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Explore 336+ clear, technical, and objective definitions defining the decentralized future.
Ease of buying/selling an asset without significantly moving its price (high liquidity = tight bid-ask spreads and fast fills).
Leverage allows a trader to control a position larger than the capital they provide as margin. For example, 5x leverage can allow $1,000 of margin to support approximately $5,000 of market exposure.
A bear market is a prolonged period in which prices trend downward and market confidence weakens. In crypto, bear markets are often marked by lower highs, lower lows, reduced trading activity, and widespread caution.
A bull market is a period of rising prices, strong optimism, and growing confidence across the market. In crypto, bull markets often include powerful momentum, new highs, strong retail interest, and expanding trading volumes.
A pump and dump is a manipulative scheme where a coin’s price is artificially pushed up through hype, coordination, or misleading promotion, and then quickly sold by insiders at the expense of late buyers.
A whale is an individual, institution, fund, exchange, or other entity that controls a sufficiently large amount of cryptocurrency to potentially influence market liquidity, price, or sentiment. There is no universal amount that makes someone a whale.
FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. In crypto, the term is commonly used to describe negative information, rumours, claims, or narratives that create fear among traders and investors.
FOMO stands for Fear of Missing Out. In crypto trading, it describes the emotional pressure to buy an asset because its price is rising rapidly or because other people appear to be making money from it.
HODL is a crypto-community term meaning to hold an asset for the long term rather than selling because of short-term price movements. The term originated from a misspelling of “hold” in an early Bitcoin forum post and later became widely used across crypto culture.
Realized Cap calculates the total value of all coins based on the price at which they last transacted on-chain, rather than the current market price. Unlike Market Cap, which values all circulating coins at the current price, Realized Cap reflects the historical cost basis of each coin.
An NFT (non-fungible token) is a unique cryptographic token on a blockchain that represents ownership of a specific digital or physical asset and cannot be exchanged on a one-to-one basis like fungible cryptocurrencies.
Short for “Decentralized Finance,” it refers to financial applications built on blockchain networks that operate without traditional intermediaries.
A smart contract is self-executing code stored on a blockchain that automatically performs actions when certain conditions are met.
A funding rate is a periodic payment exchanged between long and short traders in many perpetual futures markets. Its purpose is to help keep the perpetual contract price aligned with the underlying spot market.
Staking is the process of committing or delegating cryptocurrency to help secure a proof-of-stake blockchain and potentially earn protocol rewards.
This is an exchange-traded fund that follows the price of Bitcoin.