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An alternative ticker for bitcoin, following the convention that currencies belonging to no country start with X. You will meet it mostly on trading venues and in financial data feeds.

What you already know this as

The same naming rule that gives gold the code XAU. It marks something as belonging to no single country.

xPub

also called extended public key

A key that can generate every receiving address in a wallet without being able to spend from any of them. Useful for accounting, and a privacy problem if you share it, because it exposes your entire history at once.

What you already know this as

Read-only access to an account. Sensible for a bookkeeper, unwise to hand to a stranger.

The token of the XRP Ledger, a network built for moving value between currencies rather than for running applications. Long associated with settlement between financial institutions.

What you already know this as

A settlement asset, closer in intent to a bridging currency than to a share or a savings product.

A Singapore dollar stablecoin, backed by Singapore dollars held with a regulated custodian. Proof that stablecoins are not only a dollar story, even though dollars dominate the market.

What you already know this as

An e-money balance denominated in Singapore dollars rather than US dollars.

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