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Glossary

SAO - semi-decentralized autonomous organisation

EOA - Externally Owned Account, briefly normal ethereum account

Native token - the token, which is the main currency of some blockchain (like STOS, BNB, ETH)

Mintable token - the token, which is already exists on some chain and should be replicated on another;

Mint - process of exoswap token creation;

Burn - process of exoswap token deletion;

Lock - process to hold the amount of donored tokens in the bridge in order to make future exoswap tokens;

Unlock - process to release the amount of donored tokens in the bridge;

Enter - the starting point of bridge execution to lock/burn tokens;

Exit - the end point of bridge execution to unlock/mint tokens;

Cosigner - participant of fraud detection and proof creation for bridge exit process;

Verifier group - group of cosigners that applied more than 66% of votes

Orchestrator - in terms of bridge, the main bridge which connects different networks