Glossary Terms Starting with S

Small Merchant

Small Merchant is a merchant with relatively limited revenue, transaction volume, staffing, or operational complexity. In merchant account and commerce operations, it…

Small Payment

A small payment is a low-value transaction relative to the applicable market, product, or business threshold. The value may be small, but…

Smart Account

A smart account is a blockchain account whose authorization and execution behavior is controlled by programmable logic rather than only a fixed…

Smart Account Payment

A smart account payment is a blockchain payment initiated or controlled by a programmable account rather than only by a basic externally…

Smart Account Risk

Smart account risk is exposure created by programmable account logic, modules, signers, relayers, recovery paths, and upgrade authority. A score for Smart…

Smart Contract

A smart contract is blockchain-executed code that deterministically reads state and applies permitted changes when transactions or messages invoke it. Contracts can…

Smart Contract Exploit

Smart Contract Exploit is the practical abuse of a smart contract weakness, unsafe economic assumption, compromised privilege, integration flaw, or protocol interaction…

Smart Contract Integration

Smart Contract Integration is the application work required to call, monitor, and safely incorporate a deployed smart contract into a business or…

Smart Contract Payment

A smart contract payment is a transfer in which blockchain code receives, routes, releases, exchanges, or conditionally controls value. Instead of paying…

Smart Contract Risk

Smart contract risk is exposure to loss or unintended behavior arising from contract code, assumptions, dependencies, governance, or execution environment. A score…

Smart Contract Security

Smart Contract Security is a security mechanism or control discipline that protects contract state, assets, authorization, availability, and economic behavior against defects,…

Smart Contract Testing

Smart Contract Testing verifies contract logic, permissions, state transitions, events, failure conditions, and integration behavior before and after deployment. It can include…

Smart Contract Wallet

A smart contract wallet is a blockchain account whose transaction authorization and asset-control rules are implemented by programmable contract code. Reliable use…

Smart Order Routing

Smart Order Routing is the automated selection and sequencing of trading venues or liquidity sources to execute an order according to price,…

Smart Payment Routing

Smart Payment Routing is payment-specific route selection that combines rules and current data to choose a processor, provider, rail, currency path, or…

Smart Wallet

A smart wallet is a wallet that adds programmable, automated, or context-aware capabilities beyond basic key storage and transaction signing. For Smart…

Snowman Consensus

Snowman consensus is Avalanche's linear-chain consensus protocol, repeatedly sampling validators to build probabilistic confidence in one preferred block history. Because blocks form…

Social Backup

A social backup distributes recovery information or authority among trusted people so wallet access can be restored without one complete backup copy.…

Social Commerce Merchant

Social Commerce Merchant is a merchant that discovers, engages, or sells to customers primarily through social networks, messaging apps, creator platforms, or…

Social Commerce Payment

A social commerce payment is a payment for a purchase initiated or completed through a social network, messaging service, creator page, or…

Social Consensus

Social consensus is community agreement about legitimate rules, history, or governance when software alone cannot resolve a protocol-level dispute. Nodes enforce executable…

Social Payment

A social payment is initiated or coordinated through a social network, messaging app, community platform, or contact-based experience. It can support peer…

Social Recovery

Social recovery restores wallet control through approval or assistance from a predefined group of trusted guardians rather than one backup secret. A…

Social Recovery Guardian

A social recovery guardian is a trusted participant authorized to approve or contribute to restoring a wallet owner's access after credential loss.…