Crypto, Web3, NFT Glossary
| 1/1 Art | One of a kind art NFTs |
| 51% attack |
When more than 51% (more than half) of the computing power of a specific blockchain comes under the control of a single entity.
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| Abandonment | rug pull |
| ADA | Cardano coin |
| Address |
A string of letters and numbers that represents a place where cryptocurrency or NFTs can be sent to and from
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| Airdrop |
Distribution of a cryptocurrency, token, or NFT to a wallet address at no charge. Often used for promotional purposes or giveaways.
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| Airdrop Scams |
NFTs or tokens airdropped to wallets without the wallet owner’s permission containing malicious code. When the wallet owner interacts with the airdrop through their wallet, the scammer gains access to steal the contents of the wallet.
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| Algorithm | A set of mathematical rules is used by computers to solve problems. |
| All-time high | The highest price a cryptocurrency, token, or NFT collection has ever achieved. |
| All-time low | The lowest price a cryptocurrency, token, or NFT has ever experienced. |
| Alpha | Early, secretive, or insider knowledge about cryptocurrency, token, or NFT projects. |
| Alpha Group | A group, usually private, formed to share alpha. |
| Altcoins | Any cryptocurrency coin other than Bitcoin. |
| Anti-money laundering | International laws meant to curb the use of cryptocurrency by criminal organizations |
| Aped | Buying into a cryptocurrency or NFT project without doing proper research |
| Arbitrage |
Taken advantage of the price differences between different exchanges/markets by quickly trading assets by buying/selling on one market and then buying/selling the same asset in another market.
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| ArtBlocks | Website specializing in selling 1/1 AI-generated art work. |
| ASIC |
Application-specific integrated circuit – This is a type of circuit used in computers set up for mining Bitcoin and some other cryptocurrencies
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| Asset | |
| ATH | |
| ATL | |
| Atomic swap | |
| Avatar |
| Bag | |
| Bear | |
| Bear Trap | |
| Bearish | |
| Beeple | |
| Bitcoin | |
| Block | |
| Block Explorer | |
| Block Height | |
| Block Reward | |
| Blockchain | |
| Bridge | |
| BSC | |
| BSCscan | |
| BTC | Bitcoin |
| BTFD | Buy The Fuckin Dip |
| Bull | |
| Bullish | |
| Burn |
Sending an NFT or tokens to a non-existent wallet address essentially destroys them. Can be used to reduce the overall supply of an NFT collection or token supply.
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| Burned | NFTs or tokens that have been destroyed by sending them to a non-existent wallet address. |
| Burst | |
| Buy Wall | |
| Buyers |
| CAP | Market Capitalization |
| Cardano | |
| CAT | Crypto collectible Asset Token |
| CDS | |
| Central Ledger | |
| Chain Linking | |
| Cipher | |
| Circulating Supply | |
| Coin | |
| Cold Storage | |
| Collectible | |
| Colored Coins | |
| Community Designated Sellers | |
| Confirmed | |
| Consensus | |
| Consensus Process | |
| COPE | |
| Cross-Chain Interoperability | |
| Crowdsales | |
| Crypto collectible | |
| Cryptocurrency | |
| Cryptographic Hash Function | |
| Cryptokitties | |
| Cryptopunks | |
| Cryptovoxels |
| DAO | Decentralized Autonomous Organization |
| DAPP | Decentralized Application |
| dApp | Decentralized Application |
| Decentraland | A Metaverse website |
| Decentralized Application | |
| Decentralized Exchange | |
| Decryption | |
| Ded | |
| DeFi | |
| Deflation | |
| Degen | |
| Delist | |
| Depth Chart | |
| Derivative Project | |
| Deterministic Wallet | |
| DEV | |
| DEX | |
| Diamond Hands | Holding a currency, NFT, or other assets long-term despite price fluctuations. |
| Difficulty | |
| Digital Commodity | |
| Digital Currency | |
| Digital Signature | |
| Discord | |
| Distributed Ledger | |
| DOGE | |
| Doge Meme | |
| Double Spend | |
| Drop | |
| Dump | selling all of your cryptocurrency or all of a specific coin |
| Dumping | When many people dump their cryptocurrency at the same time causing a downward price movement. |
| Dust Transactions | Transactions for minuscule amounts are sometimes used to flood a network causing it to slow down. |
| DYOR | Do Your Own Research |
| Encryption | |
| ENS | |
| ERC | |
| ERC-1155 | |
| ERC-20 | |
| ERC-721 | |
| Escrow | |
| Ether | |
| Ethereum | |
| Ethereum 2.0 | |
| Ethereum Virtual Machine | |
| Etherscan | |
| ETHerscan | |
| EVM | Ethereum Virtual Machine |
| Exchange |
| FA | Fundamental Analysis |
| Farm | |
| Faucet | |
| Few | |
| Fiat | |
| Fiat | |
| Flippening | Theoretical future event when the market cap of Ethereum bypasses the market cap of Bitcoin |
| Flipping | |
| Floor Price | |
| FOMO | Fear Of Missing Out |
| Fork | |
| Fractionalized NFTs | |
| Fren | |
| Frictionless | |
| FT | |
| FUD | |
| FUD | |
| Full Node | |
| Fundamental Analysis | |
| Fungible Token | |
| Futures Contract |
| Gas | |
| Gas Limit | |
| Gas Price | |
| Gas War | |
| GD | |
| Generative Art | |
| Genesis Block | |
| GM | |
| GMI | |
| GN | |
| Governance | |
| GPU | |
| Group Mining | |
| Gwei |
| Halving | |
| Hard Cap | |
| Hard Fork | |
| Hardware Wallet | |
| Hash | |
| Hash Rate | |
| Hashing Power | |
| Hashrate | |
| HODL |
| ICO | |
| Inflation Hedge | |
| Infinite Minting | |
| Initial Coin Offering | |
| Initial Game Offering | |
| IRL | |
| IYKYK |
| JOMO | |
| JPEG | |
| JPG |
| KYC | Know Your Customer – regulations that require financial institutions to collect ID from customers for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) purposes. |
| L1 | Layer 1 – A base layer of a blockchain like Ethereum and Bitcoin. |
| L2 | Layer 2 – A secondary blockchain that runs transactions on its own layer and bridges with the Layer 1 blockchain allowing for faster, lower gas transactions. Polygon is an L2 of Ethereum. |
| LAMBO | |
| Ledger | |
| Leverage | |
| LFG | |
| Lightning Network | |
| Limit Order | Also Limit Buy/Limit Sell |
| Liquidity | |
| Liquidity | |
| Liquidity Available | |
| Lock Time | |
| Long | |
| LooksRare |
| MACD | |
| Mainnet | |
| Margin Bear Position | |
| Margin Trading | |
| Market Capitalization | |
| Market Order | |
| MCAP | |
| Meatspace | |
| Metaverse | |
| Metaverse | |
| Mining | |
| Mining | |
| Mining Contract | |
| Mining Pool | |
| Mint | |
| Minting | |
| Minting Interval | |
| Money Services Business | |
| Moon | |
| MSB | |
| Multi-Signature Wallets | Also: Multi-Sig |
| Multipool Mining |
| Network | |
| Newbie | Someone inexperienced in a space |
| NFA | Not Financial Advice |
| NFT | Non-Fungible Token |
| NGMI | Not Gonna Make It |
| Node | |
| Non-Fungible Token | |
| Noncustodial Wallet | |
| Noob | |
| Nuclear NFT |
| OCO | One Cancels The Other Order |
| OG | |
| One Cancels The Other Order | |
| OpenSea | NFT Marketplace OpenSea.io |
| Oracles | |
| OS | OpenSea |
| Overbought | |
| Oversold |
| P2E | |
| P2P | |
| Paper Hands | |
| Paper Wallet | |
| Peer to Peer | |
| Permanent Record | |
| PFP | Profile Picture |
| Pleb | |
| PND | Pump and Dump |
| PoA | |
| POAP | |
| Polygon | |
| Polyscan / Polygonscan | |
| Portfolio | |
| PoS | |
| PoW | |
| Pre-Minting | |
| Pre-Sale | |
| Private Key | |
| Probably Nothing | |
| Proof of Authority | |
| Proof of Stake | |
| Proof of Stake | |
| Proof of Work | |
| Protocols | |
| Public Blockchain | |
| Public Key | |
| Public Ledger | |
| Pump | |
| Pump and Dump |
| QR Code |
| Rarible | |
| Rarities | |
| Rarity | |
| Re-Mint | |
| REKT | |
| Relative Strength Index | |
| Right Click – Save As | |
| Ring Signature | |
| Ring Signature | |
| Roadmap | |
| RSI | |
| Rug Pull |
| Satoshi Nakamoto | |
| SATS | |
| Schelling Point | |
| Scrypt | |
| Secondary Market | |
| Secret Recovery Phrase | |
| Seed Hash | |
| Seed Phrase | |
| Seems Legit | |
| Segregated Witness | |
| SEGWIT | |
| Selfish Mining | |
| Sell Wall | |
| Ser | |
| SHA-256 | |
| Sharding | |
| Shilling | |
| Shit Coin | |
| Short | |
| Sidechain | |
| Slashed | |
| Smart Contract | |
| Soft Fork | |
| Software Wallet | |
| SOL | |
| Solidity | |
| Stablecoin | |
| Staking | |
| Super Rare | |
| Szn | “Season” – A market cycle |
| TA | |
| Technical Analysis | |
| Testnet | |
| The Sandbox | |
| This Is The Way | |
| Timestamp | |
| To The Moon | |
| Token | |
| Token | |
| Token Swap | |
| Tokenless Ledger | |
| Tokenomics | |
| Tokens | |
| TOR | |
| Traits | |
| Transaction | |
| Transaction Fee | |
| Turing Completeness |
| Unconfirmed | |
| Unspent Transaction Output | |
| Up Only | |
| UTXO |
| Validator | |
| Volatility |
| WAGMI | We Are All Gonna Make It |
| Wallet | |
| Web3 | |
| Wen Moon | |
| Whale | |
| White Paper | |
| Whitelist | |
| WL Spots |
| YOLO | Your Only Live Once |
| Zero Confirmation Transaction |