Glossary Terms Starting with C

Co-Signing

Co-Signing is the participation of two or more independent signers, devices, services, or parties in authorizing a transaction or message. It may…

Code Audit

Code Audit is an assurance or evaluation activity that systematically examines source code, dependencies, and implementation choices for security flaws, defects, and…

Code Signing

Code Signing is the use of a digital signature to bind executable code, scripts, drivers, updates, or software packages to a signing…

Coin

A coin is the native fungible digital asset of a blockchain, created and accounted for by the base protocol rather than issued…

Coin Selection

Coin selection is the wallet process of choosing which unspent transaction outputs to use as inputs for a UTXO-based transaction. The choice…

Coinbase Transaction

A coinbase transaction is the special first transaction in a Bitcoin block that creates the block subsidy and assigns it, together with…

Cold Custody

Cold custody is a custody model that keeps the private keys or signing shares for protected assets offline except through tightly controlled…

Cold Storage

Cold Storage is a custody arrangement that keeps private keys or signing authority offline or otherwise isolated from continuously connected systems. It…

Cold Vault

Cold Vault is a vault whose signing keys or transaction authority are maintained offline or under strongly isolated access for infrequent, high-security…

Cold Wallet

A cold wallet is a wallet whose private keys are created or kept offline and are not exposed to an internet-connected environment…

Cold Wallet Risk

Cold wallet risk is the possibility of losing or exposing offline crypto assets through key handling, backups, devices, procedures, or physical compromise.…

Cold Wallet Sweep

A cold wallet sweep is a transaction that moves all or a defined portion of spendable assets from cold-controlled addresses to another…

Collaborative Custody

Collaborative custody is an arrangement in which a client and one or more service providers or trusted parties share the controls needed…

Collateralized Stablecoin

A collateralized stablecoin is a token designed to maintain a target value through assets pledged as backing. The collateral can be fiat…

Collectible NFT

Collectible NFT is a non-fungible token designed primarily to be acquired, displayed, traded, or completed as part of a collection because of…

Command Injection

Command Injection is a vulnerability in which untrusted input causes an application to execute unintended operating-system commands or command-line arguments. It is…

Commerce Integration

Commerce Integration is the connection of a store, marketplace, application, or billing workflow to payment, order, customer, inventory, and fulfillment services. In…

Commerce Platform

A commerce platform is software infrastructure that supports selling through digital or connected channels. It can manage products, prices, customers, carts, checkout,…

Commercial Bank Money

Commercial Bank Money is money issued as a liability of a commercial bank, primarily customer deposit balances transferable through payment systems. In…

Commercial Bank Money Token

A commercial bank money token is a digital token representing money issued as a liability of a commercial bank. It can be…

Commingling Risk

Commingling Risk is the risk that customer, corporate, or separately owned assets are combined without adequate legal, accounting, operational, or technical separation.…

Committee Signature

A committee signature proves that a required subset of designated participants approved a message under an agreed signing scheme. A committee signature…

Committee-Based Consensus

Committee-based consensus relies on a selected subset of eligible participants to propose, vote, attest, or finalize decisions for the wider network. The…

Commodity-Backed Stablecoin

A commodity-backed stablecoin is a token intended to maintain a stable relationship with a commodity such as gold, silver, or another standardized…