Asset registry
A governed record that links an asset or instrument to identifiers, terms, responsible entities, technical representations, status, and source evidence.
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Digital asset chain glossary
Plain-language definitions for the technical, operational, and market terms used throughout DigitalAssetChain.com.
Atomic settlement
A state transition in which all required legs complete together or none complete. Technical atomicity does not by itself establish legal finality or liquidity.
Bridge
Infrastructure that relays state or value between independent blockchain environments, often through locking, minting, burning, messaging, or liquidity.
Canonical asset
The issuer-recognized or otherwise authoritative representation of an asset within a defined network or interoperability model.
Chain analytics
The indexing, decoding, enrichment, and interpretation of ledger data for positions, operations, risk, security, compliance, and research.
Consensus
The rules and process by which network participants agree on valid ordered state changes.
Custody
Safekeeping and control arrangements for keys, digital assets, and related records, including authorization, segregation, recovery, and reconciliation.
Delivery-versus-payment
A settlement arrangement that links delivery of an asset to delivery of payment so one leg occurs if and only if the other occurs under the defined model.
Digital asset
A digitally represented item, claim, entitlement, or unit that can be recorded and transferred under a technical and governance system.
Digital security
A security or investment interest represented or transacted through digital infrastructure. Treatment depends on facts, rights, distribution, and applicable law.
Distributed ledger
A synchronized record maintained across multiple nodes according to shared validation and update rules.
Finality
The point at which a transaction is treated as irreversible for a specific purpose. Protocol, operational, legal, and accounting finality can differ.
Idempotency
A property that lets the same request be retried without creating an additional state change, commonly implemented with a unique request key.
Issuer
The entity responsible for creating an instrument or obligation and for the rights and duties defined in its governing arrangement.
Key rotation
The controlled replacement of cryptographic keys while preserving authorization, continuity, and evidence.
Legal entity identifier
A standardized identifier used to distinguish legal entities and connect reference information across systems.
Mint
To create new token units under the permissions and supply rules of a contract or ledger.
Oracle
A service or mechanism that supplies external data or decisions to on-chain applications.
Permissioned network
A network in which one or more capabilities—such as reading, submitting, validating, or administering—are limited to approved parties.
Private key
Secret cryptographic material used to produce signatures or otherwise authorize actions. Control of a key may not equal legal ownership of the represented asset.
Real-world asset tokenization
The representation of a claim or interest connected to an off-chain or conventionally administered asset on a programmable platform.
Reconciliation
The comparison of records, balances, events, or states to identify differences and establish a controlled resolution.
Settlement asset
The form of money or value used to discharge the payment leg of a transaction.
Smart contract
Code deployed to a programmable ledger that applies defined state-transition rules when invoked.
Source of truth
The record or evidence designated as authoritative for a particular fact, such as ownership, identity, terms, balance, or payment status.
Token
A unit or record managed by a programmable system. Its economic and legal meaning comes from the arrangement surrounding it.
Tokenized deposit
A digital representation of a deposit claim within a banking arrangement, subject to the structure and rules of the issuing institution and jurisdiction.
Transaction hash
A network-derived identifier for a specific submitted transaction; it is not necessarily a complete business or settlement identifier.
Validator
A node or participant authorized by protocol rules to verify, order, attest to, or finalize transactions.
Verifiable credential
A digitally signed set of claims issued by an identified party that can be presented and checked by another party.
Wrapped asset
A representation on one network that depends on an asset or claim held, locked, or administered through another system.