Reader stories
What attendees say after a session
These notes come from people who booked vocabulary work — not anonymous star ratings. Names and cities are used with permission.
5/5
DeFi Vocabulary Intensive
I joined the half-day intensive because I kept mixing up impermanent loss with slippage on pool screens. Fiona walked through each term with a printed glossary and a live Jupiter swap example. I still reach for my notes when I read new pool documentation, but I no longer freeze at the fee tier labels.
4/5
Protocol Overview Session — Marinade
Useful for understanding how liquid staking receipts differ from holding SOL directly. The session ran slightly over the booked hour because we had many questions about epoch timing. That overrun was handled fairly — no surprise charge.
5/5
Small-team glossary workshop
Our three-person finance team needed shared language before reviewing treasury allocation proposals. The workshop gave us a common sheet for AMM, oracle, and bridge terms. One colleague found the pace brisk; we appreciated the follow-up email with annotated links.
4/5
Raydium pool page walkthrough
Clear explanation of LP token naming and what the APR figure actually reflects. I would have liked one more worked example on concentrated liquidity, but the handout covered the basics well enough to revisit on my own.
5/5
DeFi Vocabulary Intensive
I came in sceptical about another crypto briefing. The room felt more like a study session than a sales pitch. Terms were defined with sources cited. I left with a short reading list and no pressure to open a wallet.
Case note: finance team alignment in Edinburgh
A four-person treasury group at a charitable trust attended a glossary workshop before reviewing a board paper that mentioned SOL staking receipts. They arrived using different words for the same concept — one said "bonded SOL," another "liquid stake token." The workshop produced a one-page internal glossary adopted into their travel policy appendix.
The facilitator noted that the team needed an extra fifteen minutes on epoch timing; that time was accommodated without a fee change because the studio slot after theirs was vacant. The trust booked a follow-up protocol overview on Marinade two months later.
Case note: solo learner from Leeds
Tom booked a Marinade overview after trying to read validator commission tables alone. He wanted vocabulary, not a recommendation to stake. The session ended with a handwritten diagram of activation delays. Tom reported he still re-reads the summary before checking his wallet app, but no longer misreads "instant unstake" as fee-free.