Small-group sitting

Circle Workshop

The Circle Workshop is the reading room’s group sitting. Eight chairs, one long table, and a shared walk through what a Solana validator owes the cluster during an epoch.

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Adults seated around a library table during a small study circle

Who sits for this

Adults who want the validator role explained in company, including campus circles and neighbors studying together. The sitting assumes curiosity, not prior operator experience.

What you carry home

You leave able to describe, in order, how stake weight becomes a leader schedule, how votes accumulate, and how commission is applied when rewards are posted at the epoch boundary.

Who leads

Minjae Kwon leads the circle. Hana Seo joins for the commission exercise when the desk calendar allows.

Pace of the sitting

  1. VocabularyTwenty minutes for stake, vote, identity, slot, and epoch, each tied to an object on the table.
  2. Epoch walkSeventy minutes following a sample leader schedule from the first slot to the reward posting.
  3. Commission exerciseForty minutes comparing two sample validators with different commission and different missed slots.
  4. QuestionsThirty minutes for the group’s own questions, kept inside the shared material.

On the table

  • A seat at the Saturday table
  • Printed epoch strip and commission exercise
  • Tea through the mid-morning break

Neighboring sittings

  • Private stake-account reading is reserved for the Validator Desk
  • A one-hour narrow question is the Stake Reading Hour

Before you travel

Bring a notebook. Read nothing in advance if you would rather hear the vocabulary in the room. English is the spoken language. Sample leader schedules on the table use made-up validator names so the exercise stays about the method.

House limits

Eight seats. The published sitting runs Saturday 10:00–13:00. A visiting group that wants another morning is quoted separately. The circle teaches shared concepts; private account review waits for a Validator Desk.

From first note to the chair

  1. Send a preferred Saturday and the number of seats.
  2. We reply with a confirmed date or the next open board date.
  3. A 30 percent deposit holds each seat.
  4. Arrive by 9:50. The remaining fee is due before the vocabulary section starts.

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