CRYPTO CURRENCY DICTIONARY

TERMS COMMONLY USED IN BLOCKCHAIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY

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Digital asset

A digital asset is anything digital that has monetary worth, documented ownership, and is accessible. Photos, manuscripts, papers, data, cryptocurrency, and other online assets are examples of digital assets. Anything created and stored digitally qualifies as a digital asset.

Other Important Terms

Huobi Global

Huobi Global is a cryptocurrency exchange that is centralized. Margin reading, trading bots, derivatives, futures, loans, a wallet, and other services are available. It is now one of the most popular exchanges in terms of market volume and capitalization. The Huobi ECO Chain is a blockchain (based on Ethereum) operated by Huobi. The Huobi Token is its native cryptocurrency (HT). Huobi, which was founded in China in 2013, has had difficulties as a result of the Chinese government's anti-cryptocurrency policies. After the Chinese government outlawed Bitcoin exchanges in 2017, Huboi briefly ceased Bitcoin trading. Huobi has now expanded abroad and is now publicly traded in Hong Kong.

Digital Signature

A digital signature is a cryptographic value created by a hash function. Digital signatures are used to validate and preserve the integrity of digital messages, transactions, documents, and data. Physical data is less subject to attacks and security breaches than digital data. The recived, hashed data used as digital signatures are difficult to fake, making it difficult to verify an object was not manufactured fraudulently or modified with. Some digital signatures are legally enforceable. Asymmetric cryptography (also known as public-key cryptography) underpins digital signatures on blockchains. Traders safeguard transactions by signing and decrypting them with a secret private key and receiving and encrypting them with a public key.

Over-the-counter

In contrast to trading on a centralized exchange, over-the-counter (OTC) refers to the practise of trading securities through a broker-dealer network. Equities, debt instruments, and derivatives—financial contracts whose value is derived from an underlying asset like a commodity—can all be traded over-the-counter.

Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge (zk-SNARK)

A "Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge" protocol is a sort of zero-knowledge protocol used to keep data encrypted and usable. Individuals can use zero-knowledge proofs to establish ownership of specified information, such as a private key. The prover demonstrates this without revealing the facts to the verifier. Zk-SNARKs are a unique sort of zero-knowledge proof that enables non-interactive verification of shielded information. Non-interaction refers to a protocol in which the evidence is established through a single message sent from the prover to the verifier rather than numerous communications. Non-interaction promotes high blockchain performance since consensus is necessary over a large network.

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Proof of Stake is a form of the blockchain consensus process. It chooses validators at random from the network using a probability method proportionate to the validators' holdings in the blockchain's native coin. After the computation is performed, the validating node is paid with transaction fees. The Proof of Stake method was developed as an alternative to the Proof of Work mechanism, which lacks scalability because of its energy-intensive nature and the requirement for miners to compete with elite hardware to validate blocks. Some consider Proof of Stake to be a more secure paradigm since it reduces miners' incentives to attack networks. A validator loses some of its stakes if they verify false transactions.
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