| Acronym | Term | Synonyms |
| 2FA | Two-Factor Authentication | |
| 4IR | Fourth Industrial Revolution | Industry 4.0, 4th industrial revolution |
| 5G | 5th Generation (mobile network) | Fifth generation (mobile network) |
| AGI | Artificial General Intelligence | General Artificial Intelligence, General AI |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence | |
| AM | Additive Manufacturing | 3D printing |
| AMM | Automated Market Maker | |
| AMQP | Advanced Message Queuing Protocol | |
| ANI | Artificial Narrow Intelligence | Narrow Artificial Intelligence, Narrow AI, Weak AI |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network | |
| API | Application Programming Interface | |
| aR | Assisted Reality | |
| AR | Augmented Reality | |
| ASIC | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit | |
| ASI | Artificial Social Intelligence | |
| ASI | Artificial Super Intelligence | Superintelligence, Hyperintelligence, Superhuman intelligence, Ultra-intelligence |
| ASR | Automatic Speech Recognition | |
| BBS | Blockchain-Based Solution | |
| BERT | Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (language model) | |
| CBDC | Central Bank Digital Currency | |
| CEC | Constant Error Carousel | |
| CeFi | Centralized Finance | |
| CEX | Centralized Exchange | |
| CGI | Computer-Generated Imagery | |
| CI | Collective intelligence | |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network | ConvNe |
| ConvNe | Convolutional Neural Network | CNN |
| CTC | Connectionist Temporal Classification | |
| CV | Computer Vision | |
| DAC | Decentralized Autonomous Corporation | |
| DAF | Decentralized Autonomous Federation | |
| DAG | Directed Acyclic Graph | |
| DAO | Decentralized Autonomous Organization | |
| dApp | Decentralized application | DApp, Dapp, dapp |
| DeFi | Decentralized Finance | |
| DeGov | Decentralized Governance | |
| DevOps | Development and Operations | |
| DES | Data Encryption Standard | |
| DEX | Decentralized Exchange | |
| DID | Decentralized Identifier | Decentralized ID |
| DL | Deep Learning | Deep Structured Learning |
| DLT | Distributed
Ledger Technology | |
| DMCA | Digital Millennium Copyright Act | |
| DNN | Deep Neural Network | |
| DoS | Denial of Service | |
| DP | Digital Philosophy | |
| DPoS | Delegated Proof-of-Stake | |
| DSL | Digital Subscriber Line | |
| ECDSA | Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm | |
| EOA | Externally Owned Account | |
| FoV | Field of View | |
| FOSS | Free and Open-Source Software | |
| FPT | Functional Programming Token | |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol | Application Layer Protocol (Web2) |
| FWA | Fixed Wireless Access | |
| GameFi | Hybrid term, combining Game and Finance | |
| GAN | Generative Adversarial Network | |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | |
| GPT | Generative Pre-Training (language model) | |
| GPU | Graphic Processing Unit | |
| GTP-3 | Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 | |
| GTP-4 | Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 | |
| Gwei | Giga-Wei | Shannon |
| HDRI | High Dynamic Range Image | |
| HMAC | Hash-based Message Authentication Code | |
| HMD | Head-Mounted Display | |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol | Application layer protocol and backbone of the World Wide Web (Web2) |
| HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure | |
| HUD | Head-Up Display | Heads-Up Display |
| ICO | Initial Coin Offering | |
| IDO | Initial DEX Offering | Initial Decentralized Exchange Offering |
| IDS | Intrusion Detection System | |
| IEO | Initial Exchange Offering | |
| Industry 4.0 | Fourth Industrial Revolution | 4IR |
| IIoT | Industrial Internet of Things | |
| IoT | Internet of Things | |
| IPFS | InterPlanetary File System | |
| IRL | In Real Life | |
| ISO | International Standardization Organization | |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider | |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Expert Group | JPG |
| JPG | Joint Photographic Expert Group | JPEG |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation | |
| KOL | Key Opinion Leader | |
| L2E | Learn-to-Earn | |
| LAN | Local Area Network | |
| LAWS | Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems | Lethal Autonomous Weapons, Killer robots |
| LLM | Large Language Model | |
| LP | Liquidity Pool | |
| LSTM | Long Short-Term Memory | |
| M2M | Machine-to-Machine (e.g. M2M communication) | |
| Metanomics | Hybrid term, combining metaverse and economics | |
| ML | Machine Learning | |
| MMORPG | Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game | |
| MQTT | Message Queuing Telemetry Transport
(standard for IoT messaging) | |
| MR | Mixed Reality | Hybrid Reality |
| uTP | Micro Transport Protocol | |
| MVP | Minimum Viable Product | |
| NFS | Non Fungible Signature | |
| NFT | Non-fungible token | |
| NFTs 2.0 | Second generation NFTs | uNFT, Utility NFT |
| NLNN | Non-Learning Neural Networks | |
| NLI | Natural Language Interpretation | |
| NLP | Natural Language Processing | |
| NLU | Natural Language Understanding | |
| NN | Neural Network | Neural Net |
| NPC | Non-Player Character | |
| NSFW | Not Safe For Work | |
| OSS | Open Source Software | |
| OTP token | One-Time Password token | |
| P2E | Play-to-Earn (gaming) | |
| P2P | Peer-to-peer | |
| PCFG | Probabilistic Context Free Grammar | |
| PDF | Portable Document Format | |
| PFP | Profile Picture | |
| PFP NFT | Profile Picture Non-Fungible Token | |
| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy | |
| Phygital | Fusion of the words physical and digital | |
| PII | Personally Identifiable Information | |
| PM | Programmable Money | |
| POAP | Proof of Attendance Protocol | |
| POP | Point of Presence | |
| PoS | Proof of Stake | |
| PoW | Proof of Work | |
| PPC | Pay Per Click | |
| PropTech | Property Technology | |
| PUP | Potentially Unwanted Program | |
| QR | Quick Response (code) | |
| RaaS | Ransomware as a Service | |
| RJT | Replicated Journal Technology | |
| RL | Reinforcement Learning | |
| RNN | Recurrent Neural Network | |
| RPA | Robotic Process Automation | |
| RSS | Really Simple Syndication | Rich Site Summary | |
| SC | Smart Contract | |
| SFX | Special Effects | |
| SIP | Session Initiation Protocol | |
| SL | Supervised Learning | |
| SLAM | Simultaneous Location And Mapping | |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | Application Layer Protocol (Web2) |
| SMR | State Machine Replication | |
| SNN | Simulated Neural Network | |
| SQL | Structured Query Language | |
| SR | Speech Recognition | |
| SSI | Self-Sovereign Identity | |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer | |
| SSO | Single Sign-On | |
| STML | Spoken Text Markup Language | |
| STO | Security Token Offering | |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol | |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security | |
| TOGAF | The Open Group Architecture Framework | TOTP |
| TokenID | Token Identifier | |
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| TOTP | Time-based One-time Password | |
| TTS | Text-to-Speech | |
| UGC | User-Generated Content | |
| UI | User Interface | |
| UL | Unsupervised Learning | |
| uNFT | Utility NFT | NFT 2.0 |
| UTXO | Unspent Transaction Output | |
| UX | User Experience | |
| VFX | Visual effects | |
| VR | Virtual Reality | |
| VTubing | Virtual YouTubing | |
| WAP | Wireless Access Point | |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium | |
| Web3 | Web 3.0 | Decentralized Web |
| WWW | World Wide Web | |
| XR | Extended Reality | X-Reality |
