DCA
DCA is an acronym that stands for “dollar-cost averaging”. In the context of cryptocurrency investing, DCA refers to the practice of investing a fixed amount …
CryptoTwitter Speak
What do people mean on CT when they say BTFD, IYKYK or WAGMI? Read all the secrets here.
Paper Hands
In the cryptocurrency community, the term “paper hands” is used to refer to people who are not committed to holding onto their investments for the …
Diamond Hands
In the cryptocurrency community, the term “diamond hands” is used to refer to people who are committed to holding onto their investments for the long …
FUD
FUD is an acronym that stands for “fear, uncertainty, and doubt”. It is a term that is commonly used in the cryptocurrency community to refer …
HODL
HODL is a slang term that is commonly used in the cryptocurrency community. It originated in a 2013 Bitcoin forum post in which a user …
Governance Token
Governance tokens, also known as governance coins or governance crypto assets, are a type of cryptocurrency that gives holders the right to participate in the …
governance
A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is a type of organization that is run using smart contracts and blockchain technology. In a DAO, decisions are made …
Gas
On the Ethereum network, “gas” refers to the unit that is used to measure the amount of computational effort required to execute a transaction or …
Forced Liquidation
In decentralized finance (DeFi), forced liquidation is the process of selling off a user’s assets in order to pay off their debt when the value …
CSC
A collateralized stablecoin or CSC is a type of cryptocurrency pegged to a stable asset, such as the US dollar, to reduce volatility and maintain …
Bitcoin Maximalist
A Bitcoin maximalist (or “Maxi”) is a person who believes that Bitcoin is the only true cryptocurrency and that all other cryptocurrencies are inferior and …
TVL
TVL means Total Value Locked. Mostly this locking means depositing in lending, staking and liquidity protocols. It is an often used metric to determine the …
Influencer
An Influencer is someone that has amassed a lot of followers that take their actions or words as advice to follow. Influencers were mostly known …
Pump ‘n Dump
A scheme to watch out for is the Pump and Dump scheme. This is where a group tries to get their users to buy a …
Bridge
What are Crypto Bridges? There are many different crypto tokens and most exist on their own Blockchains. It works exactly as it sounds: a bridge …
Seed Phrase
A Seed Phrase is basically the Master Key to your Crypto. It should therefore be guarded as such! Hackers and scammers want it as they …
Unit Bias
Unit bias is the fact that lower priced assets seem to be valued higher than an economically equivalent fraction of a higher priced one. For …
ELI5
ELI5 is short for “Explain Like I‘m 5 (years old)”. This is a popular way to ask if a simpler explanation can be given. One …
Normie
A Normie is basically a Normal person, but not in a positive sense. It is usually used to describe nocoiners: people who are stuck in …
Rug
A rug pull is when someone pulls whatever firm base you are standing on from underneath you, causing you to fall and crash. Though the …
GTFO
GTFO is a warning aimed at fellow investors and is short for “Get The Fuck Out”. It can be used as a verb. “Yeah, when …
Uponly
Uponly is the motto of the bulls. It means that the general market or a specific token or stock will keep on rising, because reasons. …
Compounding
Compounding or compound interest is the addition of interest to the principal sum of a loan or deposit, or in other words, interest on interest. …
Composability
TradFi
TradFi is short for Traditional Finance. This means banks, insurance companies, and other lenders and mortgage suppliers. These are normally very regulated, and any funds …
CMC
CMC is short for Coin Market Cap, a website that tracks most crypto tokens and their markets and offers a lot of historical and current …
CG
CG is short for CoinGecko, a website that tracks most crypto tokens and their markets and offers a lot of historical and current information about …
ATL
ATL is short for all-time low. This usually refers to the value of a specific coin/token and a reference point relative to it, i.e. “Ethereum …
ATH
ATH is short for all-time high. This usually refers to: The value of a specific coin/token and a reference point relative to it, i.e. “Bitcoin …
$5 wrench attack
The $5 dollar wrench attack (5DWA) is a way of saying that criminals might use physical violence in order to steal your crypto funds. It …
An unfortunate boating accident
The “An unfortunate boating accident” excuse has been used to hide assets, often from the government or the “tax man”. The story goes that the …
2FA
2FA is short for Two-Factor Authentication. This is a security measure that lowers the chance of your account being hacked and/or abused. The first factor …
irl
IRL is short for “In Real Life” which is the life outside of the metaverse, the internet and the cryptosphere. You can meet friends irl, …
Not your keys, not your coins
Only the person that holds the secret key to a crypto wallet actually controls the crypto assets in it. In the case of a CEX, …
Exit liquidity
This is normally you. Influencers are often helpful in making you exit liquidity. Whales have large bags of tokens they want to sell at some …
Catching a falling knife
To catch a falling knife in crypto trading means to buy a cryptocurrency that is in the midst of a steep and rapid price decline. …
Bagholders
Black Hat
A black hat is a type of hacker. It is a person who attempts to find computer security vulnerabilities and exploits them for personal financial …
Maxis
Originally Maxis referred to Bitcoin Maximalists. These are hardcore Bitcoin purists who believe that BTC is the one true cryptocurrency. As such, they are anti-DeFi. …
Atomic swaps
Atomic swaps are automatic exchanges of cryptocurrency between two parties on two different blockchains without having to go through a centralized intermediary. The biggest advantage …
APY
The annual percentage yield (APY) is the real rate of return earned on a savings deposit or investment taking into account the effect of compounding …
APR
The term “annual percentage rate (APR)” refers to the annual rate of interest charged to borrowers and paid to investors. APR is expressed as a …
Doxxing
Doxxing (or doxing) is the publication of personal details of a previously anonymous person. “The team is fully doxxed” means that there are no “anon” …
DEX
A peer-to-peer exchange that allows buyers and sellers to trade cryptocurrency directly with each other, without the need for an intermediary. This is the opposite …
CEX
Centralized exchanges (CEXs) are a type of cryptocurrency exchange that a company owns and operates in a centralized manner. Examples: Coinbase, Binance. Advantages of a …
Exploit
An exploit is a piece of code, data, or a sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug or vulnerability in an application, protocol, …
Black Swan Event
A black swan is an unpredictable event that is beyond what is normally expected of a situation and has potentially severe consequences. Black swan events …
Arbitrage
Arbitrage is the practice of quickly buying and selling the same asset in different markets to take advantage of price differences between these markets. So, …
DYOR
DYOR is an abbreviation for “Do Your Own Research”. This is a common tenet of the space. Proper research is encouraged before investing into projects.
Apeing
Apeing is when a cryptocurrency trader buys a large amount of a certain token, without conducting thorough research. This typically happens shortly after the token …
Airdrop
An airdrop is a marketing campaign that distributes a specific cryptocurrency or token to a specified audience. This creates awareness of a new protocol or …
CT
Abbreviation for “Crypto Twitter”. The crypto influencers have chosen Twitter as their base and there are millions of crypto-related accounts. Several of them have hundreds …