An educational crypto, finance, and AI vocabulary puzzle about self-custody, execution quality, retrieval systems, and short-term cash tools.
Wallet Security
These terms cover recovery words, offline signing, shared control, and modern login credentials.
- Seed Phrase: A seed phrase is a set of recovery words that can restore a crypto wallet.
- Hardware Wallet: A hardware wallet is a physical device that signs crypto transactions without exposing private keys to a general-purpose computer.
- Multisig: Multisig is a wallet setup that requires multiple keys or approvals before an action is authorized.
- Passkey: A passkey is a cryptographic login credential that replaces a password with device-backed authentication.
Trade Execution
These terms cover execution quality, routing, and how quoted prices can move once size hits the market.
- Slippage: Slippage is the difference between the price you expect and the price you actually receive when an order executes.
- Price Impact: Price impact is the amount a trade moves the market price because of its size relative to available liquidity.
- Aggregator: An aggregator routes orders or swaps across multiple venues or pools to seek better execution.
- Limit Order: A limit order only executes at a specified price or better.
Retrieval AI
These terms cover numeric representations, text splitting, searchable stores, and result ranking.
EmbeddingChunkingVector StoreReranker
- Embedding: An embedding is a numeric representation of text or other data that preserves semantic meaning for search or comparison.
- Chunking: Chunking is the process of splitting long content into smaller pieces for processing or retrieval.
- Vector Store: A vector store is a database that stores embeddings for similarity search.
- Reranker: A reranker is a model that reorders retrieved results by relevance.
Cash Management
These terms cover collateralized borrowing, short-duration credit, pooled cash vehicles, and overnight benchmark rates.
RepoCommercial PaperMoney Market FundOvernight Rate
- Repo: A repo, short for repurchase agreement, is a collateralized short-term borrowing trade.
- Commercial Paper: Commercial paper is an unsecured short-term debt instrument issued by companies.
- Money Market Fund: A money market fund invests in short-term, high-quality cash-like instruments.
- Overnight Rate: An overnight rate is a benchmark interest rate for very short-term borrowing or lending.