Secret Network Dictionary
A
Alter
Private & secure messaging app built on on Secret Network
Airdrop
Token distribution method in which assets are transmitted to wallets to create awareness around a project
A.M.M
Automated market maker, a fully automated DEX where trades are made against a pool of tokens instead of the traditional order book
A.P.I
Application Programming Interface, a type of software built to access certain specifications of another software in a clear and direct way used by wallets, explorers, nodes etc.
B
Bazaar
Decentralized data marketplace built on-top of DataVault
B.F.T
Byzantine Fault Tolerance, tendermint consensus mechanism used by cosmos blockchains such as Secret Network which gives them the ability to continue operating even if some of their nodes fail or act maliciously
BlackBox
Collection of tools to privately transfer funds on Secret network
Bridge
Infrastructure that connects two blockchains and allows users to send cryptocurrency from one chain to the other (Secret Network has Ethereum, XMR, BSC and IBC bridges)
Btn.group
Collection of private dApps built on Secret Network
C
C.C.B.L
Community Curated Bounty List, a community landing place for network-wide needs and ideas that could be funded by the community pool
C.C.R
Community code repository, a folder to store smaller community-oriented projects with bounties for developers to contribute to
Community Pool
SCRT fund dedicated to the development of the network managed by the Secret Foundation
Consensus Mechanism
Way of achieving the agreement on a single data value (Secret Network uses the dPoS consensus mechanism)
D
Data Vault
Privacy-preserving Digital Marketplace for users built on Secret Network
Delegator
A delegator is a participant in network staking
DEX
Decentralized Exchange, peer-to-peer marketplace where transactions occur directly between traders
E
F
Fadroma
Smart contract development tool for deployment on Secret Network and other Cosmos-based platforms
Faucet
Application that distributes small amounts of crypto to pay for gas (stakely.io is a SCRT faucet)
Foundation
Organization dedicated to building, researching, and scaling adoption of decentralized technologies
G
Gas
Fee associated with transacting and executing smart contracts on Secret Network denoted in small fractions of SCRT called uSCRT
Governance Token
Token used to democratically manage a protocol in a fair and decentralized manner (SEFI is a governance token on Secret Network)
H
I
Impermanent Loss
Loss of funds caused by the price fluctuation of the two assets that make up an LP token and realized when it's exchanged back for the underlying pair.
Invoice
Private and secure system for requesting and sending money to users and business counterparties
J
K
L
Ledger
Hardware wallet compatible with Secret Network Liquidity Pool: pool of coins or tokens locked in a smart contract that used to facilitate trades between those assets on an AMM based DEX
Liveness
Ability of a protocol to keep achieving consensus among nodes and thereby process blocks. BFT consensus blockchains such as Secret Network prioritize safety over liveness (but this comes with the downside that liveness is lost if 1/3 of the voting power stops participating in concensus).
M
Mintscan
Blockchain explorer for Secret Network
N
Node
Computer connected to the blockchain that essential to the maintenance of the distributed ledger (in Secret Network there are Validator nodes, Querying nodes and standard nodes)
No-With-Veto
Governance voting option that, if prevails, also leads to the loss of coins locked by the proposer. (In the case of Secret Network, the SCRT are burned)
O
P
Permit
Querying method in the form of a formatted message which provides a safer and cheaper alternative to viewing keys
Polar
Front-end development framework for building contracts on Secret Network
Private Key
Cryptographic code paired to a public key used to sign transactions similar to a password
Public Key
Cryptographic code paired to a private key that allows users to receive cryptocurrency (in Secret Network they start with "secret1")
Pulsar
Secret Network's public testnet by ChainOfSecrets
Q
Querying Node
Type of node with improved querying performance but unable to process transactions
R
Rust
Default programming language to build on the Secret Network's blockchain
S
SCRT
Native, public governance token of Secret Network
SCRT-Pizza
Small amount of SCRT given by Secret Agents to pay for gas of your first transactions on a new wallet (you can ask for it on the #scrt-pizza discord channel)
S.D.K
Software development kit, collection of tools to facilitate software development (Secret Network was built with the Cosmos SDK)
Secret Agent
Community contributor on Secret Network helping with design, education, development, data, governance, infrastructure and spreading international awareness
Secret Calendar
Calendar featuring the most relevant Secret Network dates
SecretCli
Command-line interface tool that enables you to interact with nodes running on Secret Network
Secret Charter & Code of Conduct
Document that codifies the current standard governance procedures
SecretCodePodcast
Secret Network related podcast hosted on their website & YouTube
Secret Token
SNIP-20 tokens with programmable privacy on the Secret Network blockchain
SecretNFTs
Non-fungible tokens with programmable privacy on Secret Network (e.g: Anons, Redacted Club, Clandestina gang)
Secret Oracles
Decentralized, on-chain source of private randomness on Secret Network
SecretSpaces
Weekly live series featuring core contributors to the Secret Network ecosystem, breaking news, and Secret alpha
SecretSwap
Decentralized Exchange and liquidity hub for Secret Tokens
SecretWasm
SDK for building applications that connect to the Cosmos SDK on Secret Network
S.G.X
Software Guard Extensions, CPU enclaves that every Secret Network node has in order to process transactions without the possibility of viewing private metadata
Shockwave
Ecosystem upgrade phase of H1 2022
SiennaSwap
Decentralized Exchange and liquidity hub for Secret Tokens
S.N.I.P
Secret Network Improvement Proposals that go through governance and, if accepted, have to be implemented as part of the software that is run by validators
SNIP-20
Private fungible token standard on Secret Network
SNIP-721
Private non-fungible token standard Secret Network
SNIP-1155
Private multiple non-fungible token standard Secret Network that can also include fungible tokens (used for fractionalized NFTs)
Starshell
Mobile and web wallet supporting SCRT and Secret Tokens
Staking
Process through which a user locks his cryptocurrency on a network as part of the consensus mechanism while earning a yield and being given the opportunity to participate in governance.
Stashh
Decentralized SecretNFTs marketplace
Supernova
Ecosystem upgrade of November of 2021
sSCRT
Private, wrapped SNIP-20 token backed and pegged to SCRT
Scrt Labs
Core development team behind Secret Network focused on creating products and systems to accelerate the adoption of privacy-first, decentralized technologies
T
T.E.E
Trusted Execution Environment, hardware specification for all validator nodes on Secret Network that guarantees they are unable to view private computations.
Testnet
Testing environment for a blockchain network available for development purposes
U
uSCRT
Smaller unit representing a millionth of SCRT (1 SCRT = 1M uSCRT)
V
Validator
Node responsible for processing and verifying transactions
Viewing Key
User generated key needed to view private metadata of secret contracts
Vulcan
Mainnet Secret Network blockchain upgrade
W
Wallet
Device or service that stores users' public and private keys, allowing them to send and receive crypto assets (Keplr, Citadel.one and Cosmostation are Secret Network wallets)
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