🛳 BG Shipping Log #31

New SpeedRunEthereum Challenges, Global Builder Events, Ethereum Job Board & more!

Jul 21, 2025

Hey BuidlGuidl - here’s your monthly newsletter!

- 🔥 New SpeedRunEthereum Challenges
- 🌏 Global Builder Events: Bhutan, Enugu, ETHCC
- 🎙️ PMFers Podcast
- 💼 Ethereum Job Board Launch
- 👥 Content Highlights

⛵️ Before we dive in, here’s some quick updates:

👤 SpeedRunEthereum + BG Profiles Are Now One: Every BuidlGuidl profile is now a SpeedRunEthereum profile. Track your builds, see your challenge progress, and show off your work - all in one place: 👉 speedrunethereum.com
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Batch 17 Graduated! Check out what they built: 🔗 Graduation post

🔥 New SpeedRunEthereum Challenges

🚀 2 New Challenges on SpeedRunEthereum are live!

🏦 Overcollateralized Lending Protocols
📊 Prediction Markets

Great for leveling up your smart contract skills.

🌏 BuidlGuidl Around the World

🇧🇹 Bhutan

We hosted an intensive workshop with builders in Bhutan, exploring how to build dapps powered by their national digital ID system.
🔗 See Aya’s post

🇳🇬 Enugu, Nigeria:

ETH Enugu joined the BuidlGuidl University Tour! Big shoutout to the local community.
🔗 ETH Enugu highlights

🇫🇷 France – ETHCC & ETHGlobal Cannes:

Talks, demos, and builds from the BuidlGuidl crew:

🎙️ PMFers Podcast

Austin sits down with builders finding real product-market fit onchain.

In the latest episode, Austin sits down with David Phelps, co-founder of JokeRace, to unpack one of the most unconventional paths to product-market fit in Ethereum. From Craigslist tutoring gigs to building a Stripe-powered DAO before DAOs were cool, David shares how experimenting with early incentive models led him to create a serious onchain governance tool.