An educational crypto, finance, and AI vocabulary puzzle about token issuance, rate signals, agent workflows, and production inference.
Stablecoin Lifecycle
These terms cover issuance, removal, backing assets, and cash-out flows.
- Mint: Minting is the process of creating new tokens according to protocol rules.
- Burn: Burning permanently removes tokens from circulation.
- Reserve: A reserve is the asset pool held to support a stablecoin or similar claim.
- Redemption: Redemption is the process of exchanging a token or claim for the underlying asset or value.
Macro Rates
These terms cover short-term government debt, the shape of yields, and rate sensitivity.
Treasury BillYield CurveBasis PointDuration
- Treasury Bill: A treasury bill is a short-term U.S. government security used as a low-risk cash-like instrument.
- Yield Curve: The yield curve shows how interest rates vary across different bond maturities.
- Basis Point: A basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point.
- Duration: Duration measures how sensitive a bond's price is to changes in interest rates.
Agent Planning
These terms cover step selection, fetching references, external actions, and temporary working notes.
- Planner: A planner is the part of an AI system that decides what action to take next.
- Retrieval: Retrieval is the act of fetching useful external information for a model or agent.
- Tool Calling: Tool calling is when a model or agent invokes a software tool to complete a task.
- Scratchpad: A scratchpad is temporary working space for intermediate reasoning or notes.
Model Serving
These terms cover delay, work rate, grouped processing, and lower-precision math.
- Latency: Latency is the delay between a request and the start or completion of a response.
- Throughput: Throughput is the amount of work a system can process in a given time period.
- Batching: Batching groups multiple inputs or requests together to improve efficiency.
- Quantization: Quantization reduces numerical precision to lower memory use and speed up inference.