The crypto glossary that gets your money
Clear definitions, with no jargon, written by the Bitso team. From Bitcoin to DeFi, a space for Latin America to understand its money.
Financial arbitrage
A strategy that takes advantage of price differences for the same asset across two markets, buying where it's cheap and selling where it's expensive to capture the gap with limited risk.
Financial leverage
Trading with borrowed money to control a position larger than your own capital, which multiplies both gains and losses.
Fixed income
A group of investments where the return is agreed upon in advance, by lending money to an issuer that commits to repaying it on a set date with interest known from day one.
How we built this glossary
This glossary is written and reviewed by the Bitso editorial team — the most used crypto platform in Latin America, with more than 9 million people trading in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Brazil. Every definition goes through product, compliance and financial-education specialists before being published.
Our goal is simple: that you truly understand what each concept means before moving your money. That's why we avoid unnecessary technical language and explain everything with examples designed for the region. If a term changes or a new one appears, we review it and keep it up to date.
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