We’re excited to announce that the following Devconnect might be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November seventeenth to the twenty second, 2025!
This yr, we’re aiming for one thing larger than simply Devconnect: We wish to assist an effort that the area people has already began — bringing Argentina onchain.
In Buenos Aires and Argentina, we have now a metropolis and nation which were main adopters of Ethereum for a few years. Devconnect Argentina is a chance for the entire Ethereum ecosystem to assist that regular progress and to speed up it even additional, by serving to particular person residents, companies, establishments and governments to undertake and profit from Ethereum.
Get in contact at assist@devconnect.org or on the Discussion board when you or your group are all for serving to to convey Argentina onchain this yr.
Devconnect might be a fruits of this effort, and a worldwide gathering that’s greater than a decentralized occasion week. Along with targeted community-organized occasions that can happen throughout the town, the EF occasions staff will create an interactive “Ethereum World’s Honest” — an actual showcase of stay dapps, as a blueprint for what Ethereum can allow for a metropolis, an financial system, and a nation.
November seventeenth is the official Devconnect kickoff day. Save the date, be there, and plan your occasions round this massive opening day!
Why Devconnect Argentina is completely different
Argentina is a spot the place Ethereum adoption is occurring proper now. Persons are utilizing stablecoins and blockchain options for each day transactions and financial savings. Buenos Aires is already experimenting onchain: the town’s authorities has launched initiatives like a digital id system with Quark ID, constructed on Ethereum and zksync, exhibiting its openness to crypto.
The native ecosystem can be robust, with Argentina-founded tasks like Balmy, Belo, Bouldertech, Decentraland, DeFiWonderland, ExactlyProtocol, Kleros, LambdaClass, Lemon, MakerDAO(Sky), Mimic, Nomic Basis, OpenZeppelin, POAP, and Ripio along with many extra. Plus, it’s house to grassroots actions like Ethereum Argentina, Seed Latam, ETH Latam, Ciudad de Crecimiento and others. Argentinians are additionally a part of many different groups throughout the ecosystem.
The Argentina Ethereum ecosystem has laid robust foundations already, and Devconnect is a chance for all of us within the Ethereum ecosystem to construct on high of these foundations. Ethereum adoption is occurring at scale at this time in Argentina, and collectively we can assist Buenos Aires change into a template for different cities to comply with sooner or later.
Argentina has provided to assist us with visa functions, so this Devconnect could be really accessible.
The “Ethereum World’s Honest”
On the middle of Devconnect Argentina might be one thing that we name the “Ethereum World’s Honest”. During the last centuries, World’s Gala’s across the globe showcased cutting-edge tech and provided a glimpse into the longer term. The “Ethereum World’s Honest” might be a stay showcase of how Ethereum can remodel id, finance, governance, and day-to-day life. Stablecoins, DeFi, onchain identities, public items funding — all of it is going to be on the Ethereum Honest for folks to strive, so you possibly can see for your self how Ethereum-based instruments can energy extra accessible, clear, and sovereign alternate options to conventional, centralized fashions.
A extra holistic Cowork
On the primary venue, you’ll discover the Devconnect coworking area, which might be a extra holistic expertise, together with Neighborhood Hubs. These interactive areas are organized by members of the group, and also you may know them from Devcon. We’ll share extra concerning the Devconnect Neighborhood Hubs and how one can manage one in just a few weeks.
Devconnect occasions nonetheless decentralized
In fact, Devconnect Argentina remains to be Devconnect – meaning a number of occasions organized by completely different groups throughout the town of Buenos Aires, every diving deep into particular Ethereum subjects.
One in every of our primary objectives is to push actual utilization of Ethereum. We encourage organizers to combine onchain ticketing, funds, and id wherever attainable. We additionally proceed on the lookout for alternatives to dogfood Ethereum tech to enhance the attendee expertise at Devconnect.
Become involved within the Argentina onchain effort
Are you a neighborhood staff in Argentina, engaged on bringing the nation onchain already, or a world staff trying to contribute to the ecosystem-wide push to assist the Argentinian ecosystem to convey their nation onchain?
Contact us at assist@devconnect.org or share your ideas on the Discussion board.
We’re hiring!
We need to prolong our staff and are hiring for just a few positions, with extra alternatives coming quickly. Apply now:
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Let’s go,
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xoxo,
The Devconnect Staff
