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The canonical written form of 157 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51% attack | general | standard | ||
| Aave | general | proper | ||
| AI agent | general | fixed | ||
| anonymity set | general | standard | ||
| anti-Sybil | general | fixed | ||
| Arbitrum | general | proper | ||
| archive node | general | standard | ||
| ASIC | general | uppercase | ||
| assert | general | standard | ||
| autonomous agent | general | standard | ||
| Besu | general | proper | ||
| big-endian | general | standard | ||
| Binance | general | proper | ||
| Bitcoin | general | proper | ||
| block | general | standard | ||
| block explorer | general | standard | ||
| block header | general | standard | ||
| block propagation | general | standard | ||
| block reward | general | standard | ||
| block status | general | standard | ||
| block time | general | standard | ||
| block validation | general | standard | ||
| blockchain | general | standard | ||
| bootnode | general | standard | ||
| censorship resistant | general | standard | ||
| chain | general | standard | ||
| Charles Hoskinson | general | proper | ||
| Chrome | general | proper | ||
| client diversity | general | standard | ||
| Coinbase | general | proper | ||
| compiling | general | standard | ||
| computational infeasibility | general | standard | ||
| ConsenSys | general | fixed | ||
| considered for inclusion (CFI) | general | standard | ||
| crypto | general | standard | ||
| cryptoeconomics | general | standard | ||
| CryptoKitties | general | fixed | ||
| DAG | general | uppercase | DAG, directed acyclic graph | |
| decentralization | general | standard | ||
| decentralized | general | standard | ||
| decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) | general | standard | decentralized physical infrastructure, DePIN | |
| decentralized science (DeSci) | general | standard | decentralized science, DeSci | |
| decryption | general | standard | ||
| devnet | general | standard | ||
| difficulty | general | standard | ||
| difficulty bomb | general | standard | ||
| Discord | general | proper | ||
| discovery | general | standard | ||
| double-spend | general | standard | double spend | double-spend, double-spending |
| Erigon | general | proper | ||
| Ethereum | general | proper | ||
| Ethereum Classic | general | proper | ||
| Ethereum Foundation | general | proper | ||
| Ethereum Mainnet | general | proper | ||
| execution client | general | standard | ||
| execution layer | general | standard | ||
| general | proper | |||
| Filecoin | general | proper | ||
| finalized | general | standard | ||
| finney | general | standard | Finney | |
| fork | general | standard | ||
| fraud proof | general | standard | ||
| Frontier | general | proper | ||
| full node | general | standard | ||
| Gavin Wood | general | proper | ||
| genesis block | general | standard | ||
| gossip protocol | general | standard | ||
| hard fork | general | standard | ||
| history expiry | general | standard | ||
| immutability | general | standard | ||
| integrated development environment (IDE) | general | standard | ||
| interoperable | general | standard | ||
| Joseph Lubin | general | proper | ||
| layer 1 (L1) | general | standard | Layer 1layer-1Layer-1 | layer 1, L1 |
| Lido | general | proper | ||
| light client | general | standard | ||
| light node | general | standard | ||
| Lighthouse | general | proper | ||
| Lodestar | general | proper | ||
| mainnet | general | standard | ||
| MakerDAO | general | fixed | ||
| message | general | standard | ||
| message call | general | standard | ||
| metadata | general | standard | ||
| MetaMask | general | fixed | ||
| Microsoft | general | proper | ||
| modular blockchain | general | standard | ||
| monolithic blockchain | general | standard | ||
| Netflix | general | proper | ||
| Nethermind | general | proper | ||
| network | general | standard | ||
| Nimbus | general | proper | ||
| node | general | standard | ||
| off-ramp | general | standard | ||
| offchain | general | standard | off-chainoff chainOff-chain | |
| ommer block | general | standard | uncle blockUncle blockUNCLE block | ommer block, ommer (uncle) block |
| on-ramp | general | standard | ||
| onboarding | general | standard | ||
| onchain | general | standard | on-chainon chainOn-chain | |
| OpenSea | general | fixed | ||
| Optimism | general | proper | ||
| PayPal | general | fixed | ||
| peer | general | standard | ||
| peer-to-peer | general | standard | ||
| permissioned | general | standard | ||
| permissionless | general | standard | ||
| Polygon | general | proper | ||
| privacy | general | standard | ||
| private chain | general | standard | ||
| proof of attendance | general | standard | ||
| proof-of-work (PoW) | general | fixed | proof-of-work, proof of work, PoW | |
| protocol | general | standard | ||
| Prysm | general | proper | ||
| public goods | general | standard | ||
| re-entrancy attack | general | standard | ||
| real world assets (RWA) | general | standard | real world assets, RWA | |
| Recursive Length Prefix (RLP) | general | standard | ||
| general | proper | |||
| regenerative finance (ReFi) | general | standard | regenerative finance, ReFi | |
| Reth | general | proper | ||
| retroactive public goods funding (RPGF) | general | standard | retroactive public goods funding, RPGF | |
| reward | general | standard | ||
| self-sovereignty | general | standard | ||
| Sepolia | general | proper | ||
| serialization | general | standard | ||
| SNARK | general | uppercase | ||
| soft fork | general | standard | ||
| STARK | general | uppercase | ||
| Starknet | general | proper | ||
| state bloat | general | standard | ||
| state expiry | general | standard | ||
| statelessness | general | standard | ||
| Swarm | general | proper | ||
| Sybil attack | general | standard | ||
| sync | general | standard | sync, syncing, synced | |
| szabo | general | standard | Szabo | |
| Teku | general | proper | ||
| Telegram | general | proper | ||
| terminal total difficulty (TTD) | general | standard | ||
| testnet | general | standard | ||
| total value locked (TVL) | general | standard | total value locked, TVL | |
| trust assumptions | general | standard | ||
| trust-minimized | general | standard | ||
| trustless | general | standard | ||
| trustlessness | general | standard | ||
| Turing complete | general | standard | ||
| general | proper | |||
| UTXO | general | uppercase | ||
| Vitalik Buterin | general | proper | ||
| web 3.0 | general | fixed | ||
| web2 | general | standard | ||
| Wei Dai | general | proper | ||
| whitepaper | general | standard | ||
| witness | general | standard | ||
| yellow paper | general | standard | ||
| YouTube | general | fixed | ||
| ZKsync | general | fixed |
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