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Digital assets and currencies

Understand assets, networks and trading mechanics with sources you can check.

Banking

Discount policy

Discount policy is a policy tool used by central banks to control the money in circulation by raising or lowering interest rates.

Finance

Quantitative tightening

Quantitative tightening (QT) is a contractionary monetary policy tool applied by central banks to decrease the amount of liquidity or money supply in the economy. A central bank implements quantitative tightening by reducing the financial assets it holds on its balance sheet by selling them into the financial markets, which decreases asset prices and raises interest rates. QT is the re