The Best Stack For Building Ethereum Apps And How To One Shot Bangers I Austin Griffith

Sun, Nov 2, 2025, 12:00 AM

Austin Griffith speedruns building Ethereum apps with Scaffold-ETH: init, local chain, hot-reloading UI with burner wallets, and the Debug Contracts panel. He live-edits a starter contract (counter, payable price curve), shows front-end hooks for reads/writes, then “one-shots” a FOMO-3D-style game using Cursor/Claude: last clicker wins after a countdown. He debugs timer quirks (local block timestamp), discusses incentives, and deploys the app to Arbitrum and the front end to IPFS. Resources: ethereum.org, Tour, SpeedrunEthereum, Scaffold-ETH docs. 00:10 Intro, resources (ethereum.org, Tour, SpeedrunEthereum) 01:23 Scaffold-ETH init (create-eth, Foundry/Hardhat choices) 03:02 Run local chain, deploy, start front end 03:58 UI tour: burner wallets, faucet, Debug Contracts 04:44 Starter “greeter/counter” contract demo 06:20 Adding payable logic & price curve; hot-reload UX 08:16 Front-end hooks: useScaffoldRead / useScaffoldWrite 09:53 “One-shot” build with AI (Cursor/Claude) 10:54 FOMO-3D mechanics (button, pot, countdown) 13:29 AI-generated contract review (lastClicker, claimPrize) 15:16 Deploy & test; timer bug surfaces 18:01 Fixing logic; quick iteration 19:55 Incentive design for automation & liveness 23:13 Debugging local timestamp / tx heartbeat 23:49 Deploy to Arbitrum; wallet/key mgmt 27:17 Set 5-min round; deploy front end to IPFS 29:51 Wrap-up + live link/QR; build more “money legos” _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 💻 ETHOnline 2025 This workshop is specifically for ETHOnline 2025, a 21-day hackathon held October 10 - 31, 2025, bringing together the most skilled web3 developers, designers and product builders from all around the globe for a weekend-long adventure to advance the Ethereum ecosystem! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ✅ Follow BuidlGuidl X: https://x.com/buidlguidl ✅ Follow ETHGlobal X: https://x.com/ETHGlobal​ Warpcast: https://warpcast.com/ethglobal Website: https://ethglobal.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ETHGlobal _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Are you interested in Ethereum development and entrepreneurship?_ 👉 Sign up for the next ETHGlobal event: https://ethglobal.com/events 🎁 Get exclusive access and perks with ETHGlobal Plus! https://ethglobal.com/plus 📣 Want us to throw an event in your city? Tell us where! https://ethglobal.com/city