Crypto & DeFi Glossary

Plain-language definitions for the terms you'll encounter when using volume bots and trading on decentralized exchanges.

DeFi

A smart contract containing paired tokens that enables decentralized trading on AMMs.

A DEX model using liquidity pools and mathematical formulas instead of order books.

The total amount of assets deposited in a DeFi protocol's smart contracts.

An AMM model where liquidity providers focus their capital in specific price ranges for higher efficiency.

The difference between expected and actual trade price due to price movement during execution.

An entity providing liquidity by placing buy and sell orders to maintain market depth.

A multi-chain DEX analytics platform that tracks trading pairs, volume, and price charts.

A DeFi analytics platform providing real-time charts, hot pairs, and trading data.

An automated tool that generates trading volume for tokens on decentralized exchanges.

Profit validators can extract by reordering, inserting, or censoring transactions in a block.

An MEV attack where a bot front-runs and back-runs a target trade to extract profit from slippage.

The transaction fee paid to blockchain validators for processing on-chain transactions.

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