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?