Glossary

A technical analysis indicator measuring the speed and change of price movements, used to identify overbought or oversold conditions.

Crypto slang for suffering severe financial losses from a cryptocurrency investment or trade.

The potential for new laws or government actions to negatively impact the value or usability of cryptocurrencies.

A sequence of words that can restore a cryptocurrency wallet and all its private keys.

A token whose supply automatically expands or contracts algorithmically to maintain a target price.

A DeFi concept where protocol revenue, rather than token inflation, is distributed to stakers as genuine sustainable yield.

A numerical value assigned to an NFT based on how uncommon its individual traits are within its collection.

The currency in which a cryptocurrency trading pair is valued, such as BTC in the ETH/BTC pair.

The capability of a cryptographic system to remain secure against attacks from quantum computers.

An emerging computing technology that could theoretically break current cryptographic algorithms at sufficient scale.