Liquid Staking

Yield Farming

A DeFi strategy where users provide liquidity to protocols in exchange for token rewards and interest.

Liquidity Pool

A collection of funds locked in a smart contract that provides liquidity for decentralised trading and lending.

Flash Loan

An uncollateralised loan in DeFi that must be borrowed and repaid within a single blockchain transaction.

Central Bank Digital Currency

A digital form of fiat currency issued and regulated by a country's central bank on blockchain infrastructure.

Stablecoin

A cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value by pegging it to a reserve asset like a fiat currency.

Restaking

The practice of using already-staked cryptocurrency to simultaneously secure additional protocols or services, extending the economic security of one network to others.

An open-source collaborative project hosting enterprise-grade blockchain frameworks and tools.

The base blockchain protocol layer that handles consensus, data availability, and transaction settlement.

A blockchain transaction where the end user does not pay network fees directly, with costs covered by a third party or subsidised through meta-transaction relay services.

An organisation governed by smart contracts and token holder votes rather than centralised management.

The runtime environment for executing smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain network.

Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge — a compact zero-knowledge proof requiring no interaction between prover and verifier.

The ability of different blockchain networks to communicate, share data, and transfer value between each other.

Scaling solutions built on top of a base blockchain that process transactions off-chain while inheriting security from the main chain.