Insights on Crypto Payments, Infrastructure, and Operations

Glossary terms starting with S

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SaaS Billing

SaaS Billing is billing designed for software-as-a-service products and recurring digital access. In billing and recurring commerce, it commonly covers plans, seats,…

SaaS Crypto Payment

SaaS Crypto Payment is a crypto payment used to purchase or renew access to software delivered as an online service. In a…

Safeguarding Account

Safeguarding Account is an account designated to hold customer or client assets separately from the operating funds of a service provider under…

Sales Tax

Sales Tax is a consumption tax generally imposed on taxable retail sales and collected by the seller under applicable jurisdictional rules. In…

Same-Asset Crypto Settlement

Same-asset crypto settlement occurs when the recipient or merchant is credited in the same cryptocurrency or token used for the incoming payment.…

Same-Day Settlement

Same-day settlement means that a payment or group of obligations reaches the defined settlement outcome on the same business day it becomes…

Sanctioned-Address Payment

Sanctioned-Address Payment is a payment involving a blockchain address identified on an applicable sanctions list or linked to a sanctioned person under…

Sanctions

Sanctions are legally binding restrictions imposed by governments or international bodies on dealings with specified persons, jurisdictions, sectors, goods, services, property, or…

Sanctions Compliance

Sanctions compliance is the governance and control framework used to meet applicable sanctions prohibitions, restrictions, licensing, blocking, and reporting duties. A sanctions…

Sanctions Evasion

Sanctions Evasion is conduct intended to conceal, reroute, misdescribe, or structure activity so that sanctions restrictions or controls are avoided. It is…

Sanctions List

Sanctions List is an official or controlled dataset identifying persons, entities, vessels, aircraft, addresses, or other targets subject to specified sanctions restrictions.…

Sanctions Match

Sanctions Match is a potential or confirmed correspondence between a screened party, address, transaction, or asset and sanctions data or program criteria.…

Sanctions Nexus

Sanctions Nexus is the factual connection that can bring a person, transaction, service, asset, or organization within the scope of a sanctions…

Sanctions Program

Sanctions Program is a defined body of sanctions authorities, prohibitions, designations, exemptions, licenses, guidance, and enforcement measures directed at a jurisdiction, activity,…

Sanctions Screening

Sanctions Screening is the risk-based comparison of customers, counterparties, beneficial owners, beneficiaries, wallet addresses, jurisdictions, and transactions against applicable sanctions restrictions and…

Sandbox

Sandbox is an isolated environment where software, code, data, or integrations can be exercised with restricted permissions and limited impact. It is…

Sandbox Account

A Sandbox Account is a non-production account used to test authentication, configuration, API behavior, permissions, and integration workflows without intentionally creating real…

Sandbox Endpoint

A Sandbox Endpoint is a non-production API or RPC address intended for integration testing. It accepts sandbox credentials and returns test or…

Sandwich Attack

Sandwich Attack is an attack or weakness pattern that surrounds a victim’s pending trade with attacker transactions to profit from the victim’s…

Savings Stablecoin

A savings stablecoin is a stable-value token marketed or designed for holding value over time, often with yield, rewards, or automated allocation…

Scalability

Scalability is a blockchain system’s ability to support growing transaction demand, users, data, and application activity without unacceptable increases in cost, delay,…

Scalability Trilemma

The scalability trilemma is a framework describing the difficulty of maximizing decentralization, security, and scalability at the same time in a blockchain…

Scam-Address Payment

Scam-Address Payment is a payment sent to or received from an address credibly associated with fraud, impersonation, theft, phishing, or another scam…