Crypto & DeFi Glossary

Plain-language definitions for the terms you'll encounter when using volume bots and trading on decentralized exchanges.

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24H Trading Volume

A

Account Abstraction (ERC-4337) Airdrop Alchemy Alpha (Crypto Trading) Altcoin Season Anti-Detection (Volume Bots) Anti-MEV Protection Anti-Snipe Mechanism Ape In Arbitrage (DeFi) Arbitrum Nova Arbitrum One Associated Token Account (ATA) Automated Market Maker (AMM) Avalanche C-Chain Avalanche Subnet

B

Base (L2) Base Fee (EIP-1559) Base Token (Trading Pair) Based (Crypto Culture) BEP-20 Bid-Ask Spread Block Explorer Block Time Blockchain BNB Smart Chain (BSC) Bollinger Bands Bonding Curve (Tokenomics) Bonk.fun Borrow Rate Bot Wallet Bottom Signal Breakout Bribes (DeFi) Bridge (Cross-Chain) Bridging Fees Buyback and Burn

C

Candlestick Chart Canonical Bridge Centralized Exchange (CEX) CEX Market Making Chad (Crypto) Chart Pattern Circular Trading Circulating Supply Cliff (Vesting) Clipboard Hijacking CLMM (Concentrated Liquidity Market Maker) Cold Wallet Community Wallet Concentrated Liquidity Consensus Mechanism Constant Product Formula (x*y=k) Cooked (Crypto) Creator Fee (Launchpad) Cross-Chain CT (Crypto Twitter) Custodial (Exchange/Wallet)

D

DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) Decentralized Exchange (DEX) DeFi Composability DeFi TVL Dominance Deflationary Token Degen Delisting Depth Chart Dev Wallet Devs Do Something DEX Aggregator DEX Market Making DEX Volume Ranking Diamond Hands Distribution Event DLMM (Dynamic Liquidity Market Maker) Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) Drainer (Crypto Scam) Drift Protocol Dust Attack DYOR (Do Your Own Research)

E

EIP-1559 EMA (Exponential Moving Average) Emission Schedule ERC-20 Ethereum Mainnet EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine)

F

Fair Launch Fair Launch Platform FCFS (First Come, First Served) Fee Tier Fibonacci Retracement Flash Loan Flashbots FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) Free Mint Freeze Authority (Solana) Fren Front-Running FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) Fully Diluted Valuation (FDV) Funding Rate

G

Gas Gas Cost Per Trade Gas Limit Gas Sponsorship Gauge (DeFi) GM (Good Morning) Goblin Town Governance (Crypto) Graduation (Launchpad) Graduation Threshold

H

Hardware Wallet Health Factor Helius Holder Simulation Honeypot Token Hot Wallet

I

IDO (Initial DEX Offering) Impermanent Loss Infinite Approval Inflationary Token Infura Initial Liquidity Initial Liquidity Provision Interoperability Invariant Curve (StableSwap) Inventory Risk (Market Making) IPFS (InterPlanetary File System)

J

Jito Jito (Solana) Jito Bundles (Solana) Jupiter Aggregator

K

KOL (Key Opinion Leader) KYC (Know Your Customer)

L

Launch Price Launchpad (Crypto) Launchpad Fee Layer 1 (L1) Layer 2 (L2) Limit Order Liquidation (DeFi) Liquidity Aggregation Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool (LBP) Liquidity Depth Liquidity Hunt Liquidity Mining Liquidity Pool Liquidity Provider (LP) Liquidity-to-Market Cap Ratio Listing (Exchange) Long Position LP Token

M

MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence) Magic Eden Maker (Exchange) Maker-Taker Fee Model Mango Markets Marinade Finance Market Cap (Crypto) Market Cycle Market Maker Market Making Market Order Meme Coin Mempool MetaMask MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) Mint Authority (Solana) Minting Moon (To the Moon) Moving Average (MA) mSOL (Marinade Staked SOL) Multi-Wallet Strategy Multisig (Multi-Signature Wallet) Multisig Security

N

Native Token NFA (Not Financial Advice) NGMI (Not Gonna Make It) Non-Custodial (Wallet/DEX) Nonce

O

On-Balance Volume (OBV) On-Chain Analytics On-Chain Trading OP Stack Optimistic Rollup Oracle Manipulation Orca Order Book Order Flow Toxicity Organic Volume Overcollateralization

P

Pair Analytics Paper Hands Perpetual Futures (Perps) Phantom Wallet Phishing (Crypto) Polygon PoS Polygon zkEVM Pool Reserves Presale Price Bin Price Impact Price Oracle Price Support (Market Making) Priority Fee (Tip) Private Key Private RPC Endpoint Proof of History (Solana) Proof of Stake (PoS) Proof of Work (PoW) Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) Pump and Dump Pyth Network

Q

QuickNode Quote Stuffing

R

Raydium Rebalancing (LP) Reentrancy Attack Rekt Renounced Contract Rent Exempt (Solana) Resistance Level Revoke (Token Approval) Rollup Router (DEX) Routing Path RPC Endpoint RSI (Relative Strength Index) Rug Pull RugCheck

S

SAFU Sandwich Attack Scalping Season (Crypto) Seed Phrase (Mnemonic) Seed Round Sequencer (L2) Ser Shill Short Position Single-Sided Liquidity Slippage Slippage Tolerance Smart Contract Smart Contract Exploit Smart Routing (Volume Bot) Snapshot (Airdrop) Sniper Bot Social Engineering (Crypto) Solana Program Solana TPS Solflare SPL Token Spot Trading Spot Volume Spread Staking Step Finance Stop-Loss Superchain Support Level Sustained Volume Swap (DEX) Swap Fee Swing Trading

T

Take-Profit Taker (Exchange) Tensor The Merge (Ethereum) Tick (AMM) Token Account (Solana) Token Allocation Token Approval Token Audit Token Burn Token Contract Token Deployer Token Metadata Token Migration Token Pair Token Presale Token Utility Token Velocity Tokenomics Total Supply Total Value Locked (TVL) Trade Size Randomization Trading Pair Transaction Finality Transaction Frequency Transaction Hash (TxHash) Treasury (DAO/Protocol) Trending Algorithm TRON Network Trust Wallet TVL Per Chain TWAP (Time-Weighted Average Price) Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)

U

Utilization Rate

V

Validator vAMM (Virtual AMM) ve-Tokenomics (Vote-Escrow) Vesting Schedule Vibes (Token Launch) Volume Bot Volume Bot ROI Volume Campaign Volume Profile Volume Spike Volume Target Volume-to-Market Cap Ratio VWAP (Volume-Weighted Average Price)

W

WAGMI (We're All Gonna Make It) Wallet Address Wallet Rotation WalletConnect Wash Trading Web3 Wallet Wen WETH (Wrapped Ether) Whale Whitelist (Token Launch) Wormhole Wrapped SOL (wSOL) Wrapped Token

Y

Yield Farming

Z

ZK Rollup

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