
Cryptocurrency Glossary Of Terms & Acronyms
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Tangle
The name for IOTA's Directed acylic graph (DAG) based transaction settlement layer.
Testnet
Shorthand for "Test Network", testnets are staging areas for experimenting new blockchain features.
Ticker
A ticker is a stock or asset symbol that abbreviates the asset name and it can be used as an identifier of the asset.
Token
Blockchain based unit of value issued by an organization, which grants token holders a right to participate in a network.
Token Burn
An event in which tokens are verifiably removed permanently removed from circulation.
Token Generation Event (TGE)
An event in which new tokens (ussually on a smart contract platform) are created and distributed to the public.
Total Supply
All the tokens and coins that will exist in a cryptocurrency network.
Total Value Locked
Total Value Locked (TVL) represents the number of assets that are currently staked in a protocol or the total quantity of underlying amount of funds that a DeFi protocol has secured.
Trading Volume
The amount of the cryptocurrency that has been traded in the last 24 hours.
Transaction Fee
A payment to the network for performing a transaction to be recorded on the blockchain.
Transactions Per Second (TPS)
It is number of transactions done per second. For example, there are 10 transactions of Bitcoin done in 1-minute. The TPS would be 10 transactions/60 seconds = ~0.17 TPS.
Trustless
Entirely verifiable, without needing to trust or assume an action is done completely and in good faith.
Turing-Complete
A "turing complete" code or blockchain refers to the ability to read program-written codes.