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 need 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 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 if you happen to or your group are excited about serving to to convey Argentina onchain this yr.
Devconnect will likely 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 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 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 each day transactions and financial savings. Buenos Aires is already experimenting onchain: town’s authorities has launched initiatives like a digital id system with Quark ID, constructed on Ethereum and zksync, exhibiting 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 prime of these foundations. Ethereum adoption is occurring at scale in the present day in Argentina, and collectively we may also help Buenos Aires turn into a template for different cities to comply with sooner or later.
Argentina has supplied to assist us with visa purposes, so this Devconnect may be actually accessible.
The “Ethereum World’s Honest”
On the heart of Devconnect Argentina will likely be one thing that we name the “Ethereum World’s Honest”. During the last centuries, World’s Festivals across the globe showcased cutting-edge tech and supplied a glimpse into the longer term. The “Ethereum World’s Honest” will likely be a stay 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 Honest for folks 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 foremost venue, you’ll discover the Devconnect coworking area, which will likely 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 concerning the Devconnect Group Hubs and easy methods to arrange one in a couple of weeks.
Devconnect occasions nonetheless decentralized
After all, Devconnect Argentina remains 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.
One in every of our foremost targets is to push actual utilization of Ethereum. We encourage organizers to combine onchain ticketing, funds, and id wherever attainable. 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 an area 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 want 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
