AMM

Automated Market Maker

APR

Annual Percentage Rate

APY

Annual Percentage Yield

Airdrop

Free token distribution to wallet holders

Altcoin

Any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin

Blockchain

Distributed ledger technology

Bridge

Cross-chain asset transfer protocol

Cold Wallet

Offline cryptocurrency storage

Consensus Mechanism

Method for blockchain agreement

DAO

Decentralized Autonomous Organization

DApp

Decentralized Application

DEX

Decentralized Exchange

DeFi

Decentralized Finance

EVM

Ethereum Virtual Machine

FOMO

Fear Of Missing Out

FUD

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

Fiat

Government-issued currency

Gas

Transaction fee unit on Ethereum

HODL

Hold On for Dear Life

Halving

Bitcoin block reward reduction

Hash Rate

Mining computational power

Hot Wallet

Internet-connected crypto wallet

Impermanent Loss

LP value loss from price changes

KYC

Know Your Customer

Layer 1

Base blockchain network

Layer 2

Scaling solution built on L1

Liquidity

Ease of trading an asset

Liquidity Pool

DEX trading reserves

MEV

Maximal Extractable Value

Market Cap

Total value of cryptocurrency

Mining

Creating new cryptocurrency

NFT

Non-Fungible Token

Node

Network participant computer

Oracle

External data provider

Private Key

Secret wallet access code

Proof of Stake

Staking-based consensus

Proof of Work

Mining-based consensus

Public Key

Wallet address derivation

Rollup

L2 scaling technology

Seed Phrase

Wallet recovery words

Slippage

Price difference in trades

Smart Contract

Self-executing code on blockchain

Stablecoin

Price-stable cryptocurrency

Staking

Locking tokens for rewards

TVL

Total Value Locked

Token

Digital asset on blockchain

Tokenomics

Token economic design

Validator

PoS block producer

Wallet

Crypto storage interface

Whale

Large cryptocurrency holder

Yield Farming

DeFi return optimization

Zero Knowledge Proof

Privacy-preserving verification