Yield Farming
By CoinGecko | Updated on Aug 13, 2021
Yield farming involves putting cryptocurrency into a DeFi protocol to collect interest on trading fees. Liquidity providers can profit by providing liquidity in DeFi protocols like Uniswap, utilizing assets that would otherwise sit idle on an exchange or hot wallet.
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Salt (cryptography)
In cryptography, a salt is the additional random input that is added to password or passphrase to make the password hash unique. It prevents from the hashed output password to be cracked so easily by the hacker.
Hard cap
The maximum amount that an ICO will be raising.
Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) refers to the movement of building decentralized financial applications that have no central authority and is censorship free.
State Channel
Secondary payment channel occuring off-chain
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