Yield Farming

Yield Farming includes all instruments and activities that allow you to make frequent profits through the use of crypto-assets outside of trading. This is a typical service of DeFi, decentralised finance.

Correlated words

Liquid Staking

Staking mode that allows one's stake to be used in other protocols.

TVL

Total amount of crypto blocked in a DeFi protocol or decentralised application (dApp).

Wrapped Token

A token representing the value of a cryptocurrency in another blockchain standard.

Bonding

A process in which cryptocurrencies are blocked as a form of commitment to obtain benefits or the right to perform certain activities in a network.

Staking Derivative

Derivatives of staking systems whose value depends on the performance of the staked native tokens and the amount of rewards issued by the network

Swap

The conversion of tokens into other tokens on a decentralised exchange.

Staking

Depositing and holding cryptocurrencies on certain blockchains to obtain cryptocurrency incentives.

Smart Contract

An agreement in digital form that allows actions to be triggered automatically if certain conditions are met.

Crypto Lending

A financial service that allows lending and borrowing cryptocurrencies on a centralised or decentralised platform

ERC-20

The Ethereum token standard that has enabled hundreds of projects to launch their own cryptocurrency on Ethereum.

DEX

A Decentralised Exchange allows cryptocurrency trading without intermediaries and directly on the blockchain.

DeFi

Decentralised Finance includes all blockchain-based and decentralised financial solutions.

DApp

Decentralised application allowing the use of a blockchain-based service.

DAO

The Decentralised Autonomous Organisation is a form of automated blockchain governance.

CeFi

Centralised finance is the centralised counterpart of DeFi, but should not be confused with traditional finance.

Arbitrage

Buying and selling in different markets in order to take advantage of the disparity in prices.

APY

A metric often used in DeFi, it indicates the percentage return per year you receive on an investment or loan.

APR

The annual percentage rate you receive for an investment or loan.

AMM

Automated Market Makers are smart contracts adopted by decentralised exchanges to automatically execute orders.

Aggregator

An online collector of similar content or services from different sources for easy access. An example is Yearn Finance