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A form of private equity provided to fund small, early-stage firms considered to have high growth potential.
A verification code is a security protection method that is used to avoid internet bots from abusing or even spamming various online services. 
A bitcoin that has never been spent.
A virtual Automated Market Maker (vAMM) is a system that provides synthetic (or virtual) liquidity, allowing traders to buy and sell derivatives entirely on the blockchain.
Virtual reality (VR) technology is used to simulate an immersive artificial world that can mimic or transcend reality. V
Computers are usually infected with a virus when a user unknowingly installs it via a downloaded file.
Vitalik Buterin is one of the creators of Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency after Bitcoin.
A statistical measure of dispersion of returns, measured by using the standard deviation or variance between returns from that same security or market index.
How much cryptocurrency has been traded over a set period, such as the past 24 hours.
A place where cryptocurrency users can store, send and receive digital assets.
Wallstreetbets, otherwise known as /r/wallstreetbets or WSB, is a subreddit for participants to discuss stock and options trading. 
WannaCry is a piece of ransomware that can infect and spread rapidly through a number of computer networks. 
A form of market manipulation in which investors create artificial activity in the marketplace by simultaneously selling and buying the same cryptocurrencies.
A watchlist is a feature of the website where users can create their own lists of cryptocurrencies to follow. Alternative definition A watchlist is a set of pages a user has selected to monitor for changes.
An investor prone to panic selling at the first sign of a price decline.
Web 1.0 is a term that is often used to describe the early version of the internet.
Web 2.0 describes the current state of the web, which supports more user-generated content and stability for front-end users than its predecessor, Web 1.0
Web 3.0 is the coming generation of the internet.
The Web3 Foundation was created to foster new technologies and applications in the field of decentralized web software protocols.
The smallest fraction of an Ether, with each Ether to 1000000000000000000 Wei.