Also: short positionshorting
Short — a position that profits from a price decline: sell a borrowed asset now, buy it back cheaper later, keep the difference. In crypto, usually done through perpetual futures on a CEX or DEX.
Shorting with leverage is how traders get liquidated on sudden pumps — the loss on a short is theoretically unlimited.
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 sustained period of falling prices, usually 20%+ off the peak, with pessimistic sentiment.
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.
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