In-person study circle
Foundations Circle
By the sixth Tuesday a reader can explain, in ordinary words, how a Solana swap, a liquidity deposit, a collateralized borrow, and a stablecoin peg are described in public documents.
Who it is for. Adults who can read English and want a slow, shared introduction. Many readers work in Gyeonggi and have heard the words pool, wallet, or stablecoin without a place to ask basic questions.
- Fee
- 480,000 KRW
- Basis
- One fee for the full six-session circle
- Time
- Six Tuesday evenings, 18:30–20:30
- Where
- Cortex Compass reading room, Jeokseong-myeon, Paju-si
Who leads it
Haeun Park leads weeks 1, 2, and 6. Minjae Cho leads weeks 3, 4, and 5.
Before you come
Bring a notebook and a pencil. Read the four-page welcome sheet that staff hand you when the seat is confirmed. A funded wallet is unnecessary. Session 1 uses a paper diagram of keys and addresses. Arrive ten minutes early on the first Tuesday so there is time to leave shoes on the inner step.
Limits
The circle is held in English at the reading room. Eight chairs are the whole table. A month runs when at least four seats are confirmed; staff offer the next month or a desk appointment when a month is quieter. Personal holdings stay off the table.
Included
- Six two-hour sessions at the reading room
- A printed primer set the reader keeps
- A glossary sheet refreshed against that month's public program documents
- Tea at the side table during the short break
- One of eight seats
Outside this booking
- Purchase or custody of SOL or any other token
- Holding a reader's keys
- Tax, legal, or personal investment advice
- Travel to Jeokseong-myeon
- Sessions in Korean
The six Tuesdays
Each week has one subject. The primer page for that week is read before the paper example. Readers keep the set.
- Week 1 — Keys and addresses What a secret key authorizes, what an address displays, and why a Solana balance lives on the ledger rather than inside a phone. The hour stays on paper diagrams.
- Week 2 — Swaps A two-token pool, the price implied by the ratio, the network fee paid in SOL, and slippage between the quoted figure and the executed one.
- Week 3 — Liquidity What a person agrees to when they add tokens to a pool, including the chance that the mix of tokens they later withdraw is different from the mix they added.
- Week 4 — Lending Collateral posted first, a borrow ratio written into the program, and liquidation as a published rule rather than a call from a loan officer.
- Week 5 — Stablecoins Peg targets, reserve notes, and crypto-collateral designs, read from public descriptions. The session records what a document states and what it leaves out.
- Week 6 — Reading a public page How to find the fee, the ratio, any admin powers, and the date on a program's own documents, then how to write those four items in the primer margin.
How a booking moves
- Write to the room with the month you hope to start and any Tuesday you already know you will miss.
- Staff confirm whether that month has a seat and restate the fee.
- Pay the circle fee by bank transfer after the written confirmation. The reply carries the account name.
- Collect the primer set on the first Tuesday.
- Attend the six evenings. A missed week can be sat later under the refund notice.
Cancellation, missed weeks, and the briefing holding amount are set out on the refund page. Current figures sit on rates.