Crypto Glossary
Learn the essential cryptocurrency and blockchain terms. Our comprehensive glossary helps you understand the key concepts in the crypto world.
82 terms
Comprehensive glossary covering 82 essential crypto and blockchain terms.
Learn the essential cryptocurrency and blockchain terms. Our comprehensive glossary helps you understand the key concepts in the crypto world.
82 terms
Comprehensive glossary covering 82 essential crypto and blockchain terms.
A type of decentralized exchange that uses mathematical formulas to price assets instead of traditional order books.
A peer-to-peer marketplace where users trade cryptocurrency directly from their wallets without relying on a centralized intermediary to hold funds.
A financial ecosystem built on blockchain technology that provides traditional financial services like lending, trading, and insurance without banks or intermediaries.
An uncollateralized DeFi loan that must be borrowed and repaid within a single blockchain transaction, enabling arbitrage and complex financial operations.
The temporary loss of value that liquidity providers experience when the price ratio of pooled tokens changes compared to simply holding the tokens.
Mechanisms offered by some DeFi protocols to compensate liquidity providers for value lost due to price divergence between pooled token pairs.
A decentralized platform that enables users to lend cryptocurrency to earn interest or borrow against their crypto holdings as collateral.
A DeFi service that allows users to stake tokens and receive a liquid derivative token in return, enabling them to earn staking rewards while maintaining liquidity.
A collection of tokens locked in a smart contract that provides liquidity for decentralized trading, lending, and other DeFi activities.
Physical or traditional financial assets like real estate, bonds, and commodities that are tokenized and brought on-chain for trading and use in DeFi.
A mechanism that allows staked ETH or liquid staking tokens to be reused as security collateral for additional protocols, earning extra yield.
The total value of cryptocurrency assets deposited in a DeFi protocol, used to measure the protocol's size and adoption.
A DeFi strategy of moving crypto assets between protocols to maximize returns through interest, fees, and token rewards.