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 greater than simply Devconnect: We wish to help 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 have been main adopters of Ethereum for a few years. Devconnect Argentina is a chance for the entire Ethereum ecosystem to help that regular development 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 help@devconnect.org or on the Discussion board should you or your group are desirous about serving to to carry Argentina onchain this yr.
Devconnect might be a fruits of this effort, and a world gathering that’s greater than a decentralized occasion week. Along with centered community-organized occasions that may happen throughout the town, the EF occasions crew will create an interactive “Ethereum World’s Truthful” — an actual showcase of dwell 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 day by 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, displaying its openness to crypto.
The native ecosystem can be sturdy, 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 residence 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 sturdy foundations already, and Devconnect is a chance for all of us within the Ethereum ecosystem to construct on prime of these foundations. Ethereum adoption is occurring at scale right now in Argentina, and collectively we may help Buenos Aires turn into a template for different cities to observe sooner or later.
Argentina has provided to assist us with visa purposes, so this Devconnect could be really accessible.
The “Ethereum World’s Truthful”
On the heart of Devconnect Argentina might be one thing that we name the “Ethereum World’s Truthful”. Over the past centuries, World’s Festivals across the globe showcased cutting-edge tech and provided a glimpse into the longer term. The “Ethereum World’s Truthful” might be a dwell showcase of how Ethereum can rework 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 Truthful 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 neighborhood, and also you would possibly know them from Devcon. We are going to share extra in regards to the Devconnect Neighborhood Hubs and learn how to manage one in a number of 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 all our primary targets is to push actual utilization of Ethereum. We encourage organizers to combine onchain ticketing, funds, and id wherever potential. 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 an area crew in Argentina, engaged on bringing the nation onchain already, or a global crew seeking to contribute to the ecosystem-wide push to help the Argentinian ecosystem to carry their nation onchain?
Contact us at help@devconnect.org or share your ideas on the Discussion board.
We’re hiring!
We wish to prolong our crew and are hiring for a number of positions, with extra alternatives coming quickly. Apply now:
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Let’s go,
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xoxo,
The Devconnect Group