We’re excited to announce that the next Devconnect shall 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 assist an effort that the area people has already began — bringing Argentina onchain.
In Buenos Aires and Argentina, we’ve got 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 support@devconnect.org or on the Forum in case you or your group are keen on serving to to carry Argentina onchain this yr.
Devconnect shall be a end result of this effort, and a worldwide gathering that’s greater than a decentralized occasion week. Along with targeted community-organized occasions that can happen throughout town, the EF occasions crew 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 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 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, 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 Foundation, OpenZeppelin, POAP, and Ripio along with many extra. Plus, it’s dwelling 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 the moment in Argentina, and collectively we can assist Buenos Aires develop into a template for different cities to comply with sooner or later.
Argentina has provided to assist us with visa purposes, so this Devconnect will be actually accessible.
The “Ethereum World’s Honest”
On the heart of Devconnect Argentina shall 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 provided a glimpse into the long run. The “Ethereum World’s Honest” shall be a stay showcase of how Ethereum can remodel id, 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 strive, 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 foremost venue, you’ll discover the Devconnect coworking house, which shall 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 are going to share extra concerning the Devconnect Neighborhood Hubs and how you can arrange one in a number of weeks.
Devconnect occasions nonetheless decentralized
After all, 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.
Certainly one 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 a neighborhood crew in Argentina, engaged on bringing the nation onchain already, or a world crew trying to contribute to the ecosystem-wide push to assist the Argentinian ecosystem to carry their nation onchain?
Contact us at support@devconnect.org or share your ideas on the Forum.
We’re hiring!
We wish to prolong our crew 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 Group
