Daily Payment Reconciliation
Daily payment reconciliation is a scheduled control that compares payment, provider, bank or blockchain, ledger, and settlement records for a defined business…
Glossary terms starting with D
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DAO Treasury
A DAO treasury is a pool of assets controlled or directed through the governance and execution mechanisms of a decentralized autonomous organization.…
DAO Treasury Governance
DAO treasury governance is the system of proposals, voting, delegation, approvals, execution, and oversight used to decide how a DAO's assets are…
Data Account
A data account is a blockchain account used primarily to store program state rather than executable code. It can contain serialized balances,…
Data Availability
Data availability is the property that the data needed to verify, reconstruct, or continue a blockchain state transition can be obtained by…
Data Availability Committee (DAC)
A Data Availability Committee is a designated group that stores off-chain transaction data and attests that users can retrieve it when needed.…
Data Availability Layer
A data availability layer is blockchain infrastructure specialized in publishing and making transaction or state-transition data retrievable for other execution systems, especially…
Data Availability Risk
Data availability risk is the possibility that required information becomes inaccessible, delayed, incomplete, corrupted, or unusable when needed. Data Availability Risk must…
Data Availability Sampling (DAS)
Data Availability Sampling lets nodes test random pieces of erasure-coded data to gain high confidence that the complete dataset is retrievable. Erasure…
Data Encoding
Data encoding is the conversion of information into a defined representation for storage, transmission, signing, or processing. Blockchain systems encode numbers, addresses,…
Data Integrity
Data integrity is the assurance that information remains complete, consistent, and unaltered except through authorized or protocol-valid changes. Blockchain systems support integrity…
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is a set of policies and technical controls used to discover, classify, monitor, restrict, and investigate sensitive data…
Data Scalability
Data scalability is a blockchain system’s ability to increase the amount of transaction, state, proof, or application data it can make available…
Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) is the continuous discovery, classification, risk assessment, and protection of sensitive data across cloud, analytics, storage, software,…
Data Subject Access Request (DSAR)
A Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) is a request by an individual for confirmation of whether an organization processes their personal data…
Database Encryption
Database Encryption is a security mechanism or control discipline that protects stored or transmitted database information by converting readable data into ciphertext…
Debt Token
A debt token is a blockchain token representing an obligation to repay principal, interest, another asset, or a defined claim. It can…
Decentralization
Decentralization is the distribution of authority, validation, data, or infrastructure across multiple independent participants instead of one controlling party. In blockchain systems,…
Decentralized Checkout
Decentralized checkout is a payment and order flow that relies substantially on public blockchain contracts, self-custodial wallets, and open protocols rather than…
Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
A decentralized exchange is a blockchain application that enables asset trading through smart contracts without a traditional centralized matching custodian. For reliable…
Decentralized Execution Network
A decentralized execution network uses multiple independent nodes to run, verify, and agree on off-chain computations or workflows for blockchain applications. Use…
Decentralized Identity (DID)
Decentralized identity uses user-controlled identifiers and verifiable credentials to establish digital relationships without depending on one central identity provider. DIDs often work…
Decentralized Infrastructure Network
A decentralized infrastructure network coordinates independently operated computing, storage, connectivity, sensing, or other resources through open protocols and economic incentives. Blockchains often…
Decentralized Network
A decentralized network distributes control, validation, and operation across multiple independent participants instead of relying on one governing server or organization. Decentralization…