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Exchange listing is the process through which a token or coin issuing project places its native asset up for trading on a platform that offers cryptocurrency trading services. Listing can be considered one of the most important stages of development for a project, since it ensures the commencement of live trading of the native asset, providing liquidity and circulation, which in turn sets in motion the law of supply and demand. In the given material, we will take the example of the TON token to explore the main reasons for token listing on exchanges, as well as the stages that a digital asset should go through before being listed. Excha

In the previous article we analyzed the most commonly used terms related to mining and trading. Time to go for all our favorite abbreviations. Dear experienced blockchain and cryptocurrency users, forgive us for some simplifications, we want to make life of less experienced colleagues easier, not confuse them even more :) FUD and FOMO - the first is Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, and the second is Fear of Missing Out. Psychological problems faced by newcomers to the stock exchange. FUD, roughly speaking, is the fear of making a mistake due to ignorance and uncertainty, FOMO is the fear of missing out on profits, buying and selling madly.

An oracle is software that finds and confirms data from the outside world (off-chain) and transfers it to the smart contracts on the blockchain (on-chain). One particularly illustrative example is the transfer of information from exchanges and price aggregators to the smart contract controlling the liquidity pool. The information oracles transfer contains the prices of different cryptocurrencies represented in the liquidity pool. In a general sense, an oracle is any service that can transfer to the blockchain data it does not possess. Oracles can be centralized (i.e. managed by one organization) or decentralized (managed by a DAO): the

DeFi (Decentralized finance) is a general term denoting various financial applications based on the blockchain and cryptocurrencies that are aimed at creating an alternative financial system that works without intermediaries. When any such DeFi applications are created, equal participants of the community have access to copies of their transaction histories. Consequently, the transactions are not controlled by any centralized body, which means that they cannot be altered or falsified. In terms of functional potential, DeFi applications offer the full range of traditional financial instruments, but often provide a higher income due to th