We’re excited to announce that the following Devconnect will likely 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 assist an effort that the local people has already began — bringing Argentina onchain.
In Buenos Aires and Argentina, now we have 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 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 if you happen to or your group are excited about serving to to convey Argentina onchain this yr.
Devconnect will likely be a fruits 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 the town, the EF occasions staff will create an interactive “Ethereum World’s Truthful” — an actual showcase of reside 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 large opening day!
Why Devconnect Argentina is completely 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: the 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 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 high of these foundations. Ethereum adoption is occurring at scale at present in Argentina, and collectively we may also help Buenos Aires grow to be a template for different cities to comply with sooner or later.
Argentina has provided to assist us with visa purposes, so this Devconnect could be actually accessible.
The “Ethereum World’s Truthful”
On the heart of Devconnect Argentina will likely be one thing that we name the “Ethereum World’s Truthful”. Over the past centuries, World’s Gala’s across the globe showcased cutting-edge tech and provided a glimpse into the long run. The “Ethereum World’s Truthful” will likely be a reside showcase of how Ethereum can rework identification, 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 individuals to strive, 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 essential venue, you’ll discover the Devconnect coworking area, which will likely 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 are going to share extra in regards to the Devconnect Neighborhood Hubs and the right way to arrange one in just a few weeks.
Devconnect occasions nonetheless decentralized
In fact, Devconnect Argentina continues to be Devconnect – which means a number of occasions organized by completely different groups throughout the town of Buenos Aires, every diving deep into particular Ethereum matters.
Considered one of our essential objectives is to push actual utilization of Ethereum. We encourage organizers to combine onchain ticketing, funds, and identification wherever doable. We additionally proceed searching 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 seeking 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 lengthen 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
