We’re excited to announce that the next 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, we’ve got 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 support@devconnect.org or on the Forum in the event you or your group are concerned about serving to to deliver Argentina onchain this yr.
Devconnect will likely be a end result of this effort, and a worldwide gathering that’s greater than a decentralized occasion week. Along with centered community-organized occasions that may happen throughout the town, the EF occasions staff will create an interactive “Ethereum World’s Honest” — 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 totally different
Argentina is a spot the place Ethereum adoption is going on proper now. Individuals are utilizing stablecoins and blockchain options for each day transactions and financial savings. Buenos Aires is already experimenting onchain: the town’s authorities has launched initiatives like a digital id 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 Foundation, 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 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 in the present day in Argentina, and collectively we can assist 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 really 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”. 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” will likely be a reside showcase of how Ethereum can remodel id, finance, governance, and day-to-day life. Stablecoins, DeFi, onchain identities, public items funding — all of will probably be on the Ethereum Honest for individuals to strive, 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 important 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 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 the town of Buenos Aires, every diving deep into particular Ethereum matters.
One in all our important targets is to push actual utilization of Ethereum. We encourage organizers to combine onchain ticketing, funds, and id wherever attainable. 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 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 deliver their nation onchain?
Contact us at support@devconnect.org or share your ideas on the Forum.
We’re hiring!
We need to lengthen our staff 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 Crew
