Arbitrage
Arbitrage is a trading strategy that seeks to profit from a price difference for the same or economically equivalent asset across markets,…
Glossary terms starting with A
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Arbitrum Bridge
Arbitrum Bridge is the canonical bridging system for moving supported assets and messages between Ethereum and Arbitrum chains. Deposits to an Arbitrum…
Arbitrum Network
Arbitrum Network refers to the ecosystem of Ethereum scaling chains built with Arbitrum technology, including major public chains and customizable Arbitrum-based deployments.…
ARC-20
ARC-20 is an Algorand Request for Comments specification for smart-contract-controlled Algorand Standard Assets. It defines an interface that associates an ASA with…
Archive Node
An archive node is a blockchain node that retains historical blockchain data and, on many smart-contract networks, past state needed to answer…
Artifact Signing
Artifact Signing is the cryptographic signing of software packages, container images, binaries, manifests, attestations, or other build outputs so recipients can verify…
Asset Consolidation
Asset Consolidation is the movement or restructuring of digital assets from multiple wallets, addresses, networks, custodians, or holdings into fewer controlled positions.…
Asset Conversion
Asset Conversion is the exchange of one asset for another, such as converting cryptocurrency into a stablecoin, fiat currency, or a different…
Asset Custody
Asset custody is the safekeeping and controlled administration of assets for an owner, including protection of access mechanisms, records, transfers, and ownership…
Asset Exposure
Asset Exposure is the degree to which a portfolio, treasury, business, or financial position is affected by changes in the value, liquidity,…
Asset Inventory
An Asset Inventory is a maintained record of hardware, software, cloud resources, services, data stores, identities, certificates, APIs, and other assets that…
Asset Liquidity
Asset Liquidity is the ease with which an asset can be converted into another asset or cash in the required size and…
Asset Recovery
Asset recovery is the process of regaining access to, control of, or possession of assets that are inaccessible, misplaced, misdirected, frozen, or…
Asset Recovery Risk
Asset recovery risk is the possibility that stolen, lost, frozen, or misdirected assets cannot be located, controlled, returned, or legally reclaimed. Asset…
Asset Risk
Asset risk is the potential for loss arising from an asset's price, liquidity, issuer, technology, legal status, custody, or market structure. A…
Asset Routing
Asset routing selects the path, network, provider, liquidity venue, wallet, account, or conversion sequence used to move a particular asset from source…
Asset Tracing
Asset Tracing is the investigation and reconstruction of value movement across accounts, wallets, transactions, entities, services, blockchains, and conversion points to identify…
Asset Valuation
Asset Valuation is the process of determining a monetary value for an asset at a specified measurement time and for a defined…
Asset Yield
Asset Yield is the income or return generated by holding, lending, staking, providing liquidity with, or otherwise deploying an asset over a…
Asset-Backed Token
An asset-backed token is a blockchain token whose value or redemption claim is linked to an underlying asset or pool of assets.…
Asset-Based Confirmation
Asset-based confirmation is a policy that sets payment acceptance or confirmation requirements according to the cryptocurrency, token, network, value, or risk characteristics…
Asset-Based Confirmation Threshold
Asset-Based Confirmation Threshold is a rule that assigns different confirmation or finality requirements according to the cryptocurrency, token, network, or asset risk…
Asset-Based Payment Matching
Asset-Based Payment Matching is the process of narrowing or identifying a payment by verifying that the transferred cryptocurrency or token matches the…
Asset-Based Settlement
Asset-based settlement completes an obligation by delivering a specified asset rather than merely recording a payment instruction. The settlement asset can be…