Glossary
51% Attack
Refers a directed towards controlling share of the collective mining pool. If a malicious party were to control more than 51% of global hashing power, it would give them the potential to direct the chain and use their majority consensus to submit fake transactions that may allow for the double spending of funds.
Active Management
An investing strategy is used by fund managers who aim to outperform the index or market to generate profits.
Algorithm
An unambiguous set of instructions used to solve a specified class of problems.
Absolute Advantage (AA)
An economic term that refers to an actor’s direct advantage in efficiency due to having superior production capability.
Airdrop
A form of distribution that awards holders of particular existing cryptocurrencies.
All or None Order (AON)
An order to buy or sell a stock that will execute only in its entirety. If not, the order won’t execute at all.
Allocation
Dividing the total token supply into segments and determining if they can be earned, reserved, or purchased.
Alpha
When used as an indication of active return on an investment, it measures the asset price against the overall market movement. The excess return of investment relative to the return of the market is the investment’s alpha.
When used to indicate software status, it refers to the very first version or the basic software of a project.
Altcoin
A general term used to describe any cryptocurrency alternative that is not Bitcoin.
Anti Money Laundering (AML)
“Anti Money Laundering” is a set of regulations determined by a nation to combat money laundering.
Angel Investor
Private investors who provide financial support to new startups in return for equity rights.
Application Programming Interface (API)
“Application Programming Interface” is a piece of code that enables interaction between software to enable various tasks like obtaining real market data or execute trades
Accelerated Processing Unit (APU)
"Accelerated Processing Unit" is a term coined by the semiconductor manufacturer AMD, it offers a CPU and GPU integrated onto a single die allowing for lower latency, greater power efficiency and a smaller overall footprint.
Arbitrage
Taking advantage of variable prices across multiple exchanges in order to sell assets at a profit, despite little to no market movement.
Ascending Triangle
An ascending triangle is generally considered to be a continuation pattern, meaning that the pattern is significant if it occurs within an uptrend or downtrend. Once the breakout from the triangle occurs, traders tend to aggressively buy or sell the asset depending on which direction the price broke out.
Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC)
"Application Specific Integrated Circuits" is where Computing Units designed for use on a single algorithm providing high performance and power efficiency.
Ask Price/Asking Price (AP)
The lowest price sellers determine as willing to accept.
All Time High (ATH)
The All Time High price of a cryptocurrency.