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1 Acronyms and Abbreviations

This report uses the following abbreviations:
2FA Two factor Authentication
ABFT Asynchronous Byzantine fault Tolerance
ADR Alternative Dispute Resolution
Altcoin Alternative Coin
AML Anti-Money Laundering
BaaS Blockchain-as-a-Service
BFT Byzantine fault Tolerance
BIP Bitcoin Improvement Proposal
CBDC Central Bank Digital Currency
C&S Clearing and Settlement
DAG Directed Acylic Graph
DAO Decentralized autonomous organization
DApps Decentralized Applications
Ddos Distributed Denial of Service
DeFi Decentralized Finance
DFC Digital Fiat Currency
DFS Digital Financial Services
DEX Decentralized Exchange
DL Distributed Ledger
DLT Distributed Ledger Technology
ERC-20 Ethereum Request for Comment 20
EVM Ethereum Virtual Machine
FinTech Financial Technology
FATF Financial Action Task Force
ICO Initial Coin Offering
ID Identity
IoT Internet of Things
KYC Know Your Customer
POC Proof of Concept
POET Proof of Elapsed Time
POS Proof of Stake
POW Proof of Work
RCL Ripple Consensus Ledger
RegTech Regulatory Technology
SC Smart contract
SEC Securities and Exchange Commission
SegWit Segregated Witness
SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
TPS Transactions Per Second
AML/CFT Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism

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