We're Back!
Join us in Beunos Aires in November, where we bring Schelling Point back to Devconnect.
WHERE
Beethoven Foundation Auditorium Hall, Buenos Aires, Argentina
WHEN
November 20, 2025

From conference to collective
What began as a simple conference has evolved into a movement exploring how access to capital can empower builders and help create a more decentralized, collaborative future.








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Agenda
This year’s Schelling Point programming is split across the Main Stage and a Workshop Room, each designed to foster impactful conversations and collaboration.
Programming
This year’s Schelling Point programming is split across two stages, each designed to foster impactful conversations and collaboration.
Verifiable Impact: Measuring What Matters in Web3 Funding
Meg Lister, GM of Gitcoin, unpacks how on-chain metrics are reshaping grant funding—ensuring funding drives real, measurable outcomes in web3.
The Role of AI in the Future of Web3 Funding
Explore how AI is transforming Web3 funding by enhancing grant evaluations, optimizing capital allocation, and driving smarter, data-driven decisions.
Retro Done Right: Evolving Impact-Based Funding
Learn how retroactive funding drives impact-based grants, when it works best, and how it's evolving to reward meaningful contributions in Web3.
Fireside Chat: Building a Grants Program That Scales
Polygon and Gitcoin explore how to build scalable grants programs that enable democratic funding decisions, empower communities, and drive measurable impact.
Rethinking government funding: Lessons from on-chain capital allocation
Explore what on-chain funding can learn from traditional government programs, the benefits blockchain offers, and what it would take to make decentralized public funding a reality.
Human-Distilled Judgment: A New Era for Funding Decisions
Explore how human-distilled judgment is reshaping funding models. Deep Funding and Neural Quorum Governance leaders share approaches, principles, and real-world use cases.
Supporting Builder Growth: Lessons from 22 Rounds of Gitcoin Grants
Learn how Gitcoin Grants has supported builders through funding and beyond. Builders share their experiences, as well as feedback to program managers on how to best support their success.
Fireside Chat: Exploring Novel Mechanisms to Support Builders Across Their Lifecycle
Juan Benet and Kevin Owocki discuss emerging funding models that go beyond grants, exploring how ecosystems can provide sustained support for builders from ideation to scale.
Scaling the World Computer: A Bet on Futarchy
CEO & Cofounder of Butter, Vaughn (noturhandle), discusses how Conditional Funding Markets, and specifically Futarchy can address issues in funding public goods, ecosystem growth, and service providers.

The Venue
Join us on Nov 20 at this iconic venue.
Beethoven Foundation Auditorium Hall, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Our Past Events
Explore our previous Schelling Point Conferences and Sessions
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