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We're collaborating with the @africablockfest in 🇰🇪.
Team1 Africa is collaborating with ABF2026, happening 15 to 17 October at Sarit Expo Centre, Nairobi.
Three days of builders, founders, investors and policymakers shaping where Africa's blockchain industry goes next.
Come and find team1 at the lounge area:
• Play, compete and win prizes.
• Meet the Team1 community in person.
• Get to know the opportunities in our ecosystem.
• Interact and make some memories.
Don't miss it. Link to get your ticket in the next post ⬇️.
See you at the lounge!
Kenya Mini Hack 2026 bounty winners!
Across three cohorts, @AvaxTeam1 Mini Hack brought 525 developers into the @avax ecosystem and put 20 teams into incubation. Twelve teams pitched at Pitch Perfect in September, and seven took home bounties.
Meet the projects coming out of Africa 👇
Payments cohort, Business Ops track
1st place, $450: Lisanga Connect (formerly Kuzana Connect).
An AI-powered platform matching founders with investors, lenders and service providers. Kuzana Connect is the first community within the wider Lisanga ecosystem.
2nd place, $250: TrendJack Hunter. Finds fresh trends, checks the evidence behind them, and helps founders, investors and creators turn them into insight and content.
Kuzana Bounty: Jua. An institutional knowledge system where every answer comes with its source.
Gaming cohort
1st place, $450: Aura Health. Gamified wellness habits with an AI health coach and on-chain rewards.
2nd place, $250: Ubu Tangaza. Loyalty for retail shops and SMEs.
Agentic AI cohort
1st place, $450: Guidemate. A marketplace connecting travellers with local guides for authentic in-person and livestreamed experiences.
2nd place, $250: G-Rails. Financial infrastructure for autonomous AI agents, connecting mobile money, on-chain payments, cards and banks.
That is $2,100 in track prizes, plus the Kuzana Bounty totaling to $2565.
The prize is the easy part. These founders now head into the Traction Clinic, our four week, in-person program in Nairobi starting in November, where the work moves from demo to real users, real revenue and live products on Avalanche.
Congratulations to every founder who shipped.
Thank you to Kuzana, Cloudplexo, Vibranium ID, Impact Hub Nairobi, FOEG Labs and everyone who judged, mentored and showed up.
Meet our panelists for Pitch Perfect.
They’ll be sharing insights on:
→ Understanding your target customer
→ Finding product-market fit
→ Building the right partnerships
→ Leveraging agentic systems for operational efficiency
→ Scaling sustainably
Register:👇
Most “gamified” products die the day a competitor copies them.
Cohort 2 spent Session 1 of our incubation making sure theirs won’t.
Here’s the framework we gave them 🧵