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Address poisoning is a scam where an attacker sends a tiny transaction from a lookalike address, hoping the victim later copies it by mistake from their history.

A bridge is a protocol that moves assets or value between different blockchains, and it's one of the most frequently exploited attack surfaces in crypto.

Custodial services hold users' private keys on their behalf, while non-custodial services let funds move directly between users' own wallets.

Dollar-cost averaging is an investing approach that buys a fixed amount of an asset on a regular schedule, regardless of price.

A depeg is when a stablecoin's market price moves away from the value it's designed to track, usually one dollar.

The Fear & Greed Index is a sentiment gauge that scores crypto market mood on a scale from 0 (extreme fear) to 100 (extreme greed).

Fixed-rate swaps lock in the quoted exchange rate for a limited window, while floating-rate swaps track the live market rate until the deposit is processed.

A gas fee is the payment required to have a blockchain network process a transaction, separate from any fee or spread charged by an exchange.

A halving is a scheduled event, roughly every four years for Bitcoin, that cuts the reward paid to miners for producing new blocks in half.

Impermanent loss is the value gap between providing liquidity to an AMM pool and simply holding the same assets, caused by price divergence between them.

A Layer 2 is a scaling network built on top of a base blockchain, like Ethereum, to process transactions faster and more cheaply while inheriting the base chain's security.

Liquidation is the forced closure of a leveraged or collateralized crypto position when its collateral value falls below a required maintenance threshold.

Market cap dominance measures the share of total crypto market capitalization held by a single asset, most commonly tracked for Bitcoin.

A memo or destination tag is an extra numeric or text field some networks require alongside a deposit address to route funds to the correct recipient.

A network confirmation is a block added on top of the one containing your transaction, and most networks require several before treating a deposit as final.

A seed phrase is a sequence of words that can regenerate a crypto wallet's private keys, and it should never be shared with anyone.

Slippage is the difference between the exchange rate you're quoted and the rate you actually receive when a swap executes.

The spread is the gap between the buy and sell rates an exchange partner quotes for a given asset pair.

A stablecoin is a crypto asset designed to hold a steady value, typically pegged one-to-one to a reference currency like the US dollar.

A whale is a wallet or entity holding a large enough amount of a crypto asset that its trades can noticeably move the market.