Glossary
Algorithmic Stablecoins are variants of cryptocurrency that aim to improve price stability without having to back by reserve assets. These are instead based on an algorithm or a set of rules made to balance the supply and demand of the coin.
APR
Annual Percentage Rate. The annual rate of return that your capital will gain in a year.
APY
Annual Percentage Yield. The annual rate of return that your capital will gain taking into consideration compounding.
Asset
Refers to anything with economic value.
Autocompounder
An autocompounder is a protocol where you can stake your tokens or liquidity pairs and earn interest which you will see as APYβ
Blockchain
The technology running in the background of cryptocurrencies that keeps everything decentralized. It is a digital form of record keeping.
Boardroom
The boardroom is a mechanism to lock your share token up for a certain amount of epochs and in return (granted the TWAP is above 1.01) you are given a percentage of the peg token inflation each epoch. It is, in simple terms, a locked single stake of the share token asset with a few parameters.
Centralized
It is a structure that has one governing body that regulates and oversees all orders.
CEX
βCentralized Exchange such as Binance, KuCoin, Coinbase
Coin (Crypto)
The native/base coin of the blockchain
Compounding
It is the process of reinvesting your earnings in order to generate even bigger earnings.
Cryptocurrency
Combination of cryptography and currency: A digital currency secured by advanced mathematical algorithms.
Cryptography
It is the study of secure communication techniques that allows only the sender and intended recipient of a message to view its contents.
Currency
A medium of exchange
Daily APR
Annual Percentage Rate divided by 365 days
DAO
Decentralized Autonomous Organization. An automated and decentralized organization that needs no leadership team or board of directors to make decisions and enact policies. The community votes are weighted based on the number of tokens they carry.
Decentralized
The opposite of centralized -- this structure allows peer-to-peer orders, people dealing with each other directly, instead of having orders regulated by a single governing body.
Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
DeFi is a financial technology that uses blockchains to provide secure distributed ledgers. It removes the control of banks or other institutions on money and financial services.
Deflationary Token
A token goes into a deflationary phase and becomes a deflationary token when no new supply can be minted anymore as it hits its maximum supply.
Demand
This refers to the desire or willingness of a person to pay for a specific good or service
Depreciate
Decrease in value.
DYOR
Do Your Own Research
Epoch
Refers to a period of time. For Raging Bull an EPOCH is set for every 6 hours.
Fiat
Fiat money is a government-issued currency (ex: GBP, USD, EUR, etc).
Fork
A fork happens whenever a community makes a change to the blockchainβs protocol or basic set of rules. When this happens, the chain splits β producing a second blockchain that shares all of its history with the original, but is headed off in a new direction.
Gas Fees
Fees we pay for every transaction on the blockchain. In $WLRS or $WSHARE it is paid in AVAX.
Golden Goose
The term "Golden Goose" is based on a literary fable that tells the tale of a goose laying golden eggs. It refers to a person, thing, or organization that is or has the potential to earn a lot of money for a long period of time.
Impermanent Loss
Impermanent loss happens when the price of your tokens changes compared to when you deposited them in the pool.See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m6Mowq3Ptkβ
Ledger
A record-keeping system used to record information available for public use.
Liquidity
The ease of buying and selling the tokens. The higher the volume, meaning more funds are being traded, the higher the liquidity
Liquidity Pool (LP)
A liquidity pool can be thought of as a pot of cryptocurrency βassets locked within a smart contract, which can be used for exchanges, loans, and other applications.Please refer to this guide for a better explanation.
Minting
The process of creating new supply of tokens (also known as βprinting moneyβ) through smart contracts.
Network
A network is a bunch of projects or protocols within a coin or token like Fantom. These provide both liquidity and uses(use cases) for the tokens in the network, and for the main token as well.
NFA
Not Financial Advice
Open-source
Refers to something people can modify and share because its design is publicly accessible.
Peg
The value we aim for and in the case of this protocol, itβs 1.01 USDC.e or more per $WLRS.
Printing
See "Minting".
Protocol
A protocol consists of basic sets of rules that allow data to be shared between computers
Protocol Owned Liquidity (POL)
Any LP or native tokens that the DAO fund controls, making for a healthier protocol as it backs itself.
Proof-of-Work
This is used widely in cryptocurrency in order to validate transactions. It requires members of the network put in the effort to solve a difficult mathematical problem to prevent hacks in the system.
Proof-of-Stake
Created as an alternative for the Proof-of-Work that allows cryptocurrency owners to validate transactions based on the number of coins a validator stakes.
Pump and Dump
Pump and dump is a manipulation scheme that individuals or an entity will accumulate the buying of an asset and artificially inflate the price and once the price is increased (pumping) they will start selling it off (dumping).
Rug Pull
A scam. It usually happens when crypto or virtual asset project developers manipulate a token's perceived worth and then abandon the project while taking investor funds with them.
Smart Contracts
It is a self-executing contract with the terms of the agreement between buyer and seller being directly written into lines of code
Stablecoin
This is a variant of cryptocurrencies that attempt to offer price stability and are backed by a reserve asset.
Stake / Staking
The process of locking in your tokens into the protocol in exchange for rewards.
Supply
It is the total amount of a specific good or service that is available for the people.
Token
This refers to forms of currency and other valuable tools that are developed on a blockchain that theyβre not native to ($WLRS is a token while $AVAX is the coin).
TVL
Total Value Locked or the total amount in USD invested in the project.
TWAP
Time-Weighted Average Price.
Use Cases / Utility
Real-world use for a token.
Volatility
It is the measure of how much the price of an asset fluctuates over a period of time.
Wallet (Crypto)
A crypto wallet stores your private keys(your unique identifier usually generated by the computer) to be able to access your assets and make transactions on the blockchain.
Yield Farming / Farming
More than just holding your tokens and waiting for them to appreciate, yield farming involves staking or pairing and getting rewards
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