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What Is a Crypto Wallet (And Why You Need One)

A crypto wallet doesn’t store coins—it stores the keys that prove you own them. Learn how public and private keys work, the difference between hot and cold wallets, why seed phrases matter, and why you need a wallet to truly own anything on-chain.

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AMM

Automated Market Maker. A type of DEX that uses liquidity pools and a math formula instead of an order book. Uniswap and Raydium are classic AMMs.

Bridge

A tool that moves assets from one blockchain to another, usually by locking the asset on chain A and minting a representation on chain B.