Phishing
When a scammer pretends to be a trusted institution or person to trick people into revealing sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, passwords, banking details, etc., often through a malware link disguised as legitimate.
Portfolio
A collection of cryptocurrencies or crypto assets held by an investment company, hedge fund, financial institution or individual.
Pre-Sale
The sale of a cryptocurrency, ahead of it going public, to specific investors.
Portfolio Tracking
The act of tracking the movement and performance of assets of your financial holdings is termed portfolio tracking. This monitoring activity can cover stocks, commodities, mutual funds, ETFs, cryptocurrencies and NFTs
Position Size
Position size is a vital part of a trading strategy, since it is directly related to one’s potential profit or loss. Sizing a position also plays an important role in risk management as knowing when to execute larger or smaller trades, and when to increase or reduce the size of a position impacts profitability.
Post-Mine
The retroactive creation of new coins following a cryptocurrency’s launch, before public mining is possible.
Pre-IDO
Pre-IDO refers to token offerings before the actual initial DEX offering (IDO) takes place.
Pre-Mine
When some or all of a coin’s initial supply is generated during or before the public launch.
Prediction Market
Prediction Markets are exchange-traded markets where the future outcomes of events are traded. It indicates the confidence of the crowd in a specific future event.
Price Impact
The difference between market price and estimated price due to trade size.
Private Blockchain
A private blockchain is a type of blockchain in which only a single organization has authority over the network.
Private Key/Secret Key
A piece of code generated in asymmetric-key encryption process, paired with a public key, to be used in decrypting information hashed with the public key.
Procedural Programming
Procedural programming refers to a series of instructions that inform a computer what it should do step-by-step to achieve the task.
Profit and Loss (P&L) Statement
A profit and loss (P&L) statement is a financial document that gives that sum up the earnings, costs, and expenditures incurred during a specified period.
Programmable Privacy
Programmable privacy redefines data protection in decentralized applications (dApps), offering a flexible concept that empowers users and developers to personalize privacy settings.
Proof Market
A proof market is a decentralized marketplace where users can buy and sell cryptographic proofs to verify ownership, the validity of a particular transaction and the authenticity of a piece of information or computation results.
Proof of Attendance Protocol
Proof of Attendance Protocol (POAP) refers to a business offering to use the ERC-721 NFT protocol on Ethereum to ascribe individuals a unique, non-fungible blockchain-based identifier that only the person can access
Proof of Reserves (PoR)
Proof of Reserves (PoR) is a method of using cryptographic verification to demonstrate possession of digital assets.
Proof of Stake Authority (PoSA)
Proof of Stake Authority is an innovative consensus algorithm that represents a hybrid of Proof-of-Stake and Proof-of-Authority.