Restaking

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.

Liquid Staking

A mechanism that allows users to stake cryptocurrency while receiving a liquid derivative token representing their staked position, maintaining capital flexibility during the lock-up period.

Distributed file storage systems where data is spread across multiple nodes rather than centralised servers.

A decentralised oracle network that connects smart contracts with external data sources, APIs, and payment systems.

The analysis of blockchain transaction data to trace asset flows, identify illicit activity, and support regulatory compliance using graph analysis and clustering techniques.

A computer connected to a blockchain network that maintains a copy of the ledger and participates in consensus.

Networks that use blockchain token incentives to coordinate the deployment and operation of physical infrastructure such as wireless networks, energy grids, and compute resources.

A technical specification defining the interface and behaviour of tokens on a blockchain, such as ERC-20 for fungible tokens and ERC-721 for non-fungible tokens.

A distributed, immutable digital ledger that records transactions across a network of computers without a central authority.

A blockchain network where participation is restricted to authorised entities, common in enterprise applications.