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Glossary

Smart Contract

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

Slippage

The difference between the price expected when an order is placed and the price at which it actually fills. It grows with order size, thin liquidity…

Volume

The quantity of an asset traded over a period, usually a day. It measures participation, not direction: a large move on thin volume reflects fewer participants…

Layer 2

A network built on top of a base blockchain that processes transactions separately and posts results back, reducing cost and congestion on the main chain.

Momentum

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

Audit

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

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.…

Guidance

A company's own forecast of its coming results. In a central-bank context, forward guidance instead means signalling the likely path of interest rates.

Circulating Supply

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

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…