Depeg Risk
Depeg risk is the possibility that an asset intended to track a reference value trades or redeems materially away from that target.…
Glossary terms starting with D
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Deposit Address
A deposit address is a blockchain destination provided by a wallet, exchange, merchant, custodian, or protocol for receiving supported digital assets. The…
Deposit Attribution
Deposit attribution is the process of determining which customer, account, invoice, order, or business purpose should receive credit for an incoming deposit.…
Deposit Consolidation
Deposit consolidation is the process of moving funds from many receiving addresses or small outputs into fewer treasury, custody, or operational wallets.…
Deposit Detection
Deposit detection is the process of identifying an incoming blockchain transaction or ledger credit that may represent a deposit to a monitored…
Deposit Flow
Deposit flow is the end-to-end sequence through which a user receives deposit instructions, sends funds, and obtains credit or availability in the…
Deposit Mapping
Deposit mapping is the stored relationship between a blockchain deposit destination or identifier and the customer, account, invoice, asset, or ledger balance…
Deposit Minimum
Deposit minimum is the smallest amount a service will detect, process, credit, convert, or make available for a specific asset and network.…
Deposit Token
A deposit token is a token or digital claim issued when a user deposits assets into a bank, custodian, lending protocol, vault,…
Deposit Wallet
A deposit wallet is a wallet or address structure used to receive inbound asset transfers before funds are credited, swept, held, or…
Derived Account
A derived account is an account whose address or identifier is calculated from other known inputs instead of being selected only from…
Derived Payment Address
Derived Payment Address is a payment address generated deterministically from a wallet key hierarchy or derivation path. The address can be created…
Derived Unique Key Per Transaction (DUKPT)
Derived Unique Key Per Transaction, or DUKPT, is a payment-security key-management method that derives a different encryption key for each transaction from…
Descriptor Wallet
A descriptor wallet is a Bitcoin wallet that uses output script descriptors to define the scripts, keys, derivation paths, and address sets…
Desktop Wallet
A desktop wallet is wallet software installed on a desktop or laptop operating system to manage accounts, keys, balances, connections, and transaction…
Destination Tag
A destination tag is a numeric routing identifier used with a shared blockchain address to tell an off-chain service which customer, account,…
Deterministic Account
A deterministic account is an account whose address, key, or identifier can be reproduced from the same defined inputs and derivation procedure.…
Deterministic Execution
Deterministic execution means that every correct node processing the same valid input from the same prior state under the same protocol rules…
Deterministic Finality
Deterministic finality is a protocol property in which a block becomes final after a defined consensus decision, such as a supermajority commit…
Deterministic Payment Finality
Deterministic Payment Finality is payment finality provided by a protocol rule that gives a defined, non-probabilistic finalization condition once consensus requirements are…
Deterministic Wallet
A deterministic wallet generates the same sequence or set of private keys from the same initial seed and derivation algorithm, enabling repeatable…
Device Risk Score
A device risk score estimates how likely a device or session is compromised, automated, fraudulent, unfamiliar, or otherwise unsafe. A score for…
Device Security
Device Security is a security mechanism or control discipline that protects computers, phones, hardware wallets, terminals, and connected equipment from compromise, misuse,…
Dictionary Attack
Dictionary Attack is an attack or weakness pattern that tests likely passwords, phrases, or keys from curated wordlists instead of exhaustively trying…