph (GRT)
- The Sandbox
- Theta (THETA)
- THORChain (RUNE)
- To the moon
- Token
- Tokenized real estate
- Tokenomics
- Ton
- Toncoin (TON)
- Tornado Cash
- Total supply
- Total value locked (TVL)
- Trading
- Transaction fee
- Triangular arbitrage
- Tron (TRX)
- Two-factor authentication (2FA)
- Typosquatting
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