Substrate
Substrate is a web app development framework developed by Parity Technologies.
Succinct Proofs of Random Access (SPoRA)
Succinct Proofs of Random Access (SPoRA) is a consensus mechanism used to confirm transactions and validate blocks on the Arweave decentralized network.
Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a superior version of a general-purpose computer, which has a significantly increased capacity and processing power.
Supercycle
In economics, a "supercycle" describes an extended period characterized by the outsized growth of a particular asset or sector.
Supply and Demand
Supply and demand are the levels in an economy that determine the market's willingness to buy or sell assets or services, respectively.
Supply Chain
A supply chain is the collection of steps that a product or service needs to go through before reaching the final customer.
Supply Chain Attack
A supply chain attack is a tactic used by hackers to compromise third-party suppliers to major corporations, governments and organizations to gain valuable information.
Support Level
A support level in crypto is when the price of a crypto asset stops depreciating because of increased supply from buyers that wish to buy at a certain price.
Surge (Ethereum)
The Ethereum Surge is a development stage of the Ethereum network. It includes a set of upgrades, most notably sharding.
Swarm
A swarm is a group of peers that are sharing the same torrent.
Swing Failure Pattern (SFP)
A swing failure pattern (SFP) is a trend reversal indicator that can be used to discover a weakness in the current trend and identify early reversal signs.
Swing Trading
Swing trading is a market trading technique that aims to profit from short to medium-term price changes in stocks, commodities, and/or currencies over a period of days or weeks.
Sybil Attack
Sybil attacks undermine an online network by creating many IDs, accounts or nodes to upset the balance of power.
Symbol
The ticker of a cryptocurrency; for example, Bitcoin's symbol is BTC.
Symmetric Key Cryptography
Symmetric key cryptography is a type of cryptography that uses a single key to both encrypt and decrypt data.
Synthetic Asset
Synthetic assets, sometimes referred to as synths, are a combination of cryptocurrencies and traditional derivative assets. In other words, synths are tokenized derivatives.
T-Address (Zcash)
T-addresses are one of the two types of addresses available for the privacy-focused cryptocurrency, Zcash, used when transparency is desired.
Taint
The percentage of cryptocurrency in an account that can be traced to another account.
Take Profit
A take-profit order is an act of selling cryptocurrency to secure profits. It is usually executed at a predetermined price when the trade is in profit.
Tamper-Proof Ledger
A tamper-proof ledger is essentially any system of records that has the fundamental properties of a blockchain distributed ledger.