Support and resistance are price levels at which an asset historically experiences concentrated buying (support) or selling (resistance), creating zones where price tends to pause, reverse, or consolidate — making them among…

Social engineering in cryptocurrency refers to psychological manipulation attacks where bad actors deceive users into voluntarily revealing private keys, seed phrases, or account credentials — or directly transferring funds — by exploiting…

A security token is a blockchain-based digital asset that represents ownership rights in a real-world financial instrument — such as equity, debt, real estate, or fund shares — and is subject to…

A moving average (MA) is a technical analysis indicator that calculates the average price of an asset over a specified number of past periods and plots it as a line on a…

A crypto money market is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that enables users to supply assets to earn interest or borrow assets against collateral without a traditional financial intermediary, operating through transparent…

Leverage in cryptocurrency trading is the use of borrowed capital to open a position larger than a trader’s own funds allow, multiplying both potential profit and potential loss relative to the amount…

An Initial DEX Offering (IDO) is a token launch model in which a project raises capital and immediately lists its token on a decentralized exchange, enabling open, permissionless participation without the gatekeeping…

A hot wallet is any cryptocurrency wallet that maintains an active internet connection, enabling fast access to funds and seamless interaction with dApps, exchanges, and DeFi protocols — while accepting a higher…

A cryptocurrency exchange is a platform that facilitates the buying, selling, and trading of digital assets, connecting buyers and sellers through either a centralized intermediary that holds customer funds or a decentralized…

A cold wallet (also called cold storage) is a cryptocurrency wallet that keeps private keys entirely offline, providing the strongest protection against remote attacks, exchange hacks, and malware because the key material…

A candlestick is a charting element that displays four data points for a given time period — open, high, low, and close prices — in a single visual block, forming the primary…

Initia is a Layer 1 blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK that introduces the “Interwoven Stack” — an architecture where application-specific rollups called Minitias are natively embedded into L1 consensus, so that…

Famous Fox Federation (FFF) is a collection of 7,777 generated fox profile picture NFTs on Solana, launched in September 2021 after originally being planned for Ethereum, and is distinguished among early Solana…

KELP is the governance token of KelpDAO, a liquid restaking protocol on Ethereum that issues rsETH — giving KELP holders the right to vote on EigenLayer operator selection, supported LST whitelists, protocol…

1INCH is the governance and utility token of the 1inch Network, the leading DEX aggregator on Ethereum and EVM chains. When a user wants to trade tokens, 1inch’s Pathfinder routing algorithm discovers…

An NFT auction is a structured, time-limited sale mechanism for NFTs where buyers compete by submitting bids — including English auctions (highest bid wins), Dutch auctions (price starts high and falls until…

An NFT community is the group of collectors, creators, and enthusiasts organized around a specific NFT collection or the broader NFT ecosystem — typically coordinating through token-gated Discord servers, Twitter/X, and in-person…

NFT flipping is the practice of buying an NFT with the primary intention of quickly reselling it at a higher price — either by minting at launch and selling on the secondary…

An NFT whale is a collector who holds an outsized position in the NFT market — either by owning a large number of NFTs from a single collection, multiple blue-chip collections, or…

Alien Frens is a collection of 10,000 friendly-looking alien PFP NFTs launched in January 2022 — characterized by a deliberately approachable, cartoon-cute art style (contrasting with the edgier aesthetics of many 2021…

Kaiju Kingz is a collection of 9,999 monster-themed PFP NFTs launched in 2021 — drawing on kaiju (giant monster) aesthetics from Japanese film culture — featuring BYTE token staking mechanics, a Baby…

NFT minting is the process of writing a new non-fungible token to a blockchain for the first time — either by a creator deploying artwork to create a 1-of-1 or edition, or…

NFT utility refers to the tangible benefits, access rights, or functional uses an NFT provides beyond simply being a digital artwork or collectible — encompassing community membership (token gating), token airdrops, staking…

The NFT secondary market is the entire ecosystem of buying and selling NFTs after their initial mint (the primary market) — conducted through NFT marketplaces like OpenSea and Blur — where price…

Gremplin is the pseudonymous digital artist best known as the creator of CrypToadz — a collection of 6,969 hand-drawn toad PFP NFTs launched in September 2021 under a CC0 license — whose…