Insights on Crypto Payments, Infrastructure, and Operations

Glossary terms starting with C

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Crypto Escrow Release

Crypto Escrow Release is the authorized transfer or availability of cryptocurrency held under an escrow arrangement after the specified release conditions are…

Crypto Exchange Rate

A crypto exchange rate states how much of one asset or currency is required to obtain a unit of another. For reliable…

Crypto Forensics

Crypto Forensics is the preservation, analysis, and interpretation of blockchain and off-chain evidence to investigate transactions, wallets, services, ownership, compromise, fraud, and…

Crypto Fulfillment Policy

Crypto Fulfillment Policy is a documented rule defining when and how a merchant delivers goods, services, access, or value after receiving a…

Crypto Holding

Crypto Holding is a quantity or position in a cryptocurrency, token, or other blockchain-based asset owned, controlled, or economically attributed to an…

Crypto Insurance Payment

Crypto Insurance Payment is a cryptocurrency or stablecoin payment related to an insurance premium, claim, reimbursement, commission, deductible, or policy settlement. The…

Crypto Invoice

A crypto invoice is a payment request that links a commercial obligation to a cryptocurrency or stablecoin amount, network, destination, and validity…

Crypto Invoice Manipulation

Crypto invoice manipulation is unauthorized modification of an invoice's payment-critical fields, such as the destination address, requested amount, asset, network, expiration, order…

Crypto Invoice Matching

Crypto invoice matching is the process of linking an observed blockchain transfer to the correct crypto invoice. Matching determines whether the payment…

Crypto Liquidity

Crypto Liquidity is the capacity of cryptocurrency markets and infrastructure to support buying, selling, transferring, settling, or converting digital assets in the…

Crypto Loan Repayment

Crypto Loan Repayment is a cryptocurrency or stablecoin transfer made to reduce or discharge principal, interest, fees, penalties, or another obligation under…

Crypto Merchant

A crypto merchant is a business or seller that accepts cryptocurrency or stablecoin for goods, services, invoices, donations, or account funding. The…

Crypto Micropayment

Crypto Micropayment is a low-value cryptocurrency payment designed for transactions that may be uneconomic or inconvenient through conventional payment rails. Its viability…

Crypto Mixer

A Crypto Mixer is a service or protocol designed to obscure links between virtual-asset inputs and outputs by pooling, transforming, delaying, or…

Crypto Nanopayment

Crypto Nanopayment is an extremely small crypto-denominated payment below the value commonly described as a micropayment. The term is relative rather than…

Crypto Order Matching

Crypto order matching is the process of associating a crypto payment or invoice with the correct merchant order, booking, subscription, account balance,…

Crypto Payment

A crypto payment is a transfer of cryptocurrency or stablecoins intended to settle a purchase, invoice, subscription, donation, debt, or other obligation.…

Crypto Payment Acceptance

Crypto Payment Acceptance is the merchant or platform decision to recognize a crypto payment as satisfying the applicable payment requirements. Acceptance is…

Crypto Payment Address

A Crypto Payment Address is a blockchain address or payment-system destination supplied to a payer for sending funds. It can be dedicated,…

Crypto Payment Address Poisoning

Crypto Payment Address Poisoning is a scam in which an attacker places a look-alike address into a user’s transaction history or workflow…

Crypto Payment Address Screening

Crypto Payment Address Screening is the risk-based evaluation of blockchain addresses connected with a payment before or after processing. It may use…

Crypto Payment Adoption

Crypto payment adoption is the degree to which customers, merchants, industries, or regions actively accept and use cryptocurrency or stablecoins for real…

Crypto Payment AML Check

A crypto payment AML check is an anti-money-laundering assessment performed on a proposed, pending, or completed cryptocurrency payment. It evaluates whether the…

Crypto Payment Bot

A crypto payment bot is automated software, often inside a messaging platform, that creates payment requests, invoices, links, or status notifications using…