We’re excited to announce that the subsequent Devconnect shall 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 wish to assist an effort that the local people has already began — bringing Argentina onchain.
In Buenos Aires and Argentina, we have now 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 should you or your group are occupied with serving to to convey 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 centered community-organized occasions that can happen throughout the 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 massive 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 day by day transactions and financial savings. Buenos Aires is already experimenting onchain: the 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 also be robust, with Argentina-founded tasks 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 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 robust 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 as we speak in Argentina, and collectively we can assist Buenos Aires turn into a template for different cities to observe sooner or later.
Argentina has provided to assist us with visa purposes, so this Devconnect could be really accessible.
The “Ethereum World’s Truthful”
On the middle of Devconnect Argentina shall be one thing that we name the “Ethereum World’s Truthful”. During the last centuries, World’s Gala’s across the globe showcased cutting-edge tech and provided a glimpse into the long run. The “Ethereum World’s Truthful” shall be a reside showcase of how Ethereum can rework identification, finance, governance, and day-to-day life. Stablecoins, DeFi, onchain identities, public items funding — all of will probably be on the Ethereum Truthful for folks to attempt, 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 major venue, you’ll discover the Devconnect coworking area, 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’ll share extra concerning the Devconnect Neighborhood Hubs and easy methods to set up one in a couple of weeks.
Devconnect occasions nonetheless decentralized
In fact, Devconnect Argentina remains to be Devconnect – which means a number of occasions organized by completely different groups throughout the town of Buenos Aires, every diving deep into particular Ethereum subjects.
One in every of our major targets is to push actual utilization of Ethereum. We encourage organizers to combine onchain ticketing, funds, and identification wherever attainable. We additionally proceed on the lookout for alternatives to dogfood Ethereum tech to enhance the attendee expertise at Devconnect.
Get entangled within the Argentina onchain effort
Are you a neighborhood staff in Argentina, engaged on bringing the nation onchain already, or a global staff trying 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 need to prolong 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 Staff
