Content‑Addressed Storage
Storage where data is located by its hash rather than a path or URL, enabling immutability and deduplication.
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Archives: Glossary
Archives: Glossary
Consensus Layer
Component responsible for validator sets, finality, and fork choice, e.g., Ethereum’s Beacon clients.
Commit‑Reveal
Two‑phase pattern where a hash commitment is posted first and the plaintext is revealed later, preventing front‑running.
Composable
Property that lets protocols and contracts interoperate like Lego blocks to form new applications.
Collateralization Ratio
Value of collateral relative to borrowed or issued assets; staying above thresholds avoids liquidation.
Cold Wallet
Offline wallet or hardware device that stores keys away from internet‑connected systems.
CoinJoin
Privacy technique that combines many users’ UTXOs into a single transaction to break chain analysis.
Coinbase (Block Reward Tx)
Special transaction that creates new coins and collects fees for the block producer or validator.
Client Diversity
Security property achieved by distributing node share across multiple independent client implementations.
Client (Execution Client)
Software that executes transactions and maintains state for a blockchain, e.g., Geth, Erigon, Nethermind.
Circuit Breaker (Pausable)
Emergency mechanism to pause protocol actions during incidents; must be carefully governed to avoid centralization.
