Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Dictionary

Terms commonly used in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency

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Bitcoin domination

This is the ratio of market capitalization of bitcoin to the sum of the market capitalizations of all cryptocurrencies.

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This is a standard, a certain set of rules that allows developers to create tokens over the Ethereum blockchain. These tokens are known as ERC-20 tokens. The ERC-20 standard is the most common in the cryptocurrency industry today.

Pending

This is the stage of waiting for a transaction. For example, the user sent funds to another wallet, but immediately this transfer will not occur, because for some time this transaction is checked by special services, and is in processing. On the user side, this transaction will be marked with "Pending".

Volatility

This is a fluctuation in the price of the asset or its profitability for a certain period of time. As a rule, the higher the volatility of the asset, the higher the risk. The prices of such assets often fluctuate and for a short period of time can greatly go into plus or minus. The volatility is has a strong psychological effect on investors: with high price fluctuations, panic occurs, uncertainty presses and in the end the drain of securities at the very bottom begins, and then experiences from such manipulations.

Sail or Tokeneil

This is the format of crowdfunding of cryptocurrency means, which allows you to purchase project tokens at low prices and in the early stages before they are available for a wide audience of users on trading floors. Pre-Eed Round (Pre-SID stage) is the earliest stage of financing of the project, in which only partners and large funds at the lowest price of token participate, but with the highest risks SEED/Strategic Round (SID/Strategic round) - the next stage at which the price of token is higher, but the risks are lower, because the degree of development of the project is better (as a rule is MVP) - only funds and partners participate Private Sale (Private Sale) - small funds, clubs of investors, media partners are involved, distinguish direct allocations for influents - the price of token is even higher and the risks below. Large projects with TIR1-2 funds rarely use privat Public Sale (public round) - public sail to buy in front of listing for everyone - the price of token is maximum, risks minimal Community Sale (community Round) - Sale for participants in a particular community HOLDER SALE (round for holders) is a sail for holders of certain

Wrapped token

This is a copy of any token transferred from one blockchain to another. There are many blockchains in the cryptocurrency industry: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos, Avalanche, etc. Blockchains are deprived of the opportunity to "understand each other": everyone acts according to their own rules and speaks their own language. Each blockchain has its own Native token - a coin that is used to pay for the commission: for the Bitcoin network, this is bitcoin (BTC) for Ethereum - ETH For Cosmos - Atom For Avalanche - Avax If you want to carry out any actions, for example, send a USDT tokens to the EThereum network to another wallet, the commission will have to be paid in ETH tokens if Avalanche is an AVAX commission, etc. However, if you decide to send your USDT from Ethereum to Avalanche, your USDT will be lost. Why? Because USDT on the Ethereum and USDT network on Avalanche is not the same thing, because we remember that each blockchain lives according to its own rules. And what to do if you urgently need to send your USDT from one network to another? For these purposes, cross -miners were invented - special applications that allow you to translate tokens from “one language to another”, that is, from one blockchain to another. In one network, the token is blocked, and in another - a copy is created that does not lose its original value. For example, if you transfer BTC from the Bitcoin network to Ethereum, it will become WBTC, i.e. wrapped.

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