By the end you will have a named seat that fits your background and appetite, a concrete practice for your next 90 days, and the map of where this Academy goes next.
Thirteen weeks ago you walked onto this floor a tourist. Today the tour ends the way every trading floor tour ends: the guide stops at a wall, unfolds the seating chart, and asks the only question left. Where do you sit?
Because this course made you literate, and literacy is a position. You now read protocols most participants only use. The last lesson is not one more machine. It is what you DO with the reading, and six honest seats exist for someone who is not founding a protocol.
Here is the chart. Six seats around the DeFi table: two that put capital to work, two that trade only in attention, two that make it a profession. Every one of them is filled today by people reading exactly what you now read.
The choice is smaller than it looks. You are not picking an identity; you are picking a lane, a practice for the next ninety days. First, walk the seats in pairs, the way the tour walked the desks.
Two seats risk capital. The trader lives in Act 1: markets, funding, cycles. The practice is unglamorous: read the market weekly with the four panels from Reading the Market, on paper, and touch no leverage until the liquidation math from The Trader's Toolkit is reflex, not arithmetic.
The LP runs the house. Pools, loans, springs: Acts 2 and 3 were their acts. The practice: name the spring behind three yields a week, the drill from Where Yield Comes From, and take small real positions only where you can count every floor, the way the money legos taught.
Two seats risk no capital at all. The analyst turns The Numbers That Lie and the four stop route into a craft, and the practice is public: one protocol read a week. Dune dashboards and read threads are how every analyst you have heard of started. The door is documented and open.
The governance participant takes the three questions from Governance in Practice and makes them a habit: pick one protocol you actually use, read every proposal for ninety days, then delegate or vote deliberately. Both seats build a public track record. Before moving on, one bet: what does the analyst practice cost?
The builder saw Act 2 differently: every machine, from the AMM to the vault, is a composable part waiting to be assembled into something new. Your next stop is the Solidity course when it ships, and the eMBA's technical modules are open today.
The allocator already has a desk: at a fund, a DAO, or a company that must evaluate DeFi exposure. The four stop route from Reading a Protocol Cold, plus the numbers lessons, are your daily tools. Practice: write the six sentence read for anything anyone pitches you.
Here is the whole chart, redrawn. Six seats, one table, and every seat is staffed by the same skill you spent thirteen weeks building: reading. Tap each seat to hear its you might sit here if, and the first ninety days of its practice.
Two risk capital, two risk only attention, two are professions in the making. All six start with the same move: reading before acting.
Written as one card, the seats stop being personality types and become schedules. Each row is small on purpose: a practice you can hold next to a full time job, sized in hours a week, not in capital. The card is the take home. The seat is the choice.
Try the card on someone else first. A friend just finished this course: full time job in marketing, two spare hours a week, mild risk appetite. Which row do you hand them?
Every finale owes you one honest paragraph, so here it is. Most people who touch DeFi lose money to leverage they did not size, yields they did not source, and floats they did not schedule. You now know all three sentences. The literacy was the protection; the seat is the growth.
And the master question, answered one last time. Who is paying? In every market, the unread pay the read: you just switched sides. One test before the map lights.
Look at the board one last time. Twenty four checkpoints, four acts, one system: the market, the protocols, the deep water, and the fluency to read all of it. Every node is lit because you lit it.
Four doors lead off the floor. The Web3 season sits underneath this one if you skipped it: the judgment and safety layer lives there. Insiders runs live sessions to practice with humans; the Uniswap v2 build sessions run the machinery from your AMM weeks. The Solidity course is next in the franchise, and the eMBA goes deep on building.
The tour is over. You walked every desk on this floor: the queues, the pools, the loans, the springs, the games, the reads. The guide's last act was always going to be this chart and this question: where do you sit?
Not forever. For ninety days. Pick the row, run the practice, and let it compound. Your first 90 days in DeFi end where the real ones begin.