What is WalletCon and Why Buenos Aires
WalletConnect brought together builders, designers, developers, and infrastructure teams for WalletCon Buenos Aires, a full‑day gathering dedicated to shaping the future of wallets, payments, and user experiences.
The event coincided with DevConnect 2025, offering a unique opportunity for global crypto-native attendees already traveling to the region to dive deep into wallet design, payment rails, secure custody, and developer tooling.
Big names, big themes
The programming lineup was robust, featuring keynotes, panels, and deep‑dive technical sessions. Notable speakers and sessions included:
- Leadership from WalletConnect, including its CEO Jess Houlgrave, setting the vision for WalletConnect Pay.
- A panel titled “UX as Infrastructure,” showing that seamless wallet UX is as critical to the onchain experience for all users everywhere.
- Sessions on the next generation of payment rails: wallets, stablecoins, adoption, signalling where real‑world payments meet onchain tech.
- A full “Deep Tech Hour”, with dives into the latest on WalletConnect Network, SDKs, cross-chain UX, and developer tools (where the Reown SDK team was featured alongside other builders).
As a leader in cross-chain bridging and liquidity aggregation, LI.FI opened WalletCon with a keynote on how infrastructure needs to abstract complexity, not pass it to users. Their message was clear: seamless token movement across chains is foundational for any onchain experience to scale globally.
human.tech
In their keynote, human.tech introduced Wallet-as-a-Protocol, a free and fundamentally different model of self-custody and security with easy onboarding. Their focus on user dignity and permissioned access showed how values can shape the next wave of crypto-native identity products, ushering in a new era for wallet security and onboarding.
Rhinestone
In his keynote, Rhinestone’s founder introduced Warp, their new UX engine designed to simplify complex wallet flows. By offering composable UI modules for builders, Warp makes it easier to ship consistent, user-friendly experiences without reinventing the stack.
Ledger
The Ledger team led a deep dive into the Clear Signing Initiative, their push to eliminate blind signing and reduce user risk. Their demo showed how clear, human-readable prompts can turn security into a usability win.
Gnosis Pay
Gnosis Pay emphasized the importance of bridging crypto with everyday payments. With a self-custodial Visa-compatible card, they’re bringing stablecoins into the real world without compromising on user control.
Rootstock Collective
Rootstock’s team made the case that Bitcoin UX is still lagging behind. Their work focuses on fixing that gap by making smart contract use cases on Bitcoin feel as smooth as ever.
Unforgettable
Focused on making security usable, especially seed phrases, Unforgettable brought a human angle to crypto UX. Their tools let users safeguard accounts for the future, blending emotional design with hard security.
Reown
Reown showed how they remove friction from crypto payments, wallet onboarding, and exchange-based flows. With features like Pay with Exchange and multi-chain analytics, Reown is making onchain feel like checkout, not a challenge.
Self
Self’s keynote explored decentralized identity and the role of verifiable credentials in financial access. Their work is essential for apps that need KYC-compliant flows without compromising user control.
Talent Protocol
Talent Protocol’s keynote explored how reputation and social graphs can shape wallets, work, and onchain identity. They’re building infrastructure for builders, freelancers, and anyone launching a career in crypto.
What this means for builders and in the onchain ecosystem
- There’s a strong industry push toward better onchain user experience, not just in wallets but across payments, custody, and cross‑chain flows. WalletCon’s “UX as Infrastructure” message flags UX as foundational infrastructure, not a nice‑to‑have.
- The emphasis on new payment rails, wallets + stablecoins + real‑world adoption signals increasing maturity and readiness for on‑chain finance beyond trading, toward everyday use.
- Deep‑tech sessions and tooling (SDKs, cross‑chain UX, network updates) show the infrastructure layer is being hardened — good news for builders, integrators, and projects aiming for scalability and reliability.
- For WalletConnect: having our SDK team on stage places us among the builders shaping the next wave of wallet and payment infrastructure. That aligns closely with WalletConnect’s mission to bring smoother payment flows soon.
WalletCon Buenos Aires 2025 was made possible by an incredible group of partners, including LI.FI, human.tech, Trust Wallet, Rhinestone, Ledger, Gnosis Pay, Rootstock Collective, Unforgettable, Reown, Self, Bitget Wallet, Solayer, Talent Protocol, Stacks, Flexa, and ChainPatrol.
Why WalletCon matters now
WalletCon is more than another conference. It represents a turning point: where wallets, payments, and onchain UX are treated as core infrastructure rather than optional add-ons. As more companies, users, and institutions build around wallets and payment rails, events like WalletCon help set standards, drive collaboration, and accelerate adoption.
For anyone building in the onchain space, whether wallets, payments, SDKs, or apps, WalletCon offers a snapshot of where things are heading next.