Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Dictionary
A complete list of crypto definitions
Cryptocurrency and blockchain glossary
Commonly used terms in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency
Terms commonly used in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency
This is a sharp increase in the price of an individual asset or market as a whole.
Picking/Pimpapy means to artificially increase the price.
This is a wallet that operates in online mode and is used to store cryptocurrencies. Examples: Metamask and Keplr.
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.
An altcoin is any cryptocurrency or token created after the Bitcoin was developed.
A block explorer is an online service to track blockchain transactions. It usually is a website where you can see all the new blocks that are being created. You can also search for transactions and wallet addresses. The best-known block explorers are blockchain.info for Bitcoin and etherscan.io for Ethereum.
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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