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 need to assist an effort that the local 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 assist 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 assist@devconnect.org or on the Discussion board in the event you or your group are involved in serving to to deliver Argentina onchain this yr.
Devconnect might be a end result of this effort, and a world gathering that’s greater than a decentralized occasion week. Along with targeted community-organized occasions that may happen throughout 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 totally different
Argentina is a spot the place Ethereum adoption is occurring proper now. Individuals are utilizing stablecoins and blockchain options for each day transactions and financial savings. Buenos Aires is already experimenting onchain: town’s authorities has launched initiatives like a digital identification system with Quark ID, constructed on Ethereum and zksync, exhibiting 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 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 sturdy 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 in the present day in Argentina, and collectively we may help Buenos Aires change into a template for different cities to comply with sooner or later.
Argentina has supplied to assist us with visa functions, so this Devconnect might 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”. Over the past centuries, World’s Gala’s across the globe showcased cutting-edge tech and supplied a glimpse into the longer term. The “Ethereum World’s Honest” might be a stay showcase of how Ethereum can remodel identification, finance, governance, and day-to-day life. Stablecoins, DeFi, onchain identities, public items funding — all of it will likely be on the Ethereum Honest for individuals to attempt, so you possibly can see for your self how Ethereum-based instruments can energy extra accessible, clear, and sovereign options to conventional, centralized fashions.
A extra holistic Cowork
On the predominant venue, you’ll discover the Devconnect coworking area, which might be a extra holistic expertise, together with Group Hubs. These interactive areas are organized by members of the neighborhood, and also you would possibly know them from Devcon. We’ll share extra in regards to the Devconnect Group Hubs and how one can set up one in a couple of weeks.
Devconnect occasions nonetheless decentralized
In fact, Devconnect Argentina continues to be Devconnect – which means a number of occasions organized by totally different groups throughout town of Buenos Aires, every diving deep into particular Ethereum matters.
Certainly one of our predominant objectives is to push actual utilization of Ethereum. We encourage organizers to combine onchain ticketing, funds, and identification wherever doable. We additionally proceed in search of alternatives to dogfood Ethereum tech to enhance the attendee expertise at Devconnect.
Get entangled within the Argentina onchain effort
Are you an area staff in Argentina, engaged on bringing the nation onchain already, or a global staff seeking to contribute to the ecosystem-wide push to assist the Argentinian ecosystem to deliver their nation onchain?
Contact us at assist@devconnect.org or share your ideas on the Discussion board.
We’re hiring!
We need to lengthen our staff and are hiring for a couple of positions, with extra alternatives coming quickly. Apply now:
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Let’s go,
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xoxo,
The Devconnect Workforce
