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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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- SHO (Strong Holder Offering)
- SIM-Swap
- SPL
- Sandwich Trading
- Satoshi (SATS)
- Satoshi Nakamoto
- Scaling Problem
- Scaling Solution
- Scamcoin
- Scholarship/Scholar
- Scrypt
- Second-Layer Solutions
- Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU)
- Secure Element
- Secure Multi-Party Computation (sMPC)
- Secure Proof of Stake (SPoS)
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Security Audit
- Security Token
- Security Token Offering
- Seed Phrase
- Segregated Witness (SegWit)
- Selfish Mining
- Sell Wall
- Settlement
- Settlement Layer
- Shanghai Upgrade
- Shard Chain
- Sharding
- Sharpe Ratio
- Shelley Phase
- Shiba Inu Token (SHIB)
- Shielded Address
- Shielded Transaction
- Shilling
- Shitcoin
- Short
- Short Squeeze
- Side Channel Attack
- Sidechain
- Sidechains
- Silk Road
- Simple Agreement for Future Token (SAFT)
- Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP)
- Simplified Payment Verification (SPV)
- Slashing
- Slippage
- Slot (Cardano)
- Smart Contract
- Smart Contract Audit
- Smart Token
- Smart Treasury (Balancer)
- Social Engineering
- Social Recovery Wallet
- Social Trading
- SocialFi
- Soft Cap
- Soft Fork (Blockchain)
- Soft Peg
- Software Wallet
- Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)
- Solidity
- Spear Phishing
- Spoon (Blockchain)
- Spot Trading
- Spyware
- Stablecoin
- Stacking Sats
- Staking
- Staking Pool
- Stale Block
- State Channel
- Stochastic Oscillator
- Storage (Decentralized)
- Storage Miners
- Storage Node
- Store of Value
- Stroop
- Subgraph Manifest
- Substrate
- Succinct Proofs of Random Access (SPoRA)
- Supercomputer
- Supercycle
- Support Level
- Surge (Ethereum)
- Swarm
- Sybil Attack
- Symbol
- Symmetric Key Cryptography
- Synthetic Asset