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Adoption curve
The adoption curve describes how a new technology spreads: first a few pioneers, then a broad majority, finally the laggards, in the shape of an S.
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Airdrop
An airdrop is the free distribution of tokens to existing users of a network or application, usually as a reward for early use or to spread the tokens.
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Halving
The halving is the pre-programmed halving of the amount of new bitcoin miners receive per block; it takes place roughly every four years.
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HODL
HODL is crypto slang for "hold long term no matter how much the price swings"; it originated from a typo of "hold" in a forum post in 2013.
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Institutional adoption
Institutional adoption refers to the entry of banks, asset managers, insurers and pension funds into digital assets and blockchain infrastructure.
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Liquidity
Liquidity describes how easily an asset can be bought or sold without noticeably moving the price.
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Market capitalisation
Market capitalisation is the total value of all circulating units of a cryptocurrency: price times circulating supply.
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Market cycle (bull and bear market)
Crypto markets move in pronounced cycles: phases of strong gains ("bull market") alternate with long declines ("bear market" or "crypto winter").
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Narrative
A narrative is the story through which the market gives a topic meaning; capital often follows narratives before the fundamentals become visible.
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On-chain data
On-chain data is the publicly visible information from the blockchain itself: transactions, balances, activity, from which the behaviour of market participants can be read.
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Rug pull & fraud patterns
A rug pull is a fraud in which a project's initiators collect investor money and then disappear; it is the most common fraud pattern among small tokens.
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Volatility
Volatility measures how strongly a price fluctuates; for cryptocurrencies it is many times higher than for shares or bonds.
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