Common acronyms for decentralized finance

• DeFi: Decentralized finance‍
• AMM: Automated market maker‍
• LP: Liquidity provider/pool ‍
• IL: Impermanent Loss‍
• DEX: Decentralized exchange
• CEX: Centralized exchange
• BSC: Binance Smart Chain‍
• APY: Annual Percentage Yield‍
• APR: Annual Percentage Rate‍
• TVL: Total Value Locked
• EVM: Ethereum Virtual Machine‍
• dApp: Decentralized Application‍
• PoW: Proof of Work.
• PoS: Proof of Stake‍
• IDO: Initial Decentralized Offering‍
• ICO: Initial Coin Offering‍
• IEO: Inital Exchange Offering
• IFO: Inital Farm Offering
• LBP: Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool
• DAO: Decentralized Autonomous Organization
• VC: Venture Capital

This list will be regularly updated. If you find I’ve left out a certain term, feel free to contact me on Twitter.