We’re excited to announce that the next Devconnect might be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November seventeenth to the twenty second, 2025!
This yr, we’re aiming for one thing larger than simply Devconnect: We need to help 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 help 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 when you or your group are inquisitive about serving to to deliver Argentina onchain this yr.
Devconnect might be a fruits 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 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. Persons 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 identification system with Quark ID, constructed on Ethereum and zksync, exhibiting its openness to crypto.
The native ecosystem can be sturdy, with Argentina-founded tasks 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 house 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 at this time in Argentina, and collectively we might help Buenos Aires change into a template for different cities to comply with sooner or later.
Argentina has provided to assist us with visa functions, so this Devconnect will be actually accessible.
The “Ethereum World’s Truthful”
On the heart of Devconnect Argentina might be one thing that we name the “Ethereum World’s Truthful”. During the last centuries, World’s Festivals across the globe showcased cutting-edge tech and provided a glimpse into the longer term. The “Ethereum World’s Truthful” might be a reside showcase of how Ethereum can remodel 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 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 essential venue, you’ll discover the Devconnect coworking area, which might be a extra holistic expertise, together with Neighborhood Hubs. These interactive areas are organized by members of the group, and also you would possibly know them from Devcon. We’ll share extra in regards to the Devconnect Neighborhood Hubs and tips on how 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 town of Buenos Aires, every diving deep into particular Ethereum matters.
Considered one of our essential targets is to push actual utilization of Ethereum. We encourage organizers to combine onchain ticketing, funds, and identification wherever doable. 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 a neighborhood staff in Argentina, engaged on bringing the nation onchain already, or a world staff trying to contribute to the ecosystem-wide push to help 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 want to prolong 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
