Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires

Past

SEZ Argentina

March 21 - April 4

🇦🇷 Buenos Aires

↓ Read the Impact Report ↓

249 residents & 500+ locals attended events.

Reach

  • Our launch video went kind of viral (500k+ views on X)

  • We built a month long popup zone where we hosted 249 residents (65% local, 35% international)

  • Our program created USD $500,000+ in Foreign Direct Investment attracted during the month (through tourism, f&b, and venture capital)

  • Hosted events attended by 500+ locals helping build awareness and excitement about Solana in Argentina.

  • Hosted a buildstation, where 16 startups demo’d their Solana projects helping them prep to submit their project into Radar (2 teams made it to the Semi Finals of Copa America).

  • Achieved 1M+ direct impressions on our X account within 3 months.

Connections

Enabled 80+ b2b partnerships across ecosystem, for example:

  • ORE x ISC - $0 to $500k+ TVL for liquidity pair in 1st week of trading.

  • ORO - Usman (from Dubai) met his co-founder and CTO Marche (from Argentina) at SEZ. Raised $150k in funding from founder/operator angels at SEZ.

  • KAST x Superteam - Airdropped $70 per person to attendees of the Solana Ecosystem Call and launched branded cards with 10 Superteams.

  • Magic Eden x Degods x Superhosts - Permanent Solana mural at oldest TV station in Buenos Aires.

  • Decaf x Fuze Finance - enabling AED offramps for stables.

  • Sphere x Fuze Finance - enabling direct AED offramps and bank integration support for UAE customers.

  • Venta x Router - They are working together to build a decentralized payment gateway to compete with Network/Mercado Pago.

  • Decaf x Kripton - Through Kripton integration Decaf will be able to offer localized OTC off-ramps and easier merchant payments UX for Argentinians.

  • Jambo x Tether LATAM - Unblocked shipping hurdle and now exploring activations in Argentina and wider LATAM.

Listen to testimonials/interviews with some Formans here:

FOUR BIG WINS:

(1) Supported the creation of SOLxAR, a long term Solana-native community that’s building a coworking hub in Buenos Aires. Also in talks with the Ministry of Education and several private universities to pilot programs to up-skill educators for software development in RUST.

(2) Supported Senseinode, a validator with over $1.2 Billion in AUM to launch their Solana validator in LATAM.

(3) Enabled Solana Pay across 2000+ merchants in Buenos Aires through Kripton Market.

(4) Had an artist create a licensed Solana mural at El Nueve, the oldest tv station in Argentina.