October 19, 2026 Daily pick
A liquidity position’s value shortfall compared with holding the deposited assets, caused by changing relative prices.
IN THE WILD Your LP position earned fees, but after one token rose sharply you calculate that holding the original tokens would have been worth more. By Crypto Dictionary · Published Oct 9, 2026
October 19, 2026 Added to the dictionary
A Solana transaction message marked with a format version so clients can interpret its structure correctly.
IN THE WILD An older indexer cannot read a transaction until it supports that message version. By Crypto Dictionary · Published Oct 19, 2026
October 18, 2026 Daily pick
The unit Ethereum uses to measure the computation and other resources a transaction consumes.
IN THE WILD Your swap reverts because the price moved, but the wallet still shows a network fee for the attempted transaction . By Crypto Dictionary · Published Oct 9, 2026
October 17, 2026 Daily pick
A scam where project controllers use their position to take value from users after attracting funds.
IN THE WILD Project chat goes quiet, and the operator removes liquidity they alone controlled after promoting the sale; holders are left without normal trading access. By Crypto Dictionary · Published Oct 9, 2026
October 17, 2026 Added to the dictionary
A Bitcoin block-relay format that sends short transaction identifiers so peers can reconstruct a block with less data.
IN THE WILD Your node reconstructs a new compact block from local transactions and fetches the few it is missing. By Crypto Dictionary · Published Oct 17, 2026
A cryptographic commitment that hides a value using a blinding factor while binding the committer to that value.
IN THE WILD A confidential transaction commits to amounts and proves that the committed inputs and outputs balance. By Crypto Dictionary · Published Oct 17, 2026
October 16, 2026 Daily pick
Wrecked: crypto slang for taking a brutal loss or having a trade go badly wrong.
IN THE WILD I cranked up the leverage and got rekt by a move the spot chart barely noticed. By Crypto Dictionary · Published Oct 9, 2026
October 16, 2026 Added to the dictionary
The execution resource limits requested for a Solana transaction , including its compute-unit allowance .
IN THE WILD Your wallet raises the compute limit after simulation shows the swap needs more execution work. By Crypto Dictionary · Published Oct 16, 2026
October 15, 2026 Daily pick
Not gonna make it: a skeptical reply, a put-down or a joke about your own bad crypto decision.
IN THE WILD I spent twenty minutes refreshing the wrong block explorer . NGMI, apparently. By Crypto Dictionary · Published Oct 9, 2026
October 15, 2026 Added to the dictionary
Reporting a vulnerability through a process that gives maintainers a chance to address it before public release.
IN THE WILD A researcher privately sends reproduction details to the project and coordinates publication after the fix is available. By Crypto Dictionary · Published Oct 15, 2026