Earnings
A public company's reported profit for a quarter or year, published on a fixed calendar alongside revenue and outlook.
Glossary
Decentralized Exchange
A trading venue that matches swaps through smart contracts and liquidity pools, so users trade directly from their own wallets rather than depositing funds with a…
Crypto Wallet
Software or hardware that stores the private keys controlling your coins. The coins themselves stay on the blockchain; the wallet holds the proof that they are…
Crypto ETF
An exchange-traded fund holding cryptocurrency directly, letting investors get exposure through an ordinary brokerage account.
Consumer Price Index
A monthly measure of what a representative basket of household goods and services costs, used as the headline inflation figure.
Centralized Exchange
A company-run crypto exchange that holds customer funds and matches orders on its own internal order book, the way a traditional broker does.
Smart Contract
A program stored on a blockchain that runs exactly as written when its conditions are met, with no one able to intervene once it is deployed.
Halving
A scheduled event, roughly every four years, that cuts the Bitcoin reward paid to miners for each new block in half.
Generative AI
AI that produces new content — text, images, audio, video, code — rather than only classifying or predicting from existing data.
Large Language Model
A model trained on enormous amounts of text to predict what comes next, which in practice lets it answer questions, summarise, translate and write code.