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Staking
Locking coins to help secure a network in exchange for a reward. It resembles interest but carries network and price risk.
Category: BlockchainRelated terms
DeFi
Decentralized finance: lending, swaps and yield via smart contracts, with no bank in the middle. It all runs on-chain and is publicly verifiable.
Tokenomics
A token's economics: how many exist, how they are issued, who holds them and how they are burned or unlocked. It sets a project's supply and incentives.