| TERM | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| $EVE | EVE Frontier's onchain currency, bridging virtual and tangible value. |
| Account abstraction | Allows user accounts to act like smart contracts, making them customizable for logins, transactions, recovery, etc. |
| Asteroid clusters | A dense group of asteroids that serve as key sources for mining. |
| Autonomous agent | An entity that can decide and act independently without the need for direct player control. |
| Autonomous world | A self-sustaining virtual environment that can operate and evolve without its creators. |
| Blockchain technology | A decentralized, tamper-resistant ledger system that records transactions transparently. |
| Block explorer | A tool for viewing and verifying blockchain activity in real time, including transactions and smart contracts. |
| CDP | Carbon Development Platform. The game engine and toolkit powering EVE Online and EVE Frontier. |
| Carbon fields | High-risk, high-reward interstellar zones rich in resources. |
| CCP Games | The developer of EVE Frontier, renowned for its 20+ years of work on EVE Online. |
| Composable | The ability to build from existing components, whether combining, extending, or remixing. |
| Crude Matter | Raw, unrefined resources that can be processed into advanced Crude-based Fuels that |
| Crude-based Fuels | The group of fuels that are extracted from the Crude Matter mined from Rifts.
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| Crude Mining Lens | The advanced in-game mining lenses that are used to extract the Crude-based Fuels from the Crude Matter mined from Rifts. |
| Cycles Program | A seasonal reset system where progress is periodically wiped for players to claim rewards and start fresh. |
| Data guarantees | Assurances that blockchain-recorded information is secure, tamper-proof, and verifiable. |
| Database game | A game built around a persistent database, recording actions, effects, and progression. |
| Digital physics | The immutable principles that govern EVE Frontier. |
| Entropy | A measure of energy loss and disorder on the Frontier, ensuring decay and unpredictability over time. |
| Ethereum | One of the earliest decentralized blockchain infrastructures for applications. |
| EVE Online | A long-running MMO developed by CCP Games, known for its single-shard universe and player-driven economy. |
| EVE Points | Act as a proxy for a player's effort and commitment that persists through cycles. |
| EVE Vault | A non-custodial crypto wallet, inventory management tool, and companion app bridging in-game and real economy. |
| Extensibility | The capacity of a system to expand and evolve without disrupting its core structure. |
| Founder Access | A program for EVE Frontier that grants players early involvement in the game's development. |
| Fuel | The main energy source powering all actions in EVE Frontier. |
| Gas costs | Transaction fees required to perform operations on a blockchain. |
| Governance | A system of decision-making and rule-setting, often involving community participation. |
| Grace | A seasonal progression currency awarded during missions in Cycles, which later converts into EVE Points. |
| Heat | The buildup of energy and stress in systems that requires management to prevent equipment failure. |
| Horizontal scaling | Growing a system's capacity through adding nodes and servers to handle larger data without bottlenecks. |
| HRD | The Hierarchical Resource Distribution (HRD) is a structured allocation of resources, tackling broad sectors down to specific locations. |
| Immutability | A permanence property in blockchains that ensures data is unchangeable once recorded. |
| Interoperable | The ability to work seamlessly across different environments. |
| Kill Mail | A notification generated when a ship is destroyed, detailing vital information such as location, damage sources, and cargo lost. |
| Layer-1 | The base blockchain protocol responsible for execution, validation, and finalizing transactions, |
| Lens-Crude-Fuel | The interconnected cycle of Crude Mining Lenses used to extract Crude-based Fuels from Crude Matter mined from Rifts in space. |
| Mining Lenses | Specialized equipment required to extract raw resources such as metal ores from planetary bodies within the Frontier’s star systems. |
| MMO | Stands for Massively Multiplayer Online, a distinction for online games with multiple players interacting in real time. |
| Modder | A player or developer who creates customizations, enhancements, and tools for a game. |
| Move | The programming language used by the Sui blockchain, designed for efficient asset management. |
| Naturalistic rules | Mechanics designed to mirror the principles of the natural world. |
| Non-custodial crypto wallet | A digital wallet where its owners hold full control over their assets. |
| Non-Player Characters (NPC) | Computer-controlled entities within the game world. |
| Onchain | Actions and processes that occur on the blockchain, typically for transparency and immutability. |
| Partners | External collaborators, stakeholders, and organizations that support EVE Frontier. |
| PODs | A privacy protocol that empowers players to choose when or when not to reveal in-game activities. |
| Precious relic sites | Rare in-game locations containing valuable resources such as artifacts and ancient technology. |
| Probabilistic outcomes | Results determined by probability distributions rather than fixed outcomes. |
| Project Awakening | The original name and early development phase of EVE Frontier. |
| Riders | Player characters in EVE Frontier, awakened clones who must survive and reform civilization on the Frontier. |
| Rifts | Spatial anomalies that contain resources for players to mine. |
| Rust | A programming language often used for blockchain and systems development. |
| Single-shard server | A server architecture wherein all players exist within a shared universe instead of separate instances. |
| Singletons | Unique digital objects within a system. |
| Smart Assemblies | Constructs that can operate on defined rulesets set by players. |
| Smart contracts | Code-enforced self-executing agreements on the blockchain. |
| Smart objects | Interactive digital entities that carry their own rules, behavior, and data. |
| Star system | A collection of celestial bodies, including stars, planets, and asteroids. |
| Spatial distribution | The arrangement of objects across the universe. |
| Sui | A layer-1 blockchain designed for speed, scalability, and low cost, using an object-centric data model and the Move programming language to power modern dapps. |
| Sui Mainnet | The live blockchain network of Sui where transactions are done and applications are deployed. |
| Supermassive black holes | Extremely dense cosmic entities found at the center of the galaxy in EVE Frontier. |
| Syndicates | Large player-run factions or alliances consisting of multiple Tribes organized for economy, politics, and military. |
| System metallicity | A measure of the abundance of heavier elements within the star system, which can influence resource distribution. |
| The Frontier | The galaxy setting of EVE Frontier, a region of space ravaged by time, entropy, and gravitational chaos. |
| Thermodynamics | The laws governing energy transfer and entropy. |
| Third-party development | Contributions from external developers, often towards increasing gameplay options. |
| Time-to-finality | The time it takes for a blockchain to fully confirm a transaction. |
| Tribes | Small organizational units on the Frontier, consisting of players with a shared identity or goal. |