Glossary
Crypto slang, explained for humans.
- Memecoin
- A token driven by community and memes rather than a product. Very volatile.
- Rug pull
- The developer removes the liquidity or dumps the supply, and the price crashes to zero.
- Honeypot
- A token you can buy but never sell.
- Liquidity (LP)
- The money in the trading pool. Without it, you cannot sell.
- Market cap
- Price × circulating supply. The 'size' of the token.
- Whale
- A wallet holding a large amount of a token.
- Sniper
- A trader (or bot) buying in the first seconds after launch.
- Pump / dump
- A sharp rise / a sharp fall of the price.
- TP / SL
- Take profit: where you sell with a gain. Stop loss: where you sell to limit a loss.
- Renounced
- The developer gave up control of the contract.
- Deployer
- The wallet that created the token.
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