We’re excited to announce that the subsequent Devconnect will probably 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 area people has already began — bringing Argentina onchain.
In Buenos Aires and Argentina, we’ve 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 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 excited about serving to to deliver Argentina onchain this yr.
Devconnect will probably be a end result 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 town, the EF occasions workforce will create an interactive “Ethereum World’s Honest” — an actual showcase of dwell 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 totally different
Argentina is a spot the place Ethereum adoption is occurring proper now. Individuals 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 also be sturdy, 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 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 develop into a template for different cities to comply with sooner or later.
Argentina has supplied to assist us with visa purposes, so this Devconnect will be actually accessible.
The “Ethereum World’s Honest”
On the middle of Devconnect Argentina will probably 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 long run. The “Ethereum World’s Honest” will probably be a dwell showcase of how Ethereum can rework 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 may 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 will probably be a extra holistic expertise, together with Group Hubs. These interactive areas are organized by members of the group, and also you may know them from Devcon. We are going to share extra concerning the Devconnect Group Hubs and the way to set up 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 totally different groups throughout town of Buenos Aires, every diving deep into particular Ethereum subjects.
One among our fundamental targets is to push actual utilization of Ethereum. We encourage organizers to combine onchain ticketing, funds, and identification 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 workforce in Argentina, engaged on bringing the nation onchain already, or a world workforce 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 need to lengthen our workforce 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
