Glossary

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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.

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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.

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IMM. Intelligent Market Maker. Algorithmic AI market making approach enabling smarter and more logical trading.

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Liquidity - 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.

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MetaMask - Web3 crypto browser wallet.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Vaults - Automate and optimize the best yields available in a given blockchain ecosystem.