<p>“DevConnect 2025 was about touching and feeling Ethereum IRL”Nathan Sexer, lead of the DevConnect 2025 and Events team at the Ethereum Foundation, gives a peek into the largest iteration of Devconnect ever, with 20,000 attendees, and why the team pivoted to a &quot;World&#39;s Fair&quot; format, creating tangible districts for DeFi and Privacy to let attendees truly &quot;touch and feel&quot; the ecosystem.</p><p>The conversation gets real about the friction of the physical world. He explained why Argentina’s crypto-native culture makes it the perfect host, how hyperinflation fueled bottom-up adoption, and even the venue-wide internet failure became an accidental &quot;feature,&quot; breaking the on-screen silos and pushing genuine face-to-face connections.</p><p>A massive geopolitical win was how the team worked with the government to issue 1,000+ visas for attendees from over 130 nationalities to make this event in the true spirit of borderless crypto.</p><p>The Ethereum Foundation is heading to Mumbai in 2026! The goal for India is to unify a fragmented developer diaspora and bring regulatory attention to one of the world&#39;s most critical tech hubs.</p><p>Topics</p><ul><li>00:00 Intro &amp; Scale</li><li>04:15 World&#39;s Fair Concept</li><li>09:50 Why Argentina?</li><li>14:30 Operational Challenges</li><li>18:15 Internet Blackout</li><li>22:00 Booth Renaissance</li><li>28:30 Privacy Priority</li><li>33:00 Devcon Mumbai</li><li>37:40 Indian Developers</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Links</p><ul><li>Devcon Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/EFDevcon</li><li>Nathan Sexer on X: https://x.com/nethan_eth</li><li>Ethereum Foundation: https://ethereum.org</li><li>Gnosis: https://gnosis.io/</li></ul><p>Sponsors: Gnosis: Gnosis has been building core decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem since 2015. With the launch of Gnosis Pay last year, we introduced the world&#39;s first Decentralized Payment Network. Start leveraging its power today at http://gnosis.io </p>