Frontend Cohort Wrap Up! The Frontend Development Cohort at TheBuidl Grid has officially wrapped up with final project presentations. Participants showcased what they built, walking through their projects and demonstrating how they turned frontend concepts into functional, user focused products. This is what TheBuidl is about: creating an environment where builders gain practical skills, work on real projects, collaborate, and turn learning into real-world solutions. Cohort complete. Projects presented. Builders ready for what’s next. ⚡ #TheBuidlGrid

From learning to contributing. ⚡ Sessions 15 & 16 of Rust for Bitcoin 2.0 focused on Open Source Development & Bitcoin Core Contribution, giving participants practical experience with the workflows behind contributing to open source Bitcoin projects. With @0xGideonBature guiding the sessions, participants explored Git workflows, writing and reviewing PRs, reading BIPs, Bitcoin Core Review Club methodology, issue triaging, and open source etiquette. The learning moved straight into practice as participants forked projects, reviewed PRs, opened issues, made project changes, and prepared and submitted their own PRs while following proper GitHub workflows. Two sessions focused on turning development skills into practical open source contributions, giving participants a stronger foundation for collaborating, reviewing code, managing issues, and contributing to Bitcoin projects. #TheBuidlGrid #RustForBitcoin

The second edition of Founders’ Fireside with @useblinkapp was an engaging conversation about building, collaboration, and what it really takes to turn an idea into a product. @EbubeMonwe and @Jaykosai took us through their journey, sharing how they started, how they met through TheBuidl community, and how their collaboration became the foundation for Blink. Today, Blink is making crypto payments easier for everyday transactions, allowing users to spend crypto at local merchants while merchants receive settlement in local currency, with Bluetooth removing the friction of wallet addresses and QR codes. From meeting through the community to building together and taking Blink beyond it, this is exactly why we create spaces for builders to learn, connect, collaborate, and grow. See you at the next edition! #TheBuidlGrid #FoundersFireside #Blink

The second edition of Founders’ Fireside is here! This time, we’re featuring @useblinkapp, bringing the community closer to another builder who has gone through @the_buidl and is now building beyond it. On Thursday, September 10, we’ll unpack @useblinkapp’s journey, the realities of building a product, the lessons along the way, and what it takes to turn an idea into something real. Because at @the_buidl, the goal isn’t just to complete a cohort. It’s to build what comes next. ⚡ Come with your questions and hear the story behind the build. #TheBuidlGrid #FoundersFireside #Blink

Build. Present. Learn. Improve. Session 12 of Rust for Bitcoin 2.0 brought together technical learning, hands on development, and participant presentations, with @Akshola00 guiding the session. Participants walked through their assignments, demonstrating their progress and receiving feedback to strengthen their work. The session also included a hands on wallet exercise, giving participants another opportunity to apply what they’ve learned and deepen their understanding of the Rust Bitcoin ecosystem. A session focused not just on learning, but on building, presenting, and improving through practical feedback. #TheBuidlGrid #RustForBitcoin

🚀From learning to real-world contribution! We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with @pullosdev! This collaboration creates a direct pathway for our #RustForBitcoin dev participants to take their skills out of the classroom and into active open source projects within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Through this partnership, they can: 🔹 Apply their knowledge to live, active codebases 🔹 Turn their contributions into practical, portfolio worthy experience 🔹 Build a verifiable, public record of their contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem The work doesn’t stop when the sessions end. The journey to keep building, contributing, and growing within the open source ecosystem starts here. Learn. Build. Contribute. 🛠️

From Rust crates to a working Bitcoin wallet. ⚡ Session 11 of Rust for Bitcoin 2.0, guided by @Akshola00, introduced participants to key libraries within the Rust Bitcoin ecosystem and how they come together to power Bitcoin applications. The session explored rust-bitcoin, bitcoincore-rpc, and BDK, covering everything from Bitcoin data structures and transactions to communicating with Bitcoin Core and building wallet applications. The learning moved straight into practice as participants built a simple Bitcoin wallet, applying the libraries and concepts covered during the session. Another practical step forward as the cohort continues to build with the tools powering Bitcoin development in Rust. #TheBuidlGrid #RustForBitcoin

The cohort is getting deeper into building Bitcoin transactions. Sessions 7 and 8 of Rust for Bitcoin 2.0 focused on Bitcoin Transaction Construction, taking participants from understanding the building blocks of a transaction to creating and working with them in practice. With @damola21mm guiding the sessions, participants explored Bitcoin addresses, scripts, raw bytes, custom transactions, transaction signing, WIF, and P2PKH. The learning moved beyond theory through hands on exercises, where participants constructed, signed, and broadcast custom transactions on Regtest, while working through practical examples to strengthen their understanding of how Bitcoin transactions are structured and created. Two sessions of deeper technical work, stronger understanding, and more hands-on experience with Bitcoin. #TheBuidlGrid #RustForBitcoin

From mnemonic to wallet recovery, the cohort went under the hood. ⚡ Sessions 9 & 10 of Rust for Bitcoin 2.0 focused on Wallet & Key Management, giving participants a deeper understanding of how Bitcoin wallets generate, manage, and recover keys and derive addresses. With @0xGideonBature guiding the sessions, participants explored HD wallets, BIP32, BIP39, BIP44, mnemonics, seed generation, derivation paths, and Bitcoin address formats, alongside practical approaches to wallet and key management. The learning was reinforced through hands on exercises covering wallet generation, deterministic key derivation, address generation, and wallet recovery. By the end of the sessions, participants had a stronger practical understanding of the systems behind Bitcoin wallets and were better prepared to implement HD wallet functionality in Rust. #TheBuidlGrid #RustForBitcoin

September is here, and we’re building into another month. A new month means another opportunity to connect, share ideas, and keep growing together. Tomorrow, we’re gathering again for Consensus at TheBuidl Grid, bringing community members together for open conversations, and fresh perspectives. See you there! #TheBuidlGrid #Consensus

From TheBuidl to the real world. ⚡ Our first session with @FundableHQ brought honest conversations, valuable insights, and a closer look at the journey behind building a successful product. The session featured @utility6141 and @aboogeeky representing @FundableHQ, with @kingfrankhood moderating and @Miryatukura heading the panel. From the importance of being in the right place and connecting with the right people to the value of community, the conversation highlighted lessons from the realities of building and growing a product. One message stood out: “Competition will take you nowhere. Collaboration is what works.” The @FundableHQ team also acknowledged the role of @the_buidl mentorship, support, and assistance in their journey, while encouraging members of the community to keep pushing and believing in the solutions they are building. A strong first edition, and a great reminder of what can happen when builders have the right community behind them. We’ll see you at the next Founders’ Fireside. #TheBuidlGrid #FoundersFireside #FundableHQ

The cohort went deeper into Bitcoin transactions. ⚡ Session 6 of Rust for Bitcoin 2.0 focused on Bitcoin Transaction Parsing & Decoding, with @200OKDeveloper guiding participants through the next layer of working with Bitcoin transaction data. Building on the previous session, participants explored transaction inputs and outputs, TXIDs, transaction amounts, little endian byte ordering, VarInt encoding, and SegWit witness data. The session also moved into practice as participants parsed raw transaction hexadecimal and continued building and testing their own Bitcoin transaction decoder using Rust. Another practical step forward as the cohort strengthens its understanding of how Bitcoin transactions work at the byte level. #TheBuidlGrid #RustForBitcoin