🔺 Nights of Code | Building Payment Solutions on Avalanche

🔺 Nights of Code | Building Payment Solutions on Avalanche

Welcome to the Team1 Kenya Nights of Code a 12-hour overnight builder experience designed for developers, founders, designers, operators, and ambitious builders ready to prototype real-world payment solutions on Avalanche.

This is not your typical meetup.

Nights of Code is part of the official road to the 🔺 Team1 Kenya Mini Hack 2026 a 3-month builder accelerator focused on turning builders into founders in the agentic era.

For this cohort, we’re diving deep into:
⚡ Stablecoins
⚡ Payment Rails
⚡ Wallet Infrastructure
⚡ Consumer Payments
⚡ Cross-border Transactions
⚡ On-chain Financial Systems

Whether you’re:

• exploring Avalanche for the first time,
• building your first payment product,
• or scaling infrastructure for real businesses,

this session is designed to help you learn, collaborate, prototype, and ship alongside other serious builders in the ecosystem.

Throughout the night, participants will:

• form teams,
• brainstorm ideas,
• work on real-world payment use cases,
• receive mentorship,
• and prototype MVPs that can evolve into fully-fledged hackathon submissions.

The goal is simple:
👉 move from ideas → to working products.

Expect:
☕ Coffee & snacks
🧠 Hands-on mentorship
🌙 Late-night shipping sessions
⚡ Builder networking
🏗 Real product development
🎮 Gamified builder experiences
🚀 Ecosystem opportunities

🗓️ Event Program

[6:00 PM] — Doors Open & Check-In

• Registration
• Networking
• Community onboarding

[6:30 PM] — Opening Remarks

Introduction to Team1 Kenya Mini Hack 2026 and the Payments Cohort.

[7:00 PM] — Avalanche Ecosystem Deep Dive

Understanding:

• Avalanche infrastructure
• stablecoins
• payment rails
• wallets
• ecosystem tooling

[8:00 PM] — Payment Infrastructure Workshop

Hands-on session exploring:

• Avalanche Academy resources
• wallet integrations
• payment flows
• smart contract fundamentals

[9:30 PM] — Team Formation & Idea Bank

Builders form teams around:

• fintech ideas
• merchant systems
• cross-border payment systems
• consumer payment products

[10:30 PM] — Open Build Session Begins

Teams begin prototyping with support from mentors and technical facilitators.

[1:00 AM] — Midnight Builder Checkpoint

Quick team updates, demos, feedback, and progress reviews.

[2:00 AM – 5:00 AM] — Deep Build Sessions

Late-night focused building, debugging, iteration, and shipping.

[5:00 AM] — Final Team Standups

Teams showcase progress and next steps.

[6:00 AM] — Closing & Community Announcements

🤝 Partners & Ecosystem Support

Avalanche

A high-performance blockchain ecosystem enabling scalable decentralized applications, consumer products, and on-chain financial infrastructure.

Team1 Kenya

A community-led initiative driving grassroots ecosystem growth, builder onboarding, and founder development across East Africa.

Kenya Tech Events

Kenya Tech Events represent the pulse of Silicon Savannah, serving as the premier gatherings where African innovators, developers, investors, and policymakers connect to shape the continent's digital economy. Driven by a mix of grassroots developer communities, global tech giants, and pan-African enterprises, these events transform cities like Nairobi into vibrant tech hubs.

Blockchain Centre

Supporting local innovation, developer communities, and ecosystem collaboration through physical and digital infrastructure.

FOEG Labs

An infrastructure-first builder community focused on AI, blockchain, and real-world systems.

Additional ecosystem partners and collaborators will be announced soon.

🧩 About Team1

Team1 is a global network of builders, developers, creatives, gamers, founders, and community leaders dedicated to growing the Avalanche ecosystem worldwide.

Operating across multiple countries, Team1 helps onboard new users and projects into Avalanche through:

• local meetups
• technical workshops
• hackathons
• builder programs
• ecosystem partnerships
• community-led initiatives

By bridging online and offline communities, Team1 empowers grassroots innovation and expands the reach of Avalanche into new regions and cultures.

🔺 X (Twitter): https://x.com/AvaxTeam1

🚀 Important Links

🔺 Team1 Africa Events

https://luma.com/Team1Africa

📚 Avalanche Academy

https://build.avax.network/academy

💬 Avalanche AI Assistant

https://build.avax.network/chat

🌐 Mini Hack Landing Page

https://team1-kenya-hackathon.vercel.app/

⚠️ Limited spots available.
This experience is designed for builders who are ready to ship

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