📰 DevConnect Argentina, Web Summit 2025, Adopting Bitcoin 2025 Salvador, AusCryptoCon 2025– November Tech Brief by Set In Stone
November 2025 Edition
This month, we’re keeping things steady — fixing minor bugs, refining your dashboard experience, and preparing a wave of powerful new features to make blockchain security even more seamless.
As the year’s final stretch begins, we’re also heading out to meet the builders shaping the Web3 future. If you’re attending DevConnect Argentina 2025, let’s connect in Buenos Aires — our team will be there all week across multiple workshops and security meetups.
Here’s what you’ll find in this issue:
⚒️ A. News About Set In Stone
Updates from our platform: CI/CD integration, address-based scanning, manual uploads
Open Office Hours — book a slot to discuss your security or compliance challenges
🎫 B. Next Events in Tech
The must-attend global tech and Web3 conferences in November
Focus on DevConnect Argentina 2025 and curated side-events for founders, investors, and security experts
📊 C. Insights: Compute, Compliance, and Crisis
A deep dive into October’s defining shifts across Web3, AI, and cybersecurity
From tokenized funds and AI-driven payments to F5’s breach and AWS outages, see how power, policy, and platforms are redefining the digital landscape
Ready to stay ahead and keep your smart contracts safe? Let’s dive in.
A. ⚒️ News About Set In Stone
☎️ Office Hours: your blockchain security questions, answered
We’re enhancing our platform https://app.setinstne.io (broader risk detection, CI/CD integration, clear dashboards), but above all, we’re here to support you on your security and compliance challenges (audits, advisory).
Whether you want to learn more about our solutions, ask a specific question, or simply discuss your needs, book a slot during our Office Hours:
🚀 What’s New on Set In Stone — November 2025
We’ve got a fresh batch of updates designed to give you more control, better visibility, and an even smoother experience. Here's what just landed:
🐛 Fixed minor bugs
we focused on stability improvements and are gearing up for exciting new features coming soon.
⚙️ Secure by Default: Integrate Set In Stone directly into your CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions or GitLab Pipelines. Every commit triggers an automated security scan — from dev to prod.
📤 Upload & Analyze: Prefer manual uploads? Drop your Solidity smart contracts from a
.zip,.tar, or even a GitHub repo. Get an instant vulnerability report with remediation tips.🔍 Address-Based Scanning: Already deployed? Just paste the address. We'll fetch the contract and analyze its security posture on-chain.
B. 🎫 Next Events in Tech
November is shaping up to be a milestone month for the tech ecosystem, with major conferences highlighting advances in Web, Web3, and financial technologies. From blockchain infrastructure to fintech innovation, these gatherings bring together developers, investors, and regulators worldwide.
At the heart of the month stands DevConnect Argentina 2025, a week-long, builder-centric event in Buenos Aires, offering a dense program of workshops, hackathons, and networking sessions.
Below is a curated list of the most significant global events, including a dedicated selection of side-events and networking opportunities for DevConnect.
🌎 Americas
Devconnect Argentina 2025
Dates: November 17–22, 2025 — Buenos Aires, Argentina
Description: A week-long, builder-focused Ethereum event offering deep-dive sessions, technical workshops, and community-led gatherings. Devconnect emphasizes collaboration and education over spectacle, bringing together the Ethereum community’s core contributors.
Side events categories:
🛡️ Web3 Security : Events focused on smart contract audits, privacy, compliance, encryption, and protocol-level safety.
💸 Web3 Startup Funding : Events about venture capital, founders’ brunches, pitch sessions, and startup-investor networking.
💻 Developer / Builder : Technical or dev-focused sessions, hackathons, and workshops about AI, DePIN, wallets, or blockchain infrastructure.
🎉 Food & Party / Social Networking
Casual meetups, mixers, and nightlife gatherings with drinks, DJs, or food — mainly for community building : Examples: SYMBIOSIS Opening Party, Web3 Founders Brunch, Eco Eats in Buenos Aires, Decentraland Music Festival.
🏢 Corporate / Institutional Finance : Professional or enterprise events led by established organizations, focusing on large-scale adoption or regulation.
Filtered list of Side events:
DarkFi & Privacy Noon — Friday 14 Nov 2025, 14:00 – 17:00 UTC−3 — 🛡️ Web3 Security:https://luma.com/darkfi?tk=2RsOji
Security Rooftop Mixer w/ PAL 🍸 — Friday 14 Nov 2025, 17:00 – 23:00 UTC−3 — 🛡️ Web3 Security:https://luma.com/securitymixer?tk=K6rzM7
SYMBIOSIS Opening Party — Friday 14 Nov 2025, 20:00 – 03:00 UTC−3 — 🎉 Food & Party: https://luma.com/sub0opening?tk=LIM0kt
Vibe Coding Buenos Aires: Building with AI — Saturday 15 Nov 2025, 13:00 – 17:00 UTC−3 — 💻 Developer: https://luma.com/i3y19erd
Web3 Founders Brunch & VIP Mixer by KangaStarter — Monday 17 Nov 2025, 10:00 – 13:00 UTC−3 — 🎉 Food & Party: https://luma.com/7wt6devd?tk=vYggjB
DevConnect Breakfast w/ STXN, Tectonic, Alphaledger and more — Monday 17 Nov 2025, 10:00 – 12:00 UTC−3 — 🛡️ Web3 Security: https://luma.com/0al6aj9n
Builder Nights BA 🇦🇷 | Presented by MetaMask 🦊 & Frens — Linea, Etherex, Eigen, Chainlink, DIN, Ledger, P2P, Wormhole, Brevis & more — Monday 17 Nov 2025, 18:00 – 23:00 UTC−3 — 💻 Developer: https://luma.com/bnbuenoaires?tk=ukDPBm
The Zama World’s Fair — Monday 17 Nov 2025, 18:00 – 23:00 UTC−3 — 💻 Developer: https://luma.com/the-zama-worlds-fair?tk=npBafq
AM Run & Workout w/ Bankless VC — Tuesday 18 Nov 2025, 07:30 – 09:00 UTC−3 — 💸 Web3 Startup Funding:https://luma.com/gou97nib?tk=a7T2Ph
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance × EY @ Devconnect Argentina — Tuesday 18 Nov 2025, 08:30 – 12:00 UTC−3 — 🏢 Corporate: https://luma.com/kylnbzb8
DePIN Day Buenos Aires — Tuesday 18 Nov 2025, 10:00 – 18:00 UTC−3 — 💻 Developer: https://luma.com/depin-day-ba?tk=8AtakQ
Sui Connect: Buenos Aires — Tuesday 18 Nov 2025, 17:00 – 21:00 UTC−3 — 💻 Developer: https://luma.com/SuiConnectBuenosAires
Confidential Token Association: Building the Standard for Confidential On-Chain Finance — Tuesday 18 Nov 2025, 17:00 – 20:00 UTC−3 — 🛡️ Web3 Security: https://luma.com/5vcuz2iz?tk=u70PKj
Yacht × Capital Connect: RWA Acceleration Summit — Tuesday 18 Nov 2025, 18:00 – 00:00 UTC−3 — 🏢 Corporate: https://luma.com/p85pjscq?tk=yoWmso
Eco Eats in Buenos Aires — Tuesday 18 Nov 2025, 19:00 – 22:30 UTC−3 — 🎉 Food & Party: https://luma.com/j0mxc4yl?tk=36Tl7U
DeFi Security 101 @ Devconnect — Wednesday 19 Nov 2025, 09:00 – 18:00 UTC−3 — 🛡️ Web3 Security:https://luma.com/8kje8uh3?tk=Xqirm8
Privacy & Compliance Summit — Wednesday 19 Nov 2025 — 🛡️ Web3 Security:https://www.deficonnect.co/events/privacy-compliance-summit
Encryption Day — Wednesday 19 Nov 2025, 10:00 – 22:00 UTC−3 — 🛡️ Web3 Security: https://luma.com/e9ces3lr?tk=ozqS8s
Startup & VC Brunch | Supermoon × Peanut Trade @ Devconnect — Wednesday 19 Nov 2025, 11:00 – 16:00 UTC−3 — 💸 Web3 Startup Funding: https://luma.com/wxhk2tou
Founders & VCs Brunch and Lunch 🥐 DevConnect 🇦🇷 — Wednesday 19 Nov 2025, 11:00 – 14:30 UTC−3 — 💸 Web3 Startup Funding: https://luma.com/8rm18281
VC × BUILDERS — Wednesday 19 Nov 2025, 17:00 – 23:00 UTC−3 — 💸 Web3 Startup Funding:https://luma.com/4mhcfony?tk=bdobE0
Defi Security Summit - NOV 20-21, 2025 — 🛡️ Web3 Security: https://defisecuritysummit.org
WalletCon Buenos Aires 2025 — Thursday 20 Nov 2025, 10:00 – 18:00 UTC−3 — 💻 Developer: https://luma.com/walletconbuenosaires?tk=ASpQCC
Security Asado by Opsek — Friday 21 Nov 2025, 20:00 – 23:59 UTC−3 — 🛡️ Web3 Security: https://luma.com/exmhzobm?tk=a3n4iT
Decentraland Music Festival IRL Party @ Devconnect — Friday 21 Nov 2025, 22:30 – 03:30 UTC−3 — 🎉 Food & Party: https://luma.com/yf87sbxk?tk=YwRaXC
ETH Latam 2025
Dates: November 6–9, 2025 — São Paulo, Brazil
Description: One of Latin America’s largest Ethereum ecosystem gatherings, combining a hackathon, developer workshops, and ecosystem panels. ETH Latam aims to establish São Paulo as a central hub for decentralized applications and blockchain innovation in the region.
Adopting Bitcoin 2025
URL: https://adoptingbitcoin.org
Dates: November 15–16, 2025 — San Salvador, El Salvador
Description: A global summit centered on Bitcoin adoption, financial inclusion, and real-world use cases. The event unites developers, policymakers, and business leaders exploring Bitcoin’s societal and technological impact.
Blockchain Futurist Conference Florida 2025
Dates: November 5–6, 2025 — Miami, USA
Description: A vibrant mix of blockchain, AI, and fintech discussions in one of the U.S.’s most dynamic innovation hubs. Expect high-profile speakers, Web3 builders, and networking sessions focused on the future of decentralized technologies.
🌍 Europe
Web Summit 2025
Dates: November 10–13, 2025 — Lisbon, Portugal
Description: One of the world’s largest technology conferences, bringing together 70 000+ founders, investors, policymakers, and thought leaders. Covering AI, sustainability, fintech, and digital innovation, it’s the must-attend event for the global tech ecosystem.
🌏 Asia & Oceania
Singapore FinTech Festival 2025
URL: https://www.fintechfestival.sg
Dates: November 12–14, 2025 — Singapore
Description: The world’s biggest fintech festival, gathering global regulators, central banks, and financial innovators. Topics include AI in finance, ESG investing, digital banking, and cross-border innovation across Asia.
Digital Banking Asia – Malaysia 2025
URL: https://digital-banking.asia/malaysia2025
Dates: November 18, 2025 — Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Description: A regional summit exploring the digital transformation of banks and fintechs in Southeast Asia. It brings together C-level executives and fintech disruptors to discuss open banking, digital inclusion, and next-gen banking models.
AusCryptoCon 2025
Dates: November 22–23, 2025 — Sydney, Australia
Description: Australia’s largest blockchain and cryptocurrency event, featuring 10 000+ attendees and 300+ exhibitors. The conference showcases Web3 innovation, digital assets regulation, and institutional adoption trends across the Asia-Pacific region.
⚙️ Secure by Default: Integrate Set In Stone directly into your CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions or GitLab Pipelines. Every commit triggers an automated security scan — from dev to prod.
📤 Upload & Analyze: Prefer manual uploads? Drop your Solidity smart contracts from a
.zip,.tar, or even a GitHub repo. Get an instant vulnerability report with remediation tips.🔍 Address-Based Scanning: Already deployed? Just paste the address. We'll fetch the contract and analyze its security posture on-chain.
C. 📊 Insights: Compute, Compliance, and Crisis: How October 2025 Redefined the Digital Landscape
Web3 Moves Toward Institutional Maturity: Tokenized Funds and AI-Driven Payments Lead October’s Momentum
In October 2025, the Web3 ecosystem reached several milestones that signal its growing institutional maturity and technological convergence.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a landmark proposal to allow investment funds to be tokenized on public blockchains — a major shift bringing traditional finance into the digital asset era. The initiative, covered by the Financial Times and Reuters, aims to increase transparency and efficiency while raising new challenges around compliance and security (Financial Times, 14 Oct 2025; Reuters, 14 Oct 2025).
At the same time, Coinbase announced Payments MCP, a protocol enabling AI agents to connect to on-chain wallets and execute transactions autonomously — a significant leap toward the fusion of artificial intelligence and blockchain infrastructures (The Paypers, 22 Oct 2025). This development accelerates automation in crypto payments but also introduces new security vectors that demand robust smart-contract auditing and real-time threat monitoring.
Meanwhile, the Web3 start-up ecosystem continued to consolidate, highlighted by the partnership between Brinc and HELLO Labs to launch a dedicated accelerator combining venture support and media exposure for blockchain projects (BeInCrypto, 9 Oct 2025). These initiatives underscore a clear trend: Web3 is entering an industrial phase — more structured, interconnected, and increasingly defined by its governance and security standards.
Tech’s Balancing Act: Power, Policy, and Platforms in October 2025
In October 2025, the global tech landscape was shaped by deep structural and regulatory realignments.
Anthropic signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Google Cloud to secure access to one million TPUs and over a gigawatt of compute capacity by 2026 — highlighting that raw computational power has become the new strategic asset in AI’s industrial race (TechStartups, 24 Oct 2025).
In parallel, OpenAI expanded its product line with ChatGPT Search, enhanced Sora 2 video generation, and internal systems to reduce political bias in GPT-5 responses (Vavoza, 20 Oct 2025; TST Technology, 21 Oct 2025).
The European Commission, meanwhile, launched DSA enforcement proceedings against Meta and TikTok for alleged failures in algorithmic transparency and content moderation — marking a decisive regulatory tightening across the continent (TechStartups, 24 Oct 2025).
Across the industry, over 180 000 tech jobs had been cut worldwide by October, with companies refocusing hiring on AI, cybersecurity, and infrastructure engineering (Gulf News, 1 Oct 2025).
Meanwhile, in finance and fintech, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia completed the migration of its core banking platform to Amazon Web Services, signaling the continued modernization of legacy institutions through cloud and AI integration (Fintech Futures, 25 Oct 2025).
Together, these developments mark October 2025 as a pivotal month where compute power, compliance frameworks, and cross-industry convergence reshaped the global technology agenda.
Cyber Incidents Shake the Digital Backbone: F5, AWS, and Jaguar Land Rover Breaches Dominate October
October 2025 was also defined by a wave of high-impact cybersecurity incidents that disrupted critical infrastructure and enterprise supply chains.
On October 15, F5 Networks confirmed a nation-state intrusion had compromised internal systems, exfiltrated BIG-IP source code, and exposed unpatched vulnerabilities now observed in active exploitation campaigns. Analysts at Politico Pro, The Hacker News, and TechCrunch described the breach as one of the most severe enterprise infrastructure compromises in recent memory ( The Hacker News, 16 Oct 2025; TechCrunch, 16 Oct 2025).
Five days later, a major AWS outage in the US-EAST-1 region — triggered by a DNS misconfiguration — took down core internet services including Alexa, Ring, Reddit, and Snapchat, reigniting concerns over the concentration of global cloud dependency (TechRadar, 21 Oct 2025).
In the UK, the Jaguar Land Rover cyber-attack that began in late August continued to cause significant disruption throughout October, crippling supply-chain operations and costing the British economy an estimated £1.9 billion.
Together, these incidents illustrated the increasing interdependence of software vendors, hyperscalers, and industrial systems — and reinforced the urgency for deeper code integrity audits, multi-cloud resilience, and proactive threat intelligence.
⚙️ Secure by Default: Integrate Set In Stone directly into your CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions or GitLab Pipelines. Every commit triggers an automated security scan — from dev to prod.
📤 Upload & Analyze: Prefer manual uploads? Drop your Solidity smart contracts from a
.zip,.tar, or even a GitHub repo. Get an instant vulnerability report with remediation tips.🔍 Address-Based Scanning: Already deployed? Just paste the address. We'll fetch the contract and analyze its security posture on-chain.
