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Crypto Glossary
961 crypto, Web3, and DeFi terms: plain-English definitions from the Block Insider editorial desks.
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- Mainchain
- Mainnet
- Mainnet Swap
- Maker
- Maker Protocol (MakerDAO)
- Malware
- Margin Call
- Margin Trading
- Market Balances
- Market Capitalization
- Market Capitalization/Market Cap/MCAP
- Market Maker, Market Taker
- Market Making as a Service (MMaaS)
- Market Momentum
- Market Order
- Market Signal
- Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA)
- Marlowe
- Masternode
- Masternodes
- Matching Engine
- Max Supply
- Maximal Extractable Value (MEV)
- Maximum Supply
- Medium of Exchange
- Megahashes Per Second
- Meme Economy
- Memecoin
- Mempool
- Mercenary Capital
- Merged Mining
- MetaMask
- Metatransaction
- Metaverse
- Metaverse-as-a-Service (MaaS)
- Metcalfe’s Law
- MicroBitcoin (uBTC)
- Micropayment
- Microtransaction
- MilliBitcoin
- Mineable
- Miners
- Minimum Collateralization Ratio (MCR)
- Mining
- Mining Algorithm
- Mining Contract
- Mining Difficulty
- Mining Farm
- Mining Pool
- Mining Reward
- Mining Rewards
- Mining Rig
- Mining as a Service (MaaS)
- Minnow
- Minting
- Mnemonic Phrase
- Mnemonics
- Mobile Wallet
- Moloch DAO
- Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
- Money Laundering
- Money Transfer License
- Money Transmitter
- Moon
- Motoko Programming Language (DFINITY)
- Move (Programming Language)
- Move-to-Earn
- Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD)
- Multi-Chain
- Multi-Coin Wallet
- Multi-Party Computation
- Multi-Party Computation as-a-Service
- Multi-Signature (Multi-Sig)
- Multisignature
- Mutual Credit Line
- My Story (VeChain)