DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)
On‑chain governance structure where token or reputation holders propose and vote to manage resources.
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dApp (Decentralized Application)
Application that runs on a blockchain or decentralized network using smart contracts.
DAS (Data Availability Sampling)
Technique where light nodes randomly sample encoded shares to verify that full data was published.
Danksharding
Planned Ethereum upgrade to scale data availability by introducing many blob lanes with single proposer.
DA Layer (Data Availability Layer)
Specialized network for publishing and sampling data, used by rollups to reduce L1 costs.
DA, Data Availability
Guarantee that transaction data is published for verification so that state transitions can be proven.
DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph)
Graph structure without cycles used by some ledgers for parallel transaction confirmation.
ControlNet
Technique for conditioning diffusion models with structural hints like edges, poses, or depth maps.
Contrastive Learning
Learning paradigm that pulls related samples together and pushes unrelated ones apart in embedding space.
Context Window
Maximum sequence length a language model can attend to at once, measured in tokens.
Confusion Matrix
Table summarizing classification results by true vs predicted labels to analyze errors.
