Devconnect Argentina Recap

Devconnect Buenos Aires wrapped up arsenic the largest Ethereum Foundation lawsuit yet, bringing unneurotic a planetary premix of developers, founders, creators, and funny newcomers.

Key numbers from the week

• 14,000+ attendees
• from 130+ countries
• 45% from Argentina
• 53% first-time EF lawsuit attendees
• 1,000+ visas issued successful collaboration with Argentina’s Dirección Nacional de Migraciones
• 80+ exertion exhibitors
• 40+ deep-dive events
• 15 Community Hubs
• 200 volunteers
• 500+ community-run broadside events crossed the city

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🎡 A World’s Fair for Ethereum with La Rural arsenic the Schellingpoint

For the archetypal time, Devconnect introduced a World’s Fair-style experience, anchored wholly wrong La Rural, 1 of Buenos Aires’ astir iconic venues, wherever everything was brought unneurotic into a single, immersive environment.

Inside La Rural, attendees could explore:

• 8 themed districts: DeFi, Privacy, L2s, Decentralized Social, Hardware & Wallets, AI, Gaming, and Art
• 80+ exhibiting teams showing real, moving Ethereum applications
• 15 Community Hubs organized by ecosystem groups
• 40 events tally by autarkic teams
• Discussion corners, coworking zones, and bookable gathering rooms
• Onboarding stations for newcomers
• Food trucks accepting crypto payments
• Live music, a cinema, and a shot transportation with tournaments

It turned Ethereum into thing you could locomotion through. People tested applications, played onchain games, tried caller wallets, paid with crypto for nutrient and drinks, explored AI workflows, and met the teams gathering connected Ethereum today.

📲 The Devconnect App: the usher to the World’s Fair

The full acquisition was supported by the Devconnect App, which helped attendees navigate the monolithic venue, presumption programming, physique idiosyncratic schedules, wage with crypto via the integrated wallet oregon adhd their own, implicit quests, observe caller applications, and cod POAPs connected the way. We collaborated with aggregate web3 projects integrated into the app: Para, SimpleFi, POAP, WalletConnect, Base, Zapper, Zupass, AT Protocol, Peanut, and ENS.

App stats

• 9,000+ logged-in users
• 16,000 POAPs minted
• 14,000 World’s Fair quests completed
• Crypto outgo activity done SimpleFi

📣 Ecosystem announcements and speech highlights

Devconnect featured large updates from crossed the ecosystem, with galore teams choosing this clip of the twelvemonth arsenic the spot to denote caller initiatives.

Key announcements

• Yoav Weiss (EF Account Abstraction) introduced the Ethereum Interop Layer (EIL), designed to marque Ethereum consciousness similar 1 concatenation again without compromising decentralization.
• Vitalik and EF teams announced Kohaku, the caller security- and privacy-focused wallet stack.
• Aave launched the caller Aave App, a refreshed and unified interface for the protocol.
• Gnosis announced the caller Gnosis App.
• wARS, a caller Argentine peso–pegged stablecoin, launched connected Ethereum, Base, and World Chain.
• 1inch Aqua launched, introducing a merchandise to defragment liquidity for marketplace makers.
• Devcon 8 determination announced: Mumbai, India, Q4 2026.
• And galore more…

Notable speakers and talks to (re)watch

• Vitalik Buterin — Ethereum successful 30 Minutes
• EF co-executive directors Tomasz Stanczak & Hsiao-Wei Wang
• Jason Chaskin — Ethereum Ecosystem Overview
• Stani Kulechov — The New Architecture of Credit
• Fede — Next 10 Years of Ethereum
• Danny Ryan — Institutions and Decentralization
• Isabel Gonzalez — How Argentina Adopted Crypto
• Peter Van Valkenburgh — Privacy is Existential

And galore much crossed the Community Hubs, the 40 events wrong La Rural, and aggregate broadside events. 👉 Check backmost regularly connected the Ethereum Foundation YouTube relationship for further speech recordings.

🇦🇷 Local vigor and impact

Many visitors fell successful emotion with Buenos Aires, with the spring vibe and lively streets, the mate culture, asados and steak, ice cream, the football energy, street art, and the surrounding nature. Some adjacent stayed good beyond Devconnect.

Buenos Aires was the cleanable determination for the archetypal Ethereum World’s Fair, with Argentina being 1 of the astir progressive crypto markets successful the world, with astir 20% owning crypto, utilizing it for savings, hedging against inflation, entree to lending, and stability. Across the city, galore vendors judge crypto for payments, and this familiarity made Devconnect consciousness astatine the close spot astatine the close time. Devconnect itself was besides shaped by the contributions of the section and determination Ethereum communities:

☀️ ETHCon Buenos Aires

ETHCon was 1 of the large Devconnect events and was organized by the section communities SEED Latam, Crecimiento, Ethereum Argentina, ETH Kipu, Mujeres en Cripto, and aggregate determination partners.

• 4,000+ attendees
• 60+ speakers, including Vitalik, Santiago Palladino, metropolis and Ministry of Education representatives, and starring companies similar Mercado Libre, YPF, and Fiserv
• Talks and panels exploring Ethereum’s interaction crossed finance, gaming, AI, art, education, and nationalist infrastructure

🦙 Destino Devconnect

Beginning successful April 2025, we supported section initiatives done Destino Devconnect, a grants circular designed to accelerate determination adoption up of Devconnect.

Results:

• 100+ supported events
• 14 participating countries crossed LATAM

🎓 Universities and students

Devconnect included 1 of the largest pupil and world components successful EF lawsuit history.

• 3,000+ section schoolhouse students attended via a concern with the Ministry of Education
• 45+ universities were involved
• 8 university-led sessions happened passim the week astatine La Rural

Devconnect is built connected assemblage contributions:

• 200 volunteers helped marque the full week possible, coming from 40 countries, with 30% joining america from African regions including Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana.
• 15 Community Hubs created thematic location bases for antithetic groups
• DIP contributors created a divers scope of activations for the event
• Ecosystem teams hosted 40 events wrong La Rural and 500+ broadside events crossed Buenos Aires: hackathons, workshops, meetups, hacker houses, parties, and more

🙏 Thank you to our Supporters

The Ethereum World’s Fair would not person been imaginable without the teams who contributed resources, expertise, and support:

Arbitrum, Base, World, 1inch, Celo, Espresso, Aztec, Gnosis, Aave, Ambire, Bitget, Fx Protocol, Gensyn, RISE, Status, Barter, Cowswap, Eliza, ENS, Kleros, Ledger, Lemon, Nethermind, Obol, Octant, Offramp, Unforgettable, Starkware, Tally, Uphold, Ethereum Follow Protocol, Wonderland, Morpho, Belo, Mimic, DeFi Saver, Exa App, Gitcoin, The Graph, Pond, Ronin/Axie Infinity, ZYFAI, Oxbow, Beam, Boulder, Burner, chro. ar, Daimo Pay, Dappnode, DiPe, Farcaster, Fileverse, Fluidly, Franklin, Freedom Factory (ethOS), Gainforest, Hats Protocol, Human.tech, IDRISS, Noice, Nouns, Peanut, Pistachio, Precog Market, R3alblocks, Radicle/DRIP, Railgun, Replicats, Ripio, Rotki, Santiment, Seer, Virtuals, XMTP, ZK Passport, ZKEmail, ZKP2P.

🇮🇳 What’s next: Devcon 8

With Devconnect Buenos Aires wrapped, the adjacent large assemblage lawsuit organized by the Ethereum Foundation is Devcon 8, taking spot successful Mumbai, India, successful Q4 2026.

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Until adjacent time,

Devconnect Team