# Meshing at DevConnect Argentina

**Published by:** [Chaîne Research](https://paragraph.com/@chaineresearch/)
**Published on:** 2025-12-12
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Attending Devconnect was an invigorating experience! This year it was in Buenos Aires. The city is big, busy, and vibrant. It bears all the hallmarks of an evolved metropolis. This image shows Puerto Madero, the old port, now the city’s most expensive neighborhood.Devconnect took place from November 17-22. It was the largest Ethereum Foundation event ever. Some stats:14,000+ attendeesFrom 130+ countriesA World’s Fair-style campusWith 8 themed districts: DeFi, Privacy, L2s, Decentralized Social, Hardware & Wallets, AI, Gaming, and Art80+ application exhibitors40+ deep-dive eventsand 15 Community HubsDevconnect ticketThe location was a complex named “La Rural”. It reminded me of the rural ETH Denver fairgrounds, which usually host rodeos, with arenas and expansive exhibit spaces. The weather was warm, with many of the booths in the open air.The keynote was delivered by Vitalik, in the flesh, sporting dark glasses for the summer season. I really appreciate the optimism in the Ethereum ecosystem. That spirit derives from its founder.Regen HubOne of the community hubs was the Regen Hub. The core coordination and program was done by Regens Unite, which has organized activities at 19 Ethereum events since 2022. Local production was by NetX State. The crew’s expertise was evident; the hub was astutely orchestrated. “The Regen Hub is for builders, makers, activists and anyone interested in exploring how Ethereum and Web3 can support regenerative, community-driven solutions to social and environmental issues.”Activities were grouped into daily themes:Mon: 🌅 Arriving & Grounding TogetherTue: 🍄 Mycelial Structures & Mechanism DesignWed: ✨ Community is ImmunityThu: 🌿 Bioregional Commons CoordinationFri: 🐝 Regenerative Finances: From ReFi to RealFiSat: 👁 Radical Imagination and Desirable FuturesAn extensive list of sister organizations participated, doing talks, staging events, and mounting exhibits: Greenpill Network, especially neighboring Greenpill Brazil plus the Dev Guild, ReFi DAO, Agroforest DAO, Mujeres en Crypto, Fork Forest, Commons Hub Brussels, Funding the Commons, ReHuman, Gardens, CofiBlocks, Rifai Sicilia, PhiEconomy, and many more. See the full roster on the Regens Unite calendar. Monty from ReFi DAO explaining the Trust Graph.On Friday I did a talk about Green Goods, an app developed by the Greenpill Dev Guild: “Green Goods: Creating Hyper-local Hubs of Regenerative Actions An exploration of how hyper-local hubs empower regenerative initiatives and collective impact at the community scale” Green Goods is an app for community gardens that makes grassroots impact visible, verifiable, and fundable.Infographic showcasing Green Goods impact = value cycle By sofiverse.ethAt the end of the week we were told that, of the 15 various hubs at Devconnect, the Regen Hub was the busiest. Go gang!Kudos to the team: Guil Maueler (Regens Unite), Franz Tuñez (NetX State), Cori Schlicht (RU), Gabriel Calvo (NS), Luisa Fosco (RU), and Ana Paula (NS). Not present: Mercedes Rodriguez (NS).Regen Haus, Regen VillageOne of the guys from AgroForest DAO, Diogo, organized a Regen Haus where, depending on the day, a number of people stayed. In tandem he facilitated a Regen Village: “We invite builders, dreamers, and grounded doers to join the Regen Village — a living microeconomy where food, culture, and coordination flow as commons. This is your Call to Commoning: to weave your value into a collective story, to reclaim the act of living, learning, and exchanging as a commons, to build local economies that root Ethereum in the soil of everyday life.” In order to participate you had to bring something. People brought wine, cheese, bread, olive oil, honey. Your contribution became: “vouchers — seeds you plant in our Community Pool. In return, you receive $VILLA tokens, your key to our dinners, workshops, and the shared treasury that funds what comes next.”A hearty loaf created at the Regen Haus by Max from Fork Forest. (Photo by Max)Pacha Mama Closing CeremonyAt the end of the conference week on Sunday there was a “Pacha Mama Closing Ceremony: Walk to Las Yungas Garden”: ‘“To close the Regen Hub @ Devconnect BA 2025, we invite you to our Pacha Mama Closing Ceremony: an immersive experience to connect with the real Buenos Aires. ​We will meet the Women that created the "Las Yungas Community Garden" in Barrio Rodrigo Bueno. They lead this space since the Pandemics and are a living example of community resilience and regeneration.”’ ‘Pacha Mama’ means Earth Mother. Here are some photos from the ancestral ritual.The community garden is hosted on the grounds of Museo Nacional de la Carcova.We were welcomed with a drink and snack, with translations provided by multilingual participants. We heard about the history of the garden. Some of the women, who all live nearby in the Barrio, are from Peru. The ceremony was held under the branches of an enormous tree. The entire group gathered in a circle around a hole in the ground and a blanket with provisions and herbal incense.The ritual consists of everybody, one by one, sipping from a cup, giving thanks for the gifts of the Earth Mother, and giving something back. The bottle contains an aromatic liqueur which we all shared.The hole in the earth was created with found materials: a chunk of concrete, shards of a broken pot, a tin can, brick, stone, tile, glass, a branch.The moment of giving back: drink from the cup, give thanks, then pour the remainder into the earth.After the ritual we planted young trees that had been brought to the garden at our arrival. Later we walked over to Barrio Rodrigo Bueno where the women live. The whole neighborhood is being renovated. We gathered in a shared local garden for food & drink, hearing more stories and their plans for the future.The women of the garden now have a crypto wallet. We donated to their cause. Finding RootsIt was rewarding to wrap up a stimulating and inspiring conference week with a visit to a local, regenerative, on-the-ground collective. It was like zooming in, getting closer and closer, until we found ourselves meshing with like-minded locals in the real Buenos Aires.

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