Commodity-Backed Token
A commodity-backed token is a digital token representing ownership, a contractual claim, or price exposure linked to a commodity such as gold,…
Glossary terms starting with C
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
CVSS is an open framework for describing software vulnerability characteristics and calculating standardized severity scores and vector strings. Defenses against Common Vulnerability…
Community Node
A community node is independently operated blockchain infrastructure offered by an ecosystem participant for validation, relaying, RPC access, or public support. The…
Community Token
A community token is a digital token created to coordinate membership, governance, rewards, identity, funding, or economic activity within a community. It…
Community Treasury
A community treasury is a pool of assets held or administered for the shared purposes of a defined community under agreed governance…
Compact Block Filter
A compact block filter is a small probabilistic summary enabling light wallets to identify blocks that may contain relevant scripts or transactions.…
Competing Chain
A competing chain is an alternative valid or apparently valid sequence of blocks that conflicts with another branch for the same blockchain…
Compliance Alert
A compliance alert is a system-generated or manually raised notification that activity may violate a rule, policy, threshold, or obligation. A compliance…
Compliance Audit
Compliance Audit is a compliance or privacy requirement that independently evaluates whether an organization satisfies defined legal, regulatory, contractual, or internal requirements…
Compliance Breach
A compliance breach occurs when an organization or individual fails to meet an applicable law, regulation, license, contract, or mandatory policy. Compliance…
Compliance Control
A compliance control is a designed measure that prevents, detects, corrects, or evidences adherence to a defined obligation or policy. A compliance…
Compliance Evidence
Compliance evidence is reliable information demonstrating whether required controls, decisions, records, approvals, and obligations were satisfied during a defined period. Compliance evidence…
Compliance Exception
A compliance exception is an approved or observed departure from a required rule, control, procedure, or expected compliance condition. A compliance exception…
Compliance Management System (CMS)
A Compliance Management System (CMS) is the integrated governance, policies, processes, controls, training, monitoring, issue management, reporting, and accountability used to identify…
Compliance Monitoring
Compliance Monitoring is the ongoing or periodic review of activities, transactions, communications, records, and controls to determine whether operations follow applicable requirements…
Compliance Officer
Compliance Officer is a compliance or privacy requirement that advises, monitors, and challenges organizational activity to help meet applicable laws, regulations, licenses,…
Compliance Policy
A compliance policy sets mandatory organizational principles, responsibilities, and rules for meeting defined legal, regulatory, contractual, and ethical obligations. A compliance policy…
Compliance Program
A compliance program is the coordinated governance, policies, controls, training, monitoring, reporting, investigations, and remediation used to manage obligations. A compliance program…
Compliance Risk
Compliance risk is the potential for legal, financial, operational, or reputational harm from failing to meet applicable requirements or commitments. Compliance risk…
Compliance Testing
Compliance testing evaluates whether specific controls and processes are appropriately designed and operated effectively against defined requirements and periods. Compliance testing uses…
Compliance Training
Compliance Training is a compliance or privacy requirement that teaches employees and relevant partners the obligations, risks, expected behavior, controls, and escalation…
Compliant Token
A compliant token is a token designed and operated to satisfy specified legal, regulatory, contractual, or platform requirements. It may enforce identity…
Composable NFT
Composable NFT is an NFT whose state, ownership structure, components, permissions, or functionality can interact with other tokens or smart contracts to…
Compound Transaction
A compound transaction is a transaction that performs several logically connected actions, often across multiple contracts, assets, or account updates, to produce…