Crypto Glossary
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What is a crypto wallet address?
A crypto wallet address is the public address for your crypto wallet. Each crypto wallet has an individual wallet a...
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What is a transaction hash?
A blockchain transaction hash (also called a transaction ID) is a unique set of characters assigned to every transact...
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What is a network token?
A network token is the primary token used on a crypto network. You need to have enough of the network’s token to pay ...
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What is a network cost?
Every blockchain transaction has a non-refundable network cost, even if it fails. Validators use their resources to d...
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What is a Layer 2 Network?
Layer 2 Network key takeaways A Layer 2 is a scaling solution built on top of Ethereum to reduce transaction costs....
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What is a token contract address?
A token contract address is a unique address that represents a token on the blockchain. Both wallets and tokens hav...
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What is a token fee?
A token fee is the amount that a token charges when you buy, sell, or transfer it. Tokens that charge fees are also...
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What is a private key?
There are two keys for every crypto wallet, a private and a public key. Both are a sequence of numbers and letters. T...
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What is an approval transaction?
The first time you swap or add liquidity, you have to approve the token to be swapped. This gives the Uniswap Protoco...
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What is price impact?
Price impact is the change in token price directly caused by your trade. Price impact is reflected as the differenc...
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Price Impact vs Price Slippage
Price impact and price slippage are two common terms used to describe the outcome of a change in price when swapping ...
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What is a range order?
A range order refers to adding single-sided liquidity with the intent of removing the liquidity after the position is...
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What is a liquidity pool?
A liquidity pool is a pairing of tokens in a smart contract that is used for swapping on decentralized exchanges (DEX...
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What is Impermanent Loss?
Impermanent loss (IL) is when the prices of tokens in a liquidity pool change from what they were when the liquidity ...
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What does closed liquidity mean?
Liquidity is marked as "closed" when the provider has removed their liquidity. Here is an example of a liquidity po...
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What is a stablecoin?
A stablecoin is a cryptocurrency that is tied to a stable asset in order to maintain a stable price. The price does n...
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Rebasing, reflection, and debasing tokens
Rebasing, reflection, and debasing tokens use code to change the token supply based on conditions defined by the toke...
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What are NFTs?
NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token. NFTs are public, verifiable, digital assets. They are tokens that live on a blockc...
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What is a floor price?
Floor price refers to the lowest price of an NFT in a collection. Buyers and sellers make up a market, and they dec...
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What does sweep mean?
Sweep means to buy all the listed NFTs in a collection at the current floor price. The floor price is the lowest pr...