2FA
Two-factor authentication
Acronyms & Glossary
Our glossary and acronyms page is loaded with terms you’ll likely encounter while navigating the crypto and blockchain ecosystem. Be sure to keep it handy along your journey!
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A
ACH
Automated clearing house
ADAM
Association for Digital Asset Markets
ADCA
Australian Digital Commerce Association
AGS
Australian Government Securities
AML
Anti-money laundering
AOFM
Australian Office of Financial Management
AON
All or none
API
Application programming interface
APR
Annual percentage rate
APRA
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
ASIC
Application-specific integrated circuit
ASIC
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
ATH
All-time high
ATL
All-time low
ATO
Australian Taxation Office
AUM
Assets under management
B
BB
Bollinger Band
BFT
Byzantine Fault Tolerance
BIP
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal
BLS
Boneh–Lynn–Shacham
BTC
Bitcoin
C
CPU
Central processing unit
CSV
Comma-separated values
CTF
Counter-terrorism financing
D
DAG
Directed acyclic graph
DAICO
Decentralised autonomous initial coin offering
DAO
Decentralised autonomous organisation
dApp
Decentralised application
DBFT
Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance
DCA
Dollar-cost averaging
DD
Due diligence
DeFi
Decentralised finance
DEX
Decentralised exchange
DOJ
Department of Justice
DPoS
Delegated Proof of Stake
DYOR
Do your own research
E
ECC
Elliptic-curve cryptography
ECDSA
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
EEA
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
EF
Ethereum Foundation
EIP
Ethereum Improvement Proposal
EMA
Exponential moving average
ENS
Ethereum Name Service
ESMA
European Securities and Markets Authority
ETF
Exchange-traded fund
ETH
Ether
ETP
Exchange-traded product
EVM
Ethereum Virtual Machine
F
FA
Fundamental analysis
FATF
Financial Action Task Force
FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDV
Fully diluted value
FinCEN
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
FINRA
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
FOK
Fill or kill
FOMO
Fear of missing out
FOSS
Free and open-source software
FSA
Financial Services Agency
FSOC
Financial Stability Oversight Council
FUD
Fear, uncertainty and doubt
FVEY
Five Eyes
G
G20
Group of Twenty
G7
Group of Seven
GAN
Generative adversarial network
GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation
GHOST
Greediest Heaviest Observed Subtree
GPU
Graphics processing unit
GRANDPA
GHOST-based Recursive ANcestor Deriving Prefix Agreement
H
HSM
Hardware security module
HTLC
Hashed Timelock Contract
I
IC
Integrated circuit
ICO
Initial coin offering
IDI
Insured depository institution
IDO
Initial DEX offering
IEO
Initial exchange offering
IFO
Initial futures offering
IICO
Interactive initial coin offering
IPFS
InterPlanetary File System
IRA
Individual Retirement Account
IRL
In real life
IRS
Internal Revenue Service
K
KFTC
Korea Fair Trade Commission
KYC
Know your customer
L
L1
Layer one
L2
Layer two
LN
Lightning Network
LND
Lightning Network Daemon
LSAP
Large-scale asset purchase
M
MACD
Moving average convergence/divergence
MAST
Merkelised Abstract Syntax Tree
MAU
Monthly active users
MMORPG
Massively multi-player online role-playing game
MoE
Medium of exchange
MPC
Multi-party computation
MTO
Micro token offering
MVP
Minimum viable product
MVRV
Market value to realised value
N
NFT
Non-fungible token
NVT
Network value to transactions
O
OCO
One-cancels-the-other
OFAC
Office of Foreign Assets Control
OTC
Over the counter
OTP
One-time password
P
P2E
Play to earn
P2P
Peer to peer
P2SH
Pay to Script Hash
P2TR
Pay to Taproot
P2WPKH
Pay to Witness Public Key Hash
P2WSH
Pay to Witness Script Hash
PBFT
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
PFP
Profile picture
PGP
Pretty Good Privacy
PKI
Public key infrastructure
PMF
Product-market fit
PnD
Pump and dump
PoA
Proof of authority
PoH
Proof of humanity
PoS
Proof of stake
PoW
Proof of work
PSD2
Payment Services Directive
PvE
Player versus environment
PvP
Player versus player
PWG
President’s Working Group on Financial Markets
Q
QoQ
Quarter-over-quarter
R
REST
Representational state transfer
RLE
Run-length encoding
ROI
Return on investment
RPC
Remote procedure call
RPG
Role-playing game
RSA
Rivest–Shamir–Adleman
RSI
Relative strength index
S
SaaS
Software as a service
SAFT
Simple agreement for future tokens
SBT
Soulbound token
SEC
Securities and Exchange Commission
SegWit
Segregated Witness
SHA
Secure Hash Algorithm
SIWE
Sign In With Ethereum
SMA
Simple moving average
SMR
State machine replication
SMSF
Self-Managed Superannuation Fund
SoV
Store of value
STO
Security token offering
T
TA
Technical analysis
TBC
Token bonding curve
TCR
Token-curated registry
TEE
Trusted execution environment
TGE
Token generation event
TL;DR
Too long; didn’t read
TLS
Transport Layer Security
TPS
Transactions per second
TWAP
Time-weighted average price
TXID
Transaction ID
U
UASF
User-activated soft fork
UGC
User-generated content
UI
User interface
UoA
Unit of account
USPTO
United States Patent and Trademark Office
UTXO
Unspent transaction output
UX
User experience
V
VPN
Virtual private network
W
WETH
Wrapped ether
WTS
Wanting to sell
Y
YoY
Year-over-year
YTD
Year to date
Z
ZKP
Zero-knowledge proof
zkSNARK
Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge