Glossary Terms Starting with C

Cross-Chain Confirmation Normalization

Cross-chain confirmation normalization is an operational method for translating different blockchain confirmation and finality signals into a consistent risk policy. It does…

Cross-Chain Contract

A cross-chain contract is a smart contract designed to send, receive, verify, or act upon messages and assets spanning multiple blockchains. Contract…

Cross-Chain Execution

Cross-chain execution coordinates one or more destination-chain actions after an authenticated request, event, proof, or user intent originates elsewhere. Execution is separate…

Cross-Chain Finality

Cross-chain finality is the assurance that connected source and destination states will not be reversed in a way that invalidates a transfer…

Cross-Chain Integration

Cross-Chain Integration connects an application to assets, messages, or workflows that move or coordinate across two or more blockchain networks. It may…

Cross-Chain Interoperability

Cross-chain interoperability enables independent blockchains to exchange verified assets, messages, or state while preserving their separate consensus and execution systems. Interoperability does…

Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP)

Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol commonly refers to Chainlink CCIP, a protocol for authenticated token transfers and message delivery across supported blockchains. Decentralized oracle…

Cross-Chain Laundering

Cross-Chain Laundering is the use of multiple blockchains, bridges, swaps, and virtual assets to conceal the origin, ownership, movement, or destination of…

Cross-Chain Liquidity

Cross-chain liquidity is capital available to fulfill swaps, transfers, or settlements between assets and applications located on different blockchain networks. Quoted liquidity…

Cross-Chain Messaging

Cross-chain messaging carries authenticated data and instructions from a source blockchain to applications or contracts on a different blockchain. Delivery is asynchronous…

Cross-Chain Messaging Protocol

A cross-chain messaging protocol defines how messages are formatted, authenticated, transported, ordered, executed, acknowledged, and recovered between blockchain networks. Protocols differ significantly…

Cross-Chain Oracle

A cross-chain oracle reports verified state or events from one blockchain for use by contracts and applications on another blockchain. The oracle…

Cross-Chain Payment

A cross-chain payment sends value from a payer on one blockchain to a recipient or settlement application on another blockchain. The payment…

Cross-Chain Protocol

A cross-chain protocol coordinates verification, messaging, liquidity, or execution between independent blockchains under a defined security and routing model. The category includes…

Cross-Chain Rate Limit

A cross-chain rate limit caps the amount or frequency of assets or messages permitted through a route during a defined period. The…

Cross-Chain Replay Attack

A Cross-Chain Replay Attack occurs when a valid signed transaction or message intended for one blockchain, fork, domain, bridge, or contract is…

Cross-Chain Replay Protection

Cross-chain replay protection prevents an authorized message, proof, signature, or transfer from being executed more than once or on another route. Without…

Cross-Chain Security

Cross-chain security is the combined protection of messages and assets across source chains, destination chains, bridges, relayers, contracts, and governance. The system's…

Cross-Chain Stablecoin

A cross-chain stablecoin is a stablecoin designed to move or maintain recognized representations across multiple blockchain networks through a defined interoperability mechanism.…

Cross-Chain Swap

A cross-chain swap exchanges a source-chain asset for a destination-chain asset through bridges, liquidity providers, solvers, or atomic-swap mechanisms. Quotes depend on…

Cross-Chain Token (CCT)

A Cross-Chain Token is a token configured for Chainlink CCIP transfers through registered token administrators and chain-specific token pools. Pools can use…

Cross-Chain Transaction

A cross-chain transaction is a coordinated operation whose intended result spans two or more blockchains, such as transferring value, relaying a message,…

Cross-Chain Transfer

A cross-chain transfer moves or recreates value on a destination blockchain after funds are locked, burned, or supplied on a source blockchain.…

Cross-Chain Volume

Cross-chain volume measures the value or quantity of assets transferred through bridges and interoperability routes during a selected period. Methodology can double…