Words starting with D
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DAO
A decentralized autonomous organization: a group coordinating decisions and resources through defined rules, often using blockchain contracts.
Dapp
A decentralized application with important backend logic or state running on a decentralized network.
Data availability
The ability to obtain the data needed to verify or reconstruct a blockchain system's state.
Decentralized exchange
An exchange whose trading execution or settlement relies on blockchain protocols.
DeFi
Decentralized finance: financial applications that use blockchain protocols and smart contracts.
Degen
A crypto risk-taker who dives into speculative trades, often with more enthusiasm than research.
Delegatecall
An EVM call that runs another contract’s code using the calling contract’s storage and context.
Depeg
A significant move away from an asset's intended reference price, such as a stablecoin's dollar target.
Derivation path
A sequence of indexes that identifies a key within a hierarchical wallet's key tree.
Diamond hands
Holding through big price swings and pressure to sell, described in crypto chat as having an unshakable grip.
Digital signature
Cryptographic evidence that a message was authorized by the key corresponding to a verifying public key.
Double spending
An attempt to spend the same digital funds in two conflicting payments.
DYOR
Do your own research: check the claims yourself instead of taking a stranger's hype as the whole story.
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