100+ Crypto Terms

Crypto Glossary A-Z

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Crypto Glossary A-Z

Airdrop

Altcoin

AMM (Automated Market Maker)

APR (Annual Percentage Rate)

APY (Annual Percentage Yield)

Arbitrage

Ask Price

ATH (All-Time High)

ATL (All-Time Low)

Bear Market

Bid Price

Bitcoin (BTC)

Block

Blockchain

Breakout

Bridge

Bull Market

Candlestick

CEX (Centralized Exchange)

Cold Wallet

Collateral

Consensus Mechanism

Cross-Chain

Cryptocurrency

Custodial

DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)

DApp (Decentralized Application)

DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging)

Decentralization

DeFi (Decentralized Finance)

DEX (Decentralized Exchange)

Diamond Hands

DYOR (Do Your Own Research)

ERC-20

Ethereum (ETH)

Exchange

Fiat Currency

FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)

Fork

FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt)

Funding Rate

Futures

Gas Fee

Genesis Block

Governance Token

Halving

Hardware Wallet

Hash

HODL

Hot Wallet

ICO (Initial Coin Offering)

IDO (Initial DEX Offering)

Impermanent Loss

KYC (Know Your Customer)

Layer 1

Layer 2

Leverage

Limit Order

Liquidation

Liquidity

Liquidity Pool

Long Position

MACD

Mainnet

Maker

Margin

Market Cap

Market Order

Meme Coin

Mining

NFT (Non-Fungible Token)

Node

Non-Custodial

On-Chain

Order Book

Paper Hands

Perpetual Contract

PoS (Proof of Stake)

PoW (Proof of Work)