The scent of over-roasted coffee beans and the heavy, humid air of a Recife afternoon usually signal the end of the day, but for Luana, they just signal Row 88. The humidity is sitting at a thick 84%, making the paper on her desk feel slightly limp, though she isn’t looking at paper.

She is looking at a spreadsheet that has become her entire world for the last six hours. It is a glossary for a new decentralized finance protocol launching in Brazil, and Row 88 is a problem. The term is “liquid staking.” Luana types “staking líquido.” Her translation software highlights it in green-a perfect match from the previous thirty rows. She hits enter.

Row 89 is “slashing.” She stops. Her fingers stay poised over the keys, not moving. She knows what slashing is; it’s the mechanism where a validator is penalized for bad behavior or going offline, and a portion of the staked assets is permanently taken away.

In Portuguese, she could call it “confisco” or “penalização severa.” But the style guide provided by the client, a firm in Singapore that she’s never actually spoken to, says to “keep standard industry terminology in English to maintain brand authority.”

Luana types “slashing.” Then, she