Active management requires a manager, or a team of managers, to actively manage a portfolio.
An activist investor is an individual or institution seeking to gain a controlling stake in a company to instigate changes.
Adam Back is a world-renowned British cryptographer, cypherpunk and crypto industry figure from the United Kingdom.
Used by Elrond, Adaptive State Sharding is an approach that combines all types of sharding into one to improve communication and performance.
A place where cryptocurrency can be sent to and from, in the form of a string of letters and numbers.
Administrative expenses are costs incurred by an organization that includes, but are not limited to, benefits and salaries for administrative staff, rent and managerial compensation.
Adoption curve indicates the pace of adoption of a new technology by people. It may also involve segregation of the target audience to understand the market's willingness.
Advance/Decline Line (A/D Line)
The A/D line is a technical indicator that plots the difference between the advancing and declining issues in the stock market on a daily basis
A blockchain network that works on a hybrid consensus approach; both Proof of Work and Proof of Stake.
An affiliation is a connection between two firms where one company has a small stake in the other company. The concept also applies to the connection between two companies that are owned by the same parent company.
Affiliate marketing is a kind of promotion technique where a business pays a person or entity a commission for promoting their goods and services in order to increase sales.
The agency problem, also called the principle-agent problem or the agency dilemma, is the inherent challenge of persuading one party (the agent) to behave in the best interests of another party (the principal) rather than their own benefit.
The agency theory discusses how to set up agency relationships in a way that minimizes the likelihood of disputes and other problems arising between agents and principals.
An agent is a third party that has been given the legal right to represent a business (the "principal") and enter into contracts on that business' behalf.
In an economy, aggregate demand is the total demand for all finished services and goods produced by that economy.
Aggressive Investment Strategy
An aggressive investment strategy is a high-risk investment strategy that aims to generate the maximum possible returns in financial markets.
AI coins are designed to streamline AI-related transactions and interactions, all while upholding transparency and security through blockchain technology.
If data cannot be accessed, then it cannot be infected or corrupted — this is the concept of an air gap.
A marketing campaign that distributes a specific cryptocurrency or token to an audience.
Airnode is an oracle node and API blockchain gateway that is readily deployed by API providers who want to engage in the API3 blockchain protocol and put their data feeds on-chain.
Alan Greenspan was the former head of the US Federal Reserve and served as the chairman for almost two decades from 1987 to 2006.
Algo-Trading (Algorithmic Trading)
Algo-trading is an automated trading system where buy and sell orders are placed according to the rules of a computer program or algorithm.
A process or set of rules to be followed in problem-solving or calculation operations, usually by a computer.
Algorithmic Market Operations (AMOs)
Algorithmic Market Operations (AMOs) automatically control the supply of algorithmic stablecoins while improving scalability, decentralization, and transparency.
An algorithmic stablecoin actually uses an algorithm underneath, which can issue more coins when its price increases and buy them off the market when the price falls.
It refers to a type of insurance coverage that automatically covers any risk that the contract does not explicitly omit.
The highest point (in price, in market capitalization) that a cryptocurrency has been in history. *see All-Time-Low (ATL).
An all-time low (ATL) refers to the lowest price a cryptocurrency has hit during its trading history.
Allocated gold refers to a form of gold ownership where the investor physically owns a specific amount of gold stored in a secure vault on their behalf.
Allocation is the allotment of equity or tokens that may be earned, bought, or reserved for a specific team, group, investor, institution, or another similar entity.