🛳 BG Shipping Log: 2025 in Review
What we shipped, where we went, and what we learned.
Hey everyone - this one’s a special edition. First happy new year!
As we have wrapped up 2025 its time to look back at everything we built, shared, shipped, and learned this year. Massive thanks to everyone who supported us along the way!
🧱 SpeedRunEthereum Updates
We added 5 new challenges to SpeedRunEthereum:
🪙 Stablecoins
📈 Prediction Markets
🏦 Overcollateralized Lending
🕵️ Zero Knowledge
Each one designed to help devs go deeper, faster, and build more real-world dapps.
🛡️ ctf.buidlguidl.com
We launched our Capture The Flag (CTF) platform to explore lower-level smart contract mechanics like:
Storage slots
Gas optimization
Re-entrancy
Brute forcing and more
🚩 Season 2 just dropped with the Buenos Aires challenges. Checkout the video of the CTF in BA here.
👨👩👧👦 Batches, Batches, Batches
We ran 11 batches in 2025 with:
👨🔧 151 participants
🎓 94 graduates
Builders collaborated, learned, and many became ecosystem contributors.
🌍 Ethereum on Tour and BG around the World!
From Seoul to Nigeria, Turkey, Dubai to the U.S., Ethereum on Tour helped us bring dev workshops and talks to local communities and universities worldwide.
BuidlGuidl continued showing up at key events around the globe, to talk about tooling, onboarding, and learning.
🏕️ Devconnect Builder Bootcamp
In Argentina, we hosted a full week of focused workshops during Devconnect to help builders go from 0→1→mainnet.
🤝 Partnering with Arbitrum
We teamed up with Arbitrum to onboard and bring more developers to the Arbitrum ecosystem.
🎙️ PMFers Podcast
We talked with builders who actually found product-market fit onchain — founders, protocol architects, open-source contributors.
🎧 Listen to PMFers
🧠 SE2 + LLMs
Scaffold-ETH 2 got even smarter with LLM integration, making it easier than ever to build, and ship dapps (the cool kids call it vibe coding now days).
🧪 BG Client Launched
BG client is a one-line terminal setup to run a local reth node — now with BGBRD token rewards for operators. We’ve got 16 nodes running worldwide.
That’s a wrap! 2025 was a big year for BuidlGuidl and 2026 is going to be even bigger!