Abenomics: Imagine Japan’s economy as a sluggish runner. Abenomics is like a three-pronged training plan to get it back in shape: 1) Printing more money (monetary policy), 2) Spending more on things like infrastructure (fiscal stimulus), and 3) Making the economy more flexible (structural reforms).
Abnormal return: It’s like finding a hidden treasure! This means your investment made more money than it normally should, compared to others, in a certain timeframe.
Absolute advantage: Think of a company that can bake the best cookies with less dough than anyone else. That’s absolute advantage – they can do it cheaper and better!
Absolute return: This is just the total amount of money you make (or lose) on your investment, no matter how good or bad the market is doing.
Abstract: It’s something you can’t touch, but you can imagine it. Like a painting of a tree, the tree itself is abstract, but the idea of it is clear.
Abstraction scalability: Imagine building blocks for computer programs. Abstraction scalability means you can easily use these blocks to build bigger and better programs without getting stuck with tiny details.
Accepting risk: Sometimes, instead of trying to avoid everything bad that might happen, a company decides it’s okay to deal with some risks if they come up. It’s like saying, “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.”
Account: Think of it as a box that keeps track of all the money coming in and going out for something specific, like your savings or your phone bill.
Account abstraction: This makes using blockchain technology easier, kind of like hiding the complicated parts behind a user-friendly interface.
Account balance: This is how much money you have right now in your account, ready to spend.
Account number: It’s like a unique code that tells everyone it’s your account and no one else’s.
Accountability: You did something, and now you have to answer for it, good or bad.
Accounting conservatism: When things are uncertain, it’s better to be safe than sorry. This means counting all the bad things that might happen right away, even if they haven’t happened yet.
Accounting method: It’s like a set of rules that tells a company when and how to record how much money they make and spend.
Accounting tokens: Imagine a spreadsheet where you track your finances. Each entry (like a debt or payment) can be a token on a blockchain instead. These tokens just show how much you owe or are owed.
Accredited investor: Think of them as VIPs in the investment world. They have more money and experience, so they can invest in riskier things that others can’t.
Accretion (of a Discount): Imagine buying a coupon for $10 that’s actually worth $20. As you get closer to using it, the value of the difference ($10) gradually increases until you use it.
Accrual accounting: This is like tracking your allowance. You write down how much you “earned” (even if you haven’t gotten the money yet) and how much you “spent” (even if you haven’t paid yet).
Accrue: It’s like the snowball effect of money growing over time. It can be interest you earn, income you haven’t received yet, or even expenses you haven’t paid yet.
Accrued Income: You worked for something, but haven’t gotten paid yet. That’s accrued income! Like your salary before payday.
Accrued Interest: Imagine borrowing money and the interest keeps adding up even though you haven’t paid it back yet. That’s accrued interest. It’s like a debt that keeps growing.
Accrued liabilities: These are bills you haven’t paid yet, like the electricity bill you haven’t received.
Accrued revenue: Imagine selling lemonade but not collecting the money yet. The amount you’re owed is “accrued revenue.”
Accumulation phase: After a stock price goes down, big investors slowly start buying again, like collecting pieces to build something bigger. This can signal a future price increase.
Accumulation/distribution indicator: This is a fancy way of saying “how much are people buying or selling this stuff?” It looks at the price and how much is being traded to guess if there’s more buying or selling going on.
Acid Test Ratio: Imagine a company like a person with bills to pay. This ratio helps us see how easily they can pay their short-term bills with their most valuable assets (like cash and investments).
Acquisition: When one company buys another company, usually by buying most of its shares.
Acquisition Cost: The total price paid for a company, including everything from the purchase price to any extra fees or discounts.
Acquisition Premium: Paying more for a company than its market value, kind of like paying extra for a rare item.
Active Management: Someone (or a team) actively choosing investments for a portfolio, instead of just following a set plan.
Activist Investor: Someone who buys a lot of shares in a company to try to change how it’s run.
Adam Back: A famous expert in cryptography and cryptocurrency.
Adaptive State Sharding: A way to make a blockchain faster and more efficient by breaking it down into smaller pieces, kind of like dividing up work among a team.
Address: Like a mailbox but for cryptocurrency, it’s a string of letters and numbers where you can send and receive crypto.
Administrative Expenses: The costs of running a company, like paying salaries, rent, and other fees.
Adoption Curve: How quickly something new, like a new technology, becomes popular.
Advance/Decline Line (A/D Line): A tool to see if more stocks are going up or down in a market.
Aeternity Blockchain: A special type of blockchain that uses two different ways to make sure everything is secure and accurate.
Affiliate: Two companies connected in some way, like one owning a small part of the other.
Affiliate Marketing: Promoting someone else’s products or services for a commission, kind of like getting paid to be a salesperson.
Agency Problem: Imagine you hire someone (agent) to do something for you (principal), but they do it for their own benefit instead of yours. That’s the agency problem!
Agency Theory: This theory helps set up these relationships to avoid fights and problems between the hired person (agent) and the one hiring them (principal).
Agent: Think of an agent like someone who can legally act on behalf of a company (principal), like signing contracts.
Aggregate Demand: It’s the total amount everyone in an economy wants to buy of all the goods and services produced there.
Aggressive Investment Strategy: This is like taking a big risk with your money to try and make a lot of profit, but it’s also more likely you’ll lose money.
AI Coins: These are special cryptocurrencies designed to make things easier and safer for people using Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Air Gap: Imagine a safe physical separation between data, like a big air gap, to keep it safe from hackers.
Airdrop: Free crypto or tokens given away to people as a marketing campaign.
Airnode: This helps connect different systems and information using blockchain technology.
Alan Greenspan: He was the important boss of the US bank (Federal Reserve) for a long time (1987-2006).
Algo-Trading (Algorithmic Trading): Computers use special programs to automatically buy and sell things based on set rules.
Algorithm: Like a recipe or set of instructions a computer follows to solve problems or do calculations.
Algorithmic Market Operations (AMOs): These are like automatic systems that control special cryptocurrencies (algorithmic stablecoins) to make them work better.
Algorithmic Stablecoin: This type of cryptocurrency uses special programs to try and keep its value stable, even when the market goes up and down.
All Risks Coverage: This is like an insurance policy that covers almost everything, unless it’s specifically excluded.
All-Time-High (ATH): This is the highest price a cryptocurrency has ever been sold for.
All-Time-Low (ATL): This is the lowest price a cryptocurrency has ever been sold for.
Allocated Gold: This means you own real gold bars that are stored safely for you by someone else.
Allocation: This is giving out a certain amount of something, like money or shares, to specific people or groups.
Allocation Efficiency: This means using resources in the best way possible for a company or organization.
Allotment: This is giving out something, like money or supplies, to different people or groups over time.
Alpha: This is a fancy way of saying how well an investment is doing compared to others in the same market.
Alpha Version: This is an early version of a software program that people can try out and give feedback on.
Alphanumeric: This means something uses both letters and numbers, like your password.
Altcoin: Any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin.
Altcoin Trader: Someone who buys and sells altcoins.
Alternative Investments: These are investments that are not stocks or bonds, and they can help you make money in different ways.
Amalgamation: This is when two companies join together to become one bigger company.
Amazon S3: This is a big online storage space where you can keep your files and access them from anywhere.
Amended Return: This is a new tax return you file to fix mistakes in your old one.
AMLD5: Imagine the European Union has rules against money laundering (like hiding bad money to make it look good). AMLD5 is basically an update to those rules for the digital age.
Anarcho-capitalism: This is an idea where people believe everything should be bought and sold freely, with no government to tell them what to do. It’s kind of like the Wild West, but with money instead of guns.
Anchoring and Adjustment: Imagine you see a shirt for $100, but then you remember a similar one you saw for $50. Now you think the $100 one is too expensive, even though you might not have cared if you hadn’t seen the cheaper one first. That’s anchoring and adjustment!
aNFT (Autonomous NFT): Imagine a special kind of digital artwork that can act on its own, like buying or selling itself depending on certain conditions.
Angel Investor: A rich person who gives money to new businesses to help them get started.
Animal Spirits: These are the emotional ups and downs that can affect the economy, like people feeling confident and spending more, or scared and saving more.
Annual Percentage Rate (APR): This is the interest you pay on a loan each year, like the fee you pay to borrow money.
Annual Percentage Yield (APY): This is how much your investment grows each year, including the interest you earn on the interest you’ve already earned.
Annual Report: Like a big report card for a company, telling everyone how they did financially last year and what they plan for the future.
Annualized Rate of Return: This is a fancy way of saying how much your investment has grown over a certain period of time, like a year.
Anonymous: When nobody knows who you are.
Anti-dump/Anti-Dumping Policy: Imagine someone buys a bunch of something, makes the price go up, then sells it all for a big profit, leaving everyone else stuck with something worthless. This policy tries to stop that from happening with cryptocurrencies.
Anti-Fragile: Imagine something that gets stronger when it’s under pressure, like a muscle that grows when you exercise it. That’s anti-fragile!
Anti-Malware: Like a shield for your computer that protects it from bad software.
Anti-Money Laundering (AML): Stopping criminals from turning dirty money into clean money, like using cryptocurrencies to hide their illegal activities.
Antitrust Law: Laws that prevent big companies from getting too powerful and controlling everything.
Antivirus: Like medicine for your computer, protecting it from viruses and other harmful software.
Antpool: A giant group of people who all work together to solve puzzles on the Bitcoin network and earn rewards.
Apeing: Buying something new and exciting without thinking about it first, like jumping on a bandwagon without knowing where it’s going.
API: Imagine a special set of instructions that lets different computer programs talk to each other and share information.
Application Layer: The top floor of a building for computer programs, where they do their main job.
AR Token (Arweave): The special money used in a system for storing information forever.
Arbitrage: Buying something cheap in one place and selling it for more somewhere else, like finding a discount and then reselling the item for a profit.
Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT): A fancy way of figuring out if something is priced fairly in the market.
Arbitrageur: Someone who finds these price differences and makes money off of them.
Arm Virtual Machine (Qtum): Imagine a special computer inside Qtum that lets people run programs without needing a central boss. Like a community garden where everyone can plant their own stuff.
Aroon Indicator: This tool helps traders see if a price is going up or down strongly, and if it might change direction soon. Like a flag that tells you if the wind is blowing hard and might shift.
Ascending Channel: When a price keeps going up and bounces between two lines, that’s an ascending channel. Imagine a price climbing a staircase, not just going straight up.
Ashdraked: This is when a trader loses all their money, especially by betting that Bitcoin will go down (shorting). Like getting wiped out in a game, but with real money.
ASIC: A special machine built just for mining cryptocurrency, like a super powerful shovel for digging digital gold.
ASIC-Resistant: Some cryptocurrencies are designed to be fair, so even normal computers can mine them, not just fancy ASIC machines. Like making sure everyone gets a shovel, not just the one with the biggest one.
Ask Price: The lowest price someone is willing to sell something for. Like the price tag in a store, but for digital stuff.
Asset: Something valuable that someone owns, like a car, house, or even digital things like cryptocurrency.
Asset Class: A group of similar assets, like all the cars in the world, or all the cryptocurrency in the world.
Asset Financing: Borrowing money to buy something valuable, like getting a loan for a car.
Asset Swap: Trading one valuable thing for another, like swapping your car for a boat.
Asset-Backed Tokens: Digital certificates that represent ownership of something real, like a token that stands for a share of a gold bar.
Asset-Based Approach: Valuing a company based on how much stuff it owns, like judging a person’s wealth by how many cars they have.
Asset-Based Lending: Getting a loan based on the value of your stuff, like using your car as collateral for a loan.
Assets Under Management (AUM): The total amount of money that someone is managing for other people, like how much gold a bank holds for its customers.
Astroturfing: Pretending to be a real person online to promote something, like wearing a fake grass hat and saying you love grass even though you don’t.
Asynchronous: Things happening at different times or speeds, like messages arriving one after another instead of all at once.
Atomic Swap: Trading crypto directly between two people, without needing a middleman like an exchange. It’s like exchanging items directly without anyone else involved.
AtomicDEX: A wallet and exchange for cryptocurrencies all in one app, available on different devices. Think of it like a combined crypto bank and marketplace.
Attestation Ledger: A special record book that proves individual transactions happened, like a receipt for everything you buy or do online.
Auction: Selling something to the person who offers the highest price, like bidding on eBay.
Audit: Checking the code and systems behind something, like making sure a company’s finances are accurate.
Auditor: Someone who does audits, like a financial inspector.
Augmented Reality (AR): Adding computer-generated information to the real world you see, like seeing virtual objects through your phone camera. Imagine playing Pokemon Go, but with anything!
Authentication: Making sure someone is who they say they are before giving them access to something, like using a password or fingerprint to unlock your phone.
Authority Masternode (VeChain): A special computer that helps run the VeChain network, like a powerful server that keeps things going smoothly.
Automated Market Maker (AMM): A system that automatically buys and sells cryptocurrencies to keep prices stable, like a robot trader that helps the market balance itself.
Autonomous Economic Agent (AEA): A computer program that can act on its own to make money for its owner, like a smart assistant that buys and sells things for you.
Average Annual Growth Rate (AAGR): How much something grows in value each year on average, like how much your savings account increases over time.
Average Annual Return (AAR): The average percentage you earn on an investment each year, like the interest you get on your savings.
Average Daily Trading Volume (ADTV): How much of something is bought and sold each day on average, like how many shares of a stock change hands daily.
Average Directional Index (ADX): A tool to measure how strong a trend is in a market, like checking if prices are likely to keep going up or down.
Average Return: The typical amount you earn on an investment over a certain period, like the average grade you get on your exams.
Average Selling Price (ASP): The typical price something is sold for, like the average cost of a house in your neighborhood.