Words you will meet on Zoide. Some are ours, most belong to Bitcoin SV and to ordinals — those are worth learning once, because you will see them in every wallet and explorer, not only here.
The chain
Bitcoin SV (BSV) — the blockchain Zoide runs on. Transactions are cheap and blocks are large, which is what makes it practical to put a whole image or a 3D model on the chain instead of a link to it.
Satoshi (sat) — the smallest unit of BSV. 100,000,000 sats = 1 BSV. Prices on Zoide are in sats because a piece often costs a fraction of a coin.
Transaction (tx) — a movement recorded on the chain. Everything you do with a piece is one, and every one is public and permanent.
txid — the identifier of a transaction. If you have a txid you can look the transaction up in any explorer, without asking us.
Network fee — the small amount every transaction pays to the network itself. It is not a Zoide fee and we take no part of it.
Dust — an output so small it is not worth its own network fee. The network refuses to relay it, which is why some operations have a minimum.
UTXO — an unspent output; the technical form in which coins sit in your wallet. It matters in one place: bulk operations need several, and Zoide splits one into many when a job requires it.
Ordinals and pieces
Inscription — data written into a single satoshi, which turns that satoshi into a unique, ownable item. That is what a piece on Zoide is.
Origin — the identifier of the inscription at the moment it was created. It never changes, whoever owns it and however many times it is sold, which is why it is the way to refer to a piece for good.
Outpoint — where the piece is right now (the transaction and output that currently holds it). It changes on every sale or transfer. Origin is identity, outpoint is location.
1Sat Ordinals — the protocol Zoide uses to inscribe and trade pieces on BSV.
Content gateway — the service that serves the file inscribed on the chain so a browser can show it. When a page shows pieces, your browser fetches them from there.
REMASTERED — a badge on a piece that has a newer, re-inscribed version. Both exist on the chain: the original stays where it is, and the remaster is a separate inscription. The badge is there so you know which one you are looking at.
Inception Rabbits — pieces whose on-chain content is not a fixed image: it is a document that can change what it shows over time.
Sigma signature — a signature that proves who inscribed a piece. Zoide signs its own mints, so a piece can be shown to have been minted here rather than merely claiming it.
Buying and selling
Listing — a piece offered for sale at a fixed price. The price is locked into the listing itself, so the seller receives exactly that amount.
Offer — a proposal to buy a piece that is not listed, or at a different price. The owner can accept it or let it expire.
Drop — a collection put on sale with a mechanism and a clock: mint, airdrop, auction or claim.
Mint — creating a new piece from a drop. You are inscribing it on the chain, which is why it costs what it costs.
Airdrop — pieces given out at no cost. Sometimes a drop is an airdrop from the start; sometimes it becomes one because its mint window expired.
Claim — a free piece you are entitled to because you already hold something else.
Bid step — the fixed percentage each new bid adds to the current bid in an auction.
Royalty — a share of every resale that goes to the piece's creator, written on the chain when the piece was minted.
Your account
Wallet — your account. There is no password to choose and no sign-up form: you create or import a wallet and that is your identity.
Private key — what proves a piece is yours and lets you sell it. It is generated in your browser and stored there encrypted. It never reaches our servers, and nobody can recover it for you.
Paymail — a readable address (like an email) that stands in for a long string of characters. Optional.
Rank — your level on Zoide, derived from the rarest piece you hold. It affects the market fee you pay and how soon you can mint in a drop.
Creator tier — Gold, Silver or Bronze, earned by what you have published. It discounts the fee for submitting a collection.
Rarity — how uncommon a piece's traits are, scored by Zoide's own system. Every piece added changes the global score of the others; the local score, within its collection, stays put.