A figurative term used for periods where declining prices of stocks and assets recover briefly and then continue to fall.

A dead cat bounce refers to a period where the price of an asset, security, or stock picks up briefly and then continues to fall. The term is widely used on Wall Street in response to the nature of stock market fluctuations. Thus, traders and investors say that the latest rise in price (which was immediately accompanied by an unrelenting plunge in stock prices) is a dead cat bounce.

The idea of dead cat bounces emerged from the notion that even dead cats bounce at least once when they fall from great heights. Thus, the principle is that no matter how market conditions are terrible and result in asset prices plummeting, there would still be a brief period where these prices rise a bit—and then continue falling.

Computer applications that run on a blockchain network and outside the control of any single authority.

A decentralized application (DApp) is a computer application or program that is native to a blockchain network. This program is different from typical digital applications in the sense that it does not run its processes on a single computer but on a network of computers. Secondly, even though DApps exist on multiple systems at the same time, they are not managed by any single or separate computer or user or group of users. Instead, these applications follow the traditional blockchain model of complete decentralization, effectively taking control of the applications away from a central authority.

DApps are among the foremost characteristics of the blockchain and crypto revolution that is credited with disrupting the typical business model. Apart from triggering a retrofitting of the finance sector, the use of DApps has also revolutionized gaming and social media.

A computing term used to describe computer programs that run in the background with no visible effects on the user interface.

A daemon is a concept in computing circles that is used to describe programs that often initiate themselves and only run in the background. These programs are usually important in some way and periodically assist processing by carrying out specific tasks along with user-enabled programs.

Some daemons are continually running in the background. These programs are initiated whenever the computer comes on and remain in execution mode until the user directly terminates them. However, other daemons remain in dormant mode until an associated computer application is launched by the user.

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