An account that is registered in a jurisdiction that is not the account holders country of citizenship.

A pair of orders that are created concurrently, but will only allow for one of them to be executed.

Software that is released under a license that allows anyone the right to use, update and distribute it freely.

A data source supplied by a third party that is used to determine the outcome for smart contracts.

The list of open buy and sell orders for a specific asset on a marketplace or exchange.

A block formed in older versions of Bitcoin Core when ancestry data wasn’t required and whose parent block is unknown.

A method of safe guarding a private key where it is physically printed on a piece of paper along with its corresponding cryptocurrency address.

Parachains are custom, project-specific blockchains that are integrated within the Polkadot (DOT) and Kusama (KSM) networks. Parachains can be customized for any number of use cases and feed into the main blockchain, called the Relay Chain, considered to be the heart of the Polkadot and Kusama networks.

An investment strategy that tracks economic indexes instead of relying on active market exposure.

The practice of two or more computers connecting to share a workload and resources without needing to rely on a centralized server.

A currency whose price is designed to track a specific asset, such as the USD.

A malicious attack in which a bad actor attempts to obtain the log-in credentials of a user in order to gain unauthorized access into a system or account.

Proof of History is a sequence of computation that can provide a way to cryptographically verify passage of time between two events. It uses a cryptographically secure function written so that output cannot be predicted from the input, and must be completely executed to generate the output.

a set of protocols often used as consensus mechanisms in which validators are selected for block production based on the amount of stake that those validators hold. The PoS consensus mechanism was designed in an effort to avoid the computational cost attributed to PoW consensus mechanisms.

a cryptographic proof, often used as a consensus mechanism, in which one party proves to others that a certain amount (or more than a certain amount) of computational effort has been expended. In blockchain implementations, this tends to be performed by finding second hash preimage that corresponds to one previously given.

A scam in which the funds from new investors are used to pay the returns promised to older investors.

The price movement of a financial asset over time, typically plotted on a chart.

A standard game theory that shows why two individuals might not cooperate, even if it may appear to be in their best interest to do so.

A key used in asymmetric cryptography that is meant for use only by its assigned actor, and not by the public. Private keys are used to decrypt data and sign and send transactions. A private key is mathematically linked to a public key.

An early stage investment round for strategic and accredited investors with a large amount of investible funds.

An application created with modern web technologies that follows basic web standards.

A protocol that generates digital collectibles and badges as a way to prove attendance at an event.

A consensus mechanism where block validators are required to stake tokens in order to participate in the validation process and earn rewards.

the components of a Blockchain Framework that make it necessary to operate a node such that multiple implementations of the same framework can, to a degree, interoperate

A number or data set that is produced by a mathematical procedure and satisfies one or more statistical tests for randomness.