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Termo	Categoria	Em uma frase
Admin Key Risk	Risk & Failure Modes	The risk created when a small group holds keys able to change, pause, or drain a protocol that presents itself as automatic.
Bankruptcy Claim	Risk & Failure Modes	A creditor's legal claim in a failed company's court process, which determines who gets paid, how much, and in what order.
Bridge Exploit	Risk & Failure Modes	An attack on the software that moves assets between blockchains, usually by faking the proof that a deposit happened on the other chain.
Censorship Risk	Risk & Failure Modes	The risk that certain transactions are excluded or delayed because the parties who order transactions choose, or are required, to leave them out.
Centralization Risk	Risk & Failure Modes	The risk that a system described as decentralized actually depends on a small number of operators, keys, or service providers.
Client Concentration	Risk & Failure Modes	The share of a network's nodes running the same software implementation, where a single bug could affect all of them together.
Concentration Risk	Risk & Failure Modes	The risk created when a large share of something, such as supply, deposits, or trading activity, sits with a few holders or venues.
Counterparty Risk	Risk & Failure Modes	The risk that the other side of an arrangement, such as an exchange, lender, or issuer, fails to deliver what it owes you.
Depeg Risk	Risk & Failure Modes	The risk that a token designed to hold a steady value, usually one dollar, trades away from that value.
Dusting Attack	Risk & Failure Modes	Sending tiny amounts of an asset to many addresses so the sender can watch how those amounts later move and link addresses to one owner.
Exit Scam	Risk & Failure Modes	When a business holding customer funds stops honoring withdrawals and its operators disappear with the balance.
Front-Running	Risk & Failure Modes	Seeing a pending transaction and placing your own ahead of it to profit from the price move it will cause.
Governance Attack	Risk & Failure Modes	Acquiring enough voting power in a protocol to pass a proposal that hands its assets or its controls to the attacker.
Insolvency	Risk & Failure Modes	When a firm's liabilities exceed its assets, or it can no longer pay what it owes as obligations fall due.
Insurance Fund	Risk & Failure Modes	A pool of assets a trading venue or protocol sets aside to absorb losses when a liquidation fails to cover a debt.
Liquidity Risk	Risk & Failure Modes	The risk that a position cannot be traded at a reasonable price because there are not enough willing buyers or sellers at that moment.
Oracle Failure	Risk & Failure Modes	When the outside data a blockchain application depends on, usually a price, is wrong, delayed, or manipulated, and the application acts on it anyway.
Protocol Emergency Pause	Risk & Failure Modes	A built-in switch letting designated parties freeze some or all of a protocol's functions during an attack or a discovered bug.
Rug Pull	Risk & Failure Modes	When the people behind a token remove the money backing it, or sell their own large holding, leaving buyers with something they cannot sell.
Sandwich Attack	Risk & Failure Modes	Placing one trade immediately before and another immediately after someone else's swap, so their trade moves the price in your favor.
Smart Contract Risk	Risk & Failure Modes	The risk that the code running a blockchain application behaves differently from what users expect, and money is lost as a result.
Upgradeability Risk	Risk & Failure Modes	The risk that the code holding your funds can be replaced with different code after you have deposited.
Validator Concentration	Risk & Failure Modes	How much of a proof-of-stake network's voting power sits with a small number of operators or staking services.

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