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# Glossary

| **TERM**                              | **MEANING (Everyday Language)**                                                                                                                |
| ------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Cryptic**                           | A post-quantum secure communication and crypto-native payments ecosystem built across Mobile, Desktop, and SDK infrastructure.                 |
| **Cryptic Mobile**                    | The consumer app for private messaging, wallet functionality, payments, QR flows, card access, and everyday crypto-native communication.       |
| **Cryptic Desktop**                   | A native desktop workspace for secure messaging, wallet actions, swaps, lending, encrypted notes, storage, privacy tools, and integrations.    |
| **Cryptic SDK**                       | The developer and protocol layer that lets apps, protocols, teams, and future agent systems add post-quantum encrypted communication.          |
| **Quantum-Resistant / Post-Quantum**  | Security designed to remain strong against future quantum computers that may break today’s public-key encryption.                              |
| **Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)**   | New cryptographic standards designed to replace older systems and protect sensitive data over the long term.                                   |
| **ML-KEM / Kyber**                    | A post-quantum method used to establish shared encryption keys securely.                                                                       |
| **ML-DSA / Dilithium**                | A post-quantum digital signature system used to help prove that messages, invites, or signed data are authentic and unchanged.                 |
| **End-to-End Encryption**             | Encryption where only the intended participants can read message content.                                                                      |
| **Non-Custodial Wallet**              | A wallet model where users control their private keys and assets. Cryptic is designed around non-custodial flows where applicable.             |
| **Private Keys**                      | Secret cryptographic keys that control access to a wallet, identity, or encrypted data. Whoever controls the key controls the access.          |
| **Secure Enclave / Android Keystore** | Protected storage environments on supported devices that help keep sensitive keys away from normal app storage.                                |
| **Chat-Native Payments**              | Payment flows that happen from inside or alongside a conversation, reducing the need to copy addresses or switch apps.                         |
| **Settlement**                        | The final confirmation that a transaction has completed on a blockchain or payment network.                                                    |
| **Solana**                            | A high-speed blockchain used by Cryptic for low-cost crypto-native transaction activity across supported product flows.                        |
| **On-Chain**                          | Recorded on a blockchain and publicly verifiable.                                                                                              |
| **DeFi (Decentralized Finance)**      | Financial services built on blockchains, such as swaps, lending, borrowing, and liquidity markets.                                             |
| **Jupiter**                           | A Solana swap and routing infrastructure that can help users find efficient token swap routes where integrated.                                |
| **Kamino**                            | A Solana DeFi protocol used for lending, borrowing, and position-related workflows where integrated.                                           |
| **Irys / Arweave**                    | Storage infrastructure used for permanent or decentralized storage workflows, including encrypted file and vault use cases where supported.    |
| **Privacy Tools**                     | Integrations or workflows designed to give users more controlled transaction or coordination flows, depending on the feature and network used. |
| **WalletConnect / Reown**             | Infrastructure that allows wallet connections and dApp interactions across supported applications.                                             |
| **Fiat On-Ramp / Off-Ramp**           | Ways to move between traditional money, such as USD or EUR, and crypto.                                                                        |
| **Zebec Card**                        | A crypto card integration that may support card-related spending flows where available.                                                        |
| **Treasury**                          | A pool of ecosystem resources used to support development, security, growth, incentives, integrations, and treasury operations.                |
| **Buyback**                           | When treasury resources are used to purchase CT from the open market, where policy, revenue, and market conditions allow.                      |
| **Burn**                              | Tokens permanently removed from circulation.                                                                                                   |
| **Fixed Supply**                      | A hard cap on how many tokens will ever exist. Cryptic has a fixed supply of 100 million CT.                                                   |
| **Token Utility**                     | What the token is used for, such as access, usage tiers, incentives, participation, and ecosystem alignment.                                   |
| **Staking**                           | Locking tokens to access benefits, incentives, or participation rights where supported by the token model.                                     |
| **Tiered Access**                     | Different levels of product access or benefits based on usage, subscription, token holding, staking, or other approved mechanisms.             |
| **SDK Access**                        | Access to developer tools or APIs that allow third parties to build on Cryptic’s secure communication layer.                                   |
| **Enterprise Deployment**             | A business or institutional deployment path that may include self-hosted infrastructure, custom integrations, or controlled rollout options.   |
| **Audit**                             | An independent security review of code, systems, contracts, or infrastructure.                                                                 |
| **Doxxed Team**                       | A team whose real identities are public.                                                                                                       |
| **CertiK KYC**                        | A third-party identity verification process confirming that leadership identities have been reviewed.                                          |
| **SPL Token**                         | A standard token type on Solana, similar in concept to ERC-20 on Ethereum.                                                                     |
| **Multichain**                        | Support for more than one blockchain network.                                                                                                  |
| **Post-Quantum Migration**            | The global transition from older encryption systems toward post-quantum cryptographic standards.                                               |