Your guide to Telos community abbreviations and acronyms
Ever feel like your community peers are speaking to you in a different language?
Even though not being actually sure of what a particular acronym stands for, some people may remain in the dark because they do not dare to ask for clarification in the fear of being asking “obvious” questions.
Well, specially for those of you in that situation The Teloscope team have compiled abbreviations for some commonly used terms that you’re likely to run into at Telos world.
If you can’t find the acronym you’re looking for on this list, please let us know.
ABI — Application Binary Interface
ABP / ABPs — Active block producer / Appointed block producers
AMA — Ask Me Anything (social media channels)
AML — Anti-Money Laundering (regulation)
API — Application program interface
APS — Actions per second
B1 — Block.one (company publisher of the EOSIO blockchain protocol)
BAU — Business As Usual (activities, tasks, team, etc.)
BFT — Byzantine Fault Tolerance
BP — Block producer
CLI — Command line interface (e.g. CLI tools: cleos, teclos)
DAC / DAO — Decentralized autonomous corporation / Decentralized autonomous organization
DApp — Decentralized application
DeFi — Decentralized Finance
DM / PM — Direct or private message (to a specified user on social media, e.g. Telegram)
DPoS — Delegated proof of stake (consensus algorithm)
ECAF — EOSIO Core Arbitration Forum
ETRF — Exchange Token Reserve Fund
EVM— Ethereum Virtual Machine
FUD — Fear, uncertainty and doubt (disinformation strategy)
GDPR — (The European Union) General Data Protection Regulation
IBC — Inter-Blockchain Communication
ICO — Initial coin offering
IPFS — InterPlanetary File System
JSON—JavaScript Object Notation (data format)
KYC — Know Your Customer (procedures)
LIB — Last irreversible block
msig — Multiple signatures
NFT— Non-fungible Token
NDA—Non-Disclosure Agreement (legal contract)
OTC— Over-the-counter (cryptocurrency trading)
P2P — Peer-to-peer (nodes, networks, etc.)
PGP — Public Guidance Price (for RAM)
PK — Public Key (cryptography)
PKI — Public Key Infrastructure
PM / DM — Private or direct message (to a specified user on social media, e.g. Telegram)
POC — Proof of Concept (software development)
PoS — Proof of Stake (consensus algorithm)
REX — Resource Exchange
SBP — Standby block producer
SC — Smart contract
SK — Secret or private Key (cryptography)
TaPoS — Transactions as Proof-of-Stake
TED / TEDP — Telos Economic Development (Plan)
TBN — Telos Blockchain Network
TBNARP — Telos Blockchain Network Arbitration Rules and Procedures
TBNOA — Telos Blockchain Network Operating Agreement
TCD — Telos Core Developers
TCG — Telos Contributors Group
TCRP — Telos Community Rewards Pool
TF — Telos Foundation
TFEB — Telos Foundation Executive Board
TFRP — Telos Founders Reward Pool
TFVT — Telos Foundation voting tokens
TIP — Telos improvement proposal
TLG — Telos launch group
TLOS —Native cryptocurrency of the Telos Blockchain Network
TOS — Telos Original Snapshot
TPS — Transactions per second
TRIM — Telos Resource Improved Management (plan)
Tx/Txn — Transaction
TxID — Transaction Identifier (hash)
UI — User interface
UTXO — Unspent Transaction Output
WPS — Telos Worker Proposal System
This list has been compiled by members of The Teloscope team.
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