⁝⁝⁝
Blockchain & Crypto Glossary
Human-readable agreements are agreements that are written in human-interpretable language (i.e. English) instead of code. This mechanism is important because it helps allow the technical..
The Howey Test is a series of four conditions that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) uses to determine whether a financial transaction is considered to have involved..
Hotspots are devices that operate on the Helium Network both as specialized network nodes and as wireless internet hotspots. Helium Hotspots are manufactured by multiple vendors and are..
The term hot wallet refers to a cryptocurrency wallet that is connected to the internet. The wallet's assets are therefore held online, as opposed to a cold wallet, which is held..
A hostage byte attack is a theoretical vulnerability in the STORJ network in which malicious storage nodes might extort payment from users by refusing to transfer pieces of data.
Horizontal scalability is a means of increasing the transactional capacity of a blockchain network by adding more nodes to the network or optimizing systems, rather than altering..
Horizontal Relay-Routed Message Passing (HRMP) is a solution built for the Kusama and Polkadot networks that helps parachains communicate and share data with each other. In May 2022, HRMP..
HoneyBadger BFT (HBBFT) is an asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (aBFT) network consensus mechanism that is designed to handle potentially thousands of transactions per second (TPS) and..
An Honest Geppetto Attack refers to a computer network attack in which a hacker runs a large number of nodes for a long period of time in order to gain the trust of other nodes in a given..
Homomorphic encryption (HE) is an encryption technique employed in computer science that allows developers to perform data computations without decryption. Privacy-preserving technology is..
⁝⁝⁝
Trending news
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Altcoins
- Bitcoin
- DeFi
- Ethereum
- Economy
- Market and Events
- Metaverse
- Mining
- NFT
- Regulation
- Web3
- show less
⁝⁝⁝ Test your knowledge
