Insights on Crypto Payments, Infrastructure, and Operations

Glossary terms starting with S

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Social Recovery Wallet

A social recovery wallet is a wallet that lets predefined guardians help replace lost authorization while preserving normal user-controlled spending. Social Recovery…

Social Token

A social token is a digital token associated with a creator, community, brand, club, or online network and used for access, rewards,…

Soft Finality

Soft finality is a practical but reversible level of confidence that a block or transaction will remain in accepted history. It may…

Soft Fork

A soft fork tightens blockchain validity rules so upgraded nodes reject some blocks that older nodes would still accept. Compatibility does not…

Soft Fork Activation

Soft fork activation is the process that determines when upgraded consensus restrictions begin being enforced by participating blockchain nodes. The activation method…

Software Development Kit (SDK)

A software development kit is a packaged collection of libraries, models, tools, documentation, and examples for building against a platform or service.…

Software Supply Chain Security

Software Supply Chain Security is a security mechanism or control discipline that protects code, dependencies, build systems, artifacts, updates, and distribution paths…

Software Wallet

A software wallet is an application that manages wallet keys or account access and prepares, signs, or monitors digital-asset transactions. For Software…

Solana (SOL)

Solana is the native digital asset of the Solana blockchain and is used for transaction fees, account funding, staking, and value transfer.…

Solana Address

A Solana address is a 32-byte public identifier for an account, represented in base58 and derived from a key or program. Key-backed…

Solana Firedancer Client

The Solana Firedancer Client is an independently developed validator implementation built from the ground up for high performance, security isolation, and client…

Solana Network

Solana is a high-throughput proof-of-stake blockchain where validators execute programs, maintain account state, and order transactions through its consensus and runtime. The…

Solana Wallet

A Solana wallet manages Solana account authority, transaction signing, SOL, and token accounts associated with one or more wallet addresses. Reliable use…

Soulbound Token (SBT)

A Soulbound Token is a non-transferable or account-bound token used to represent identity, reputation, credentials, achievements, affiliations, or permissions. The issuer mints…

Source of Crypto Funds

Source of Crypto Funds is the specific origin and transaction path of crypto assets used in a particular payment, deposit, investment, withdrawal,…

Source of Crypto Wealth

Source of Crypto Wealth is the explanation and supporting evidence for how a customer accumulated their overall crypto-related wealth or economic position…

Sovereign Rollup

A sovereign rollup publishes data to another layer but has its own nodes determine validity, execution rules, forks, and canonical state. Users…

Spam Crypto Payment

A spam crypto payment is an unwanted low-value or misleading transfer sent to a merchant or wallet to create noise, advertise a…

Sparse Merkle Tree

A sparse Merkle tree is a Merkle-based authenticated data structure designed for a very large fixed key space in which most possible…

Spear Phishing

Spear Phishing is a targeted phishing attack tailored to a specific person, role, team, or organization using information that makes the message…

SPL Token

An SPL token is a fungible or non-fungible asset managed through a Solana token program and identified by a mint account. The…

SPL Token Integration

SPL Token Integration is the application work required to support tokens implemented with Solana’s token programs, including mint accounts, token accounts, authorities,…

Split Crypto Payment

A split crypto payment is a payment whose value is divided among multiple recipients, accounts, obligations, or settlement destinations according to predefined…

Split Payment

A split payment divides one customer obligation or checkout amount across multiple payment methods, payers, destinations, or funding sources. Each component must…