We’re excited to announce that the subsequent 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 larger 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 now 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 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 assist@devconnect.org or on the Discussion board for those who or your group are excited 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 targeted community-organized occasions that may happen throughout town, the EF occasions workforce will create an interactive “Ethereum World’s Honest” — an actual showcase of dwell 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: 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 robust, 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 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 occurring at scale at the moment in Argentina, and collectively we may 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 will be really accessible.
The “Ethereum World’s Honest”
On the middle 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 long run. The “Ethereum World’s Honest” will likely be a dwell showcase of how Ethereum can remodel identification, 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 attempt, so you’ll be able to 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 major 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’ll share extra in regards to the Devconnect Group Hubs and arrange one in a number of weeks.
Devconnect occasions nonetheless decentralized
After all, Devconnect Argentina remains 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 major objectives is to push actual utilization of Ethereum. We encourage organizers to combine onchain ticketing, funds, and identification wherever potential. We additionally proceed in search of alternatives to dogfood Ethereum tech to enhance the attendee expertise at Devconnect.
Get entangled within the Argentina onchain effort
Are you a neighborhood workforce in Argentina, engaged on bringing the nation onchain already, or a global workforce trying to contribute to the ecosystem-wide push to assist the Argentinian ecosystem to deliver 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 workforce 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
