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Bitcoin self-custody means controlling the cryptographic keys needed to authorise spending, rather than relying on an exchange or another custodian to approve withdrawals. It can reduce counterparty dependence, but it also removes many recovery mechanisms familiar…
Crypto hacks are not one technical category. An incident may involve phishing, stolen private keys, compromised exchange systems, faulty smart-contract code, manipulated price inputs, or weaknesses in a cross-chain bridge. Sometimes the blockchain works exactly as…
Know-your-customer checks are one part of the controls that many crypto exchanges use to comply with anti-money-laundering, counter-terrorist-financing, sanctions, fraud-prevention, and licensing obligations. The exact information requested depends on the country, product, customer type, transaction pattern,…
Crypto trading volume measures how much of an asset or contract changed hands during a selected period. It is one of the most widely displayed market statistics—and one of the easiest to misread. Volume can help…
A forex spread is the difference between a currency pair's bid and ask prices. It is visible and easy to compare, which makes it a common marketing headline. Yet a quoted minimum spread is not the…
Decentralized finance, or DeFi, describes financial applications built from smart contracts on public blockchains. Users can trade tokens, supply liquidity, borrow against collateral, or create financial positions without asking a traditional intermediary to update a private…