diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 63c1da9..90c0d96 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -329,9 +329,12 @@ The IDLs under `idl/` are vendored verbatim from `github.com/pump-fun/pump-publi
   for legacy `create`. Deriving with the wrong program returns a valid-looking
   address that does not exist on chain. Verified: curve `3jJ83ND…` derives to
   `Cd4iC3Jn…` under Token2022 (matches chain) and `AhNzZsBp…` under SPL Token.
-- `extreme_fast_mode` skips the curve-state price fetch but still refreshes
-  mayhem/cashback/creator/**quote_mint** from chain, because the wrong quote mint
-  means spending the wrong balance entirely. Event parsers also populate
+- `extreme_fast_mode` skips the curve-state price fetch. Whether it also reads
+  the curve for mayhem/cashback/creator/**quote_mint** depends on provenance
+  (see "Verifying the listener-to-buy path" above): CreateEvent-sourced tokens
+  (`state_from_event`) trade on the event data with zero RPC calls, while
+  pumpportal/incomplete-event tokens refresh from chain — the wrong quote mint
+  means spending the wrong balance entirely. Event parsers populate
   `quote_mint` from `CreateEvent` (which gained `quote_mint` and
   `virtual_quote_reserves` as trailing fields).
 
diff --git a/learning-examples/simulate_bot_buy_path.py b/learning-examples/simulate_bot_buy_path.py
index e591312..c30858f 100644
--- a/learning-examples/simulate_bot_buy_path.py
+++ b/learning-examples/simulate_bot_buy_path.py
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 """Dry-run the bot's real buy path against a freshly created coin.
 
 Detects a new pump.fun coin with the bot's own listener, runs the same
-PlatformAwareBuyer code the bot uses (including the extreme_fast_mode curve
-refresh), but intercepts the transaction just before submission and simulates it
-instead. This exercises the listener -> event parser -> curve manager ->
-address provider -> instruction builder chain as a unit.
+PlatformAwareBuyer code the bot uses (the zero-RPC path for
+CreateEvent-sourced tokens, or the curve refresh otherwise — watch the
+state_from_event line in the output), but intercepts the transaction just
+before submission and simulates it instead. This exercises the listener ->
+event parser -> curve manager -> address provider -> instruction builder
+chain as a unit.
 
 No funds move: `build_and_send_transaction` is monkeypatched to simulate.