# Funding the Commons Buenos Aires 2025

Conference · Fundación Beethoven, Buenos Aires · 19 November 2025

One-day summit during Devconnect on financial access, coordination, and crypto systems that actually work, with demos from the residency and RealFi Hack.

- Watch all recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3C6eF-zu5Ab4st000q2Q2EMiPzKhSeJk
- Watch the reel: https://x.com/FundingCommons/status/2001677639195451682
- See our impact live: https://ftc-impact-dashboard.vercel.app/
- Photo album: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19Gk3zzPXH-iGlgk8gUBG5r3u5qKI5a5O

## Wednesday 19 November 2025

- 09:30–09:40 **FtC Opening: Welcome & Year in Review**: David Casey, Funding the Commons (Talk · FtC Update · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w_g1fY8DZo)
- 09:30–10:00 **Why open source digital democratic systems matter: trust, transparency, inclusion.**: Rica Amaral, Vocdoni; Jordi Pinyana, Vocdoni (Workshop · Workshop Room)
- 09:40–10:00 **Residency Report: Highlights & Outcomes** (Talk · FtC Update · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_izrrSMe9AE)
  Residency Alumni + FtC Team
- 10:00–10:15 **Blockchain for Everyone: Free Mobile, Real Utility, and Mass Adoption in LATAM**: Henry Baiz, Gane (Talk · RealFi · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX_EHslfJhk)
- 10:00–10:30 **Live voting session: coordination & privacy**: Martin Strobl, Logos (Workshop · Workshop Room)
- 10:15–10:30 **P2P Markets in LATAM**: Guillermo Goncalvez, El Dorado (Talk · RealFi · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu8zYm9lQQg)
- 10:30–10:45 **RealFi Meets Real Payments. Real Settlement. Real World.**: Shaun Johnson, Stellar Development Foundation (Talk · RealFi · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie9ERhhC8GA)
- 10:30–11:00 **Art of the pitch: deliver startup presentations that land**: Alon Shavit, Celo Camp (Workshop · Workshop Room)
- 10:55–11:20 **Public Goods Funding Keynote Presentation**: Juan Benet, Protocol Labs (Talk · RealFi · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7TKs1Frl6Y)
- 11:00–11:30 **The Architecture of Trust: Blockchain Protocols as Climate Infrastructure**: Louise Borreani, Ecofrontiers (Workshop · Workshop Room)
- 11:20–11:45 **The Tor Project: Privacy for the Commons**: Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project (Talk · Privacy · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXG_-T_HpIU)
- 11:30–12:15 **Change management and collective organisation**: Andrej Berlin, Deep Work Network (Workshop · Workshop Room)
- 11:45–12:15 **Privacy & Public Goods**: Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Foundation; Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project (Fireside · Privacy · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDyUGxtlPSw)
- 12:15–12:45 **Surprise Announcement**: Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project; Jarrad Hope, Logos; David Casey, Funding the Commons; James Farrell, Funding the Commons (Panel · Privacy · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OqYAI8eZOo)
- 12:15–13:00 **Theory of Change**: Anke Liu, Stellar Development Foundation (Workshop · Workshop Room)
- 12:45–13:00 **A Protogovernance Framework for Accelerating Humanity with the Covenant of Humanistic Technology**: Shady El Damaty, human.tech (Talk · Privacy · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnhHzOwRLoo)
- 14:00–14:30 **The Future of Public Goods Funding**: Julian Zawistowski, Octant; Eliza Pancake, Ethereum Foundation; Raymond Cheng, Open Source Observer; Arun Maharajan, UNICEF (Panel · Web3 PGF · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmHQ2E8a9Fs)
- 14:00–14:30 **Providing open financial access to Argentina**: Ariel Eiberman, Gnosis Pay LATAM (Workshop · Workshop Room)
- 14:30–14:45 **Turning ETH Staking into Education, Connectivity, Trees, and Cash Aid**: Jaydeep Korde, Launchnodes, Lido Impact Staking (Talk · Web3 PGF · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEOnA52ypIM)
- 14:30–15:00 **Credibly Neutral Funding mechanisms**: Devansh Mehta, Ethereum Foundation (Workshop · Workshop Room)
- 14:45–15:00 **AI4PG: Bridging AI Research & Public Goods Funding**: David Dao, GainForest (Talk · Web3 PGF · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDK3--P8Ehc)
- 15:00–15:15 **For The World: How ReFi will Reach Critical Velocity**: Luuk Weber, CeloPG / Ethereum for the World (Talk · Web3 PGF · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n34iKIteRyI)
- 15:00–15:30 **Privacy-Aware Mechanisms for Public Goods Funding**: Beth McCarthy, Web3Privacy Now; John Guilding, MACI, Ethereum PSE; Shashank Trivedi, Privote, Ethereum PSE; Nanak Nihal Khalsa, human.tech (Workshop · Workshop Room)
- 15:15–15:30 **The Future Home of Open Source**: Fintan Halpenny, Radicle (Talk · Web3 PGF · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA8Q9hU3gEY)
- 15:30–15:45 **Rewiring the Commons: Hypercerts on AT Protocol**: Holke Brammer, Hypercerts (Talk · Web3 PGF · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCEuGMeZiUs)
- 16:00–16:30 **Decentralized Justice in Action: The Kleros – Mendoza Supreme Court Pilot [Spanish language]**: Federico Ast, Kleros; María Fernanda Díaz, Abogada y Magíster en Magistratura y Gestión Judicial, Juzgado de Paz y Contravencional de Lavalle (Fireside · RealFi · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUYFjkjzgv0)
- 16:00–16:30 **Funding the Commons from First Principles**: Hadar Rottenberg, GoodDollar (Workshop · Workshop Room)
- 16:30–17:00 **Multistakeholder Collaboration for the Common Good: the Bridging Role of Real World Live Use Cases (Mujeres 2000)**: Hector Rocha, IAE; Eliza Pancake, Ethereum Foundation; Charlotte Fradet, Funding the Commons; Fernando Boiero, Xcapit; Belén Burgstaller, Mujeres 2000; Arun Maharajan, UNICEF (Talk · RealFi · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_XEfAhUFIA)
- 16:30–17:00 **Experience a fully p2p private and censorship-resistant application**: Václav Pavlín, Logos (Workshop · Workshop Room)
- 17:00–17:30 **RealFi Lightning Talks**: Sara Johnstone, RelayFunder; Claudio Cossio, Meta Pool; Alisher S., Logos; Shinya Mori, Imi; Victor Hugo Martins, The Aha Company; Alon Shavit, Celo Camp (Lightning · RealFi · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Yb2kLAYVI)
- 17:00–17:30 **Embedding digital human rights with wallets as a protocol**: Nanak Nihal Khalsa, human.tech (Workshop · Workshop Room)
- 17:30–18:00 **Leveraging Technology Towards Public Efficiency**: Akli Le Coq; James Tunningley, Protocol Labs; Teodor Petricevic, UNDP AltFinLab; Nanak Nihal Khalsa, human.tech; Augusto Ardiles Diaz, Undersecretary of Investments, Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Panel · RealFi · Main Stage Auditorium) [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1tSRzX7Roo)
- 17:30–18:00 **The importance of evidence-based public goods funding**: Shinya Mori, Imi (Workshop · Workshop Room)
- 18:00–18:10 **FtC Closing: Thank You**: David Casey, Funding the Commons (Talk · FtC · Main Stage Auditorium)

## Recordings

- Building Privacy, Identity, and Financial Access for the Real World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcYmBN7zx44
- Opening: Welcome & Year in Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w_g1fY8DZo
- Residency Report: Highlights and Outcomes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_izrrSMe9AE
- Privacy and Public Goods: Vitalik Buterin & Roger Dingledine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDyUGxtlPSw
- RealFi Meets Real Payments, Real Settlement, Real World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie9ERhhC8GA
- The Tor Project: Privacy for the Commons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXG_-T_HpIU
- Public Goods Funding Keynote Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7TKs1Frl6Y
- P2P Markets in LATAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu8zYm9lQQg
- The Future Home of Open Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA8Q9hU3gEY
- A Protogovernance Framework for Accelerating Humanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnhHzOwRLoo
- Blockchain for Everyone: Free Mobile Real Utility and Mass Adoption in LATAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX_EHslfJhk
- Rewiring the Commons: Hypercerts on AT Protocol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCEuGMeZiUs
- AI4PG: Bridging AI Research and Public Goods Funding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDK3--P8Ehc
- Turning ETH Staking into Education, Connectivity, Trees, and Cash Aid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEOnA52ypIM
- For The World: How ReFi will Reach Critical Velocity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n34iKIteRyI
- Decentralized Justice in Action The Kleros: Mendoza Supreme Court Pilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUYFjkjzgv0
- RealFi Lightning Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Yb2kLAYVI
- Leveraging Technology Towards Public Efficiency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1tSRzX7Roo
- Multistakeholder Collaboration for the Common Good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_XEfAhUFIA
- The Future of Public Goods Funding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmHQ2E8a9Fs
- Surprise Announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OqYAI8eZOo