Ordellum PlatformEcosystem
Glossary
The terms used across the Ordellum documentation, explained in plain language.
- AML/CFT
- Anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism: the controls used to detect and report illicit flows.
- KYT (Know Your Transaction)
- Evaluating a finalised financial transfer against AML rule layers, including automatic sanctions checks for sender and recipient.
- Sanctions screening
- Checking addresses, people or organisations against lists such as OFAC, EU, UN and UK HMT.
- SAR / STR
- Suspicious Activity Report or Suspicious Transaction Report, filed with a financial intelligence unit by the regulated entity.
- Travel Rule
- FATF Recommendation 16: originator and beneficiary information that must accompany qualifying virtual-asset transfers.
- VASP / CASP
- Virtual Asset Service Provider / Crypto-Asset Service Provider — the regulated businesses that Analytics supports.
- Policy-as-data
- Regulatory thresholds, retention periods and reporting flows managed as versioned, approved policy packages rather than hard-coded values.
- Case
- One or more events combined into the same alert or investigation file.
- Zero-knowledge proof
- A cryptographic proof that a statement is true — for example “over 18” — without revealing the data behind it.
- DID
- Decentralised Identifier, a W3C standard for identifiers controlled by their owner rather than a central registry.
- Verifiable Credential
- A W3C-standard, tamper-evident credential that can be presented to and verified by any compatible platform.
- Selective disclosure
- Sharing only the specific result a service needs, such as “KYC level 2 or above”, and nothing else.
- Revocation
- Cancelling a credential so that any later presentation of it is detected as invalid.
- Normalised event
- A verified on-chain activity such as a transfer, swap, liquidity change, NFT trade, staking or governance action — the main usage unit of Analytics.
- Cross-feed
- The two-way exchange of signals between compliance and analytics so that each improves the other.
- Clean DAU / Clean Volume
- Daily active users and trading volume with bots, sybil accounts, wash trading and sanctioned activity filtered out.
- Cohort
- A group of users who share a starting point or behaviour, tracked together over time.
- Retention
- The share of users who return after their first interaction, measured over days, weeks or months.
- RFM
- Recency, Frequency and Monetary value — three scores used to place users into behavioural segments.
- ASTRAEA
- The Analytics evidence engine that reviews high-risk alerts by gathering evidence for and against a suspicion.
- Verified package generation
- A complete run that turns requirements into a versioned artefact with a signed manifest and verification report.
- Building block (module)
- An independent software component — for example a financial mechanism, identity layer, game mechanic or governance structure.
- Module composition
- Combining two or more building blocks into one compatible structure according to dependency, interface, version and security rules.
- Deployment environment
- A target with its own configuration, secrets, access policy and deployment history, such as staging or production.
- Rollback
- A controlled return to a previously verified and signed artefact version.
- Gas
- The network fee paid to execute an on-chain transaction; always borne by the customer and never hidden in a subscription.
- Room
- A game space for up to 100 players that can host multiple sessions during its lifetime, public or invitation-only.
- Travel phase
- The 90-second phase in which players move between countries and use movement-related cards.
- Pause phase
- The 60-second phase for strategy, chat, alliance talks and non-movement cards.
- Fog of war
- The rule that rival positions and the treasure location are never shown directly — only traces that do not reveal meaningful position.
- Treasure package
- The reward a winner receives, in one of four rarity levels, which can be opened or sold unopened.