Web Wallet
A web wallet is a wallet interface accessed through a web browser, with keys managed locally, remotely, or through a hybrid design.…
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Web3 Payment
A Web3 payment is a digital-asset payment initiated through a blockchain-enabled application, wallet, smart account, or smart contract. It can support token…
Web3 Wallet
A Web3 wallet is a wallet designed to connect with blockchain applications and authorize transactions, messages, permissions, and digital-asset interactions. For Web3…
Webhook
A webhook is an HTTP message a service sends to another application when an event occurs. In cryptocurrency payments it commonly reports…
Webhook Acknowledgement
A webhook acknowledgement is the HTTP response a receiving server sends to tell a publisher that an event delivery reached its handler…
Webhook Audit Trail
A webhook audit trail is a chronological record of webhook creation, configuration, delivery, verification, retry, response, modification, and administrative activity. Webhook Audit…
Webhook Authentication
Webhook authentication enables a recipient to verify that a webhook request came from the expected sender under an established trust relationship. Common…
Webhook Consumer
A Webhook Consumer is the application component that receives, validates, stores, and processes webhook events. It may be an HTTP endpoint plus…
Webhook Deduplication
Webhook deduplication prevents repeated delivery of the same event from causing duplicate business actions, notifications, credits, or fulfillment.
Webhook Endpoint
Webhook Endpoint is the server route that receives asynchronous webhook requests from another system. It is used to accept event notifications and…
Webhook Event Log
A Webhook Event Log is an append-oriented record of webhook events and delivery metadata, including event identity, timestamps, payload reference, signature result,…
Webhook Failure
Webhook Failure is a condition where a webhook cannot be delivered, authenticated, accepted, parsed, or applied successfully. It is used to identify…
Webhook Handler
A webhook handler is the server endpoint and processing logic that receives event notifications from a provider and converts trustworthy notifications into…
Webhook Log
A Webhook Log is a diagnostic record of webhook requests, delivery attempts, responses, processing steps, and errors. It helps operators trace failures…
Webhook Payload Validation
Webhook payload validation checks that an incoming event has the expected authenticated origin, structure and allowed values before the receiving application acts…
Webhook Recovery
Webhook Recovery is an asynchronous integration concept that securely and completely restores correct application state after missed, failed, delayed, rejected, or incorrectly…
Webhook Replay
Webhook replay resends or reprocesses a previously recorded event so a receiver can recover from an earlier delivery or handling problem.
Webhook Retry
Webhook retry is a service's attempt to redeliver a callback when an earlier delivery was not acknowledged successfully. Retries improve the likelihood…
Webhook Security
Webhook security consists of measures that ensure incoming event notifications are authentic, unmodified, fresh enough and safe to process. Payment webhooks are…
Webhook Signature
A webhook signature is a cryptographic authentication value sent with a callback so the receiver can test whether covered bytes were produced…
Webhook Signature Error
A webhook signature error occurs when a receiver cannot validate the provided signature against the expected message, key, algorithm, or freshness rules.…
Webhook Signature Verification
Webhook signature verification checks whether a received webhook payload was authenticated using the provider’s specified cryptographic scheme and shared secret or public…
Webhook Subscription
Webhook Subscription is a stored registration that tells a provider which endpoint, event types, account scope, and delivery settings should receive webhook…
Webhook Testing
Webhook testing checks whether an application can authenticate, receive, validate, process and safely retry event notifications under normal and abnormal conditions. A…