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The 5 crypto assets with the largest rise over the last 7 days.

Source: CoinGecko

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Order Book

The live list of outstanding buy and sell orders at each price, showing how much would have to be bought or sold to move the price.

Index

A rules-based measure of a group of assets, such as the S&P 500 or FTSE 100. Most are weighted by market capitalisation, so the largest constituents…

Volatility

How much a price moves around over time, usually measured as the standard deviation of returns. High volatility means larger swings in both directions, not a…

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,…

Liquidation

The forced closing of a leveraged position when its collateral no longer covers losses. On crypto derivatives venues this is automatic and can happen within seconds.

Bitcoin

The first cryptocurrency, launched in 2009, running on a proof-of-work blockchain with a supply capped at 21 million coins and issuance that halves roughly every four…

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…

Audit

A review of a smart contract's code by a specialist firm, looking for vulnerabilities before or after deployment.

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.

Liquidity Pool

A pot of two or more tokens locked in a contract that traders swap against, with prices set by a formula rather than an order book.…