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The Book of Jargon®Blockchain, Crypto & Web3

An interactive glossary of acronyms, slang, and industry terminology.

The Book of Jargon® – Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 is one in a series of practice area and industry-specific glossaries published by Latham & Watkins. 

The definitions provide an introduction to each term and may raise complex legal issues on which specific legal advice is required. The terms are also subject to change as applicable laws and customary practice evolve. 

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Contract,Gains,GameFi,Gas,Gas Limit,Gas Price,Gas War,Generation Transaction,Genesis Block,Get Off Zero,Git,GM,Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency,Governance,Governance Token,Governance Vote,Goxxed / Goxed,Graphical Processing Unit (GPU),Green Bitcoin,Group Mining,Gwei,Hack,Halving / Halvening,Hard Cap,Hard Fork,Hash,Hash Chain,Hash Crash,Hash Digest,Hash Function,Hash Rate,Hashing,Hashing Power,HD Wallet,Hidden Cap,Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet (HD Wallet),HODL,HODLACL,Homomorphic Encryption,Honeypot,Hosted Wallet,Hot Storage,Immutable,Impermanent Loss,Incentive Mechanism,Inflation,Initial Bounty Offering (IBO),Initial Coin Offering (ICO),Initial Exchange Offering (IEO),Initial Token Offering (ITO),Instamine,Interface,Intermediary,Interoperability,InterPlanetary File System (IPFS),IOTA,Irreversible Transaction,Joy of Missing Out (JOMO),Key,Know Your Customer (KYC),Know Your Transaction (KYT),Lambo,Latency,Layer 1 / Layer 2,Ledger,Leverage,Leverage Token,Lex Cryptographica,Lightning 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Gox,Multilateral Trading Facilities,Multipool Mining,Multi-Sig,Multi-Signature Wallet,Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS),Native Token,New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS),NFT,NGMI,No-Action Letter,No-Coiner,Node,Nonce,Non-Custodial,Non-Fungible Token (NFT),Non-Native Token,Noob,Off-Chain,Off-Ledger,Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC),On-Chain,One Cancels the Other (OCO) Order,Open Source,Open / Close,OpenXR,Option,Options Market,Oracle,Orphan,OTC Broker,Over the Counter (OTC) Trading,Overbought,Oversold,P2P,Paper Wallet,Payment Token,Peer to Peer (P2P),Permissioned,Permissionless,Permissions,Platform,Play-to-Earn (Play2Earn),PND,Ponzi Scheme,POS,POW,Pre-Mine,Prepaid Access,Pre-Sale,Priority Gas Auction (PGA),Privacy Coin,Private Address,Private Blockchain,Private Key,Private Placement,Private Placement Memorandum (PPM),Private Sale,Profile Picture NFT (PFP NFT),Proof of Activity,Proof of Authority,Proof of Burn,Proof of Developer,Proof of Stake (POS),Proof of Work (POW),Protocol,Pseudonym / Pseudonymity,Public Address,Public Blockchain,Public Key,Public Sale,Publishing Node,Pump and Dump (PND),Pumping,QR Code,Quantitative Easing,Quantitative Tightening,Race Attack,Raiden Network,Rank,Realverse,Regulation A (Reg A),Regulation A+ (Reg A+),Regulation CF (Reg CF),Regulation D (Reg D),Regulation S (Reg S),REKT,Relative Strength Index (RSI),Replicated Ledger,Resistance,Reverse Indicator,Reward System,Ring Signature,Roadmap,Round Robin Consensus Model,Royalties,Rug Pull,satoshi (sat),Satoshi Nakamoto,Scalability,Scale / Scaling,Scamcoin,Scrypt,Second-Layer Solutions,Secure Hash Algorithm 256 (SHA-256),Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),Security,Security Token,Security Token Offering (STO),Seed Phrase,Segregated Witness (SegWit),Self-Custody,Selfish Mining,Sell Wall,Settlement,SHA-256,Sharding,Shilling,Short / Short Position,Short Squeeze,Side Chain,Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT),Simplified Payment Verification (SPV),Smart Contract,Soft Cap,Soft Fork,Solidity,Spatial Computing,Spot Market,Spot Trade,Stablecoin,Stake / Staking,Stale Block,State Channel,Stored Value,SubDAO,Swap,Sweep the Floor,Sybil Attack,Symbol,Szabo,Taint,Tamper Evident,Tamper Resistant,Tangle,Technical Analysis (TA),Telepresence,Testnet,Think Long Term (TLT),This Is Gentlemen,Ticker,Timelock / Locktime,Timestamp,TLDR,Token,Token Generation Event (TGE),Token Velocity,Tokenization,Tokenless Ledger,Tokenomics,Tor,Total Value Locked (TVL),Transaction Fee,Transaction Pool,Trustless,Tumbler,Turing Complete,Two-Factor Authentication (2FA),Unconfirmed Transaction,Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO),Utility Token,Validation,Validator,Validity Proof,Vampire Attack,Vanity Address,Vaporware,VASP,Vector76 Attack,Venture Capital,View Key,Virgin Bitcoin,Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP),Virtual Currency,Virtual Reality (VR),Volatility,WAGMI,Wallet,Wallet (Hardware),Wallet (Software),Wash Trade,Web2 (Web 2.0),Web3 (Web 3.0),Wei,Whale,Whale Club,White Paper,Whitelist,Wrapped Token,Wrench Attack,Yellow Paper,Yield Farming,Zero Confirmation Transaction,Zero Knowledge Proof,Hot Wallet,Howey Test,HTTP (Hypertest Transfer Protocol),Hybrid POW/POS,Hyperledger / Hyperledger Foundation,Crypto-to-Crypto Exchange,Travel Rule