An educational crypto, finance, and AI vocabulary puzzle about transaction completion, margin safety, search pipelines, and market activity.
Settlement Rails
These terms cover completion, irreversibility, block acceptance, and chain replacement events.
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- Settlement: Settlement is the point at which a trade or transfer is completed and obligations are closed.
- Finality: Finality is the stage at which a blockchain transaction is considered effectively irreversible.
- Confirmation: A confirmation is evidence that a transaction has been included in a block and accepted by the network.
- Reorg: A reorg is a blockchain reorganization that replaces one set of blocks with another.
Risk Buffers
These terms describe pledged support, minimum equity, value discounts, and forced closes.
- Collateral: Collateral is an asset pledged to secure a loan, position, or other obligation.
- Margin: Margin is the minimum equity or collateral that must be maintained for an exposure.
- Haircut: A haircut is a discount applied to an asset's value when estimating what it can support.
- Liquidation: Liquidation is the forced closing of a position when losses or margin shortfalls become too large.
Retrieval Pipeline
These terms cover splitting text, vectorizing meaning, re-ranking results, and fitting prompt context.
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- Chunking: Chunking is the process of breaking a large document into smaller pieces for retrieval or analysis.
- Embedding: An embedding is a numeric vector that captures the meaning of text or other data.
- Reranker: A reranker is a model that reorders retrieved results to surface the most relevant items first.
- Context Window: The context window is the maximum amount of text a model can consider at one time.
Liquidity Signals
These terms track available liquidity, traded activity, order-book depth, and how much prices move from a trade.
- Liquidity: Liquidity describes how easily an asset can be bought or sold without moving the price much.
- Volume: Volume is the amount of an asset traded over a given period.
- Depth: Depth is the quantity of buy and sell orders available near the current price.
- Market Impact: Market impact is the change in price caused by a trade or order flowing through the market.