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• ECDSA: Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

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• MEV: Miner (or Maximum) Extractable Value

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• SNARKS: Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge

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• NFT: Non-Fungible Token

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• IPFS: Interplanetary File System

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• EWASM: Ethereum Web Assembly

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• DAO: Decentralized Autonomous Organization

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• SMPC: Secure MultiParty Computation

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• DEX: Decentralized Exchange

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• BFT: Byzantine Fault Tolerance

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• ABI: Application Binary Interface

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• KYC/AML: Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering

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• ZKN:  Zero Knowledge Proof

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• ENS: Ethereum Name Service

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• DCM: Digital Curreny Machine

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• VRF:  Verifiable Random Function

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• DLT: Distributed Ledger Technology

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• DeFi: Decentralized Finance

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• TEE: Trusted Execution Environment

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• UTXO: Unspent Transaction Output

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• CPFP: Child Pays for Parent

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• HD: Hierarchical Deterministic

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• IBD: Initial Block Download

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• POW: Proof Of Work

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• ERC - n: Ethereum Request for Comments; the n is a number assigned to the request

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• DApps: Decentralized Applications (Not technically an acronym!)

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