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- 2FA
- Two-factor authentication
A
- ABCI
- Application BlockChain Interface
- ABI
- Application binary interface
- ACH
- Automated clearing house
- ADAM
- Association for Digital Asset Markets
- ADCA
- Australian Digital Commerce Association
- ADL
- Auto-deleveraging
- AFS
- Available for sale
- AGS
- Australian Government Securities
- AML
- Anti-money laundering
- AOFM
- Australian Office of Financial Management
- AON
- All or none
- API
- Application programming interface
- APR
- Annual percentage rate
- APRA
- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
- ASIC
- Application-specific integrated circuit
- ASIC
- Australian Securities and Investments Commission
- ATH
- All-time high
- ATL
- All-time low
- ATO
- Australian Taxation Office
- AUM
- Assets under management
B
- BB
- Bollinger Band
- BCBS
- Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
- BEA
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- BFT
- Byzantine Fault Tolerance
- BIP
- Bitcoin Improvement Proposal
- BLS
- Boneh-Lynn-Shacham
- BTC
- Bitcoin
C
- CL
- Consensus layer
- CPU
- Central processing unit
- CSV
- Comma-separated values
- CTF
- Counter-terrorism financing
D
- DA
- Data availability
- DAC
- Data availability committee
- DAG
- Directed acyclic graph
- DAICO
- Decentralised autonomous initial coin offering
- DAO
- Decentralised autonomous organisation
- DAS
- Data availability sampling
- DBFT
- Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance
- DCA
- Dollar-cost averaging
- DD
- Due diligence
- DeFi
- Decentralised finance
- DePIN
- Decentralised Physical Infrastructure Network
- DEX
- Decentralised exchange
- DHT
- Distributed hash table
- DIF
- Deposit Insurance Fund
- DKG
- Distributed key generation
- DOJ
- Department of Justice
- DOV
- DeFi option vault
- DPoS
- Delegated Proof of Stake
- DVT
- Distributed validator technology
- DXY
- U.S. Dollar Index
- DYOR
- Do your own research
E
- EBA
- European Banking Authority
- ECC
- Elliptic-curve cryptography
- ECDSA
- Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
- EEA
- Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
- EF
- Ethereum Foundation
- EIP
- Ethereum Improvement Proposal
- EL
- Execution layer
- EMA
- Exponential moving average
- ENS
- Ethereum Name Service
- ESMA
- European Securities and Markets Authority
- ETF
- Exchange-traded fund
- ETH
- Ether
- ETP
- Exchange-traded product
- EVM
- Ethereum Virtual Machine
F
- FA
- Fundamental analysis
- FASB
- Financial Accounting Standards Board
- FATF
- Financial Action Task Force
- FDIC
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- FDV
- Fully diluted value
- FHE
- Fully homomorphic encryption
- FIDO
- Fast IDentity Online
- FinCEN
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
- FINRA
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- FOK
- Fill or kill
- FOMO
- Fear of missing out
- FOSS
- Free and open-source software
- FSA
- Financial Services Agency
- FSOC
- Financial Stability Oversight Council
- FUD
- Fear, uncertainty and doubt
- FVEY
- Five Eyes
G
- G-SIB
- Global systemically important banks
- G20
- Group of Twenty
- G7
- Group of Seven
- GAN
- Generative adversarial network
- GDPR
- General Data Protection Regulation
- GHOST
- Greediest Heaviest Observed Subtree
- GOO
- Gradual Ownership Optimization
- GPU
- Graphics processing unit
- GRANDPA
- GHOST-based Recursive ANcestor Deriving Prefix Agreement
- GST
- Global stabilisation time
H
- HSM
- Hardware security module
- HTLC
- Hashed Timelock Contract
- HTM
- Held to maturity
I
- IBC
- Inter-Blockchain Communication
- IC
- Integrated circuit
- ICO
- Initial coin offering
- IDI
- Insured depository institution
- IDO
- Initial DEX offering
- IEO
- Initial exchange offering
- IFO
- Initial futures offering
- IICO
- Interactive initial coin offering
- IPFS
- InterPlanetary File System
- IRA
- Individual Retirement Account
- IRL
- In real life
- IRS
- Internal Revenue Service
K
- KFTC
- Korea Fair Trade Commission
- KYC
- Know your customer
- KZG
- Kate-Zaverucha-Goldberg
L
- L1
- Layer one
- L2
- Layer two
- L3
- Layer three
- LARP
- Live action role-play
- LN
- Lightning Network
- LND
- Lightning Network Daemon
- LRT
- Liquid restaking token
- LSAP
- Large-scale asset purchase
- LSD
- Liquid staking derivative
M
- MACD
- Moving average convergence/divergence
- MAST
- Merkelised Abstract Syntax Tree
- MAU
- Monthly active users
- MAV
- Maximum aggregated value
- MC
- Market cap
- MEV
- Maximal extractable value. (Learn about MEV.)
- MiCA
- Markets in Crypto-Assets
- MMF
- Money market fund
- MMORPG
- Massively multi-player online role-playing game
- MoE
- Medium of exchange
- MPC
- Multi-party computation
- MTO
- Micro token offering
- MVM
- Move Virtual Machine
- MVP
- Minimum viable product
- MVRV
- Market value to realised value
N
- NAS
- Network-attached storage
- NFT
- Non-fungible token
- NGU
- Number go up
- NVT
- Network value to transactions
O
- OCO
- One-cancels-the-other
- OFAC
- Office of Foreign Assets Control
- OTC
- Over the counter
- OTP
- One-time password
P
- P2E
- Play to earn
- P2P
- Peer to peer
- P2SH
- Pay to Script Hash
- P2TR
- Pay to Taproot
- P2WPKH
- Pay to Witness Public Key Hash
- P2WSH
- Pay to Witness Script Hash
- PBFT
- Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
- PBS
- Proposer/builder separation
- PBT
- Physical Backed Token
- PEPC
- Protocol-enforced proposer commitment
- PFOF
- Payment for order flow
- PFP
- Profile picture
- PGP
- Pretty Good Privacy
- PKI
- Public key infrastructure
- PMF
- Product-market fit
- PnD
- Pump and dump
- PoA
- Proof of authority
- PoH
- Proof of humanity
- POL
- Protocol-owned liquidity
- PoS
- Proof of stake
- PoW
- Proof of work
- PSD2
- Payment Services Directive
- PvE
- Player versus environment
- PvP
- Player versus player
- PWA
- Progressive web app
- PWG
- President’s Working Group on Financial Markets
Q
- QC
- Quorum certificate
- QoQ
- Quarter-over-quarter
R
- REST
- Representational state transfer
- RFQ
- Request for quote
- RLE
- Run-length encoding
- RNG
- Random number generator
- ROI
- Return on investment
- RPC
- Remote procedure call
- RPG
- Role-playing game
- RSA
- Rivest-Shamir-Adleman
- RSI
- Relative strength index
S
- SaaS
- Software as a service
- SAFT
- Simple agreement for future tokens
- SBR
- Strategic Bitcoin reserve
- SBT
- Soulbound token
- SEC
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- SegWit
- Segregated Witness
- SHA
- Secure Hash Algorithm
- SIB
- Systemically important bank
- SIWE
- Sign In With Ethereum
- SMA
- Simple moving average
- SMR
- State machine replication
- SMSF
- Self-Managed Superannuation Fund
- SoV
- Store of value
- SPL
- Solana Program Library
- SPV
- Simple payment verification
- SSLE
- Secret single-leader election
- SSV
- Shared Secret Validator
- STF
- State transition function
- STM
- Software transactional memory
- STO
- Security token offering
- SVM
- Solana Virtual Machine
T
- TA
- Technical analysis
- TBC
- Token bonding curve
- TBTF
- Too big to fail
- TCR
- Token-curated registry
- TEE
- Trusted execution environment
- TGE
- Token generation event
- TL;DR
- Too long; didn’t read
- TLS
- Transport Layer Security
- TOTP
- Time-based one-time password
- TPM
- Trusted platform module
- TPS
- Transactions per second
- TTF
- Time to finality
- TWAP
- Time-weighted average price
- TXID
- Transaction ID
U
- UASF
- User-activated soft fork
- UGC
- User-generated content
- UI
- User interface
- UoA
- Unit of account
- USPTO
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
- UTXO
- Unspent transaction output
- UX
- User experience
V
- VDF
- Verifiable delay function
- VPN
- Virtual private network
- VWAP
- Volume-weighted average price
W
- WETH
- Wrapped ether
- WTS
- Wanting to sell
Y
- YoY
- Year-over-year
- YTD
- Year to date
Z
- ZKP
- Zero-knowledge proof
- zkSNARK
- Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge
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