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title: AI & Web3 Glossary
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# AI & Web3 Glossary

Source: https://veda.ng/glossary
Author: Vedang Vatsa (https://veda.ng/about)

287 terms with detailed definitions and interactive visualizations.

- [Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)](https://veda.ng/glossary/agi)
- [Large Language Model (LLM)](https://veda.ng/glossary/llm)
- [Prompt Engineering](https://veda.ng/glossary/prompt-engineering)
- [Fine-Tuning](https://veda.ng/glossary/fine-tuning)
- [Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)](https://veda.ng/glossary/rag)
- [Hallucination](https://veda.ng/glossary/hallucination)
- [Alignment](https://veda.ng/glossary/alignment)
- [Constitutional AI](https://veda.ng/glossary/constitutional-ai)
- [Zero-Shot Learning](https://veda.ng/glossary/zero-shot-learning)
- [Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)](https://veda.ng/glossary/rlhf)
- [Transformer](https://veda.ng/glossary/transformer)
- [Token](https://veda.ng/glossary/token)
- [Embeddings](https://veda.ng/glossary/embeddings)
- [Agent](https://veda.ng/glossary/agent)
- [Multimodal AI](https://veda.ng/glossary/multimodal-ai)
- [Blockchain](https://veda.ng/glossary/blockchain)
- [Smart Contract](https://veda.ng/glossary/smart-contract)
- [Decentralized Finance (DeFi)](https://veda.ng/glossary/defi)
- [Non-Fungible Token (NFT)](https://veda.ng/glossary/nft)
- [Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)](https://veda.ng/glossary/dao)
- [Consensus Mechanism](https://veda.ng/glossary/consensus-mechanism)
- [Gas Fees](https://veda.ng/glossary/gas-fees)
- [Layer 2](https://veda.ng/glossary/layer-2)
- [Wallet](https://veda.ng/glossary/wallet)
- [Governance Token](https://veda.ng/glossary/governance-token)
- [Stablecoin](https://veda.ng/glossary/stablecoin)
- [Bridge](https://veda.ng/glossary/bridge)
- [Oracle](https://veda.ng/glossary/oracle)
- [Validator](https://veda.ng/glossary/validator)
- [Liquid Staking](https://veda.ng/glossary/liquid-staking)
- [API (Application Programming Interface)](https://veda.ng/glossary/api)
- [Microservices](https://veda.ng/glossary/microservices)
- [Kubernetes](https://veda.ng/glossary/kubernetes)
- [Serverless](https://veda.ng/glossary/serverless)
- [CI/CD](https://veda.ng/glossary/cicd)
- [Edge Computing](https://veda.ng/glossary/edge-computing)
- [Zero-Knowledge Proof](https://veda.ng/glossary/zero-knowledge-proof)
- [Merkle Tree](https://veda.ng/glossary/merkle-tree)
- [Sharding](https://veda.ng/glossary/sharding)
- [IPFS (InterPlanetary File System)](https://veda.ng/glossary/ipfs)
- [WebAssembly (Wasm)](https://veda.ng/glossary/webassembly)
- [GraphQL](https://veda.ng/glossary/graphql)
- [Docker](https://veda.ng/glossary/docker)
- [Message Queue](https://veda.ng/glossary/message-queue)
- [Rate Limiting](https://veda.ng/glossary/rate-limiting)
- [Context Window](https://veda.ng/glossary/context-window)
- [Temperature](https://veda.ng/glossary/temperature)
- [Inference](https://veda.ng/glossary/inference)
- [Chain-of-Thought Prompting](https://veda.ng/glossary/chain-of-thought)
- [Reasoning Model](https://veda.ng/glossary/reasoning-model)
- [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://veda.ng/glossary/mcp)
- [Vector Database](https://veda.ng/glossary/vector-database)
- [Model Distillation](https://veda.ng/glossary/model-distillation)
- [Tokenization](https://veda.ng/glossary/tokenization)
- [Automated Market Maker (AMM)](https://veda.ng/glossary/amm)
- [Seed Phrase](https://veda.ng/glossary/seed-phrase)
- [Maximal Extractable Value (MEV)](https://veda.ng/glossary/mev)
- [DePIN](https://veda.ng/glossary/depin)
- [Restaking](https://veda.ng/glossary/restaking)
- [Airdrop](https://veda.ng/glossary/airdrop)
- [Tokenomics](https://veda.ng/glossary/tokenomics)
- [Attention Mechanism](https://veda.ng/glossary/attention-mechanism)
- [Quantization](https://veda.ng/glossary/quantization)
- [Agentic Loop](https://veda.ng/glossary/agentic-loop)
- [Synthetic Data](https://veda.ng/glossary/synthetic-data)
- [Prompt Injection](https://veda.ng/glossary/prompt-injection)
- [Mixture of Experts (MoE)](https://veda.ng/glossary/mixture-of-experts)
- [Grounding](https://veda.ng/glossary/grounding)
- [Liquidity Pool](https://veda.ng/glossary/liquidity-pool)
- [Yield Farming](https://veda.ng/glossary/yield-farming)
- [Flash Loan](https://veda.ng/glossary/flash-loan)
- [Layer 1](https://veda.ng/glossary/layer-1)
- [Proof of Work](https://veda.ng/glossary/proof-of-work)
- [Proof of Stake](https://veda.ng/glossary/proof-of-stake)
- [Cold Wallet](https://veda.ng/glossary/cold-wallet)
- [Wrapped Token](https://veda.ng/glossary/wrapped-token)
- [WebSocket](https://veda.ng/glossary/websocket)
- [OAuth](https://veda.ng/glossary/oauth)
- [Load Balancer](https://veda.ng/glossary/load-balancer)
- [Monorepo](https://veda.ng/glossary/monorepo)
- [Attention Head](https://veda.ng/glossary/attention-head)
- [Positional Encoding](https://veda.ng/glossary/positional-encoding)
- [Batch Normalization](https://veda.ng/glossary/batch-normalization)
- [Beam Search](https://veda.ng/glossary/beam-search)
- [Latency](https://veda.ng/glossary/latency)
- [Perplexity](https://veda.ng/glossary/perplexity)
- [Activation Function](https://veda.ng/glossary/activation-function)
- [Softmax](https://veda.ng/glossary/softmax)
- [Cross-Entropy Loss](https://veda.ng/glossary/cross-entropy-loss)
- [Perplexity Trap](https://veda.ng/glossary/perplexity-trap)
- [Throughput](https://veda.ng/glossary/throughput)
- [Protocol Buffer](https://veda.ng/glossary/protobuf)
- [gRPC](https://veda.ng/glossary/grpc)
- [Idempotency](https://veda.ng/glossary/idempotency)
- [Circuit Breaker](https://veda.ng/glossary/circuit-breaker)
- [Database Index](https://veda.ng/glossary/database-index)
- [ACID Properties](https://veda.ng/glossary/acid-properties)
- [Consistency Hashing](https://veda.ng/glossary/consistency-hashing)
- [CORS](https://veda.ng/glossary/cors)
- [Database Sharding](https://veda.ng/glossary/database-sharding)
- [Caching Strategy](https://veda.ng/glossary/caching-strategy)
- [Yield](https://veda.ng/glossary/yield)
- [Impermanent Loss](https://veda.ng/glossary/impermanent-loss)
- [Slashing](https://veda.ng/glossary/slashing)
- [MEV Burn](https://veda.ng/glossary/mev-burn)
- [Composability](https://veda.ng/glossary/composability)
- [Cross-Chain Bridge](https://veda.ng/glossary/cross-chain-bridge)
- [State Channel](https://veda.ng/glossary/state-channel)
- [Payment Channel](https://veda.ng/glossary/payment-channel)
- [Atomic Swap](https://veda.ng/glossary/atomic-swap)
- [Rug Pull](https://veda.ng/glossary/rug-pull)
- [Sparse Expert](https://veda.ng/glossary/sparse-expert)
- [Knowledge Distillation](https://veda.ng/glossary/knowledge-distillation)
- [Scaling Law](https://veda.ng/glossary/scaling-law)
- [Reward Model](https://veda.ng/glossary/reward-model)
- [Scaffold](https://veda.ng/glossary/scaffold)
- [Few-Shot Prompting](https://veda.ng/glossary/few-shot-prompting)
- [Hyperparameter](https://veda.ng/glossary/hyperparameter)
- [Dropout](https://veda.ng/glossary/dropout)
- [Overfitting](https://veda.ng/glossary/overfitting)
- [Generalization](https://veda.ng/glossary/generalization)
- [Sybil Attack](https://veda.ng/glossary/sybil-attack)
- [Double Spend](https://veda.ng/glossary/double-spend)
- [Dust Attack](https://veda.ng/glossary/dust-attack)
- [51% Attack](https://veda.ng/glossary/51-percent-attack)
- [Liquidity Pool Volume](https://veda.ng/glossary/liquidity-pool-volume)
- [Slippage](https://veda.ng/glossary/slippage)
- [Value at Risk](https://veda.ng/glossary/value-at-risk)
- [APY vs APR](https://veda.ng/glossary/apy-vs-apr)
- [Time-Weighted Average Price](https://veda.ng/glossary/twap)
- [Backpropagation](https://veda.ng/glossary/backpropagation)
- [Gradient Descent](https://veda.ng/glossary/gradient-descent)
- [Neural Network](https://veda.ng/glossary/neural-network)
- [Convolutional Neural Network](https://veda.ng/glossary/cnn)
- [Recurrent Neural Network](https://veda.ng/glossary/rnn)
- [LSTM](https://veda.ng/glossary/lstm)
- [Autoencoder](https://veda.ng/glossary/autoencoder)
- [Variational Autoencoder](https://veda.ng/glossary/vae)
- [Generative Adversarial Network](https://veda.ng/glossary/gan)
- [Diffusion Model](https://veda.ng/glossary/diffusion-model)
- [Generative Model](https://veda.ng/glossary/generative-model)
- [Transfer Learning](https://veda.ng/glossary/transfer-learning)
- [Foundation Model](https://veda.ng/glossary/foundation-model)
- [BERT](https://veda.ng/glossary/bert)
- [Attention Score](https://veda.ng/glossary/attention-score)
- [Self-Attention](https://veda.ng/glossary/self-attention)
- [Cross-Attention](https://veda.ng/glossary/cross-attention)
- [Layer Normalization](https://veda.ng/glossary/layer-normalization)
- [Residual Connection](https://veda.ng/glossary/residual-connection)
- [Feedforward Network](https://veda.ng/glossary/feedforward-network)
- [Causal Masking](https://veda.ng/glossary/causal-masking)
- [Tokenizer](https://veda.ng/glossary/tokenizer)
- [Byte-Pair Encoding](https://veda.ng/glossary/bpe)
- [Vocabulary](https://veda.ng/glossary/vocabulary)
- [Logit](https://veda.ng/glossary/logit)
- [Top-k Sampling](https://veda.ng/glossary/top-k-sampling)
- [Top-p Sampling](https://veda.ng/glossary/top-p-sampling)
- [Speculative Decoding](https://veda.ng/glossary/speculative-decoding)
- [KV Cache](https://veda.ng/glossary/kv-cache)
- [Prefix Tuning](https://veda.ng/glossary/prefix-tuning)
- [LoRA](https://veda.ng/glossary/lora)
- [Adapter](https://veda.ng/glossary/adapter)
- [Prompt Tuning](https://veda.ng/glossary/prompt-tuning)
- [Instruction Tuning](https://veda.ng/glossary/instruction-tuning)
- [Direct Preference Optimization](https://veda.ng/glossary/dpo)
- [Contrastive Learning](https://veda.ng/glossary/contrastive-learning)
- [CLIP](https://veda.ng/glossary/clip)
- [Vision Transformer](https://veda.ng/glossary/vit)
- [Object Detection](https://veda.ng/glossary/object-detection)
- [Image Segmentation](https://veda.ng/glossary/image-segmentation)
- [SAM](https://veda.ng/glossary/sam)
- [Optical Character Recognition](https://veda.ng/glossary/ocr)
- [Computer Vision](https://veda.ng/glossary/computer-vision)
- [Speech Recognition](https://veda.ng/glossary/speech-recognition)
- [Text-to-Speech](https://veda.ng/glossary/tts)
- [Named Entity Recognition](https://veda.ng/glossary/ner)
- [Sentiment Analysis](https://veda.ng/glossary/sentiment-analysis)
- [Question Answering](https://veda.ng/glossary/question-answering)
- [Machine Translation](https://veda.ng/glossary/machine-translation)
- [Semantic Similarity](https://veda.ng/glossary/semantic-similarity)
- [Document Retrieval](https://veda.ng/glossary/document-retrieval)
- [Re-ranking](https://veda.ng/glossary/re-ranking)
- [Chunking](https://veda.ng/glossary/chunking)
- [Market Cap](https://veda.ng/glossary/market-cap)
- [Circulating Supply](https://veda.ng/glossary/circulating-supply)
- [Vesting Schedule](https://veda.ng/glossary/vesting-schedule)
- [Token Burn](https://veda.ng/glossary/token-burn)
- [Emission Rate](https://veda.ng/glossary/emission-rate)
- [Order Book](https://veda.ng/glossary/order-book)
- [Limit Order](https://veda.ng/glossary/limit-order)
- [Market Order](https://veda.ng/glossary/market-order)
- [Liquidity Provider](https://veda.ng/glossary/liquidity-provider)
- [Concentrated Liquidity](https://veda.ng/glossary/concentrated-liquidity)
- [Total Value Locked](https://veda.ng/glossary/tvl)
- [Protocol Revenue](https://veda.ng/glossary/protocol-revenue)
- [Collateralization Ratio](https://veda.ng/glossary/collateralization-ratio)
- [Liquidation](https://veda.ng/glossary/liquidation)
- [Borrow Rate](https://veda.ng/glossary/borrow-rate)
- [Supply Rate](https://veda.ng/glossary/supply-rate)
- [Utilization Rate](https://veda.ng/glossary/utilization-rate)
- [Perpetual Futures](https://veda.ng/glossary/perpetual-futures)
- [Funding Rate](https://veda.ng/glossary/funding-rate)
- [Leverage](https://veda.ng/glossary/leverage)
- [Margin](https://veda.ng/glossary/margin)
- [Delta Neutral](https://veda.ng/glossary/delta-neutral)
- [Basis Trade](https://veda.ng/glossary/basis-trade)
- [Rollup](https://veda.ng/glossary/rollup)
- [Optimistic Rollup](https://veda.ng/glossary/optimistic-rollup)
- [ZK Rollup](https://veda.ng/glossary/zk-rollup)
- [Data Availability](https://veda.ng/glossary/data-availability)
- [Sequencer](https://veda.ng/glossary/sequencer)
- [Account Abstraction](https://veda.ng/glossary/account-abstraction)
- [Social Recovery](https://veda.ng/glossary/social-recovery)
- [Intent](https://veda.ng/glossary/intent)
- [Modular Blockchain](https://veda.ng/glossary/modular-blockchain)
- [Liquid Restaking](https://veda.ng/glossary/liquid-restaking)
- [Agentic Workflow](https://veda.ng/glossary/agentic-workflow)
- [Real World Assets (RWA)](https://veda.ng/glossary/real-world-assets)
- [Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)](https://veda.ng/glossary/ethereum-virtual-machine)
- [Decentralized Identity (DID)](https://veda.ng/glossary/decentralized-identity)
- [Soulbound Token (SBT)](https://veda.ng/glossary/soulbound-token)
- [Zero-Knowledge EVM (zkEVM)](https://veda.ng/glossary/zkevm)
- [Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)](https://veda.ng/glossary/self-sovereign-identity)
- [Federated Learning](https://veda.ng/glossary/federated-learning)
- [Autonomous Agents](https://veda.ng/glossary/autonomous-agents)
- [Reinforcement Learning](https://veda.ng/glossary/reinforcement-learning)
- [Supervised Learning](https://veda.ng/glossary/supervised-learning)
- [Deep Learning](https://veda.ng/glossary/deep-learning)
- [Generative AI](https://veda.ng/glossary/generative-ai)
- [Transformer Architecture](https://veda.ng/glossary/transformer-architecture)
- [Semi-Supervised Learning](https://veda.ng/glossary/semi-supervised-learning)
- [Expert Systems](https://veda.ng/glossary/expert-systems)
- [AI Alignment](https://veda.ng/glossary/ai-alignment)
- [Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)](https://veda.ng/glossary/artificial-superintelligence-asi)
- [AI Safety](https://veda.ng/glossary/ai-safety)
- [Feature Extraction](https://veda.ng/glossary/feature-extraction)
- [Support Vector Machine (SVM)](https://veda.ng/glossary/support-vector-machine-svm)
- [Random Forest](https://veda.ng/glossary/random-forest)
- [Cluster Analysis](https://veda.ng/glossary/cluster-analysis)
- [Word Embeddings](https://veda.ng/glossary/word-embeddings)
- [Algorithmic Bias](https://veda.ng/glossary/algorithmic-bias)
- [Explainable AI (XAI)](https://veda.ng/glossary/explainable-ai-xai)
- [Knowledge Graph](https://veda.ng/glossary/knowledge-graph)
- [Predictive Analytics](https://veda.ng/glossary/predictive-analytics)
- [Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA)](https://veda.ng/glossary/low-rank-adaptation-lora)
- [Model Quantization](https://veda.ng/glossary/model-quantization)
- [Multi-Agent Systems](https://veda.ng/glossary/multi-agent-systems)
- [Edge AI](https://veda.ng/glossary/edge-ai)
- [Hyperparameter Tuning](https://veda.ng/glossary/hyperparameter-tuning)
- [Pattern Recognition](https://veda.ng/glossary/pattern-recognition)
- [Vision Transformers (ViT)](https://veda.ng/glossary/vision-transformers-vit)
- [Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS)](https://veda.ng/glossary/delegated-proof-of-stake-dpos)
- [Cryptocurrency Wallet](https://veda.ng/glossary/cryptocurrency-wallet)
- [Public-Key Cryptography](https://veda.ng/glossary/public-key-cryptography)
- [Cryptographic Hash Function](https://veda.ng/glossary/cryptographic-hash-function)
- [Mining Pool](https://veda.ng/glossary/mining-pool)
- [Genesis Block](https://veda.ng/glossary/genesis-block)
- [Hard Fork](https://veda.ng/glossary/hard-fork)
- [Soft Fork](https://veda.ng/glossary/soft-fork)
- [Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs)](https://veda.ng/glossary/zero-knowledge-proofs-zkps)
- [Peer-to-Peer (P2P)](https://veda.ng/glossary/peer-to-peer-p2p)
- [Double-Spending](https://veda.ng/glossary/double-spending)
- [Cold Storage](https://veda.ng/glossary/cold-storage)
- [Hot Wallet](https://veda.ng/glossary/hot-wallet)
- [Proof of History (PoH)](https://veda.ng/glossary/proof-of-history-poh)
- [Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)](https://veda.ng/glossary/directed-acyclic-graph-dag)
- [Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN)](https://veda.ng/glossary/depin-networks)
- [Intent-Centric Architecture](https://veda.ng/glossary/intent-centric-architecture)
- [Parallelized EVM](https://veda.ng/glossary/parallelized-evm)
- [Decentralized Sequencer](https://veda.ng/glossary/decentralized-sequencer)
- [Data Availability Sampling (DAS)](https://veda.ng/glossary/data-availability-sampling-das)
- [Decentralized Exchange (DEX)](https://veda.ng/glossary/decentralized-exchange-dex)
- [Web2](https://veda.ng/glossary/web2)
- [Internet of Things (IoT)](https://veda.ng/glossary/internet-of-things-iot)
- [Quantum Computing](https://veda.ng/glossary/quantum-computing)
- [Serverless Architecture](https://veda.ng/glossary/serverless-architecture)
- [Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)](https://veda.ng/glossary/ci-cd)
- [Containerization (Docker)](https://veda.ng/glossary/containerization)
- [Spatial Computing](https://veda.ng/glossary/spatial-computing)
- [Digital Twin](https://veda.ng/glossary/digital-twin)
- [DNS (Domain Name System)](https://veda.ng/glossary/dns)
- [REST API](https://veda.ng/glossary/rest-api)
- [TCP/IP](https://veda.ng/glossary/tcp-ip)
- [CDN (Content Delivery Network)](https://veda.ng/glossary/cdn)
- [SSL/TLS](https://veda.ng/glossary/ssl-tls)
- [Git](https://veda.ng/glossary/git)
- [Webhook](https://veda.ng/glossary/webhook)