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Reader stories
What people said after a specific hour.
These notes name the session, the sticking point, and the part of the room that got in the way. They are from readers of the Solana decentralized finance primers in Paju.
A longer visit
The retired clerk and week 2’s arithmetic
In spring 2025 a retired customs clerk, Mr. Choi, took the Foundations Circle because his son had mentioned a stablecoin and he wanted the peg chapter with the weeks that come before it. He asked at the first evening that nobody inquire about his own holdings. That request matched a rule the room already keeps: balances stay off the table.
He missed week 4 for a hospital appointment and sat that same lending week in the next circle, three Tuesdays into the following month, without a second fee. The paper ratio made sense to him once he could copy it. Week 2 was harder. He said the swap arithmetic moved faster than his notes, and that the margin figures in the primer helped him more than the spoken hour. Haeun left the following Tuesday’s opening ten minutes longer for silent copying. He finished week 6 with the fee, the ratio, and the document date written in his own hand.
I came for the lending evening because a cousin had used the word liquidation at dinner and I could not answer. Minjae put a collateral ratio on the board as two plain numbers and made the table say what would happen if the first number fell. I still mix up pool share and token price, and I said so in week three. Haeun did not hurry past it.
I booked the desk to read the swap chapter before a seminar. Haeun asked me to explain slippage back to her in one sentence before I left. The sentence I managed was clumsy, and she had me try once more with the paper pool. That second try is the one I remember.
The four-week pass let me sit with the stablecoin binder on Saturday mornings. The glossary pages are dense, and the afternoon light on the window table is bright enough that I moved to the side wall. Staff brought a clip-on shade the next week without making a fuss. I finished the binder. I would have liked a second copy of the peg notes, because the only one was sometimes on someone else's chair.
Our circle took the half-day briefing because six Tuesdays would not fit a semester. The part I used later was the list of questions to ask of a public fee table. The chairs are plain, and by the third hour I wanted a cushion. The vocabulary was worth the train up to Paju.
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