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A

Active Management Burden

Agentic Commerce

Algorithmic Stablecoin

AMM (Automated Market Maker)

Arbitrum One Chain

Asks (sell orders)

At The Market (ATM)

Australia Stablecoin Regulation

Automated Agent

B

Bayesian Truth Serum

Bids (buy orders)

BIS Stablecoin Principles

Bitcoin Block Reward

Bitcoin Standard

Bitcoin Supply Curve and Halving

Bitcoin Treasury

BitLicense (New York)

BitMine Immersion (BMNR)

Block and Block Height

Blockchain Trilemma

BNB Chain (BSC)

Borrow Rate (Lending)

BTC Credit Hurdle (MSTR)

BTC Risk (MSTR)

C

Capital Inefficiency

Circuit Breaker

Circulating Supply

CLOB (Central Limit Order Book)

Coinbase Transaction

Collateralized Debt Position (CDP)

Commodity-pegged Stablecoin

Concentrated Liquidity

Concentrated Liquidity (Uniswap)

Consensus Algorithm

Consensus Layer

Consensys and Joseph Lubin

Constant Product Formula x*y=k

Constant Product Market Maker (CPMM)

Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Contract Resolution

Conversion Ratio (MSTR)

Convertible Notes

Convertible Preferred Stock

Core Personal Consumption Expenditures (Core PCE)

Cross-border Payments

Cross-Chain Swap

Crypto-backed Stablecoin

Currency Sovereignty

Current Mid-market Price

D

DA (Data Availability)

dApp (Decentralized Application)

Data Asset Exchange

Data Asset Monetization

Data Sovereignty

Decentralization

Decentralization (Prediction Market)

Decentralized Data Marketplace

Decentralized Lending

Digital Asset Treasury (DAT)

Digital Payments

Digital Signature

Dispersed Information (Prediction Market)

Dodd-Frank Act Stress Tests (DFAST)

Domain Expertise (Prediction Market)

Don't Trust, Verify

Dual-Offline Payment

E

EIP (Ethereum Improvement Proposal)

Electronic Payment

Embedded Call Option

Epoch of Ethereum PoS

Block Proposer in Ethereum

Ethereum Contract Account

Ethereum EOA Account

Ethereum Foundation

Ethereum Lightweight Client

Restaking (Ethereum PoS)

Ethereum Scaling

Staking of Ethereum PoS

Ethereum Wallet

EVM-Compatible Chain

EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine)

Execution Layer

F

Fast Payment Systems

FATF Travel Rule

Fed (Federal Reserve System)

Federal Funds Interest Rate

Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)

Fiat-pegged Stablecoin

Finality in Ethereum

Financial Disintermediation

Financial Inclusion

Fixed Income Security

Fixed Rate (Lending)

Futarchy (Prediction Market)

G

Gas Cost Complexity

Gas Limit of a Block

Gas Limit of a Transaction

H

Hard Fork of a Blockchain

Hashrate of Bitcoin

Health Factor (Lending)

Herd Behavior/Bandwagon Effect

Honeypot Contract

Hong Kong's policy statement on development of digital assets

Hong Kong Stablecoin Bill

HTTP 402 Payment / x402 Protocol

I

IMF Stablecoin Guidance

Impermanent Loss(IL)

Impermanent Loss Amplification

Implied Volatility

Incentive Mechanism (Prediction Market)

Information Aggregation

IOSCO Stablecoin Rules

Isolated Margin

J

Japan Stablecoin Policy

Jupiter on Solana

Just-In-Time Liquidity Attacks

K

L

Lending Aggregator

Leverage (Perp Dex)

Leverage Ratio (MSTR)

Lido liquid staking

Lightning Network

Liquidation (Lending)

Liquidation (Perp Dex)

Liquidity (DEX)

Liquidity Fragmentation

Liquidity Hook (Uniswap)

Liquidity Pool (DEX)

Liquidity Pool (Perp Dex)

Liquidity Provider and LP Token

Loan-to-Value Ratio (LTV)

M

Machine-to-Machine Transactions

Maintenance Margin

MakerDAO (Sky Lending)

Managed Anonymity

Margin Call (Lending)

Margin (Perp Dex)

Market Maker (order book)

Market Manipulation (Prediction Market)

MAS Stablecoin Framework (Singapore)

Matching Engine

Merkle Patricia Tree (MPT)

MEV Vulnerability

Mining and Miner

Mnemonic and Private Key

N

Nakamoto Coefficient

NFT and NFT Marketplace

Node and Client

Non-convertible Preferred Stock

Nonce of Ethereum Account

O

OP Stack and OP Superchain

Open Market Operations (OMO)

Option Value (MSTR)

Oracle (Prediction Market)

Overcollateralization

Overnight Reverse Repurchase Agreement Facility (ON RRP)

P

Payment Facilitator

Payment Service Providers (PSPs)

Peer Prediction

People's Bank of China (PBC)

Perpetual Futures

Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE)

Polygon PoS Chain

Pool Depth (DEX)

Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Ethereum

Proof-of-Work (PoW) Ethereum

Pre-negotiated Licensing Agreement

Prediction Market

Preferred Stock

Price Discovery

Price Impact (DEX)

Price (order book)

Price-Time Priority

Primary Dealers

Proof-of-History (PoH)

Q

Quantitative Easing (QE)

Quantum Resistance

R

Reputation System

Reserve Factor (Lending)

Retail Payment System

Based Rollup (L1-sequenced)

Fraud Proof of Ethereum Rollup

Optimistic Rollup

Rollup Validity Proof

ZK Proof of Ethereum Rollups

S

S2F (Stock-to-Flow)

Same Activity Same Risk Same Regulation (Hong Kong)

Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR)

SegWit (Segregated Witness)

Semantic Payment Metadata

Sequencer of Layer 2

Settlement Upon Payment

Skin in the Game (Prediction Market)

Slippage (order book)

Slot in Ethereum

Smart Contracts for Data Exchange

Solana Account Owner

Solana Compute Units

Solana Foundation

Solana Prioritization Fee

Solana Smart Contract / Onchain Program

Solana Token Program

Solana Token Program

SPL (Solana Program Library)

Stablecoin and MasterCard

Stablecoin and Stripe

Stablecoin and VISA

Stablecoin (Decentralized)

Stablecoins for x402

Stablecoins on Ethereum

Strategy (MSTR)

Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP)

Supply Rate (Lending)

Surprisingly Popular Mechanism

T

Thick Market/Thin Market

Token Standard: ERC20, ERC721

Tokenized Data Assets

Transaction Fee

Transaction Fee (DEX)

Transfer Bitcoin and Transaction

Treasury Bills (T-Bills)

Treasury Bonds (T-Bonds)

Treasury Notes (T-Notes)

Turing Complete (Ethereum)

TVL (Total Value Locked)

TWAP (Time-Weighted Average Price)

U

UAE Stablecoin Regulation

UK Stablecoin Regulation

US GAAP Stablecoin Classification

US Inflation Rate

U.S. Treasury-backed Stablecoin

Utilization Rate (Lending)

UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output)

V

Validator of PoS

Variable Interest Rate (Lending)

Virtual AMM (vAMM)

Vitalik Buterin

W

Wallet and Address

Web Content Monetization

Wisdom of the Crowds

X

x402 Foundation

Y

Yield Farming in DeFi

Z

Zero-Knowledge Proof

ZKsync Era Chain

Last updated on September 22, 2025

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