| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Base units | The smallest unit of an amount: cents for the US dollar, the token’s smallest fraction for a token. Every amount is an integer string in base units, with decimals |
| Deposit | One cash movement on your account, read through /deposits, in a direction: deposit (your cash in), liquidation (that cash applied to tokens), withdraw or refund |
| Liquidation | The cash movement that applies a deposit to a token issuance, for the same amount. Recorded when the tokens are issued |
decimals | How many of an amount’s digits are after the decimal point |
| Envelope | The body of every webhook: eventType, eventId, timestamp and data |
eventId | The id of an event, in the body of its webhook; the deduplication key. Not the svix-id header, which is the message id |
| Holdings | What your account holds of each token, across every wallet and custody arrangement: totalTokens in GET /assets |
| Issuance | Tokens minted to you, for a subscription or a reinvested distribution |
| Payout | The cash of a redemption, from sent (investor.payout.initiated) to received (investor.payout.completed); also the cash value of a reinvested distribution |
| Redemption | Tokens you transfer back in exchange for cash, from accepted to paid, identified by its id |
| Reinvestment | A distribution paid in new tokens instead of cash |
| Subscription | Cash you deposit in exchange for newly issued tokens |
| Token | One fund’s token on one chain, identified by tokenId |
tokenIssuanceId | The id of one issuance: on the cash movements behind it, on its issuance transaction, and the data.id of its minting webhook. The key that reconciles a subscription |
| Transaction | One token movement on chain: an issuance to you or a transfer you make, identified by its id and its txHash |
txHash | The hash of a transaction on chain; the key that links a redemption transfer to its redemption and payout |
| UETR | Unique End-to-end Transaction Reference: the reference a wire transfer carries from bank to bank |
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