EntitiesTeam1Avalanche ecosystem showing strong momentum in October 2026: Aave V4 hit $125M deposits (new ATH), tokenized Treasuries grew 4x, builders raised $500M YTD, and major partnerships expanding (Tampa Bay Lightning on-chain, @EthenaPay integration, @ZenGo wallet support). Team1 global community chapters actively scaling across South Korea, Japan, Brazil, Bolivia, and Africa.
Team1 is the Avalanche Foundation's global community and builder programme, organised as regional chapters that run local events, education, and builder support.
Team1 operates as a network of country and region chapters rather than a single central team. Each chapter runs its own programming — meetups, workshops, hackathon support — under a shared Team1 identity, coordinated by @AvaxTeam1. It sits under the Avalanche Foundation (/tags/avalanche-foundation).
Team1's programme surface includes Cascade (/tags/cascade), its ecosystem map and onboarding hub for Avalanche projects; a Builders Hub (/tags/team1-builders-hub) for teams starting to build; and a grants track (/tags/team1-grants) for funding community work. Chapters are the delivery layer: they translate the global programme into local language, timezone, and community.
Chapters partner with local universities, developer communities, and event organisers in each region, and the programme has said it will connect local startups with international investors and partners to help teams move from early prototypes toward products that reach global markets. Chapter coverage is explicitly expanding, so the chapter list is a snapshot rather than a closed set.
Team1's delivery layer is its chapters, and the chapter list is open rather than fixed. The programme publishes each one on its own domain under a canonical /c/<chapter> path, which is the authoritative place to check whether a chapter is official.
Chapters documented in this graph include Team1 Africa (/tags/team1-africa), Team1 Brasil (/tags/team1-brasil), Team1 India (/tags/team1-india), Team1 Korea (/tags/team1-korea), Team1 LatAm (/tags/team1-latam), Team1 Nigeria (/tags/team1-nigeria), Team1 Türkiye (/tags/team1-turkiye), Team1 USA (/tags/team1-usa) and Team1 Vietnam (/tags/team1-vietnam). Others exist, so this list should be read as a snapshot.
Team1 LatAm is where the chapter model began. The programme's own account of it starts with a developer workshop for roughly 25 people in Medellín, Colombia, and describes that local community as the blueprint for Team1's global expansion.
Team1 Africa launched on September 30, 2026 as a continent-level chapter, consolidating Avalanche community chapters across 10 African countries into a single regional network. It was announced from its own account, @Team1Africa_, and welcomed by @AvaxTeam1. As of that announcement the network reported 120+ events, 3,500+ attendees and 250+ developers activated — figures describing traction accumulated by independently run city-level teams before they were linked under one identity, not post-launch results. It sits above the African country chapters rather than replacing them, and Team1 Nigeria remains a chapter in its own right.
The gap a regional layer addresses is connection rather than activity: developers in different countries working on the same problems — cross-border payments, reaching customers banks overlook — have had limited visibility into each other's work.
country chapter
Team1 Brasil also carries direct country-chapter status under the global Team1 programme — the other half of the genuine two-parent case.
programme track
Team1 Builders Hub is Team1's support track for early-stage Avalanche builders — grants, resources, marketing, and talent matching.
funding track
Team1 Grants is Team1's tiered funding track for Avalanche builders — an open-application community tier and a larger committee-reviewed tier.
country chapter
Team1 India is Team1's India chapter, best known for the multi-city Team1 Hacks hackathon tour.
Team1 Korea is Team1's official country chapter for Korea, announced by Team1 on 2026-08-19 and operating under the @Team1KOR banner.
regional chapter
Team1 LatAm is Team1's Latin America regional chapter, grown out of grassroots developer workshops in Colombia.
community-run chapter
Avalanche Nigeria is a community-run Team1 chapter running campus tours and student clubs across Nigeria.
country chapter
Team1 Türkiye is Team1's Türkiye chapter, formalized after years of local Avalanche ecosystem-growth work.
country chapter
Team1 USA is Team1's United States chapter, running local meetups and builder events across American cities.
country chapter
Team1 Vietnam is Team1's Vietnam chapter, running university tours, job fairs, and community meetups.
community member
Armin Reiter is a Team1 community member based in Vienna — a membership edge, not employment; his own company is a31 Labs.
community organizer
cryptochimba is a Latin America community organizer whose pre-Team1 grassroots Avalanche work became a blueprint for the LatAm chapter. Recorded as an association, not employment: the bio references both Ava Labs and Team1 with no single employer stated.
community member
Luke Martinez is a Team1 community member — an unpaid-affiliation edge, deliberately not WORKED_AT, because the sources evidence community membership rather than employment.
designer
Sangeeth is a designer working with Team1 on the visual and product-design side of its programmes.
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