Intro
Our recent trip to Buenos Aires for Ethereum Devconnect and the Filecoin Dev Summit was intense, inspiring, and deeply meaningful. It was an opportunity to participate actively, share our work, connect with people, and witness real adoption of Web3 within a society (Argentina).
Starting with the Filecoin Dev Summit and DePIN Day
We began our week at the Filecoin Dev Summit 7 (FDS 7).
Building Cha‑Ching, our platform for archiving and incentivizing governance participation, we were selected as a top‑3 project in the Filecoin Alpha Cohort and invited to take part in FDS 7 in Buenos Aires. Three days immersed among brilliant builders focused on advancing the Filecoin ecosystem.
As part of the summit, we shared the challenges and learnings we experienced being one of the first teams using Filecoin Onchain Cloud (while building Cha‑Ching).
DePIN Day was a key moment of the week, where Filecoin Onchain Cloud was officially announced on‑stage and broadcast live via CoinDesk streaming. The room was filled with builders interested in how Filecoin enables storage with the convenience of cloud providers while maintaining sovereign, censorship‑resistant guarantees.
During the event, we had the opportunity to deliver a 1‑minute pitch about Cha‑Ching, presenting how we are archiving and incentivizing open‑source governance.
Watch our Cha‑Ching pitch presented live on CoinDesk: https://www.youtube.com/live/7iDcHlg1hIw?si=Zis8Q9eb8Er5qlXL&t=3455
Key Themes at Devconnect
Interoperability
A major theme throughout Devconnect was interoperability — driven by announcements around Ethereum’s new Ethereum Interop Layer (EIL). The vision of enabling seamless cross‑chain interactions aligns strongly with our work on Neo X and its bridge design.
Real‑World Assets (RWA) & Practical Adoption
Conversations throughout Devconnect highlighted the rise of real‑world assets (RWA) and how crypto is being used in practice outside speculative markets. Being in Argentina — where stablecoins are part of day‑to‑day life — made it clear how essential accessible and reliable crypto infrastructure is in times of economic instability. People use blockchain there without even knowing it, through apps with integrated wallets that handle stablecoins seamlessly, and almost every point of sale (e.g., coffee shops, restaurants) already supports this form of payment.
Privacy & Confidentiality
A central theme across Devconnect was privacy — especially the need for confidential computation and secure collaboration in public blockchain environments.
Discussions around technologies like FHE, MPC, and ZK proofs highlighted how essential privacy is for protecting user data, enabling fair coordination, and avoiding bias in governance and financial systems.
Why It Mattered
In our opinion, the industry is unquestionably moving in the right direction toward massive adoption. It’s a long journey, but the collective effort around privacy and confidentiality, real‑world assets, decentralized storage, and removing central points of failure is meaningfully progressing. All of this work ultimately aims to deliver real value to society — and Argentina is a real example of that.
We believe that a society striving for greater sovereignty encourages people to take responsibility for their own decisions — ideally supported by healthy safety nets. The momentum we witnessed in Buenos Aires reaffirmed that innovation continues, regardless of market cycles.
Closing Thoughts
Buenos Aires gave us inspiration, clarity, and momentum.
We return energized to keep building by developing interoperability layers in the Neo ecosystem, as well as to keep thriving with Cha‑Ching and open it up to more communities.
