We’re excited to announce that the next Devconnect will probably 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 help an effort that the area people has already began — bringing Argentina onchain.
In Buenos Aires and Argentina, we have now 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 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 [email protected] or on the Forum should you or your group are excited by serving to to convey Argentina onchain this yr.
Devconnect will probably be a fruits 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 group 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 economic system, and a nation.
November seventeenth is the official Devconnect kickoff day. Save the date, be there, and plan your occasions round this huge opening day!
Why Devconnect Argentina is completely different
Argentina is a spot the place Ethereum adoption is going on 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 id system with Quark ID, constructed on Ethereum and zksync, exhibiting its openness to crypto.
The native ecosystem can be robust, 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 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 at present in Argentina, and collectively we may also help Buenos Aires grow to be a template for different cities to observe sooner or later.
Argentina has supplied to assist us with visa purposes, so this Devconnect could be really accessible.
The “Ethereum World’s Honest”
On the middle of Devconnect Argentina will probably be one thing that we name the “Ethereum World’s Honest”. Over the past centuries, World’s Festivals across the globe showcased cutting-edge tech and supplied a glimpse into the longer term. The “Ethereum World’s Honest” will probably be a dwell 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 most important venue, you’ll discover the Devconnect coworking house, which will probably be a extra holistic expertise, together with Neighborhood Hubs. These interactive areas are organized by members of the neighborhood, and also you may know them from Devcon. We are going to share extra concerning the Devconnect Neighborhood Hubs and how you can arrange one in a couple of 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 most important objectives 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 an area group in Argentina, engaged on bringing the nation onchain already, or a global group trying to contribute to the ecosystem-wide push to help the Argentinian ecosystem to convey their nation onchain?
Contact us at [email protected] or share your ideas on the Forum.
We’re hiring!
We wish to lengthen our group 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 Crew
