Glossary Terms Starting with S

Stake Account

A stake account is a dedicated on-chain account that records delegated stake, authorities, activation state, and rewards under a staking protocol. Delegation…

Staked Reservoir Stablecoin (srUSD)

Staked Reservoir Stablecoin is srUSD, a liquid yield-bearing token received through the Reservoir protocol’s staking mechanism and designed to represent a claim…

Staked Stablecoin

Staked Stablecoin is a token or account position received when a stablecoin is deposited into a staking, savings, locking, or yield mechanism.…

Staked Token

A staked token is a cryptocurrency or token committed to a validator, protocol, governance system, security module, or reward contract for a…

Stale Block

A stale block is a valid block that loses the canonical-chain race because another competing branch becomes the accepted history. Fork-choice rules…

Stale Transaction

A stale transaction is a transaction that is no longer likely to execute as intended because its state assumptions, nonce, inputs, fees,…

Standing Order

A standing order is a payer's instruction to its financial institution to send a specified payment to a recipient on a recurring…

State Machine

A state machine is a model of a system as a set of defined states and permitted transitions caused by events or…

State Proof

A state proof is cryptographic evidence that a particular account, balance, storage value, or other state item is included in or excluded…

State Scalability

State scalability is a blockchain’s ability to manage growth in accounts, balances, contract storage, and other persistent data without making validation, synchronization,…

State Sharding

State sharding partitions blockchain state across shards so individual nodes store and process only assigned portions rather than the entire state. The…

State Transition

A state transition is the rule-governed change from one valid system state to another after processing a transaction, block, event, or command.…

State Verification

State verification is the process of confirming that a claimed blockchain state or state value follows from valid protocol history and matches…

Static Address

A static address is a persistent blockchain payment address assigned for repeated incoming transfers rather than generated for one invoice lifetime. It…

Static Address Fixed Fee

A static address fixed fee is a predetermined charge applied to a payment received through a static-address service, independent of or additional…

Static Address Generation

Static address generation is the process of creating or provisioning a persistent payment address for repeated transactions on a specified blockchain network.…

Static Address Revocation

Static address revocation is the controlled deactivation of a reusable payment address so future transactions are no longer credited through the normal…

Static Channel Backup

A Static Channel Backup is LND recovery data used with the node seed to recover settled Lightning channel funds after catastrophic data…

Static Crypto Payment Link

A static crypto payment link is a persistent URL that can be reused to accept multiple cryptocurrency payments without creating a new…

Static Deposit Address

A static deposit address is a reusable blockchain address assigned for repeated account funding or customer deposits. Incoming transfers are credited through…

Static Payment Routing

Static Payment Routing is route selection based on fixed configuration or predetermined priority rather than current performance or risk signals. It does…

Stellar (XLM)

XLM, or lumen, is the native currency of the Stellar network and is used for transaction fees, account reserves, rent, and native…

Stellar Address

A Stellar address is an encoded identifier for an account, contract, or multiplexed destination, with type and checksum information in its format.…

Stellar Network

Stellar is a decentralized payment and asset network using the Stellar Consensus Protocol, accounts, operations, and lumens for fees and reserves. Transactions…