The most comprehensive crypto glossary for Intermediate level
The most comprehensive crypto glossary out there.
Futures contract
Future contracts, or futures, bind traders to buy and sell assets at a certain price and date in the future. Hedgers and speculators use these instruments as a way to potentially anticipate the direction of price movements, either to hedge against risks or to profit from them.
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Level: Intermediate
Full node
The computer that implements the entire rules of a blockchain network and validates all transactions and blocks on the blockchain.
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Fractional stablecoins
This is a brand new stablecoin form that partially is collateralized and partially is algorithmically stabilized. Fractional stablecoins are backed by two kinds of collateral: collateralized and algorithmically modified.
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Level: Intermediate
Fork (Blockchain)
During a fork, a chain splits into two versions, creating two blockchains that can run simultaneously. The blockchain network forks when two different versions of the network are created.
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Level: Intermediate
FOK (fill or kill order)
According to this concept, an order must be filled immediately and completely or it cannot be executed. As such, it is closely related to the "All or Nothing" (AON) order type, in which all orders must be filled or none at all.
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Level: Intermediate
Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
The U.S. Treasury's federal regulatory agency. As part of Egmont Group, an entity that promotes cooperation among international financial intelligence units (FIUs), FinCEN is the United States' Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).
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Level: Intermediate
Fibonacci retracement level
Represents a set of key numbers (Fibonacci retracement levels) derived by considering two extremes of the ratios. Some of these are 23.6%, 38.2%, 50%, 61.8%, and 78.6%.
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Level: Intermediate
FATF Travel Rule
The FATF Travel Rule (aka FATF Recommendation #16) is an international regulation designed to strengthen AML laws. Financial institutions and crypto firms are required to collect personal data on participants involved in transactions exceeding $1,000.
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Level: Intermediate
FATF (Financial Action Task Force)
AML/CFT are global standards which are set to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. In 1989, the G7 established the FATF.
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Level: Intermediate
Fallind wedge
Important trend indicating a future upward trend. Initially wide, it narrows as the price falls. The reaction highs and lows form a cone whose slope is downward as the price action converges.
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Fakeout
When a trader enters a position expecting a price movement that ultimately does not materialize. Usually, a fakeout refers to a situation where the price goes in the opposite direction of the trade idea or signal. Fakeouts may also be defined as "fake breakouts," or false breakouts, in which price breaks out of a technical price structure, only to reverse shortly thereafter.
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Level: Intermediate
Synthetic assets
A combination of cryptocurrencies and traditional derivatives. In other words, synthesizers are tokenized derivatives.
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Level: Intermediate
Synchronous
Communication when messaging is only possible in real time. This requires the transmitter and receiver to be at the same time and/or in the same place. Examples of synchronous communication are phone calls or video calls. Blockchains can be asynchronous or semi-synchronous networks.
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Level: Intermediate
Symmetric keys
One that is used both to encrypt and decrypt information. This means that to decrypt information, one must have the same key that was used to encrypt it. Blockchain technology uses an asymmetric keys system with public and private keys.
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Level: Intermediate
Sybil attack
a kind of security threat in an online system when one person tries to take over the network by creating multiple accounts, nodes, or computers. In terms of cryptocurrencies, a relevant example is when someone launches multiple nodes on the blockchain network.
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Level: Intermediate