security

An escrow transaction is a way to protect funds in a deal between parties who do not trust each other: the money is temporarily held by an independent intermediary or a smart contract and released only when the conditions are met.

Escrow in the context of an ICO refers to intermediaries' accounts where the raised funds are kept. The project team receives funding in installments as the roadmap milestones are completed, which protects investors.

Support is a project's, exchange's, or service's technical support team that helps users resolve questions about the platform's operation, transactions, and their account.

A mixing service, or mixer, combines and shuffles many transactions in order to make it harder to trace the origin and the path of the coins.

A scam is a fraudulent project or scheme that never intended to fulfill its obligations to participants. In the crypto market, the term refers to deceiving investors and siphoning off their funds.

A scamcoin is a cryptocurrency created not for the sake of technology but to enrich its organizers through manipulation or premining. Such coins carry an elevated risk for holders.

A public key is the open part of a cryptographic key pair that can be freely shared. A receiving address for cryptocurrency is formed on its basis.

A dust transaction is a transfer of an extremely small amount of cryptocurrency, almost devoid of financial value. Such tiny amounts clutter the blockchain and can be used for deanonymization.

Premining (premine) is the mining of part of the coins by a cryptocurrency's creators before its public launch. It can be used transparently to fund the project or serve as a tool for abuse and manipulation.

A private key (private key) is a secret string that gives control over a cryptocurrency wallet and allows transactions to be signed. Its loss or disclosure means the loss of access to funds.