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Daily Active Addresses (DAA)

On a blockchain, users interact with one another through their addresses, and daily active addresses (DAA) refers to the number of addresses which fulfills the defined activity parameter on a given blockchain.

Dead Cat Bounce

Price rally that is short lived after a prolonged decline. Price charts will show a recovery in anticipation of a market turnaround only to decline further.

Decentralized

A system where there are no centralized points of failure or organization with no central authority figure.

Decentralized Applications (dApps)

Applications that run on decentralized peer-to-peer networks such as Ethereum.

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)

Open source and decentralized systems that do not require centralized operators or controllers.

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) refers to the movement of building decentralized financial applications that have no central authority and is censorship free.

Decryption

The process of decrypting data that was previously encrypted (made unreable) back to a readable form.

Degen

Cryptotrading without Due Diligence and research - basically gambling

Delegated Proof-of-Stake (dPOS)

A consensus mechanism where selected members of a network are voted as delegates to validate transactions and produce blocks on a blockchain.

Derivatives

A financial instrument which derives its value from the performance of an underlying asset or index (eg. gold, crude oil)

Derivatives Market

A market for derivatives which are instruments such as futures or options whose value is derived from an underlying asset.

Difficulty

A relative measure on how difficult it is to correctly guess a new block

Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)

Directed acyclic graphs refers to a data structure that is built in one single direction, yet branches out and never repeats.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack

A common cyber-attack tactic where a perpetrator diverts large amounts of traffic towards a particular network or service in an effort to disrupt normal services.

Distributed Ledger

Ledgers whose data is stored and synced across a network of nodes.

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)

Describes the technology that enables distributed ledger.

Dominance

Typically refers to Bitcoins' market capitalization dominance.

Double Spending

Double spending refers to the act of spending digital currencies twice. This is most commonly applied on crypto exchanges by unscrupulous actors.

Do Your Own Research (DYOR)

An advice for investors to do their own research on the coins they wanted to invest in

Dump

A common term used to describe downward market movement, or to describe the action of selling an individuals holdings.

Dusting Attack

A new form of malicious activity in which hackers and scammers attempt to undermine the privacy of cryptocurrency users by sending little amounts of money to their wallets.

Dutch Auction

A Dutch Auction, also know as an "inverted" auction, starts off with high asking price that decays over time until a pre-determined floor price.