STO
By Cryptomcmillan1 | Updated on May 24, 2020
Security Token Offering (STO) refers to a public offering for tokenized digital securities, or in short security tokens traded in cryptocurrency exchanges. STOs are classified as securities by the juridstiction which they are issued in, and as such as more regulated compared to its counterpart, Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which were subject to various fraudulent schemes.
Related Terms
Ring Signature
A type of digital signature performed in a group where it becomes impossible to determine which member's key in the group were used for the digital signature.
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Yield farming involves putting cryptocurrency into a DeFi protocol to collect interest on trading fees.
Consensus
Consensus is achieved in a blockchain system when all participants agree on the content of the next block that will be added onto the blockchain.
Proof-of-Burn (PoB)
A consensus algorthm that assigns block validation queue based on the coins/token burned by the validator.
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