Glossary
Address
A public identifier used to send and receive on-chain assets, derived from a wallet's public key via hashing.
An address is a short, public string that identifies a destination on a blockchain. It is derived from a public key by hashing (and on most chains, encoding) so that it is unforgeable yet shorter and easier to share than the underlying key.
You can publish an address freely — it lets others send you assets —
but anyone who controls the matching private key controls the funds at
that address. Address formats vary by chain (Bitcoin: bc1...,
Ethereum: 0x..., Solana: base58) and a single seed phrase can
derive billions of them.