Address with Tag or Memo
An address with a tag or memo is a payment destination that requires both a shared blockchain address and an additional identifier…
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Address-Based Matching
Address-based matching is a reconciliation method that associates an incoming blockchain transaction with a customer, invoice, or account by comparing the destination…
Address-Based Payment
An address-based payment is a crypto payment completed by transferring assets to a blockchain address supplied by the recipient or payment provider.…
Address-Based Payment Matching
Address-based payment matching assigns an incoming blockchain transfer to a merchant invoice or customer by using a destination address that is associated…
Address-to-Address Payment
Address-to-Address Payment is a direct crypto transfer from a sender-controlled blockchain address to a recipient-controlled blockchain address. An address-to-address payment sends digital…
Admin Key Risk
Admin key risk is the possibility that a privileged cryptographic key is compromised, misused, lost, or used to change critical system behavior.…
Advance Payment
An advance payment is money paid before the seller delivers goods, performs services, or completes another contractual obligation. It can cover the…
Advance-Fee Fraud
Advance-Fee Fraud is a fraud or abuse pattern that persuades a victim to pay money or crypto upfront for a promised benefit…
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
AES is a standardized symmetric block cipher that encrypts and decrypts digital data using 128, 192, or 256-bit keys. Advanced Encryption Standard…
Adverse Media Screening
Adverse Media Screening is the risk-based search and review of credible public information that may indicate financial crime, corruption, fraud, sanctions exposure,…
Affiliate Crypto Payment
Affiliate Crypto Payment is a cryptocurrency commission or reward paid to an affiliate for attributed referrals, conversions, sales, or other agreed outcomes.…
Affiliate Fraud
Affiliate Fraud is a fraud or abuse pattern that manipulates referral or performance-marketing systems to claim commissions for fake, stolen, duplicated, or…
Affinity Fraud
Affinity Fraud is a fraud or abuse pattern that exploits trust within a shared community, profession, religion, ethnicity, or social group to…
Aggregate Signature
An aggregate signature is a compact cryptographic signature that represents multiple individual signatures, signers, or messages in one verifiable object. Blockchain protocols…
Air-Gapped Signing
Air-gapped signing creates a digital signature on a device that is deliberately isolated from network connectivity, aiming to reduce remote theft of…
Air-Gapped Wallet
An air-gapped wallet is a wallet whose private-key environment is deliberately kept without direct network connectivity and signs data transferred through an…
Akash Network (AKT)
Akash Network is a decentralized marketplace for cloud-computing resources built within the Cosmos ecosystem. Providers offer compute capacity, while users deploy containerized…
Algorand Standard Asset (ASA)
Algorand Standard Asset is Algorand’s Layer-1 asset framework for issuing fungible tokens, non-fungible assets, stablecoins, loyalty units, and other digital representations without…
Algorithmic Stablecoin
An algorithmic stablecoin aims to keep its market price near a reference value using supply adjustments, incentives or other rules rather than…
Allowed Address
Allowed Address is a specific blockchain address that has been approved for use within a defined account, beneficiary, asset, network, transaction type,…
Altcoin
Altcoin is an informal market term for a crypto asset considered an alternative to Bitcoin, although some definitions also exclude major assets…
Altcoin Payment
Altcoin Payment is a payment made with a cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin, with the exact scope depending on the speaker or platform.…
AML Control
An AML control is a policy, process, system, or review designed to prevent, detect, investigate, or report money-laundering risk.
AML Officer
An AML officer is the designated person responsible for overseeing an organization's anti-money laundering and counter-financing compliance framework. An Anti-Money Laundering officer…