Sui Connect landed in Buenos Aires on November 18, 2025, marking the platform’s first formal push into Latin America with a developer-focused program and regional networking. Hosted by Mysten Labs alongside Devconnect Argentina, the event positioned Sui as a practical infrastructure contender for use cases tied to inflation, remittances and financial inclusion.
Event program and technical takeaways
Sui Connect ran a concentrated one-hour program from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, followed by a networking happy hour through 9:00 PM. Sessions covered the Sui Stack and the Move programming language, with emphasis on the platform’s object‑centric model, parallel execution and rapid finality — design elements framed as enablers for scalable on‑chain assets.
Speakers included Dan Leavitt (Developer Relations Engineer, Mysten Labs), Pol Urena (Blockchain Security Researcher), Michael Corey (Head of Data, Mysten Labs), Zihe Huang (Sui Foundation Developer Relations) and Ranier Gadduang (Head of Brand Marketing, Sui Foundation), who closed with a demonstration of Slush and an overview of the Foundation’s RFP funding route for builders.
A technical term: Move is a smart‑contract language designed for safe resource management on Sui. The event also noted the platform’s priority on accessible tooling for developers migrating from EVM paradigms.
Partnerships, regional demand and market implications
Gold sponsorship came from WalrusProtocol, which launched its mainnet in March 2025 and pitched data‑market and access‑control tooling for AI and on‑chain data. Silver sponsors included LayerZero, for cross‑chain messaging, and OpenZeppelin, whose open‑source libraries were cited as having secured more than $32 trillion in value transferred. Organizers framed these alliances as infrastructure primitives that reduce integration risk for projects building regional payments, stablecoins or tokenized real‑world assets.
Speakers and attendees repeatedly linked Sui’s push to high remittance flows, inflationary pressure and gaps in financial access. One local community leader and creator of PLANKz, Livre, said: “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”. Photo and video coverage was collected under standard event permissions.
The briefing highlighted the broader stablecoin market as a relevant context, noting it as an addressable vertical sized at roughly $287.6 bn, and positioned Sui’s tooling and partner stack as components for stablecoin and payments builds.
Sui’s Buenos Aires debut served as a tactical blueprint for regional engagement, focusing on developer onboarding, partner integration and locally relevant product cues. For market participants, the practical implication is a nearer‑term runway for projects on Sui that target payments, remittances and tokenized services in Latin America. Next verified milestone: Sui Global Conference and the ongoing Sui Connect series at events such as EthDenver and Consensus 2025, which will indicate whether the platform’s regional momentum translates into sustained developer activity and production deployments.
