A trading strategy where a trader borrows an asset to sell it, anticipating a further decline in price. If the price does indeed decrease, the short seller benefits.
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A side chain is a blockchain ledger that operates alongside a main blockchain, establishing a bidirectional connection between the main chain and the sidechain.
A Side Channel Attack refers to a technique used by hackers to exploit the unintentional information conveyed by a computer’s inherent “tells”.
A Stale Block refers to a block that has been mined successfully but is not included in the current longest blockchain. This typically occurs when another block at the same height is added to the chain before it.
The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is an agency of the US Treasury Department that focuses on financial intelligence and enforcement.
Signals serve as a prompt to either purchase or sell an asset.
Silk Road was an illicit online marketplace that operated on the dark web and was ultimately dismantled by the FBI.
SIM-Swap is a form of scam that takes advantage of the security measures known as two-factor authentication.
Tokenomics refers to the study of the token economy, encompassing a collection of regulations that oversee the introduction and distribution of a cryptocurrency.
Sharding is an effective method for scaling that allows for the division of blockchain states into separate partitions. These partitions consist of states and transaction history, enabling each shard to be processed simultaneously.