Glossary
Last Updated: January 11, 2026
Welcome to the Chicks Gold Glossary. Here, you’ll find clear definitions and explanations for the key terms and
concepts that shape your experience in buying, selling, boosting, or swapping video game assets. Whether you’re
new to the world of gaming transactions or just need a quick refresher, this glossary is designed to ensure you
understand every term you encounter on our platform.
# A
Absolute Advantage
Active Management
Actively Validated Services (AVS)
Ad Hoc
Address
Address Delegation
Aevo (AEVO)
Airdrop
Algorithm
Algorithmic Stablecoin
All or None Order (AON)
All-Time High (ATH)
All-Time Low (ATL)
Allocation
Alpha
Altcoin
Angel Investor
Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
Anti-Phishing Code
Application Programming Interface (API)
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Arbitrage
ARC-20
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
ASIC Resistant
Ask Me Anything (AMA)
Ask Price
Atomic Swap
Attack Surface
Auction
Automated Market Maker (AMM)
Automatic Replay Protection
B-Tokens
Backward Compatibility
Bagholder
Bags
Bakkt
Bank Run
Batch Auction
Beacon Chain
Bear Flag Pattern
Bear Market
Bear Trap
Bearish
Benchmark
BEP-1155
BEP-20
BEP-721
BEP-95
Beta (Coefficient)
Beta (Release)
Bid Price
Bid-Ask Spread
Binance Ecosystem Fund (BEF)
Binancian
Bitcoin
Bitcoin ATM
Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin Dominance
Bitcoin ETF
Bitcoin Evangelist
Bitcoin Halving
Bitcoin Maximalists
Bitcoin Pizza
Black Swan Event
Block
Block Confirmation
Block Explorer
Block header
Block Height
Block Producer
Block Reward
Blockchain
Blockchain Charity Foundation
Blockchain Interoperability
Blockchain Oracle
Blockchain Trilemma
Bloom Filter
Blue-Chip Token
Bollinger Band
Bollinger Bands
Bond
Bonding
Bounty
BRC-20
BRC-20 Tokens
Break-Even Point (BEP)
Breakeven Multiple
Breakout
Bridge
BscScan
BTC Wallet Address
BTFD
Burn
Burned Tokens
Burner Wallet
Buy the F***in Dip (BTFD)
Buy Wall
Byzantine Fault
Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)
Byzantine Generals Problem
Calldata
Candidate Block
Candlestick
Candlesticks
Capitulation
CC0 NFT
Censorship-resistance
Central Bank
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
Central Ledger
Central Processing Unit (CPU)
Centralised
Centralised Exchange (CEX)
Centralized
Centralized Exchange
Cipher
Ciphertext
Circulating Supply
Cloud
Cloud Mining
Coin
Cold Storage
Cold Wallet
Collateral
Collateralisation
Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO)
Collection Value
Colocation
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Composability
Confirmation Bias
Confirmation Time
Consensus
Consensus Algorithm
Consortium Blockchain
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Contango and Backwardation
Copy Trading
Counterparty Risk
Cross-Chain
Cross-Chain Bridges
Crypto Asset
Crypto Bubble
Crypto ETFs
Crypto Fear and Greed Index
Crypto Prepaid Card
Crypto Protocol
Crypto Winter
Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency Act of 2020
Cryptocurrency Exchange
Cryptocurrency Wallet
Cryptographic Hash Function
Cryptographic Key
Cryptographic Proof
Cryptography
CryptoPunks
Custodial Wallet
Custody
Cypherpunk
Daemon
Daily Active Addresses (DAA)
Danksharding
Dead Cat Bounce
Death Cross
Decentralisation
Decentralized
Decentralized Application (DApp)
Decentralized Applications (dApps)
Decentralized Autonomous Cooperative (DAC)
Decentralized Autonomous Organisation (DAO)
Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Decentralized Indexes
Decryption
Deflation
Degen
Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS)
Delegated Proof-of-Stake (dPOS)
Derivatives
Derivatives Market
Descending Triangle
Descending Wedge
Design Flaw Attack
DevP2P
DEX Aggregator
Diamond Hands
Difficulty
Difficulty Bomb
Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack
Distributed Ledger
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
Dominance
Double Bottom
Double Spending
Double Top
Dump
Dusting Attack
DYOR (Do Your Own Research)
Eclipse Attack
EigenLayer
EIP
EIP-1559
EIP-3074
EIP-4844
EIP-7251
EIP-7702
Emission
Encryption
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
ERC
ERC-1155
ERC-20
ERC-223
ERC-404
ERC-721
ERC-777
ERC-827
ERC-884
ERC-948
ETH
Ethereum
Ethereum Classic
Ethereum Foundation
Ethereum Name Service (ENS)
Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)
Exchange
Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)
Exit Liquidity
Exit Strategy
Exogenous Variable
Explain Like I’m Five (ELI5)
Externally Owned Account (EOA)
Externally Owned Accounts (EOA)
Fakeout
Falling Knife
Falling Wedge Pattern
Fan Tokens
Faucet
Fear & Greed Index
Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO)
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD)
Fiat
Fiat-Collateralised Stablecoin
Fiat-Pegged Cryptocurrency
Fibonacci Retracement
Fill Or Kill Order (FOK)
Finality
First-Mover Advantage (FMA)
Flappening
Flashbots
Flippening
Flow Variable
Flux (FLUX)
Forced Liquidation
Forks
Formal Verification
Fraud Proof
Fren
Froth
Full Node
Full Pay-Per-Share (FPPS)
Fully Diluted Valuation (FDV)
Fundamental Analysis (FA)
Funding Fees
Fungibility
Fungible
Futures
Futures Contract
GameFi
Gas
Gas (ETH)
Gas Limit
Gas Price
GDP Deflator
General Public License
Genesis Block
GitHub
GM (Good Morning)
Goblin Town
Golden Cross
Golden Ratio
Goldilocks
Gossip Protocol
Graphical Processing Unit (GPU)
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Gwei
Hackathon
Hacker
Haha Money Printer Go Brrrrr
Hal Finney
Halving
Halving Event
Hard Cap
Hard Fork
Hard Landing
Hash
Hash Rate
Hashed TimeLock Contract (HTLC)
Hashing
Hashpower
Hedging
Herd Behaviour
Herd Instinct
Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) Wallet
High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
HODL
HODLer
Honeypot
Hooks
Hot Wallet
Hybrid PoW/PoS
Hyperledger (Hyperledger Foundation)
Iceberg Order
Immutable
Impermanent Loss (IL)
Impossible Trinity
Index
Index Funds
Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
Initial DEX Offering (IDO)
Initial Exchange Offering (IEO)
Initial Public Offering (IPO)
Inscription
Integrated Circuit (IC)
Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC)
Interest Rates
Internet of Things (IoT)
Interoperability
InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)
IOU
Isolated Margin
Issuance
Laspeyres Index
Layer 1
Layer 2
Layer-0
Ledger
Left-Translated Cycle
Leverage
Leveraged Tokens
LFG
Library
Lightning Network
Limit Order / Limit Buy / Limit Sell
Linux
Liquid Proof of Stake (LPoS)
Liquid Staking
Liquid Staking Token (LST)
Liquidity
Liquidity Crisis
Liquidity Provider
Liquidity Ratios
Listing
Mainnet
Mainnet Swap
Maker
Malware
Margin Call
Margin Trading
Market Capitalization
Market capitalization (Market Cap)
Market Maker
Market Momentum
Market Order / Market Buy / Market Sell
Market Taker
Masternode
Masternodes
Matching Engine
Maximum Supply
Mempool
Merged Mining
Merkle Tree
Metadata
Metaverse
MicroBitcoin (uBTC)
Microtransaction
Microtransactions
Mineable
Miners
Mining
Mining Contract
Mining Farm
Mining Pool
Mining Reward
Minting
Mnemonic Phrase
Mnemonics
Monetary Policy
Money Markets
Money Printer Go Brrr
Monitoring Tag
Moon
Moving Average Envelopes
Moving Average Ribbon
Mt. Gox
Multisignal (multi-signature)
Multisignature
Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC)
Nakamoto Consensus
NFT Floor Prices
NFT Mystery Boxes
NGMI
Node
Non-Custodial Wallet
Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
Nonce
OCO Order
OCO Order
Off-Chain
Off-Chain
Offline Signing Orchestrator (OSO)
Offline Staking
Offshore Account
On-Chain
opBNB
Open Price
Open Source
Open-Source
Open-Source Blockchain
Open-Source Software (OSS)
Open/Close
opML (Optimistic Machine Learning)
Opportunity Cost
Optimistic Rollup
Oracle
Oracles
ORC-20 Token
ORC-20 Tokens
Order Book
Ordinals
Orphan Block
Overbought
Oversold
PancakeSwap
Paper Hands
Paper Wallet
Parachain
Passkey
Pectra
Peer to Peer
Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
Pegged Currency
Permissioned Blockchain
Permissionless Blockchain
PFP
Phishing
Plaintext
Plasma
Play-to-Earn (P2E)
Politically Exposed Person (PEP)
Ponzi Scheme
Portfolio
Pre-sale
Premining
Price Action
Price Discovery
Private Chain
Private Key
Private Keys
Private Sale
Progressive Web Application (PWA)
Proof of Activity (PoA)
Proof of Attendance Protocol (POAP)
Proof of Authority (PoA)
Proof of Burn (PoB)
Proof of Developer (PoD)
Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET)
Proof of History (PoH)
Proof of Importance (PoI)
Proof of Reputable Observations (PRO)
Proof of Reserves (PoR)
Proof of Stake (PoS)
Proof of Staked Authority (PoSA)
Proof of Work (PoW)
Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS)
Protocol
Public Blockchain
Public Chain
Public Key
Pump and Dump Scheme
Pump-and-dump
Race Attack
Rank
Ransomware
Real World Assets (RWAs)
Recency Bias
Recession
Recursive Inscription
Rekt
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
Remittances
Replay Attack
Resistance
Resistance Level
Return on Investment (ROI)
Revenge Trading
Roadmap
Routing Attack
Rug Pull
Rug pull
Sahm Rule
Salt (Cryptography)
Satoshi
Satoshi Nakamoto
Satoshis / Sats
Scalability
Scalability Trilemma
Security Audit
Security Token
Security Token Offering (STO)
Seed
Seed Phrase
Seed Tag
Segregated Witness (SegWit)
Selfish Mining
Sell Wall
Sharding
Sharpe Ratio
Shill
Shilling
Short Selling
Side Chain
Sidechains
Sim Swapping
Simple Moving Average (SMA)
Slashing
Slippage
Smart Contract
Smart Contract Wallet
Smart contracts
Snapshot
Social Recovery Wallet
Social Trading
SocialFi
Soft Cap
Soft Fork
Soft Landing
Software Development Kit (SDK)
Software Wallet
Solana Program Library
Solidity
Sound Wallet
Source Code
SPL
SRC-20 Tokens
Stablecoin
Stagflation
Staking
Staking Pool
State Channel
stETH
Stock Variable
Store of Value
Super Staker
Supercomputer
Supply Chain
Support
Support Level
Sybil Attack
Symmetrical Triangle
Taker
Taker Fee
Tank
Technical Analysis
Testnet
The DAO Hack
The Graph (GRT)
Ticker
Ticker Symbol
Time to Finality (TTF)
Timestamp
Token
Token Burn
Token Generation Event (TGE)
Token Lockup
Token Merge
Token Sale
Token Standards
Tokenization
Tokenomics
Total Supply
Total Value Locked (TVL)
TradFi
Trading Fees
Trading Volume
Transaction Fee
Transaction ID (TXID)
Transaction Volume
Transactions Per Second (TPS)
Treasury Bills (T-Bills)
TrueUSD (TUSD)
Trustless
Turing Complete
Turing-Complete
Understanding CZ’s Number 4
Unit of Account
Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO)
URI Schemes
User Interface (UI)
UTC Time
Utility Token
Validation
Validator
Value (ETH)
Vapourware
Variable Buy/Sell Tax
Vault
Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs)
Verification Code
Verkle Tree
Vest / Vesting Period
Virtual AMM (vAMM)
Virtual Machine
Vladimir Club
Volatility
Volume
WAGMI
Wallet
Wallet Address
Wash Trade
Wash Trading
Weak Hands
Weak Subjectivity
Web 1.0
Web2
Web3
Web3 Wallet
Wei
Weighted Moving Average (WMA)
Whale
When Lambo
When Moon
Whiskers
White Paper / Whitepaper
Whitelist
Wick
Win Rate
Witness
Wrapped Ether (WETH)
Wyckoff