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The 5 currency pairs with the largest rise over the last 7 days.

Source: Frankfurter (ECB)

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Carry Trade

Borrowing in a low-interest currency to hold a higher-yielding one, aiming to earn the difference in rates.

Proof of Work

A consensus method in which participants compete to solve a computational puzzle to add the next block, making rewriting history expensive. Bitcoin uses it.

Staking

Committing tokens to help secure a proof-of-stake network, earning newly issued tokens and fees in return. Misbehaving validators can have part of their stake destroyed.

Token

A digital asset issued on an existing blockchain rather than having its own. Tokens can represent governance rights, access to a service, a claim on something,…

Market Capitalisation

Share price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding — or, for a cryptocurrency, price multiplied by circulating supply. It measures the total market value of…

NFT

A token representing a unique item rather than an interchangeable unit, recorded on a blockchain.

Momentum

The tendency of an asset's recent direction to persist, and the family of strategies built on that observation.

Smart Contract

A program stored on a blockchain that runs automatically when its conditions are met, without an intermediary holding the assets.

Futures

A standardised contract to trade an asset at a set price on a future date. Crypto venues also offer perpetual futures, which never expire and use…

Capitulation

A phase of heavy, indiscriminate selling in which holders give up regardless of price, often on unusually high volume.