Also: secret key
A private key is the secret half of a cryptographic key pair, used to sign transactions from a wallet. TON uses Ed25519. The public key and address are derived from the private key.
The private key is usually stored not directly but as a seed phrase (BIP-39) — a list of 12 or 24 words from which the key is deterministically derived.
The unique identifier of an account or contract on a blockchain.
Abstract Datagram Network Layer — TON's low-level peer-to-peer protocol.
Automated Market Maker — algorithmic pricing through a liquidity pool.
A group of transactions finalized by validators and chained to the previous block.
Bag of Cells — the binary serialization format for structured data and smart contracts in TON.
Centralized exchange — custodial exchange (Binance, OKX, Bybit).
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