Glossary
AMM. Automated Market Maker. Decentralized pools based on underlying smart contracts which enable people to buy/sell cryptocurrencies.
APR (Annual Percentage Rate). A rate of return that doesn’t take compounding into account.
APY (Annual Percentage Yield). The actual rate of return that will be earned in one year if interest is compounded.
Autonio – Automated Nexus of Intelligent Operations.
DAO - Decentralized Autonomous Organization. An egalitarian entity set up for the governance and direction of a project or cause. It is inherently run by the people and for the people.
DeFi - Decentralized Finance. Financial cryptocurrency structures absent of centralized authorities and driven by smart contracts running on blockchain.
DEX - Decentralized Exchange. A peer-to-peer network allowing the exchange of cryptocurrencies.
IMM. Intelligent Market Maker. Algorithmic AI market making approach enabling smarter and more logical trading.
LLiquidity - The measurement of accessibility to an asset based on quantity available.
Liquidity Pool - Funds deposited for the purpose of providing liquidity for a particular asset.
LP tokens. Liquidity Pool tokens. Incentives for users who provide liquidity. They can be put to work in various yield farming opportunities.
MetaMask - Web3 crypto browser wallet.
NIOX - Native token of the Autonio ecosystem.
NIOX maker - Cost-effective market making bot providing automated liquidity and volume building for selected crypto pairs.
NIOX Swarm - Autonio's liquidity provision protocol. NIOX Swarm takes a marketplace-driven approach to market making, bringing crowdsourced liquidity to open orderbook based exchanges.
NIOX Suite - Autonio’s line of professional trading products.
Prosperism – The philosophy behind Autonio. Its aim is to create a zero-loss decentralized ecosystem: to better achieve the generation and spreading of wealth, based on the incentivized and equitable sharing of assets between peers.
Smartdex - Autonio’s native DEX, which comprises most of the top features in the marketplace.
Staking - The process whereby a cryptocurrency is held in a given place (wallet, exchange), where interest or other benefits can be accrued.
Vaults - Automate and optimize the best yields available in a given blockchain ecosystem.