Crypto Terms and Crypto Glossary for Beginners


We decided to make this post for those of our subscribers who are just starting with crypto. Adepts, let’s check if you can recall all these terms! 😼

TOP 10 necessary crypto terms:

🎁 Airdrop
The distribution of free crypto tokens to promote a new project or encourage community adoption.

📉 Bear market
A prolonged period of falling prices.

📈 Bull market
A prolonged period of rising prices.

📲 dapps
Short for “decentralized applications.” Autonomous apps that operate on distributed networks smart contracts.

🌐 DeFi
Short for “decentralized finance,” a collective term for all finance-based dapps created on public blockchains.

💨 Gas
The ether that must be spent as a fee in order to execute a transaction or contract on the Ethereum network.

💻 Mining
The process of using computer equipment to verify and add new data to a blockchain ledger, as well as add new coins into circulation.

📑 Smart contract
A special type of computer program that automatically executes a transaction whenever a predetermined input is received.

⏳ Liquidity
A term for describing how easily an asset can be bought or sold at any given price, volume and time.

💸 Volatility
A word used to describe how much the price of a crypto token deviates from the average over a given period.