Stablecoin — Token designed to maintain a stable value (pegged to USD or other assets).



Utility Token — Token that grants access or functions within a platform/protocol.

Governance Token — Token that grants voting rights in protocol or DAO decisions.

Security Token — Token representing ownership of traditional assets or economic claims.

Circulating Supply — The number of tokens currently in circulation and tradable.

Total Supply — The total number of tokens created, including locked ones.

Max Supply — The maximum number of tokens that can be created (if applicable).

Inflation Rate — The rate at which the token supply increases over time.

Token Burn — The removal of tokens from circulation to reduce supply.

Minting — The process of creating new tokens.

Vesting — A phased token release scheme for team/early investors.

Airdrop — Free token distribution to the community for marketing or decentralization of ownership.

Initial Coin Offering (ICO) / IDO / IEO — Early project funding method by selling tokens.

C. Trading, Markets & Orders
Market Cap (Market Capitalization) — Token price × circulating supply; measures market value.

Volume — Total trading amount (value or units) over a specific period.

Liquidity (Liquidity) — Ease of buying/selling assets without significantly affecting the price.

Order Book — List of bid (buy) and ask (sell) orders on an exchange.

Bid Price — Highest price a buyer is willing to pay.

Ask Price — Lowest price a seller is willing to accept.

Spread — Difference between bid and ask; liquidity indicator.

Limit Order — Order to buy/sell at a specific or better price.

Market Order — Order executed immediately at the current market price.

Stop-Loss — Automatic order to stop losses at a certain level.

Take Profit (TP) — Automatic order to close position when profit target is reached.

Futures / Derivatives — Contracts to buy/sell assets in the future, usually with leverage.

Leverage — Borrowed capital to amplify trading exposure.

Margin — Funds required to open a leveraged position.

Liquidation — Forced closing of a position when margin is insufficient.

Spot Market — Market for real-time asset transactions without leverage.
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