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The funding the commons residency in Buenos Aires in 2025 will have a focus on RealFi - Real world implementations for technology. Examples of RealFi include off ramps, micro credit, mobile payments, inflation resistant savings…. apps for real Argentinians that aren’t crypto native.

La residencia Funding the Commons en Buenos Aires en 2025 se enfocará en RealFi: implementaciones tecnológicas en el mundo real. Ejemplos de RealFi incluyen off ramps, microcréditos, pagos móviles, ahorros resistentes a la inflación… aplicaciones para argentinos reales que no son nativos en criptomonedas.

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The residency will addressing RealFi through the following lenses.

1. Secure Communications

• Censorship-resistant communication — protocols for unstoppable, secure messaging across borders.
• Resilient infrastructure for the open internet — integrations with Tor, Nym, and new anti-censorship layers.
• Digital sovereignty tooling — ensuring communities can coordinate outside centralized choke points.

2. Decentralized Identity

• Decentralized identity systems — resilient, non-extractive DIDs for refugees, activists, and communities.
• ZK-based attestations & credentials — proofs of membership, reputation, or contribution without revealing sensitive data.
• Cross-ecosystem identity bridges — interoperable standards that let users move between ecosystems without re-identification risk.

3. Confidential Compute

• Zero-knowledge proof systems — advancing efficiency, scalability, and new applied use cases (identity, voting, L2 privacy).
• New cryptographic primitives — threshold encryption, homomorphic commitments, post-quantum crypto.
• Confidential compute platforms — MPC, FHE, TEEs, and hybrid approaches for privacy-preserving computation and AI.
• Applied privacy for AI — integrating ZK, FHE, or MPC into machine learning and inference workflows.