A burn auction is a DeFi mechanism where users bid for accumulated protocol fees — the winning bid in native tokens is permanently burned, reducing circulating supply. Miss the mechanic and you miss the deflationary signal.

Builder payments are how Ethereum validators get paid by block builders capturing MEV. Who pays whom, how money moves, and what solo stakers really earn.

The Ethereum builder market is a real-time block-building auction — two firms control most of it, and your DEX swaps flow through it every time you trade.

Bridged TVL counts crypto locked in bridge contracts — not assets deployed in DeFi protocols. Here's how the metric works, why platforms disagree, and what it actually tells you about a chain.

Hop Protocol lets you move ETH and stablecoins between Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base in minutes — not 7 days. Fees, risks, and 2026 alternatives explained.

A bridge aggregator routes your tokens across chains by comparing multiple bridge protocols and picking the cheapest, fastest option — in a single transaction.

Bot volume is fake trading activity generated by automated wallets on DEXes to inflate a token's apparent popularity.

Bonding progress is the launchpad percentage bar tracking how close a meme-coin token is to graduating onto a DEX — and it can go backwards.

The blob market is Ethereum's hidden fee auction for L2 data. Most users never see it directly — but it controls how much Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism charge you.

Blast Points were the pre-token reward units on Blast L2 that automatically accrued in your wallet and converted to BLAST tokens in the June 2024 airdrop — before the price dropped 97%.