The glossary, written for institutional readers.

An Ethereum standard that lets smart contracts behave as user accounts. Institutions use it to enforce 2-of-N signatures, daily spending limits, and corporate policies at the contract level instead of relying on an external custodian's controls. ımyo's Ethereum silo integrates natively.

The replacement for periodic security audits. A swarm of specialised AI agents reviews every code change before deployment and monitors the protocol 24/7 after, producing cryptographic attestations from inside Trusted Execution Environments.

The largest crypto-native lending protocol by deposits ($13.3B on Aave V3 as of July 2026, down from $19.4B pre-Kelp). Pioneered the pool-based interest-rate model. Architecturally interconnected, which made it a vector during the April 2026 contagion.

BlackRock's USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, tokenised by Securitize. Launched March 2024; AUM peaked near $2.9B in mid-2025. Now multi-chain (Ethereum, Aptos, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, Polygon, Solana, BNB). First tokenised fund accepted as off-exchange collateral on a major centralised venue (Binance, Nov 2025).

Infrastructure that moves a token from one chain to another, typically via a lock-and-mint or burn-and-mint pattern. Historically the single largest source of DeFi loss by dollar value. ımyo deliberately does not put bridges in the collateral-trust path.

"Crypto-Asset Service Provider" under MiCA — the EU's licensed entity class for venues, custodians, and brokers. Authorised CASPs can passport their services across all 30 EEA countries.

Three classes of acceptable collateral on ımyo: Tier 1 (sovereign cash equivalents), Tier 2 (investment-grade credit), Tier 3 (private credit, structured assets). Each tier has its own LTV ceiling, AI-adjusted in real time.

The property whereby an on-chain position is itself a transferable, programmable object — so a receipt token from one protocol can be posted as collateral on another in a single atomic transaction. The structural reason DeFi total value compounds non-linearly with adoption.

The canonical neutral data source for DeFi total value locked, lending deposits, and protocol-level metrics. Cited throughout this site.

Security applied at the network perimeter — before requests reach origin. ımyo runs Cloudflare WAF, L7 DDoS protection, DNSSEC, and Workers AI for anomaly detection.

An uncollateralised loan that must be borrowed and repaid in a single transaction. A constructive primitive for arbitrage and liquidations; a recurring attack vector when combined with oracle manipulation. ımyo's economic-attack simulator explicitly tests against flash-loan paths.

The mathematical proof that a piece of code satisfies a specified invariant under all possible inputs. Performed by the ımyo Auditor Swarm before any code reaches mainnet.

"Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act", signed 18 July 2025. The US's first federal stablecoin framework. Permitted payment stablecoins are not securities and not commodities under federal law; issuers must hold 1:1 reserves and disclose monthly.

The emergency multisig. Requires 7 of 11 named human signers plus a verified AI attestation from the Sentinel Swarm before any pause or veto action. Eliminates the "rogue multisig" failure mode without surrendering operational control to a model.

Japanese for "another name; alias". The protocol's name; literally the alternative name a thing earns when its public name no longer fits.

A multi-step atomic transaction on Sui. Lets ımyo execute a 5× leverage loop, delta-neutral hedge, or collateral migration in a single block with deterministic finality.

The 20 April 2026 restaking exploit that drained more than $13 billion of total value locked out of DeFi inside 48 hours. The architectural lesson ımyo is built around: shared liquidity is shared contagion.

The pre-emptive rebalancing of a position 15–30 minutes before a hard liquidation would trigger, driven by the Sentinel Swarm's volatility forecast.

The ratio of borrowed value to collateral value. ımyo sets LTVs continuously, per asset, per duration, driven by an AI model that ingests liquidity, oracle dispersion, issuer spread and macro vol.

The current leader in institutional-grade DeFi lending. AUM grew from $500m to over $4B during 2025; expected to cross $10B in 2026. The reference point for what an institutional DeFi venue can look like; ımyo sits at the regulated end of the same category.

The EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. Fully applicable from 30 December 2024; full enforcement from 1 July 2026. By Q1 2025, 65%+ of EU crypto firms were MiCA-compliant; over 30% of EU institutional investors increased digital-asset exposure post-MiCA.

The smart-contract language used on Sui (and Aptos). Object-oriented, resource-typed, and explicitly designed to make double-spend and re-entrancy bugs structurally impossible.

The spread between price feeds from independent oracle providers (Chainlink, Pyth, RedStone, spot venues). When dispersion exceeds a per-asset tolerance, ımyo auto-pauses liquidations on the affected asset.

The Sui native primitive for atomic multi-step transactions. Powers single-click intents on ımyo's Sui silo.

The practice of re-using staked assets as collateral or security for additional protocols. Architecturally efficient; risk-correlated by design. The mechanism through which the April 2026 contagion propagated.

Tokenised representation of an off-chain asset — Treasury Bills, commercial paper, private credit, real estate, trade-finance receivables. RWA on-chain crossed $33.9B by late 2025 (~70% YoY growth).

The 24/7 post-deployment AI monitoring layer. Anomalous-mint detection, oracle vigilance, mempool surveillance, and predictive volatility forecasting. Runs inside TEEs; signs cryptographic attestations on every signal.

The architectural rule that ımyo's Sui and Ethereum deployments share no collateral, no receipt tokens, no bridge dependencies. A failure on one chain is contained to that chain.

A digital asset designed to maintain a 1:1 peg to a reference currency. Under the GENIUS Act, a "permitted payment stablecoin" is not a security, not a commodity, must be 1:1 backed, and must publicly disclose reserves monthly.

An L1 blockchain optimised for parallel transaction execution and object-oriented state. Native programmable transaction blocks make atomic multi-step strategies cheap and deterministic. ımyo's Move silo runs here.

A hardware-isolated execution environment (Intel SGX, AMD SEV) that produces a cryptographic attestation binding output to a specific code build on specific hardware. Used by ımyo's Auditor and Sentinel swarms.

An on-chain claim against a US Treasury Bill, typically wrapped through a permissioned issuance platform like Securitize. The single largest category within tokenised RWAs; BUIDL is the largest individual fund.

The dollar value of assets deposited inside a smart-contract protocol. The reference metric for DeFi adoption. DeFi-wide TVL traded around $130–140B in early 2026 and ~$75B in July 2026 after the Kelp drawdown; lending alone held ~$39B (July 2026).

A lending facility where the loan exceeds posted collateral value. On ımyo this is gated by ZK-attested off-chain credit scoring, available to whitelisted top-tier institutional borrowers.

Zero-knowledge proof of an attribute (e.g., "is a MiCA-compliant CASP") without disclosing the underlying entity or transaction detail. Enables compliant institutional participation on a public ledger.