BUILDER RESIDENCY

Crypto for the Commons: Builder Residency 2025

What Is It?
The 2025 Builder Residency (Buenos Aires) is a co-living, immersive three-week program (October 24 – November 14, 2025) organized by Funding the Commons. It’s designed for builders, researchers, system designers, and other innovators working on real-world crypto / public-goods infrastructure. Participants live and work together in a riverside venue just outside Buenos Aires, with shared indoor and outdoor spaces, greenery, and a relaxed setting to encourage deep work, collaboration, and rest. Over the course of the residency, cohorts will engage in weekly sprints, peer reviews, thematic workshops with mentors, local field trips, media/storytelling support, and public visibility opportunities. The program encourages projects in areas like funding systems, financial access (payments, remittances), coordination & governance, identity & trust, AI for public use, and climate & commons governance.

This program is run by Funding the Commons (FtC), a global group that helps people create tools and services for the public good. They focus on projects that make the internet, money systems, and shared resources better for everyone.

Key Details

Dates: October 24 – November 14, 2025

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Format: Co-living and co-working with about 20 residents

End Goal: Build a working demo and share it with a global Crypto Conference

Why It Matters

Build Real Projects: Residents work on Real-World Asset crypto tools like payment systems, identity apps, and community treasuries—things that help everyday people, not just online traders.

Learn From Experts: Mentors and workshop leaders guide each team. You get advice from people who have built important crypto and public-goods projects before.

Show Your Work: At the end, teams present their projects during the Funding the Commons conference and Devconnect events. Investors, journalists, and other builders will be there.

Strong Community: Living and working together helps residents share ideas, solve problems, and form long-term partnerships.

About Funding the Commons

Funding the Commons is known worldwide for supporting public-good projects. They have held 13 conferences in 9 countries and built a network of 5,000+ members. Past events have included famous crypto leaders and have helped 80+ builders launch new tools for payments, governance, and more.

Who Should Apply

Developers, designers, researchers, and community builders who want to create crypto tools that work in real life—also called RealFi (real finance). You don’t need to be a coding expert, but you should care about solving real problems.

In short: Builder Residency 2025 is a focused, hands-on program where you can live, learn, and build crypto tools that help the real world—then show them to the people who can take them even further. For more Crypto Events in Buenos Aires, visit our website, Coin Gabbar.