Origin Dictionary
The language of financial transition.
The Dictionary is the public language and distribution layer of Origin Protocol. Each definition turns the underlying grammar into a discrete, searchable and distributable entry point — designed to travel across platforms and lead audiences into the wider body of work.
Rage Bait
Rage bait is content deliberately made to provoke anger so that people give it attention or engage with it.
Real-World Assets
In crypto and tokenization, real-world assets, or RWAs, are assets originating outside the blockchain, such as property, commodities or conventional financial claims represented through tokens.
Reciprocity
Reciprocity is responding to another person’s actions toward oneself with a corresponding action in return.
Reservation Price
A reservation price is the highest price a buyer will pay or the lowest price a seller will accept for a transaction.
Reserve Currency
A reserve currency is a currency held by central banks or monetary authorities as part of foreign-exchange reserves, often through deposits and securities denominated in it.
Retail Therapy
Retail therapy is shopping to improve your mood or ease unpleasant feelings.
Retirement
Retirement is a life stage in which someone stops or substantially reduces their main paid work, often relying more on pensions, savings or other resources.
Rich
Rich describes having a lot of money, income or valuable assets relative to some comparison. It has no single financial cutoff.
Rich Kids
Rich kids is an informal description of children or young adults growing up with substantial family financial resources.
Rich vs Wealthy
Rich vs wealthy is a popular distinction between having high income or visible spending power and holding accumulated resources that can support life over time.
Rug Pull
Rug pull is a common crypto term for a scheme in which insiders exploit control to remove funds, withdraw liquidity or abandon commitments at other participants' expense.
Salary Negotiation
Salary negotiation is a discussion between a worker or job candidate and an employer aimed at agreeing on pay.
Sanctions
Sanctions are restrictions imposed by governments or international bodies on dealings with specified countries, people, organizations or sectors. Financial sanctions can freeze assets or prohibit transactions.
Sandwich Generation
The sandwich generation refers to adults supporting younger and older generations at the same time, through money, care, time or a combination.
Saving
Saving means setting aside money for later use rather than spending it now.
Scarcity
Scarcity exists when available resources cannot satisfy all the competing uses or wants for them.
Second Shift
The second shift is the unpaid household and caregiving work people perform in addition to their paid employment.
Shadowban
A shadowban is a restriction on the visibility of a user’s account or content that is not made clear to the affected user.
Shrinkflation
Shrinkflation is a reduction in the size or quantity of a product without a corresponding reduction in its price.
Side Business
A side business is an organized commercial activity run alongside other main commitments, with customers, costs and continuing responsibilities.
Side Hustle
A side hustle is paid work or a small commercial activity pursued alongside a main job or other primary commitment.
Skimpflation
Skimpflation is a reduction in product or service quality without a corresponding reduction in price.
Smart Contract
A smart contract is a program recorded on a blockchain that executes specified operations when invoked and its programmed conditions are met.
Snob Effect
The snob effect occurs when a product becomes less desirable to a consumer because more other people own or use it.