Elon Musk talks Crypto：Security

Security

The term securities refers to a fungible and tradable financial instrument that carries a type of monetary value.

Security Token

A security token is essentially a digital form of traditional securities.

Security Token Offering

A security token offering (STO) is a public offering where tokenized digital securities are sold.

Seed Funding

Seed funding is a type of funding that provides capital to startups in exchange for equity in the company.

Seed Phrase

A single starting point when deriving keys for a deterministic wallet.

Segregated Witness (SegWit)

A Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) that aimed to fix transaction malleability on Bitcoin.

Semantic Web

The ambition of the Semantic Web is to enable computers to manipulate information on our behalf.

Series B Funding

A Series B funding round is the second round of funding a business.

Settlement

Settlement refers to the process in which a user executes limit or market orders on an order-book-based DEX.

Settlement Layer

A settlement layer is a layer that essentially provides an anchor for an entire ecosystem.

SHA-256

A cryptographic hash function that generates a 256-bit signature for a text, used in Bitcoin proof-of-work

Shamir’s Secret Sharing

Shamir’s Secret Sharing is a scheme to securely share highly sensitive information such as encryption keys by splitting the information into multiple parts called shares.

Shanghai Upgrade

The Shanghai Upgrade will allow users to unstake and withdraw their ETH from the network.

Shard

Essentially, a shard is a portion of a blockchain network that has been split into multiple shards, which has its own data.

Shard Chain

In the world of cryptocurrencies, sharding can reduce the network congestion as well as increase transactions per second through the creation of new chains

Sharding

Sharding is a scaling approach that enables splitting of blockchain states into partitions containing states and transaction history, so that each shard can be processed in parallel.

Shelley Phase

The second era of Cardano – Shelley Phase is named after Percy Shelley, an English Poet.

Shiba Inu Token (SHIB)

The Shiba Inu token (SHIB), is a decentralized memecoin based on the Ethereum network.

SHO (Strong Holder Offering)

A strong holder offering (SHO) is a fundraising mechanism where eligible investors are chosen based on their on-chain activities and other proprietary data sets.

Shielded Address

A shielded address is generated for a shielded transaction, where a payment is made using the blockchain network by keeping the related information private.

Shielded Transaction

A shielded transaction is essentially a transaction that is between two shielded addresses.

Shilling

The act of enthusiastically promoting a cryptocurrency or ICO project.

Shitcoin

A coin with no obvious potential value or usage.