Glossary

Term	Meaning
Action	The unit a transaction is made of: it spends one note and creates one. The minimum fee is charged per action.
Anchor	A recent root of the note tree that a transaction proves its notes belong to.
Asset	A coin of the chain, with a number. 0 is `TINT`, 1 is `TUSD`.
Block	A batch of payments that the validators have agreed on.
Bridge	A contract and service that moves value between Tint and another network.
Custodial	Held by someone you must trust. The bridge is custodial today.
Fee	What a payment pays for being included, in the coin it moves.
Genesis	The first block, which sets the parameters and creates all coins.
Halo 2	The zero-knowledge proof system Tint uses; it needs no trusted setup.
Memo	A 512-byte encrypted text carried by a note.
Note	An encrypted record of an amount of one coin owned by an address.
Nullifier	A tag revealed when a note is spent, which stops it being spent twice without saying which note it was.
Orchard	The shielded-payment protocol of Zcash that Tint builds on.
Pool (shielded)	All the notes of one coin.
Pool (exchange)	The chain's built-in market that trades `TINT` and `TUSD` against each other.
Proof-of-stake	A way of choosing who builds blocks by stake rather than by computing power.
Recovery phrase	The 24 words from which all your keys are made.
Trial decryption	Trying to decrypt every new note with your key; the ones that open are yours.
TUSD	A test dollar on the Tint chain, backed by nothing.
Unit	The smallest amount: one coin is 100,000,000 units.
Validator	A node that takes part in agreeing on blocks.
Zero-knowledge proof	A proof that a statement is true that reveals nothing else about it.