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Glossary

ETF

A fund holding a basket of assets whose shares trade on an exchange like a single stock. Most track an index, though actively managed ETFs exist.

Circulating Supply

The number of tokens currently available to trade, excluding those locked, reserved or not yet issued.

Bear Market

A prolonged period of falling prices, conventionally a decline of 20% or more from a recent high. Like a bull market, it is a descriptive label…

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.

Momentum

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

Private Key

The secret number that authorises transactions from an address. Possession of the key is possession of the assets.

NFT

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

Regulation

The rules governing financial markets and the bodies that enforce them, such as the SEC in the United States, the FCA in the United Kingdom and…

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.

Audit

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