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---
description: Required spelling and casing for product names, industry terms, and standards referenced across MetaMask documentation.
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# Terminology

Use the terms below consistently. The left column is the required form. Do not use the variants
listed on the right unless they appear in code, URLs, or direct quotations from a specification.

| Required term                          | Do not use                                                                      |
| -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| dapp                                   | DApp, dApp, decentralized application, Dapp (capitalize only at sentence start) |
| MetaMask                               | Metamask, metamask (except in code/URLs)                                        |
| smart account                          | smart contract account, SCA (unless quoting an ERC)                             |
| externally owned account (EOA)         | externally-owned account                                                        |
| Snaps (platform)                       | snaps, SNAPS                                                                    |
| a Snap (singular)                      | a snap, a SNAP                                                                  |
| web3                                   | Web3, WEB3 (capitalize only at sentence start)                                  |
| sign in / sign out (verb)              | log in, log out, login, logout (as verbs)                                       |
| sign-in / sign-out (noun or adjective) | log-in, log-out, login, logout (as nouns/adj)                                   |
| onchain / offchain                     | on-chain, off-chain                                                             |
| Wallet Standard, Wallet Adapter        | wallet-standard, wallet-adapter (except in URLs)                                |
| Wagmi                                  | wagmi (except in code, package names, imports, URLs, and file paths)            |
| MetaMask Agent Wallet                  | Agentic CLI, Agentic Wallet (except in code/URLs where `agentic` appears)       |
| Agent Wallet (short form)              | agent wallet (lowercase product name)                                           |
| Guard Mode                             | guard mode (capitalize Mode)                                                    |
| Beast Mode                             | beast mode (capitalize Mode)                                                    |
| server-wallet                          | server wallet, Server Wallet (except as product phrase "server-wallet mode")    |
| Bring your own wallet                  | BYOK, bring your own key, byok (except CLI flag `--wallet byok`)                |
| `mm` (CLI binary)                      | MM, Mm (except at sentence start)                                               |

## Standards and specifications

When introducing a standard for the first time on a page, spell out the full name with the
identifier in parentheses. Use the short form on subsequent references.

Examples:

- First use: "Chain Agnostic Improvement Proposal 25 (CAIP-25)"
- Subsequent: "CAIP-25"
- First use: "ERC-4337 (Account Abstraction Using Alt Mempool)"
- Subsequent: "ERC-4337"