Editorials
Jan 11, 2025

Crecimiento & Digital Zones: Key Clarifications

Crecimiento is a movement with one mission: make Argentina the best place in the world to innovate, create and build.

From the beginning, the Crecimiento Foundation team has worked side by side with the ecosystem and public institutions, connecting communities, talent, entrepreneurs, and experts, to co-create long-term conditions for innovation and growth in Argentina.

During this time, we’ve launched builder programs supporting hundreds of startups, helped them raise millions of dollars, and collaborated with regulators who drafted Argentina’s tokenization sandbox.

The Crecimiento Foundation has brought hundreds of builders and developers together through the Aleph Hub, a free coworking space for builders, founders and communities. The Aleph Hub hosted month-long events, workshops, meetups, hackathons and bootcamps attracting more than 10,000 attendees.

Over the past 18 months, our team has publicly collaborated with experts, entrepreneurs, and regulators to explore how a Digital Special Economic Zone (DSEZ) could help Argentina attract talent, capital, and technology, much like other countries that have successfully built modern innovation hubs.

Special Economic Zones are public by nature. Governments create them, and the private sector contributes by providing technology, services, and infrastructure that help these initiatives succeed. Specifically, the operator of a Special Economic Zone is the entity in charge of the overall development of the necessary infrastructure, under regulators audit and public overview.

As the evolution of our work, we’re now incubating an independent company to both build and run digital infrastructure for digital zones. It would provide a platform layer, including tools like digital registries, onboarding systems and compliance tools for governments and digital zones. The new company’s mission is to become the best digital zone operator in the world. Hopefully this will help power special economic zones in the region, including Argentina.

This will be a separate entity, with its own leadership and governance, designed to operate autonomously. Crecimiento will remain a nonprofit movement dedicated to education, community, and policy dialogue led by the Foundation. To be clear, Crecimiento Foundation does not raise capital, and there is no token or token sale.

The creation of a new company responds to a simple reality: operating digital infrastructure at scale requires private investment, specialized teams, and long-term operational structures. This is how it works everywhere in the world - from service providers of DMCC in the UAE to Estonia’s e-Residency.

As we did for the last 18 months, we’ll continue educating and debating about zones: what they are, how they work, and how they can benefit Argentina. We’ll share more international examples, explain the frameworks that make them successful, and open a public debate so that local community, institutions, and experts can help shape this path together.

Transparency and collaboration have guided us from the start and will continue to guide everything we do.

Crecimiento is here for the long term, committed to building trust, opportunity, and progress - one step at a time.

We’ll keep building Argentina’s future. Together.