Crypto Currency

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Blockchains

The basic building block of crypto currencies

Coins vs Tokens

What are altcoins? What are tokens? What's the difference?
Coins are standalone cryptocurrencies based on their own blockchain. Tokens are built and hosted on existing blockchains.  --Finder.com

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are unique, immutable virtual assets, such as Decentraland LAND or CryptoKitties or baseball cards. They are used as collectibles, and have sparked surprisingly robust and well-funded markets considering that they are largely imaginary items with no intrinsic value.

Smart Contracts

Code that acts as the "back-end" of decentralized applications (DApps)

DApps

Decentralized Applications

DeFi

Decentralized Finance

Crypto Wallets

Where one keeps links to crypto assets, protected by public-private key encryption

Crypto Info Sites

About Ethereum

Newsletters

Crypto Currency Exchanges

For buying or trading crypto currency

Keeping Track of Alt Coins