Subscribe to Devconnect newsletter to receive new posts directly to your inbox.
Subscribe to Devconnect newsletter to receive new posts directly to your inbox.
Over 9.9k subscribers
Hello Ethereum community,
The Devcon team is as always extremely bullish on Ethereum and we are excitedly waiting for the upcoming Pectra upgrade, estimated for Q1 of 2025. Also: our eyes lit up when we saw the 2025 Ethereum community events list, which is already super packed.
As the Ethereum Foundation events team, one of our guiding principles is to dogfood Ethereum tech where possible and where it makes sense. We even recently asked ourselves how we might make Devcon run completely on Ethereum and Ethereum-adjacent tech. We have a long list of projects we have collaborated with to stand by this principle over past Devcons, which you can find here, and we are always open to new suggestions via our DIP process.
Some upcoming changes in the EF were announced, and we also want to introduce a few new things, one of them being this newsletter. From now on, here’s what you can expect monthly:
EF events updates
First and foremost, we’ll continue to share Devcon and Devconnect updates. But we want to go a bit deeper, share what we’re planning and what questions we’re pondering. We’ll ask for your opinions and thoughts, so you can actively help shape the biggest Ethereum events.
Ecosystem Ethereum events
Events are a huge part of our ecosystem, and while Devcon is one of the biggest events, there are multiple gatherings hosted by local Ethereum communities. Today, there are already 65 events scheduled for 2025 on this community list. We’ll be highlighting some Ethereum events each month, and gather some unique insights so you can make the best decision about which events to join.
Local highlights
In this section, we will highlight projects, teams, dApps, and use cases from the Devconnect 2025 region. We’ll reveal this section after our Devconnect location announcement.
Let’s dive into the updates for January.
2025: Devconnect
Devconnect 2025 will take place in Q4, and we’ll announce the location soon. Devconnect is about making progress. It should be a catalyst for Ethereum innovation in many different areas and fields. That’s why Devconnect is a decentralized event. Unlike Devcon, which we mostly organize, Devconnect is many separate events organized by expert teams in the community.
Planning Devconnect
Our team still guides the layout and directions of the Devconnect week and we started the year with a workshop to help us focus on what Devconnect should be about and how we can improve it. Thanks to Deep Work for facilitating the workshop.
Here are some of our key focus points for Devconnect this year to enable in-person collaboration and meaningful progress while having a decentralized week with experts curating the programming for their events:
How might we…
Looking for your input
We value your thoughts, too. If you have any ideas on these topics or other ideas for Devconnect, we have opened a new category on our forum. Feel free to share any thoughts on how to solve them.
There are ten events scheduled for the coming month, all organized by the community! We spoke with a few organizers and asked what they want to highlight about their events:
ETHiopia, Jan 21-Feb 21, Addis Ababa
The ETHiopia team is incredibly ambitious not only organizing a month-long pop-up for Africa’s Web3 builders and changemakers but also a hackathon and conference, all in one. To make that happen, they collaborated with many communities across the continent. The team is determined to lay the foundation for a strong Ethereum movement in the country, creating opportunities to present Ethereum as the best institutional partner for the Ethiopian government. If you want to support ETHiopia in their mission, join the event or participate in the on-chain lottery.
Agentic Ethereum, Jan 31-Feb 12, online
This async hackathon by ETHGlobal focuses on developing and building crypto AI agents and is therefore at the forefront of current hot topics in the Ethereum ecosystem. AI agents have the potential to revolutionize how autonomous entities interact with Ethereum. Join the hackathon to leverage AI and be part of the fundamental shift in how digital personas operate online and on-chain, reshaping the dynamics of the crypto space.
Ethereum Zurich, Jan 30-Jan 31, Zurich
It's the third time the team is hosting the event at the University of Zurich. The conference has 3 main tracks: academia and research, community, and industry. It will feature many local Swiss organizations and communities while exploring transformative movements like lunarpunk, privacy, solarpunk, d/acc, and defensive tech. Zuitzerland, the local network state and society sandbox, is also involved with multiple sessions.
ETHDenver, Feb 23-Mar 2
It's the year of the regenerates at ETHDenver, and, as usual, there is Buidlweek before the main event and a mountain retreat right after, making the event a total of 2 weeks long. One thing the organizing team is especially proud of is their decentralized decision-making process for selecting speakers at ETHDenver. It’s a merit-based system where over 30 expert and OG reviewers, along with a team of curators, review applications, provide feedback, and make the final selections.
Modular Carnival, Feb 25-Mar 1
Modular Carnival is a new web3 event in the heart of Brazil. The hackathon features a special track focused on Arbitrum Stylus, inviting developers and creators to experiment with WebAssembly (WASM) in the Arbitrum ecosystem. To keep things exciting, participants can use a custom event app to collect points by completing tasks like watching talks, engaging with booths, or networking, and then exchange them for prizes. To top it all off, the event concludes with a street carnival block party, celebrating Brazilian culture and the energy that makes it so special.
Find these and more events on this community list.
Coming soon
Twitter: @EFDevconnect
Farcaster: @efdevconnect
YouTube: @EthereumFoundation
Instagram: @efdevcon
Website: www.devconnect.org
We'll share news about EF and Ethereum events again next month and highlight projects from the next Devconnect region.
xoxo
EF events team
🦄
Welcome to the *30th edition of Paragraph Picks*, highlighting a few hand-selected pieces from the past couple of weeks.
@naomiii grapples with the disillusionment of working in tech, questioning the inevitability of AI-driven futures and profit-driven motives while advocating for more human-centric, meaningful, and creative spaces online. "We are obsessed with purposes that are dead ends. We see money as an end and lose our sense of everything that is worth living for." https://paragraph.xyz/@cryptonao/idealism
@bethanymarz describes how communities are being reimagined through hyperlocal initiatives, bespoke coworking spaces, co-living communities, and pop-up cities, signaling the emergence of a “neighborverse” where human connection is being redefined. "While it’s all still very grassroots, I do hope that this collection of community-builder initiatives is an indication that we are tipping toward a larger pattern of what it means to rethink neighborhoods, communities, and hyper-local connection." https://hardmodefirst.xyz/the-new-neighborverse
@albertwenger explores the nature of knowledge, arguing for a middle-ground approach that acknowledges both the certainty of scientific knowledge and the inherent limitations of historical and philosophical inquiry, advocating for a balanced, evolving understanding of reality. "If we apparently can’t know some things, maybe we can’t really know anything at all." https://continuations.com/philosophy-mondays-knowledge