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The canonical written form of 27 Ethereum terms — how each one is spelled and capitalized, which forms to avoid, and what it means.
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| Term | Category | Casing | Avoid | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLS | cryptography | uppercase | Boneh-Lynn-Shacham | |
| BLS signature | cryptography | fixed | ||
| commitment | cryptography | standard | ||
| cryptography | cryptography | standard | ||
| Dagger-Hashimoto | cryptography | proper | ||
| distributed hash table (DHT) | cryptography | standard | ||
| ECC | cryptography | uppercase | ||
| elliptic curve | cryptography | standard | ||
| encryption | cryptography | standard | ||
| entropy | cryptography | standard | ||
| ethash | cryptography | proper | ||
| hash | cryptography | standard | ||
| hash function | cryptography | standard | ||
| hash rate | cryptography | standard | ||
| hashing | cryptography | standard | ||
| Keccak-256 | cryptography | fixed | ||
| KZG | cryptography | uppercase | Kate-Zaverucha-Goldberg | |
| merkle patricia trie | cryptography | standard | ||
| Merkle proof | cryptography | standard | ||
| merkle root | cryptography | standard | ||
| merkle tree | cryptography | standard | ||
| network hashrate | cryptography | standard | ||
| randomness | cryptography | standard | ||
| secure hash algorithm (SHA) | cryptography | standard | SHA | |
| shard | cryptography | standard | shard, shard chain, sharding | |
| TEE | cryptography | uppercase | trusted execution environment | |
| trusted setup | cryptography | standard |
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