Glossary shelves

Every term filed where it lives: the market, the wallet, the risk desk.

Market terms

Market terms: spread, mid-market rate, peg, liquidity, slippage

Five words that decide how much of your money survives an exchange. Each entry gives a one-sentence definition and a long read about where the term shows its teeth: the moment a quote appears, and the moment it quietly changes.

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Security terms

Security terms: AML, KYC, risk scoring, frozen addresses

The vocabulary of money’s immune system. These are not laws you feel directly — they are procedures applied to you invisibly, and reading them in advance is the difference between a routine exchange and an unexpected rejection.

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Custody terms

Custody terms: hot and cold wallets, watch-only, seed phrases

Custody is the oldest question in money wearing new clothes: who can actually move the funds? Five entries that turn marketing phrases like “your coins are safe with us” into a question with a checkable answer.

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Ready to deal?

A glossary is a map, not the road. The two handbooks we treat as the best starting points for live USDT work are below — both describe non-custodial flows with one-time addresses.

Open UsdtChange Open CryptoChange