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Key Concepts & Glossary

onchain.cc has its own vocabulary — some of it standard crypto terminology, some of it specific to the terminal. This page covers both.


Term Definition
Spot The order-book spot trading product, powered by Hyperliquid. A deep universe of USDC pairs with market, limit, and TWAP orders. Shares one USDC balance with Perps.
Perps Perpetual futures, powered by Hyperliquid. Go long or short with leverage; no expiry. Uses the shared Perps/Spot balance.
Trenches The token-launch product. A live scanner and trading surface for new tokens — Solana launches across the PumpFun, LaunchLab, and Meteora launchpads, plus Robinhood Chain launches — from first block to graduation and beyond.
Predictions Prediction markets powered by Polymarket. Buy Yes or No shares on real-world events; winning shares settle at $1.
Swap Cross-chain token swaps across 13 supported chains, with automatic best-price routing.
Portfolio Your consolidated view: wallet holdings, Spot, Perps, and Predictions balances, positions, and PnL.
Dashboard Your customizable home screen — build it from 30+ widgets, save up to three layouts, share and import boards.
Colosseum The competitive layer. Trading earns points; points build rank and standing on prize-pool leaderboards.

Term Definition
CA Contract Address — the unique on-chain identifier for a token. Paste a CA into the search bar to pull up any token instantly.
Self-custody You hold your own private keys. No exchange or third party can access, freeze, or move your funds. onchain.cc is fully self-custody.
Privy The authentication and wallet infrastructure behind sign-in. Supports Google, email, and wallet login, and manages embedded wallets non-custodially.
Embedded wallet The self-custody Solana and EVM wallets attached to your account when you sign in with Google or email. View them — and export their keys — on the Wallets page.
Carbium The Solana routing engine behind Swap. It splits and routes orders across DEX liquidity to get the best available price.
Slippage The difference between the price you expect and the price you get at execution. Your slippage tolerance is the maximum move you’ll accept before the trade reverts.
MEV protection Routing safeguards against sandwich attacks on Solana swaps. On by default.
Gas fee The network’s fee for processing a transaction, paid in the chain’s native token. Sponsored on most supported EVM chains.
Maker / Taker On order-book products: a maker order rests on the book and adds liquidity; a taker order fills immediately against it. Takers pay slightly higher fees.
TWAP Time-Weighted Average Price — an order type that splits a large order into small slices over a chosen duration to reduce market impact.
Funding rate On perps: the hourly payment exchanged between longs and shorts that keeps the perp price anchored to the underlying.
Liquidation The automatic close of a leveraged position when its margin can no longer support it.

Term Definition
Launchpad The platform a token launched on. Trenches covers PumpFun, LaunchLab (Raydium), and Meteora.
Bonding curve The pricing contract new launchpad tokens trade on before graduation. Buys push the price up the curve; sells push it down.
Graduation The point where a token completes its bonding curve and its liquidity migrates to a full DEX (PumpFun tokens graduate to PumpSwap). After graduation it trades like any other token.
Snipe A fast pre-configured buy on a launchpad token, using your saved amount, slippage, and priority settings.
USD1 A USD stablecoin supported as a Trenches funding currency alongside SOL and USDC.
Tracker The wallet-tracking tab in Trenches — follow up to 50 wallets, get live buy/sell/launch alerts, and see their trades on your charts.
Dev / Sniper / Bundler / Insider Holder-analysis flags on every token showing what share of supply is held by the token deployer, early snipers, bundled buyers, and insiders.

Term Definition
Points Earned automatically from trading volume across all products, plus quests. Your lifetime points balance never resets; your seasonal rank points drive the rank climb.
Rank Your seasonal standing: Recruit → Warrior → Gladiator → Champion → Warlord → Immortal. Rank sets your cashback rate, and resets to Recruit for everyone when a new season opens.
Cashback 25–50% of the onchain.cc fee returned to you in USDC, by rank. Accrues live as you trade; claim it before it expires.
Season A long-running campaign with a prize pool and its own boosts.
Session A shorter competition window inside a season — typically weekly — with its own leaderboard and prizes.
Quest A challenge that pays bonus points, boosts, or loot boxes — daily, weekly, or one-time.
Loot Box A reward drop earned from quests and milestones. Four rarities: Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary. Contains points or USDC.
Faction A team of up to 50 traders competing together. Top factions by weekly volume earn a points multiplier for every member.
Vault A community campaign: the whole terminal trades toward a shared volume target to unlock rewards.
Bonus Window A time-limited event that boosts point earnings for eligible trades.
Social Scoring Points progress for quality posts about onchain.cc on X.


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