Crypto terms, explained plainly

124 short definitions and a handful of guides. Every term links to the coins and charts where you will meet it, and the ones the model actually uses say so.

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C

  • A wallet where a company holds the keys and you hold an account with the company.

G

  • A transaction where a third party pays the network fee, often via account abstraction.

N

  • A wallet where you hold the keys and nobody can freeze or recover your funds.

P

  • The shareable identifier you give someone to receive funds; safe to publish.

S

  • Recovering a wallet through trusted guardians instead of a single seed phrase.

W

  • WalletWallets

    Software or hardware that holds keys and signs transactions; it does not hold coins.

  • Malicious code or a signed transaction that moves all approved assets out of a wallet.

  • A wallet that can see balances and history but cannot sign anything.