Contractor Crypto Payment
Contractor Crypto Payment is a cryptocurrency payment made to an independent contractor for completed work, milestones, retainers, expenses, or other contractual compensation.…
Glossary terms starting with C
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Control Testing
Control Testing is the planned evaluation of whether a control is appropriately designed, implemented, and operating effectively over a defined period and…
Conversion Asset
Conversion Asset is the asset into which an incoming payment is converted or the intermediary asset used during a payment conversion workflow.…
Conversion Rate
Conversion rate is the percentage of an eligible population that completes a defined action during a defined period or journey. In e-commerce,…
Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure
Coordinated vulnerability disclosure is a structured process for reporting, validating, fixing, and communicating security flaws between researchers and affected organizations. Coordinated Vulnerability…
Corporate Treasury
Corporate treasury is the function that manages an organization's liquidity, funding, payments, financial risk, banking or custody relationships, and short-term financial resources.…
Correlation ID
Correlation ID is an identifier propagated across related requests, messages, logs, and services so operators can reconstruct one distributed business or technical…
Correlation Risk
Correlation risk is the possibility that relationships between exposures strengthen during stress, reducing expected diversification or hedge effectiveness. A score for Correlation…
Cosmos (ATOM)
ATOM is the native staking and governance asset of the Cosmos Hub, one blockchain within the broader Cosmos ecosystem. It is used…
Cost of Fraud
Cost of fraud is the total financial and operational burden created by fraudulent activity, prevention, investigation, recovery, and customer impact. A fraud…
Cost of Payments
Cost of payments is the total economic cost of accepting, sending, processing, converting, settling, securing, supporting, and reconciling payments. It includes visible…
Cost of Refunds
Cost of refunds is the total expense associated with returning payment value to a customer. It can include the refunded principal, non-returned…
Cost per Transaction
Cost per transaction is the total expense associated with processing one blockchain transaction or business payment. It may include the blockchain network…
Cost-Based Payment Routing
Cost-based payment routing is a routing strategy that selects a payment provider, rail, or acquiring path according to the expected total cost…
Counterfeit Token
A Counterfeit Token is a blockchain token created or presented to imitate another asset, project, brand, stablecoin, or official contract without authorization.…
Counterfeit-Token Payment
Counterfeit-Token Payment is a transfer of an unauthorized or deceptive token that imitates the name, symbol, branding, or apparent identity of a…
Counterparty Credit Risk
Counterparty credit risk is the possibility that the other party to a financial agreement cannot meet payment or delivery obligations. A score…
Counterparty Custody Risk
Counterparty custody risk is the possibility that an external holder loses, freezes, misuses, or cannot return assets entrusted to its control. A…
Counterparty Risk
Counterparty risk is the possibility that another party fails to perform, pay, deliver, safeguard assets, or meet contractual obligations as expected. A…
Creator Crypto Payment
Creator Crypto Payment is a cryptocurrency payment made to a content creator, artist, streamer, developer, or other creator for sales, royalties, sponsorships,…
Credential
A credential is information, a cryptographic object, or a device used to establish identity, authority, qualification, or access rights. A credential provides…
Credential Dumping
Credential Dumping is the extraction of passwords, hashes, tokens, tickets, keys, or other authentication material from operating systems, memory, browsers, applications, or…
Credential Leakage
Credential leakage is the unintended exposure of passwords, keys, tokens, certificates, or secrets to unauthorized people, systems, or locations. Credential leakage occurs…
Credential Rotation
Credential Rotation is a security mechanism or control discipline that replaces an existing secret or cryptographic credential with a new one and…