Do Your Own Research (DYOR)
By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020
A non-crypto slang that is often used in the crypto community when investors were frequently getting scammed by illegitimate ICO projects. DYOR was used to remind investors that they are responsible for their own investment decisions.
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State Channel
Secondary payment channel occuring off-chain
IYKYK
Abbreviation for: if you know you know. The phrase implies that the user has dropped some sort of insider knowledge about a specific experience. Often, the post will have some callback to a particular experience that will instantly stand out to those who are “in the know,” or ironically sharing commonly known information.
Rug Pull
Sudden removal of liquidity which typically leads to asset prices crashing from the lack of liquidity to absorb buy/sells.
Ticker
A ticker is a stock or asset symbol that abbreviates the asset name and it can be used as an identifier of the asset.
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