April 2026
Intermediate
288 pages
9h 2m
English
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Glossary
A
- Actively validated service, AVS
- microservices on a blockchain, associated with LRTs.
- Altchain
- blockchains that are neither Bitcoin nor Ethereum.
- Altcoin
- coins that are associated with altchains.
B
- Bank for International Settlements, BIS
- an international financial institution that serves as a bank for central banks and fosters international monetary and financial cooperation.
- Basis point
- one hundredth of one percent.
- Basis risk
- the financial risk that arises when the price of a derivative instrument does not move in line with the price of its underlying.
- Block time
- the time it takes to mine a new block on a blockchain.
- Blockchain
- a technology that consists of a shared database distributed across a network.
C
- Capital asset pricing model, CAPM
- an economic model that describes the relationship between the return of an investment and the market as a whole.
- Central bank digital currency, CBDC
- digital forms of fiat money issued by a country’s central bank.
- Centralized exchange, CEX
- a digital asset trading platform operated by a central authority, responsible for custody and trading operations.
- Coin
- the native asset on a blockchain, used to compensate for the processing of transactions.
- Consensus mechanism
- the protocol that allows the nodes on a network to agree on the state of the blockchain.
- Credit default swap, CDS
- financial derivatives that allow investors to manage their exposure to a credit event, such as a default.
- Custodian
- an entity responsible for holding and ...
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