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Below is a glossary of terms a developer may encounter when developing a zero trust application on a distributed ledger sorted by topic. Note that some redundancy exists between term definitions to provide additional context. “See also” sections include terms listed in order of relevance.
DLT
- account
- balance
- beacon chain
- blockchain
- block
- block explorer
- bonding curve
- byzantine fault tolerance
- canary network
- cefi
- consensus
- DAG
- DAO
- dApp
- data token
- decentralized
- defi
- desci
- deso
- DEX
- digital asset
- distributed ledger
- enshrined
- epoch
- EVM
- forking
- governance
- hashrate
- liquidity
- mainnet
- mempool
- MEV
- nakamoto consensus
- NFT
- on-chain vs off-chain
- oracle
- proof of elapsed time
- proof of space and time
- proof of stake
- proof of work
- quadratic voting
- raft
- re-entrancy attack
- receipt
- relay network
- sequencer
- side-chain
- smart contract
- SSI
- stake
- state channel
- state-proving network
- sybil resistance
- testnet
- token
- token contract
- transaction
- UTXO
- validator
- wallet
- yield
Cryptography
- cryptography
- diffe-helman key exchange
- elliptic curve
- erasure coding
- fraud proof
- halo proof
- hash
- homomorphic encryption
- keypair
- lattice cryptography
- merkle tree
- MPC
- multisig
- patricia tree
- PKI
- PLONK
- proof
- pseudononymous
- rollup
- signature
- SNARK
- STARK
- threshold signatures
- trustless
- validium
- volition
- zero trust
- zero-knowledge
- zk circuit
- zkVM
SWE
- ABI
- address
- API
- assembly
- asynchronous vs synchronous
- automata
- bytecode
- client
- compression
- CPUs and GPUs
- data availability
- design pattern
- deterministic vs probablistic
- functional programming
- gossip
- indexing
- IPFS
- logical clock
- mapping
- markov chain
- microservice
- node
- nonce
- object oriented programming
- peer
- protocol
- recurvise
- referential transparency
- resource
- RPC
- sharding
- state
- state machine
- turing-complete
- URI
- virtual machine
Table of contents
- ABI
- API
- Account
- Address
- Assembly
- Asynchronous vs Synchronous
- Automata
- Balance
- Beacon Chain
- Block
- Block Explorer
- Blockchain
- Bonding Curve
- Bytecode
- Byzantine Fault Tolerance
- Canary Network
- CeFi
- Client
- Compression
- Consensus
- Cryptography
- DAG
- DAO
- DEX
- Data Availability
- Data Token
- DeFi
- DeSci
- DeSo
- Decentralized
- Design Pattern
- Deterministic vs Probabilistic
- Diffe-Helman Key Exchange
- Digital Asset
- Distributed Ledger
- EVM
- Elliptic Curve
- Enshrine
- Epoch
- Erasure Coding
- Forking
- Fraud Proof
- Functional Programming
- Gossip
- Governance
- Halo Proof
- Hash
- Hashrate
- Homomorphic Encryption
- IPFS
- Indexing
- Keypair
- Lattice Cryptography
- Liquidity
- Logical Clock
- MEV
- MPC
- Mainnet
- Mapping
- Markov Chain
- Mempool
- Merkle Tree
- Microservice
- Multisig
- NFT
- Nakamoto Consensus
- Node
- Nonce
- Object-Oriented Programming
- On-chain vs Off-chain
- Oracle
- PKI
- PLONK
- Patricia Tree
- Peer
- Probablistic
- Proof
- Proof of Elapsed Time
- Proof of Space and Time
- Proof of Stake
- Proof of Work
- Protocol
- Pseudononymous
- Quadratic Voting
- RPC
- Raft
- Re-Entrancy Attack
- Receipt
- Recursive
- Referrential Transparency Definition
- Relay Network
- Resource
- Rollup
- SNARK
- SSI
- STARK
- Sequencer
- Sharding
- Side-chain
- Signature
- Smart Contract
- Stake
- State
- State Channel
- State Machine
- State-Proving Network
- Sybil Resistance
- Testnet
- Threshold Signatures
- Token
- Token Contract
- Transaction
- Trustless
- Turing-Complete
- URI
- UTXO
- Validator
- Validium
- Virtual Machine
- Volition
- WASM
- Wallet
- Yield
- ZK Circuit
- Zero Trust
- Zero-Knowledge
- zkVM