THE APTOS GLOSSARYTechnical words.
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- Account address
- The permanent 32-byte Aptos account identifier, typically displayed as a 0x-prefixed hexadecimal string.
- AIP-62
- The modern Aptos wallet standard for discovery and interoperability between wallets and dApps.
- APT
- The native Aptos cryptocurrency and ordinary gas asset. One APT contains 100,000,000 octas.
- Authentication key
- The current on-chain signing authority derived from a public key and scheme. It can rotate while the account address stays the same.
- BCS
- Binary Canonical Serialization, used to encode Aptos transaction data for signing and transport.
- Coin
- The legacy type-based fungible asset model, using CoinStore resources.
- dApp
- A decentralized application that asks a wallet to disclose public account information or authorize actions.
- Digital Asset (DA)
- The object-based Aptos standard used for NFTs and semi-fungible assets.
- Dispatchable FA
- A Fungible Asset whose transfer can execute custom Move logic through configured hooks.
- Fungible Asset (FA)
- The object-based Aptos standard for interchangeable assets, identified by a metadata object address.
- FungibleStore
- An object or resource holding units of a specific Fungible Asset for an owner.
- Gas
- The network charge for computation, I/O and storage effects, ordinarily paid in APT.
- Indexer
- A service that turns ledger data into searchable balances, history, metadata and NFT ownership views.
- Liquid staking
- A protocol model where deposited stake is represented by a separate transferable receipt token.
- Metadata address
- The canonical on-chain object address identifying a Fungible Asset and its properties.
- Mnemonic
- A sequence of words used to derive deterministic private keys. Rise describes a 12-word phrase for new wallets.
- Move
- The resource-oriented smart-contract language used by Aptos.
- Object
- An Aptos construct with its own address that can own resources and have extensible transfer rules.
- Octa
- The smallest APT unit: 0.00000001 APT.
- Primary store
- The principal FungibleStore derived deterministically for an owner and metadata address.
- RPC
- The remote fullnode interface used for public state queries, simulation, gas estimation and transaction submission.
- Self-custody
- A model in which the user controls the secrets required to authorize account transactions.
- Sequence number
- The replay-protection counter for ordinary sequenced Aptos transactions.
- Simulation
- A non-committing execution of a proposed transaction against recent network state.
- Slippage
- The difference between expected and realized execution, often constrained by a minimum-output setting.
- Token v1
- The legacy Aptos token and NFT model, distinct from modern object-based Digital Assets.
- Wallet adapter
- A standardized connection layer between applications and compatible installed or SDK wallets.
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