Market cap
The total value of all coins of a cryptocurrency in circulation: the coin price multiplied by the circulating supply. It is used to compare the relative size of different projects.
See also
Staking
Locking up cryptocurrency to help validate transactions in Proof-of-Stake networks. In return, the participant earns rewards, but risks losing part of the stake if the network's rules are broken.
Yield farming
A DeFi strategy in which a user supplies assets to protocols (for example, liquidity pools) in order to earn interest income or additional tokens.
Liquidity pool
A shared reserve of two or more tokens locked in a smart contract that enables asset swaps on decentralized exchanges without a traditional order book.
ATH (All-Time High)
The highest price an asset has ever reached over its entire trading history.
FOMO
Fear of Missing Out — the emotional state in which an investor buys an asset near the top of a rally out of fear of "missing the move," which often leads to losses.
FUD
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt — the spread of negative or alarming information about a project, often deliberate, intended to push its price down.