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# Useful Crypto Acronyms

iNf4 **Part of the Blockchain ethos is ‘transparency’. At iNf4mation, we wish to harmoniously mirror that ethos, so to avoid any confusion with any of the abbreviations/acronyms contained in this document or that relate specifically to Blockchain in general, we list below an abbreviations table for your ease of reference:**

* **AES**        Advanced Encryption Standard
* **Al**           Artificial Intelligence
* **APAC**     Asia, Pacific
* **APEX**      Development platform for building software as a service (SaaS) applications on top of Salesforce
* **API**          Application Programming Interface
* **AWS**        Amazon Web Services
* **Bn**           Billion
* **BTC**         Bitcoin
* **CAGR**      Compound Annual Growth Rate
* **CDN**         Content Delivery Network
* **CRM**         Customer Relationship Management
* **DDOS**       Distributed Denial of Service
* **DeFi**       Decentralized Finance
* **DNS**          Domain Name System
* **DPoS**        Delegated Proof of Stake
* **ECDHE**      Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman
* **ECDSA**     Elliptical Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
* **ELB**            Elastic Load Balancers
* **EMEA**        Europe, Middle East & Africa
* **ERC20**       Ethereum Request for Comments which was born in Github (Software Development Platform). #20 is the unique proposal ID number
* **ETH**            Ethereum
* **GCM**           Galois/Counter Mode
* **Hex**             Hexadecimal
* **HTTP**          Hypertext Transfer Protocol
* **HTTPS**        Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
* **ITO**              Initial (Utility) Token Offering
* **iDJ**              iNf4mation Intelligent Dynamic Junctions
* **iNf4**                iNf4mation DeFi Utility Token
* **iNf4mation** iNf4mation (Seychelles) Ltd. A limited liability company incorporated in the Seychelles
* **IP**                Internet Protocol
* **IT**                Information Technology
* **ISVM**            iNf4mation Simple Smart Contract Language Virtual Machine
* **JSON**         JavaScript Object Notation
* **M**                Million
* **MD5**           Message-Digest Algorithm 5
* **NAT**           Network Address Translation
* **NIST**          National Institute of Standards and Technology
* **OWASP**      Open Web Application Security Protocol
* **P2P**             Peer-to-Peer
* **POC**           Proof of Concept
* **PoS**            Proof of Stake
* **PoW**           Proof of Work
* **RC4**             Ron's Code 4
* **REST**           Representational State Transfer
* **RPC**             Remote Procedure Call
* **RSA**             What is RSA algorithm (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman
* **SAN**            Storage Area Network
* **SHA**            Safe or Secure Hash Algorithm
* **SSL**            Secure Socket Layer
* **TAM**           Total Available Market
* **TCP**            Transmission Control Protocol
* **TGE**            Utility Token Generation Event
* **TLS**            Transport Layer Security
* **TVL**            Total Value Locked 
* **UI**              User Interface
* **U$D**          US Dollars ($)
* **UX**              User Experience
* **WAF**         Web Application Firewalls
* **XLM**            Stellar