Fiat-Denominated Crypto Payment
Fiat-Denominated Crypto Payment is a crypto payment whose commercial amount is priced in a fiat currency and converted into a payable cryptocurrency…
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Fiat-Priced Crypto Payment
A fiat-priced crypto payment is a cryptocurrency payment for an order whose commercial price is defined in fiat currency. The checkout converts…
Fiat-Priced Invoice
A fiat-priced invoice is an invoice whose amount is denominated in a government-issued currency even when the customer may pay through cards,…
Fiat-to-Crypto Payment
A fiat-to-crypto payment is a transaction in which the payer provides fiat currency and the recipient receives cryptocurrency, or fiat payment initiates…
File Upload Vulnerability
A File Upload Vulnerability is a weakness that allows an attacker to upload, store, process, retrieve, or execute a file in a…
Final Settlement
Final settlement is the legally or operationally irreversible discharge of a payment obligation under the governing system's rules. After the finality point,…
Finality
Finality is the degree of assurance that a blockchain transaction or block will remain in canonical history and not be reversed. Finality…
Finality Attack
Finality Attack is an attack or weakness pattern that attempts to reverse, conflict with, or undermine transactions or blocks that participants expected…
Finality Delay
Finality delay is a period in which a blockchain continues producing or observing blocks but does not reach its normal finality condition…
Finality Detection
Finality detection is the process by which software determines that a block or transaction has reached the finality condition defined by its…
Finality Policy
A finality policy is an application's documented rule for deciding when a blockchain transaction is settled enough to trigger credit, fulfillment, withdrawal,…
Finality Proof
A finality proof is verifiable evidence that a block, checkpoint, transaction, or state commitment has satisfied a protocol’s finalization rules. Depending on…
Finality Reversion
Finality reversion is the removal, replacement, or rejection of a block or state that had previously been treated as finalized. Under a…
Finality Risk
Finality risk is the possibility that a transaction considered settled is later reversed, excluded, conflicted, or treated differently by the network. A…
Finality Threshold
A finality threshold is the minimum voting power, signature weight, accumulated work, or other protocol-defined evidence required before a block or checkpoint…
Finality Time
Finality time is the elapsed period between a transaction or block’s initial acceptance and the moment the protocol considers its containing history…
Finality Violation
A finality violation occurs when a consensus protocol produces or accepts incompatible finalized histories, breaking its safety guarantee. It generally requires validator…
Finalized Block
A finalized block is a block that has satisfied the network’s formal finality rule and is not expected to be removed by…
Finalized Payment
A finalized payment is a payment that has met the finality threshold defined by the relevant network, provider, or business policy. It…
Finalized Throughput
Finalized throughput is the rate at which transactions, operations, or units of work become finalized rather than merely submitted, executed, or included…
Finalized Transaction
A finalized transaction is a transaction whose successful or failed execution is recorded in a block that has reached the network’s formal…
Financial Audit
A financial audit independently examines financial statements, records, controls, and evidence to express an opinion under defined accounting and assurance standards. Reliable…
Financial Privacy
Financial Privacy is a compliance or privacy requirement that protects information about a person's or organization's accounts, transactions, assets, counterparties, and economic…
Financial Reconciliation
Financial reconciliation compares financial records from ledgers, banks, processors, wallets, invoices, settlements, and reports to prove that money movement and accounting agree.…