Local Ethereum

🌍 April 2025 Roundup

The story of Ethereum is a story of geography. Ethereum is a global network and a global movement. It is local nodes spread around the world that give rise to the phenomenon that is Ethereum. As such Ethereum is deeply rooted in geography.

From local ETH communities and meetups to universities, from developers to startups, from policy to user adoption and more, Local Ethereum is a newsletter to cover the geo-story of Ethereum. Let’s start!

Asia 🌊

India

• Anon Aadhaar, a team working on a privacy layer for the Aadhaar system, which is supported by Ethereum Foundation’s Privacy & Scaling Explorations (PSE) team, has begun mapping national ID systems and the signing algorithms that power them. If you know how your country’s national ID works, please open an issue here.

Malaysia

• ETHKL April Meetup: Special guest Ethereum core dev Jared Wasinger from the Geth team gave a talk about Scaling Cryptography in the EVM. This high-level presentation included some low-level EVM details on April 23, 2025. We'd love to see more builders sharing their work at local community meetups. ❤️

• Scroll cofounder Yezhang is bullish on Malaysian builders, especially with the strong and organic local Ethereum community there, including ETHKL, Etherscan, CoinGecko and more.

China Mainland

• April zkVM Hacker House@Suzhou organized by Coset and supported by Secbit. If you are a PhD student from China with a background in math, CS, and cryptography, and are looking for research opportunities in the ZK + Ethereum space, please ping Dr. Guo.

• Dapp Learning is actively onboarding web2 developers to become web3 developers by building an open-source 'university'. Github 5.5k stars.

Taiwan

• Impressed with the talented Taiwanese student developers who participated in the recent ETHTaipei hackathon. Below is a list of projects they built over the past 3 years, thanks to the great mentorship provided by Martinet and Changwu.

• DeFiHackLabs Community Monthly Recap - April 2025: The community won first prize at this year's ETHTaipei hackathon and delivered talks at CyberSec 2025. We'd love to see more ETH security communities bridge the gap between traditional cybersecurity and blockchain security communities.

Hong Kong

• Pop-X HK: Interop & UX Day that happened on April 8th was cool! Kudos to Dapp-Learning, Panta Rhei and deUETH team.

  • Find Dapp Learning founder Yan's conversation with Vitalik here.

  • Interop is an important focus in the Ethereum space, and we're eager to see more Asian builders getting involved, especially Asian wallets and L2s.

Japan

• Tomasz K. Stańczak’s post on Japanese Ethereum community: “Great communities building in Japan at @tanelabs and @fractonresearch. Build on Ethereum in Japan. What other teams are building on Ethereum in Japan?”

  • Our grantees Titania Research and zkTokyo community are building a great Ethereum Research House in Tokyo called Uzumaki.

South Korea

• The Bank of Korea said it will actively participate in stablecoin legislation development.

Singapore

• Soneium partnered with AltLayer, Astar, and Eigenlayer to launch a fast finality layer for Soneium.

Europe 🏰

Germany

• Protocol Berg v2 is coming June 12-13, 2025! The Department of Decentralization is revealing speakers bit by bit. Keep an eye out!

• ZuBerlin 2025 returns June 14-22! Join this co-living pop-up featuring talks on L2 Interop, Cryptography, Protocol Architecture, Data, MEV & PBS, Future Society and more.

• ZKHACK Berlin from June 20 to June 22 is confirmed. Builders will hack on zk-tools, use zk-DSLs, and build new products that showcase zk technology's capabilities.

France

• EthCC8, Ethereum Community Conference: The largest annual European Ethereum gathering, organized by Ethereum France, will be held in Cannes, France, from June 30 - July 3, 2025. Stay tuned!

Switzerland & Global

• Announcing Ethproofs to boost Ethereum SNARKification! Ethproofs is the L2Beat of zkVMs—launching with @SuccinctLabs, @ProjectZKM, @Snarkify_ZKP.

• Vitalik suggested replacing the EVM with RISC-V, or another VM that Ethereum ZK-provers will be written in to scale Ethereum.

Netherland

• Hack Archives by Alina Latinina: A digital handbook for Ethereum hackathon organizers in Europe, providing essential resources to create inclusive, community-driven events.

• Dutch bank ING is reportedly working on a new stablecoin with other TradFi and crypto firms.

Greece

• Join Interopolis May 22-23, 2025 in Athens for a hands-on interop summit. No talks or panels—just collaborative whiteboarding, cohacking, and practical workshops for builders passionate about cross-chain solutions.

Italy

• SpaghettETH Al Dente newsletter, a newsletter covering Ethereum grassroots activities in Italy, powered by the SpaghettETH team.

The Czech Republic

• Ethereum’s next major upgrade, Pectra, is named after Prague + Electra. As core researchers finalize L1 improvements, builders will meet on the ground during Czech Blockchain Week and EthPrague (May 27-29, 2025), with ETHPragueConf topics ranging from Sustainable Futures to Societal Challenges & Opportunities, Ethereum Core & EVM, Dev Ecosystem, Tooling, UX, and Impact DeFi.

• ETHGlobal Prague happens right as a new chapter for Ethereum begins.

Ukraine

• ETHKyiv 2025 (June 13–15, Kyiv) hackathon and conference is back. Builder registration here.

Serbia

• ETH Belgrade 2025, Applications for Volunteers are Open. Conference & Hackathon June 3rd - 5th, 2025.

Poland

• ETHWarsaw, September 4–7, 2025, one of the largest Ethereum conferences and hackathons in CEE, Applications are now open for speakers and hackers!

Romania

• ETHCluj 2025 Conference: Ethereum for Everyone. June 26-28, 2025. Apply as a speaker or get your tickets here!

North America 🗽

United States

• DeFi Education Fund urges Trump to end 'lawless campaign' criminalizing software developers, including Roman Storm.

• US SEC Chair Paul Atkins who was sworn in as the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission at the White House, said his top priority will be to have a firm foundation for digital assets and keep politics out of securities laws.

• Bridge, a stablecoin orchestration platform and a Stripe company is preparing to start testing a new stablecoin card issuing product with clients outside the US, starting with Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Chile.

• Circle introduces the Circle Payments Network, which will allow global financial institutions to move money instantly 24/7 using stablecoins.

• Visa’s role in stablecoins: 1) Modernizing settlement infrastructure; 2) Enhancing cross border money movement; 3) Enabling programmable digital money; 4) Creating on and off ramps for cards.

  • Visa believes that every institution that moves money will need a stablecoin strategy.

• Cool and new things: R0VM 2.0 and Steel 2.0 by RISC Zero.

Latam 💃

Argentina

• Dive into the most comprehensive mapping of Argentina's thriving Ethereum landscape. Crafted by the Geodework team with great community support. Please feel free to check out the Argentina Ethereum Ecosystem Overview. Let’s bring Argentina onchain!

• The Devconnect team is kicking off the road to Devconnect Argentina with "Destino Devconnect," a grants program supporting local initiatives to accelerate Ethereum adoption across Argentina and Latin America. Projects can receive up to $1K in funding, plus additional non-financial support. Apply now!

Brazil

• ERC55 April meetup: Ethereum Consensus Layer - Ricardo Santos.

• Ethereum has good opportunities in Brazil, but we must move fast! One of LatAm’s biggest Ethereum events, ETH Latam (November 6–9), will be hosted in São Paulo this year. Romina (one of the ETH LatAm organizers) is ready to build crucial connections with Brazil's Ethereum ecosystem players ahead of the event.

Honduras

• If you are based in Tegucigalpa and interested in Ethereum & zk, come and join at Ethereum TGU’s regular meetups and workshops sessions.

Africa 🦁

Nigeria

• Nigerian gov passes law recognizing Bitcoin as a security.

• Nigeria Web3 Landscape report 2024 is live. Nigeria leads Africa and ranks second globally in crypto adoption for the second consecutive year according to @chainalysis.

• Web3Bridge and Blockfuse have formed a joint initiative to build a new Ethereum Beam chain client team.

Oceania 🏄

Australia

• Sydney based crypto gaming firm Immutable will be merging its Immutable X into Immutable zkEVM to form one unified “Immutable” chain as the true home of web3 gaming.

• If you are based in Melbourne and are interested in solving DeFi puzzles, join Ethereum Melbourne's May meetup on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

Thanks for reading, and have a nice day! 🌸

Best regards,

Riely and the Geodework team.

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