Practical demonstrations of building contracts and connecting them to an interface with Scaffold-ETH. His lessons use small applications and deliberately broken examples to make contract behavior visible.
Why read Austin Griffith?
Austin gives you a hands-on starting point when a smart contract feels disconnected from the app around it. In his eight-minute app lesson, he adds a delegate-setting function, tries it as the owner and as another address, then connects it to a frontend. The sequence shows the contract, deployment and interface as parts of one working system.
His front-running demonstration changes the reading task: a secret becomes public when it is submitted in a reveal transaction, and another address can use it first. He tests the mechanic locally before describing what happened on live networks. Use the edited transcript to follow the mistake and the result. His Devcon workshop offers the longer introduction; the demonstration contract is intentionally vulnerable.
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Workshop
Intro to Scaffold-ETH 2 and SpeedRunEthereum!
The official Devcon SEA page presents this as a beginner workshop on the contract and frontend toolkit Austin helped build. It links the recording; keep current project setup documentation beside the workshop.
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XFollowList, “Intro to Scaffold-ETH 2 and SpeedRunEthereum!” reading notes in the Austin Griffith profile. https://xfollowlist.com/people/austin-griffith#work-f3424a7c4f51
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Tutorial
Build a Working Ethereum App in 8 Minutes with Scaffold-ETH 2
The official edited transcript follows an owner-only function from local tests to a connected frontend. Start at 01:33–02:59 for the two-address access check, then follow the read and write hooks.
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XFollowList, “Build a Working Ethereum App in 8 Minutes with Scaffold-ETH 2” reading notes in the Austin Griffith profile. https://xfollowlist.com/people/austin-griffith#work-ec3360e6dff0
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Demonstration
Getting Front-Run on Purpose: What the Mempool Really Exposes
Read the edited transcript at 04:12–08:44 to see the reveal flaw and the second-address test. Later passages describe the live result. The deliberately vulnerable contract makes pending-transaction exposure concrete.
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XFollowList, “Getting Front-Run on Purpose: What the Mempool Really Exposes” reading notes in the Austin Griffith profile. https://xfollowlist.com/people/austin-griffith#work-e1e372c13a48
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Projects & roles
Scaffold-ETH
The contract and frontend development toolkit used in his workshops and small-app demonstrations.
Speedrun Ethereum
A sequence of Ethereum development challenges linked from his own profile and used in his teaching.
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Sources & further reading
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- His GitHub profile links @austingriffith, his personal site, Scaffold-ETH and Speedrun Ethereum.
- The official session identifies Austin Griffith and the matching X handle.
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XFollowList, Austin Griffith profile sources. Sources checked 2026-10-11. https://xfollowlist.com/people/austin-griffith#sources-checked