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Your comprehensive guide to cryptocurrency and digital asset trading terminology. Find clear definitions of technical terms and market concepts used throughout CoinAPIs documentation.
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3-Sigma Rule
51% Attack
A
API
API Credits
API Key
API Key Permissions
API Polling
API Rate Limit
API Throttling
Active Symbols
Adjusted Delta
Adjusted Free Float Supply
Adverse selection
Aggregated Data
Algo Trading
Altcoin
Altcoin Dominance
Altseason
Application Layer Protection
Arbitrum (Ethereum Layer-2 Optimistic Rollup)
Arrival price
Assets
Assignment Risk
At-the-Money (ATM)
Atomic Swap
Auction Mechanisms
Auction-Only Orders
Automated Market Maker (AMM)
B
BFS Traversal
Backtesting
Beacon Chain
Best Bid and Offer (BBO)
Best execution
Bid Ask Spread
BitLicense
Bitcoin API
Bitcoin Evangelist
Bitcoin Halving
Blockchain
Blockchain Explorer
Blockchain Gaming
Blockchain Oracle
Bracket Orders
Break-even Points (BEPs)
Burning Crypto
Buy Wall/Sell Wall
Buy the F*ing Dip (BTFD)
Buying Power Effect
Byzantine Generals' Problem
C
CPU Affinity
Calendar Theta
Candlestick
Candlestick Chart
Centralized Exchange (CEX)
Chain Reorganization (Reorg)
Charm
Circulating Supply
Cold Storage
Color
Consensus Mechanism
Coverage Windows
Cross-Asset Construction
Cross-Asset Rates
Cross-Chain Bridge
Cross-Exchange Arbitrage
Cross-Rate Calculations
Crypto AI Bot
Crypto Delisting
Crypto ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund)
Crypto Exchange
Crypto Faucet
Crypto Open Interest
Crypto Options Data
Crypto Order Book
Crypto Trading Algorithm
Crypto Trading Bot
Crypto Wallet
Crypto data download
Crypto exchange rates
Crypto to fiat API
Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency API
Cryptocurrency Market Data
Currency Conversion
Currency Pair
Custody
cc0 NFT
D
Dark Pool Trading
Data Normalization
Data Points
Data Sampling Rates
Data Standardization
Dated Futures
DeFi (Decentralized Finance)
Death Cross
Decentralized Applications (dApps)
Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
Decision price
Deep In-the-Money (DITM)
Deep Out-of-the-Money (DOTM)
Degen
Delta
Delta Hedging
Delta Neutral
Delta Spread
Depth refill speed
Depth-at-levels
Depth-within-X bps (basis points)
Derivatives
Digital Assets
Digital Signature
Dusting Attack
Dynamic Odds
data_orderbook_start / data_orderbook_end
data_quote_start / data_quote_end
data_start / data_end
data_trade_start / data_trade_end
E
ERC-1155
ERC-20
ERC-404
ERC-721
Early Exercise Optimization
Endpoint
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
Escrow Service
Ethereum Mainnet
Ethereum Node
Event Contracts
Exchange Rates
Exchange link
Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)
Execution Access
Execution Management Systems (EMS)
Execution quality
Exercise Process
Expected Value
Expiration Date
Extrinsic Value
F
FIX API
Fallback Strategy
Fiat-Pegged Rewards
Fill Or Kill (FOK)
First-Order Delta
Flash Crash
Flash Loan
Flat Files
Free Float Market Capitalization
Full Node
Funding Rate
Fungible Token
Futures
G
GC Pressure
GameFi
Gamma
Gamma Exposure
Gamma Profile
Gamma Risk
Gamma Scalping
Gas Fees
Gasless Transactions
Genesis Block
Goblin Town
Golden Cross
Good Till Cancelled (GTC)
Good Till Time (GTT)
Governance Token
Graph-Based Approach
Greeks Surface
Greeks and Risk
Grid Trading
Gwei
H
Hard Fork
Hardware Security Module (HSM)
Hash Rate
Hey Hey Hey
High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
Historical Cryptocurrency Data
Historical Symbols
Historical Volatility (HV)
Hold On for Dear Life (HODL)
Hot Wallet
Hybrid Exchange
I
IO Threads
IV Percentile
IV Rank
IYKYK
Iceberg Orders
Immediate Or Cancel (IOC)
Impermanent Loss
Implementation shortfall
Implied Volatility (IV)
In-the-Money (ITM)
Index Calculation
Index-based fair value
Indexes
Instrument Type Filtering
Interest Rate Sensitivity
Interoperability Protocols
Intrinsic Value
id_site_coinapi
J
JSON-RPC
K
Kimchi Premium
L
Latency
Latency Arbitrage
Latency asymmetry
Latency-Optimized Data
Level 1 Data
Level 2 (L2) Crypto Data
Level 3 (L3) Crypto Data
Lightning Network
Limit Order
Liquidity
Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools (LBPs)
Liquidity Confidence
Liquidity Context
Liquidity Pool
Liquidity-Based Mechanics
Lookahead Bias
M
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
MCP Crypto
MEV Bot
Maker-or-Cancel
Margin Requirements
Margin Trading
Market Cap
Market Data
Market Data API
Market Data Engine
Market Data Feed
Market Depth
Market Maker
Market Order
Market Replay
Market States
Market-Driven Gameplay
Maximum Loss
Meme Coin
Mempool
Merkle Tree
MicroBitcoin (μBTC)
Mid-price
Miner Extractable Value (MEV)
Mining
Mining Contract
Mining Rig
Minor Greeks
Model Context Protocol MCP
Momentum Indicator
Money Printer Go Brrr
Mt. Gox
N
Narrative Trading
Native Token
Negative Rho
Negative Theta
Network Congestion
Network Effect
Node
Node Operator
Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
Nonce
Normalized Market Data
O
OHLCV
OHLCV Time Series
On-chain Data
One-Cancels-the-Other Order
Open Interest (OI)
Optimistic Machine Learning on Blockchain (opML)
Optimistic Rollup
Option Chain Structure
Options
Options Market
Order Book
Order Book Depth
Order Book Levels
Order Book Snapshot
Order Flow Toxicity
Order Imbalance
Order Matching Algorithms
Order Routing Strategies
Order Type
Out-of-the-Money (OTM)
Outliers
P
PFP (Profile Picture NFT)
Pagination
Partial fill probability
Pay-Per-Last N Shares (PPLNS)
Pay-Per-Share (PPS)
Peer-To-Peer Trading
Perpetual Futures
Phantom Symbols
Pin Risk
PoP (Point of Presence)
Point-in-time (PIT)
Point-in-time Universe Construction
Point-in-time universe (PIT universe)
Portfolio Management
Portfolio Tracking
Portfolio Valuation
Position Delta
Position Theta
Position Vega
Positioning
Positive Rho
Positive Theta
Post-Only Order
Post-trade drift
Prediction Markets
Premium
Price Averaging
Price Feed
Price Impact
Price Integrity
Price Lock
Price Snapshot
Principal Market Price (PRIMKT)
Private Key
Probability Data
Probability of Profit (PoP)
Proof of Reserves (PoR)
Proof of Stake (PoS)
Proof of Work (PoW)
Public Key
Put-Call Parity
Q
Quantum Resistance
Queue risk
Quorum
Quote Currency
Quote Data
Quote Stuffing
Quote stability (quote flicker)
Quotes
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REKT
REST API
Reactive Mechanics
Real-Time Cryptocurrency Data
Real-Time Data
Rebalancing Algorithms
Rebase Token
Redundancy
Reference Rate
Rehypothecation
Replay Attack
Reward Valuation Models
Rho Hedging
Risk Management
Risk Multiplier
Risk/Reward Ratio
Rolling 24-Hour Window
Rug Pull
S
S3 API
SIM Swapping
Satoshi
Satoshi Nakamoto
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Security Token
Sentiment Signals
Settlement
Sidechain
Simulation-Based Learning
Slippage
Slippage benchmarking
Smart Contract
Smart Order Routing (SOR)
Software Development Kit (SDK)
Spot-Only Filtering
Spread Data
Spread Logic
Spread normalization time
Stablecoin
Staking
Stale-quote risk
Statistical Arbitrage
Stochastic Oscillator
Stop Limit Order
Stop Order
Strike Clustering
Strike Price
Subnet
Survivorship bias
Symbol Mapping
Symbol Metadata
Symbol Naming
Synthetic Positions
symbol_type
T
TRC-20
TWAP (Time-Weighted Average Price)
Take-Profit Order
The Cryptocurrency Act of 2020
Theta
Theta Decay
Theta Ratio
Tick Conformance
Tick Size
Tick-by-Tick Data
Time Consistency
Time Value of Money
Time-In-Force
Time-to-fill
Timestamp
Token
Token Bridge
Token Economy
Token Standards
Token Vesting
Tokenization
Tokenomics
Total Return Index
Total Supply
Tradable universe
Trade Engine
Trade Execution
Trade Windows
Trades
Trading Pair
Trading Simulator
Trading Volume
Trailing-Stop-Order
Transaction
Transaction Fees
Trend Analysis
Trend Calculations
time_exchange vs time_coinapi
U
Underlying Asset
Universe construction
Utility Token
V
VWAP-24H
Validator Node
Variable Buy/Sell Tax
Vega
Vega Convexity
Vega Hedging
Vega Profile
Vega Risk
Vega-Weighted Portfolio
Venue fragmentation
Virtual Automated Market Maker (vAMM)
Volatility
Volatility Skew
Volatility Spike
Volatility Surface
Volatility Systems
Volatility Term Structure
Volume Calculation
Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP)
Vomma
W
Wallet Address
Web3
WebSocket API
WebSocket Backpressure
Webhooks
Wei
Weighting
Whale
When Lambo
When Moon
Whitelist
Wormhole Bridge
Wrapped Token
X
XRP Ledger (XRPL)
xDai Chain
Y
Yield Aggregator
Yield Curve
Yield Farming
Yield Optimizer
Z
Zero Gamma
Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning (zkML)
Zero-Knowledge Oracle (zkOracle)
Zero-Knowledge Proof
Zero-Knowledge Rollup (zk-Rollup)
Zomma