Glossary
Plain meanings for words you will meet.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| AUR | The coin of AUREN. |
| Spark | The smallest piece of AUR. 1 AUR = 1,000,000,000 sparks. |
| Wallet | The app that holds your keys and lets you send and receive. |
| Address | Like a bank account number for receiving AUR. Starts with aur1, taur1 or daur1. Safe to share. |
| Recovery key | The secret that can rebuild your wallet. Never share it. |
| Node | A computer that keeps a copy of the network and checks every payment. |
| Validator | A node that also confirms new blocks and is paid for it. |
| Block | A batch of payments confirmed together, about every 1 to 2 seconds. |
| Transaction | A payment or action. The wallet calls them "payments". |
| Fee | A small payment to the network for confirming yours. It is burned. |
| Burn | Removing coins from existence for good. |
| Staking | Locking AUR behind a validator to earn rewards. |
| Unbonding | The waiting period before staked coins come back. |
| Commission | The part of staking rewards a validator keeps. |
| Faucet | A button that gives you coins on the devnet and testnet. |
| Devnet / Testnet / Mainnet | The three networks. Mainnet is the real one. |
| Explorer | A website to look up blocks, payments, addresses and names. |
| Name / domain | An easy name for an address, like alice.aur. |
| TLD / name ending | The last part of a name: .aur, .david. You can create your own. |
| Trusted helpers | People or wallets that can help you recover your account (called guardians in the technical docs). |
| Daily limit | The most that can leave your account per day. |
| Proposal / governance | A suggested change to network settings that stakers vote on. |
| Epoch | A period of blocks. Node rewards are paid per epoch. |
| Node reward | AUR paid to nodes that prove they store the chain. |
| EVM | The system that runs smart contracts, compatible with Ethereum. |
| Smart contract | A program that lives on the network. |
| RPC | The way apps talk to a node. |
| SDK | A code library for building apps that use AUREN. |