Sui Connect Lands in Latin America
Sui Connect’s LATAM debut in Buenos Aires gave developers, creators, and community members a chance to meet, learn, and engage with the Sui ecosystem together.
Main Takeaways
- Sui Connect made its LATAM debut in Buenos Aires, offering an open space for developers, creators, and newcomers to meet, learn, and connect.
- The event gave builders across the region an accessible entry point to explore Sui, with short sessions on the Sui Stack, Move, Slush, and data-driven insights.
- Attendees were excited about the idea of more community moments across LATAM: meetups, hubs, and simple ways to stay in touch.
Overview
Creating the perfect backdrop for Sui’s first developer-focused event in Latin America, Sui Connect: Buenos Aires coincided with Devconnect, where Web3 builders met in the city for workshops and collaborative events.
As a community-focused event series, Sui Connect is designed for anyone who wants to engage with the Sui community, from developers to creators to people who are simply curious about Sui. The format is intentionally relaxed with short sessions and plenty of open time to meet others and build connections. Since launching in late 2023, Sui Connect has reached North America, Europe, Asia, and now South America.
In Buenos Aires, this format created an accessible starting point for builders in LATAM who were curious about exploring Sui while at Devconnect.
Why LATAM, and why now
Latin America has long been an active region for Web3, driven by real-world needs like remittances, inflation, payments, and community-driven adoption. With tens of millions of people across Latin America already interacting with crypto and digital assets, builders in the region are looking for accessible, scalable infrastructure that can support daily use cases.
As Livre, creator of PLANKz and lead of the LATAM.sui community, explained:
“Latin America breathes blockchain. People here are waiting for simple interfaces, low fees, and real scalability. Sui offers the infrastructure to solve real, everyday needs in the region.”
Learning the Sui Stack
Although the heart of Sui Connect is community interaction, the Buenos Aires event included a few brief sessions to help attendees understand how to get started building on Sui.
The evening included short sessions introducing the Sui Stack, showing how storage and execution work on Sui, and outlining the path from EVM to Move for developers. Attendees also got a data-driven look at Sui’s performance through onchain metrics, learned about the Foundation’s RFP program, and saw a brief demo of Slush.
These sessions offered a quick starting point before developers returned to informal conversations throughout the night.
A builder’s perspective from the ground
For many, Sui Connect: Buenos Aires was their first time meeting the Sui team or other Sui builders in person. That was especially meaningful for Livre:
“After nearly a year building completely on my own in the continent, having an in-person Sui event of this magnitude felt meaningful. It was a chance to finally connect face-to-face with the people behind the ecosystem and share energy, ideas, and alignment.”
Throughout the night, conversations circled around the same themes: how Sui’s model works, how Move differs from Solidity, and what opportunities exist for Sui builders. For many attendees, this was their first in-person chance to ask those questions directly.
What comes next
Sui Connect: Buenos Aires served as an early touchpoint for developers in the region and helped surface new local connections. Attendees expressed interest in more consistent touchpoints, local hubs, and events that bring in a wider mix of contributors, from developers to founders to creators.
As Livre noted:
“This event marks a clear before and after for the region. Now we need continuity—events, spaces to collaborate, and ways to keep the flame alive. After something this impactful, we can’t slow down.”
As Sui expands in LATAM, the goal is simple: support builders where they are and help them explore the full potential of the Sui Stack.
A special thanks to our sponsors
Sui Connect: Buenos Aires was made possible through the support of our key partners and sponsors.
Gold Sponsor
- Walrus: Walrus is a developer platform enabling data markets for the AI era. Walrus’ initial capabilities include data storage, availability, programmability, and access control. From AI agents to data markets and decentralized finance, Walrus empowers builders, users, and intelligent systems to control, verify, and create value from the world’s data. Created by Mysten Labs, the team behind Sui, Walrus launched on Mainnet in March 2025.
Silver Sponsors
- LayerZero: LayerZero is the leading interoperability protocol enabling users to seamlessly move assets and data across every type of blockchain.
- OpenZeppelin: The standard for secure blockchain applications.
We’re grateful to each and every one of our partners for their contributions and engagement throughout Sui Connect: Buenos Aires.