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GlossaryHow the crypto market works, in plain words. No investment advice.
- Bitcoin Dominance Explained
What bitcoin dominance is, how it is calculated, why different sites show different numbers, and how the metric is commonly interpreted.
- Bitcoin ETFs Explained
What a bitcoin exchange-traded fund is, how spot and futures ETFs differ, and how holding fund shares differs from holding coins yourself.
- Blockchain
What a blockchain is, what goes into a block, how a network agrees on one shared history, and why past records are hard to change.
- Crypto Wallets: Hot and Cold
How crypto wallets work, the difference between hot and cold wallets, custodial versus self-custody, and basic rules for keeping funds safe.
- Ethereum and Smart Contracts
What Ethereum is, how smart contracts run on it, what ether is used for, and the main risks of code that cannot easily be changed.
- Exchanges: CEX vs DEX
How centralized and decentralized crypto exchanges work, who holds your funds, and the main trade-offs between the two models.
- Funding Rates and Perpetual Futures
How perpetual futures work, why the funding rate exists, who pays whom and what risks leveraged positions carry.
- Gas and Transaction Fees
Why blockchain transactions cost a fee, how gas works on Ethereum, what gwei and the burned base fee are, and how fees work on Bitcoin.
- How to Spot a Crypto Scam
Common warning signs of crypto fraud: guaranteed returns, fake support, phishing, giveaways, rug pulls, and what to do if you are targeted.
- Layer 2 Solutions
What layer 2 networks are, why blockchains need them, how optimistic and ZK rollups differ and what trade-offs they bring.
- Liquidations: How and Why Positions Get Closed
What a liquidation of a leveraged position is, how the liquidation price works, isolated vs cross margin and what a liquidation cascade is.
- Mining and Proof of Stake
How blockchains agree on the next block: proof of work mining, proof of stake validation, and the trade-offs between the two.
- Open Interest Explained
What open interest means in futures and options markets, how it differs from trading volume, and what its changes can and cannot tell you.
- Seed Phrase and How to Keep It Safe
What a 12 or 24-word seed phrase is, why it matters more than any password, how to store it, and the tricks scammers use to steal it.
- Stablecoins
What stablecoins are, how they hold a peg to the dollar or another asset, the main types, and the risks that come with them.
- The Crypto Fear and Greed Index
How the crypto fear and greed index works, which data it combines, and why it describes market mood rather than giving trading signals.
- What Is an NFT
NFTs explained simply: what a non-fungible token is, what an owner actually gets, where the files live and what the main risks are.
- What Is Bitcoin
A plain-language guide to Bitcoin: where it came from, how the network works, and what satoshis, mining and the 21 million cap mean.
- What Is DeFi
Decentralized finance explained simply: how swaps, lending and liquidity pools run on smart contracts, and what risks come with them.
- What Is the Bitcoin Halving
Why the bitcoin block reward is cut in half every 210,000 blocks, how it caps supply at 21 million BTC, and what it means for miners.