We’re excited to announce that the following Devconnect shall be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November seventeenth to the twenty second, 2025!
This 12 months, 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’ve got 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 if you happen to or your group are fascinated about serving to to deliver Argentina onchain this 12 months.
Devconnect shall 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 can happen throughout town, the EF occasions crew will create an interactive “Ethereum World’s Truthful” — an actual showcase of stay dapps, as a blueprint for what Ethereum can allow for a metropolis, an economic system, and a nation.
November seventeenth is the official Devconnect kickoff day. Save the date, be there, and plan your occasions round this huge opening day!
Why Devconnect Argentina is completely different
Argentina is a spot the place Ethereum adoption is going on proper now. Persons are utilizing stablecoins and blockchain options for every 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, displaying its openness to crypto.
The native ecosystem can be robust, with Argentina-founded initiatives 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 dwelling 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 prime of these foundations. Ethereum adoption is going on at scale at the moment in Argentina, and collectively we may also help Buenos Aires turn out to be a template for different cities to comply with sooner or later.
Argentina has provided to assist us with visa functions, so this Devconnect may be actually accessible.
The “Ethereum World’s Truthful”
On the heart of Devconnect Argentina shall be one thing that we name the “Ethereum World’s Truthful”. 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 Truthful” shall be a stay showcase of how Ethereum can rework identification, finance, governance, and day-to-day life. Stablecoins, DeFi, onchain identities, public items funding — all of will probably be on the Ethereum Truthful for folks to attempt, so you’ll be able to 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 fundamental venue, you’ll discover the Devconnect coworking house, which shall 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 are going to share extra in regards to the Devconnect Group Hubs and methods to arrange one in a number of weeks.
Devconnect occasions nonetheless decentralized
In fact, Devconnect Argentina continues to be Devconnect – meaning a number of occasions organized by completely different groups throughout town of Buenos Aires, every diving deep into particular Ethereum subjects.
Considered one of our fundamental objectives is to push actual utilization of Ethereum. We encourage organizers to combine onchain ticketing, funds, and identification wherever potential. We additionally proceed searching for alternatives to dogfood Ethereum tech to enhance the attendee expertise at Devconnect.
Get entangled within the Argentina onchain effort
Are you an area crew in Argentina, engaged on bringing the nation onchain already, or a global crew trying 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 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 Staff