Team1 Thailand is here 🇹🇭 SaWaDiKa
Two crowds are building in Thailand, and they rarely meet: the founders and nomads passing through Bangkok, Phuket, and Chiang Mai, and the local devs and students ready to ship.
We're building the community hub for Avalanche and to bring everybody together. Before launching as an official chapter, we were already on the ground building the foundation:
⬩ Flagship events nationwide, now reaching beyond Bangkok into Chiang Mai
⬩ Workshops and hackathons with 4 university clubs: Thammasat, Chulalongkorn, Kasetsart, and MUIC
⬩ Events co-hosted with Pudgy Penguins, Bitkub, Binance TH, ST Thailand, and 4SEAS
⬩ Builders onboarded in Thai and English, from first wallet to first deployment
Our mission is to make Thailand one of Avalanche's biggest builder hubs in Asia and to back adoption where it's already happening: payments, stablecoins, and institutional infrastructure. That means real programs and real outcomes.
🔺 Workshops and hackathons on campus
🔺 Founder support and direct access to Team1 programs
🔺 Project funding with access to Mini Grants, and Accelerator Grants.
🔺 Marketing and distribution support, even for teams that aren't funded
🔺 Community meetups & builder nights
Thailand's institutions are coming on-chain, and we're building the community to match.
If you're a founder, developer, student, or just passing through Bangkok, we're here, and we'd love to connect.
Get involved with Team1 Thailand 👇
October is already heating up across the @avax ecosystem.
From trillions moving onchain to record growth in tokenized assets and builders shipping across the globe, the ecosystem is showing no signs of slowing down.
Here’s what Avalanche has been cooking:
🔺 @AvaxTeam1 officially launched @Team1Africa_, connecting communities that have already hosted 120+ events, reached 3,500+ attendees and activated 250+ developers across 10 countries into one Africa wide network for builders, founders and communities.
🔺 @Team1NG brought @AvaxTeam1 City Connect to Lokoja, bringing the local Web3 community together to explore Avalanche, exchange ideas and discover opportunities across the ecosystem.
🔺 South Korea unveiled new rules for bringing its $5T+ stock market onchain beginning February 2027, with the Korea Securities Depository included in the infrastructure supporting tokenized securities and already building connectivity on Avalanche.
🔺 Goldman Sachs is bringing access to its roughly $100B flagship Treasury fund to Avalanche through Lynq, a private permissioned Avalanche L1 used by 30+ institutional digital asset firms including B2C2, Wintermute, Galaxy, FalconX and Fireblocks.
🔺 @avax ranked #1 across all blockchains for tokenized stock market cap growth in September, adding $245.5M led by @Securitize, while also recording $131.2M in tokenized stock inflows over seven days, roughly 8x the second highest chain and more than all other chains combined.
🔺 Avalanche led all chains in 30 day RWA market cap growth, adding $266M, more than the next two chains combined.
🔺 @avax builders raised more than $500M over the past year, including $43M for @BuildOnIris, $33M across two rounds for @GoKiteAI, $13.25M for @tare_io, $25M for @ValinorDigital and $400M+ across 30 other companies.
🔺 @PharaohExchange recorded its biggest month ever for both trading volume and fees, following its announcement of upcoming 24/7 permissionless tokenized stock trading on Avalanche.
🔺 @FinchTechAI is coming to Avalanche with a marketplace where users can hire AI agents, trade agent skills and post tasks, while its proposed ERC 8338 standard is designed to make those skills verifiable, ownable and tradable onchain.
🔺 @BossPenguin7 took the stage at Crypto House Seoul '26 during Korea Blockchain Week, sharing @pangolindex's journey, what the Avalanche native DEX is building and what's coming next.
🔺 @hurselcay took the stage at @GoKiteAI's Proof of AI during Korea Blockchain Week, sharing @AvaxTeam1's vision and mission alongside builders and leaders across AI and Web3.
🔺 @rain is building onchain loyalty for Insomniac on @avax, connecting 450+ events and 30+ annual festivals serving 7M fans through a wallet designed to carry payments and rewards across festivals and borders.
🔺 @Team1TH brought builders to Chulalongkorn University despite flooding across Bangkok, with 12 projects shipped during the Team1 Chula Hackathon spanning AI agent marketplaces, onchain stock products and gaming, alongside supporting partner @Tokenomist_ai.
🔺 @Team1VN brought 250+ students at VKU into their onchain journey through Avalanche as its university tour continued across Vietnam.
🔺 @Team1VN teamed up with @sqrDAO at the Da Nang Blockchain Hub, bringing builders and founders together to connect, exchange ideas and explore what's next on Avalanche.
🔺 @Team1FR and @LiFiSe_Finance brought regulated finance and Avalanche together in Lyon during Patrimonia, with talks, Q&A and networking around the ecosystem.
🔺 @AvaxTeam1 held its first Team1 Connect in Bulgaria during ETH Sofia, bringing local builders and community members together around Avalanche.
"Private tokens" might be the worst name for the best thing we shipped. This is a #USDT payment to a creator. Verified on-chain. The amount is hidden. Not a mixer. One of @avax's first eERC implementations, live now on https://t.co/Ac7hKJo3C8.
NYSE plans to bring 24/7 trading on chain
NYSE has spent the past year testing Avalanche technology and exploring how it could integrate with the exchange’s existing systems and the economics of running a major exchange.
The platform would support 24/7 trading and onchain settlement of tokenized U.S. equities and ETFs
“As we’ve evaluated different platforms, Avalanche checks a lot of those boxes for us, so we’re very engaged with the team”
- Michael Blaugrund of Intercontinental Exchange/NYSE
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.
What actually changes when a stock moves onchain?
A tokenized stock represents rights linked to a real share through a digital token on a blockchain. @DinariGlobal dShares, for example, are backed by corresponding U.S. securities held in custody.
Think of moving from a paper boarding pass to one on your phone. The flight still exists. The digital format changes how you access it and how compatible systems check it.
With stocks, the details are more regulated, but the idea helps explain the shift: familiar assets connecting to new financial infrastructure.
Dinari’s Financial Network runs on Avalanche, helping coordinate trading and settlement, the process of completing a transaction, across supported blockchains.
Why it matters: connecting those systems can make it easier for financial platforms to offer tokenized equities and build services around them. Access and investor rights still depend on the product and jurisdiction.
What if getting exposure to Apple stock felt as easy as holding a token onchain? 👀
That idea is getting closer.
Dinari gives people outside the US access to stocks like Apple, Tesla, Microsoft and Amazon through tokenized stocks.
In simple terms, you hold a token tied to the economic value of real shares, while the actual shares are held with regulated custodians.
And one of the chains Dinari supports?
@avax
That’s where it gets interesting.
We used to hear “blockchain” and immediately think crypto.
Now traditional assets like stocks are moving onchain too.
Avalanche might be playing a much bigger game than just crypto.
What if getting exposure to Apple stock felt as easy as holding a token onchain? 👀
That idea is getting closer.
Dinari gives people outside the US access to stocks like Apple, Tesla, Microsoft and Amazon through tokenized stocks.
In simple terms, you hold a token tied to the economic value of real shares, while the actual shares are held with regulated custodians.
And one of the chains Dinari supports?
@avax
That’s where it gets interesting.
We used to hear “blockchain” and immediately think crypto.
Now traditional assets like stocks are moving onchain too.
Avalanche might be playing a much bigger game than just crypto.
Meet the people leading Team1 Africa 🌍🔺
Across the continent, our country leads are growing local communities, connecting people and creating more opportunities for Africans to get involved in the @avax ecosystem.
Get to know the people leading Team1 Africa a little better below 👇
Avalanche September Recap
Anchored by Avalanche Summit NYC, September delivered landmark institutional adoption, the mainnet launch of Helicon, new Team1 chapters, and record-setting growth across the Avalanche ecosystem
Blog by @Cee_ynthia below 👇
September was a statement month for Avalanche. 🔺
@avax Summit NYC put global finance at the center of the ecosystem, as trillion-dollar institutions, asset managers, payments companies and builders moved deeper onchain.
From Wall Street to Seoul, Abu Dhabi, Türkiye, Nigeria, Ghana and beyond, here’s what Avalanche shipped in September:
🔺 Avalanche marked six years since launch, celebrating six years of building, infrastructure development and ecosystem growth.
🔺 @AvaxTeam1 officially launched @Team1Africa_ connecting communities that have already hosted 120+ events, reached 3,500+ attendees and activated 250+ developers across 10 countries into one Africa-wide network for builders, founders and communities.
🔺 Avalanche Summit NYC brought institutional finance, enterprises, investors and builders together in New York on September 16 and 17, with two days focused on the future of onchain finance, tokenized assets, payments, consumer applications and Avalanche infrastructure.
🔺 @Team1NG brought @AvaxTeam1 City Connect to Lokoja, Nigeria, on September 26, bringing the local community together around Avalanche, its ecosystem and opportunities to participate.
🔺 @Team1Africa brought the @AvaxTeam1 developer community to Ghana on September 24, connecting builders across Avalanche, Web3 and AI while expanding Team1’s developer presence across Africa.
🔺 $807B New York Life Investment Management brought its first tokenized fund to Avalanche, with HYB bringing its actively managed U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Strategy onchain through Centrifuge.
🔺 $500B global asset manager Janus Henderson announced it was joining Avalanche as a validator, deepening its involvement in tokenized finance while also backing onchain credit platform Tranched as an equity investor and anchor capital provider.
🔺 The UAE integrated Avalanche into its national digital identity infrastructure serving 12M+ people, with @tdrauae and Deca4 bringing Avalanche technology to the UAE PASS Digital Vault for verifying official documents.
🔺 Avalanche went live across @Paxos’ regulated financial infrastructure, expanding institutional access to AVAX and Avalanche-native USDC through infrastructure serving 650+ institutions and supporting 470M+ end users worldwide.
🔺 Korea’s first won-backed stablecoin, KRW1, expanded globally through @raincards, enabling won-denominated cards across 175M+ Visa merchant locations worldwide after launching through @BDACSKorea with Woori Bank on infrastructure built on Avalanche.
🔺 @aave announced a specialized RWA lending market on Avalanche, designed to let institutions use eligible tokenized financial assets as collateral for stablecoin borrowing without selling the underlying positions.
🔺 Tare raised $12M to build a regulated financial institution entirely onchain on Avalanche, connecting loan originators directly with institutional capital, with Janus Henderson among its key investors.
🔺 Iris raised $40M+ to expand ALVA’s onchain financial services on Avalanche, adding fresh capital behind the development of its financial infrastructure.
🔺 @Team1TH brought builders to Chulalongkorn University despite flooding across Bangkok, with 12 projects shipped during the Team1 Chula Hackathon spanning AI agent marketplaces, onchain stock products and gaming, alongside supporting partner @Tokenomist_ai.
🔺 Permissionless tokenized U.S. stocks are coming to Avalanche through @PharaohExchange, bringing 24/7 tokenized equity trading into the Avalanche-native DEX ecosystem.
🔺 South Korea’s financial markets continued moving toward onchain infrastructure, with Hanwha Investment & Securities developing a securities tokenization platform using Avalanche as the country prepares for its incoming tokenized securities framework.
🔺 Tokenized stocks gained more ground on Avalanche.
🔺 Helicon upgraded the network underneath it all.
And Team1 builders kept expanding Avalanche from New York to Türkiye, Nigeria, Ghana, Vietnam and Seoul.
September was stacked. Avalanche keeps shipping. 🔺
🚨 Want to build a dApp on Avalanche but not sure where to start?
This time, we’re not just sitting through slides.
We’re actually building one.
Code ➡️ Deploy ➡️ Mint your first NFT on Avalanche 🔺
Join Team1: Vibe Code Your First Avalanche dApp, a hands-on workshop for students, developers, and builders who want to build their first dApp.
🚩 What we’ll be doing:
✅ Get to know Web3 & Avalanche
✅ Explore AI Agents & Vibe Coding
✅ Create NFT artwork with AutoClaw
✅ Build an NFT minting dApp with ZCode
✅ Deploy a smart contract on Avalanche Fuji Testnet
✅ Mint your NFT & check the transaction onchain
You don’t need to be an expert to start building.
If you’ve been wanting to build your first dApp on Avalanche, come build it with us 🔺
📍 Thammasat University, Rangsit Campus
🗓️ Saturday, October 24, 2026
⏰ 1:00–4:00 PM
🧩 Beginner-friendly
🎓 TU students who want to join, feel free to DM Eve @snowyvess
Seats are limited and registration is required.
👇 Register here: [Event link]
https://t.co/kOZ4XqiEGC