Named on Team1's Global Weekly Call
On November 4, 2026, Team1 named both KUMPLY founders - Giovanny Amador and Monserrat Mendoza - during a global weekly call, not the LatAm chapter's own weekly. A dedicated slide, titled "Giovanny & Monserrat - Mexico", carried this text:
"They are building in the Avalanche ecosystem and have shown great commitment to Team1 LATAM. They are very collaborative and make an excellent team together, always supporting each other on every project. They join all our meetings, share ideas, and bring new perspectives to the community. They also post regularly about Avalanche, helping more people learn about the ecosystem and stay connected. Their energy and teamwork make our community stronger."
Right after, Sofi - Team1 LatAm's chapter lead - tagged both of us in the "Miembros Team1 LatAm" Telegram channel (@Vaiosx @M0nsxx), and the channel reacted with real congratulations from people in the community: Karotlover, Gerardo Vela, Cisn3ronauta, and Aritoshi, among others.
In plain language (because people outside crypto are going to read this too): an international community of people building technology on the Avalanche blockchain - spread across dozens of countries, not just Mexico - named us by name on a call that includes teams from all over the world, not only Latin America. It was public recognition that we've spent over a year building something real, not just talking about it.
What did we actually build? KUMPLY works like a digital ID card. Today, to use a serious financial app - a bank, an insurance company - you have to show ID, prove you're an adult, or prove your business is legally registered. KUMPLY does the same thing, but for apps built on blockchain: it lets a person or a business prove, once, that they already passed that check, without handing over their documents again every time they use a new app, and without those documents sitting in one company's hands.
Why does this matter for Mexico and Latin America? Because most of the digital identity infrastructure for blockchain gets built in the US or Europe. Two people building from Mexico, in Spanish, working on this exact problem - and an international community noticing it - is a sign that this kind of technology can be built here too, not just used here. And globally: Avalanche is one of the networks where serious financial applications get built around the world, so a Mexican project handling identity and rule-following on it matters beyond our own region.
The rest of this post goes into detail most readers won't need, so here's the short version of everything in it. First, the proof that this isn't just talk: a workshop we ran with real attendees, and a real company called 0xgasless that connected its app to ours - it now only pays a user's transaction fee (something apps sometimes do for their users, the way a store might cover shipping) once that user's wallet has already proven who they are through KUMPLY. It's a small pilot, not something millions of people use yet, but it shows the idea working outside our own demo, with someone else's real product. Second, one more thing mentioned near the end: Avalanche City is also ours - a racing game built on Avalanche that already uses our own KUMPLY SDK, shared with the same community that just recognized us.
What the "commitment" in that slide is actually made of
The slide credits "great commitment to Team1 LATAM," so here's what that's been in practice, not just a status badge. AttestationStore and ComplianceGate are deployed and verified on both Avalanche Fuji and Avalanche Mainnet C-Chain (mainnet is a read-only beta today - verificationFee=0, no custody of funds or identity documents). The test suite behind that is real: 127 Hardhat tests on the contracts, 87 on the SDK, 17 on the API, all green as of this post. @kumply/sdk is published on npm under Apache-2.0.
On September 24, 2026, we ran a Team1-approved live technical workshop on KYA (Know Your Agent) with the LatAm chapter - 13 on-chain Tier 5 attestations issued to real attendees that night on Fuji testnet, plus 5 more to the first respondents of an open follow-up form. Six days later, on September 30, 2026, 0xgasless - a builder in the Team1 community - ran a live pilot with us: their own demo smart account got a real Tier 5 attestation, checked against their paymaster logic (that check runs off-chain today, not as an on-chain gate - the dedicated post covers the exact mechanics). That pilot was then presented on the Team1 LatAm livestream, Los Doritos, that same day.
KUMPLY itself started as a submission to Avalanche's LatAm Institucional hackathon back in May 2026 - we didn't win that one, but it's where the project was born. We've kept building on Avalanche since: two more weekend builds, shipped and shared with the community - Tequio, an invisible-blockchain museum ticketing app, and Chanampa, an agricultural traceability demo.
Outside the Avalanche ecosystem specifically, we've also placed in hackathon sponsor tracks. Giovanny placed in two at ETH Mexico Monterrey - first place in the Creator Economies track and third place in the Arbitrum Innovation track - both with other teammates, not Monserrat. Both founders together won first place at ETH Uruguay 2025, and first place in the FDA Track at the DeSci Builders Hackathon 2025 with BioShield Insurance, an insurance project deployed on Solana, Base, and Optimism. None of that is Avalanche-specific, but it's part of why "building" is a fair word for what we've been doing, not just Avalanche content.
And there's an open thread still in motion: an active Team1 mini-grant proposal, currently under review, not yet decided either way. We're naming it here as exactly that - a pending proposal, not a result.
What this is, and what it isn't
It's worth being precise about the scope. This was a Team1 global weekly call - the same kind of recurring call every Team1 chapter joins, not an event built around us or an Avalanche-wide announcement. It's a real signal that two people building consistently in this community got noticed beyond their own chapter, nothing more and nothing less. We're not reading it as a partnership, a grant decision, or any kind of official Avalanche Foundation statement - it's community recognition from Team1, and we're treating it as exactly that.
It's also a different kind of post than everything else on this blog so far: no contract, no SDK release, no workshop, no pilot. We're writing it up anyway because it's real, it happened in front of us, and because "Team1 Collaborator" status on its own undersells what this specific moment was: two names read out loud on a global call, not just a status field.
Try it yourself
Since this post is already recapping what we've built, here's where to actually poke at it. The live demo runs a real compliance check against Fuji or Mainnet, no wallet required - pick a use case (DeFi access, a tokenized RWA fund, an AI agent marketplace) and watch ComplianceGate accept or reject a seeded address in real time. The Build page lists concrete software ideas on top of KUMPLY - anti-Sybil airdrop filters, one-person-one-vote DAO voting, gas sponsorship limited to verified wallets, and more - and the SDK docs have the actual TypeScript to integrate it.
The 0xgasless integration mentioned above is also real and inspectable, not just a claim: the Ecosystem page lists the exact mechanism (their sponsorship service calls verify() before approving gas for a UserOperation) plus the three on-chain transaction hashes behind it.
One more thing we built: Avalanche City
Easy to miss at the bottom of a post about Team1, so we'll say it plainly: Avalanche City is ours too - a racing arcade built on Avalanche, shared with the Team1 LatAm community, and it already integrates @kumply/sdk, not just our own demo. Its first game, AvaxRacing, is actually playable today at avalanchecity.fun/play - 14 tracks, a story mode, and lap times signed server-side and recorded on a LapRegistry contract on Fuji. A few more cabinets (an L1-building game, an ICM courier game, a validator-uptime game) are listed as in design, not live yet. Like the rest of our work, it's not affiliated with or endorsed by Ava Labs or the Avalanche Foundation.
Source
Everything above comes from screenshots of the actual "Miembros Team1 LatAm" Telegram channel taken at the time, not a secondhand account relayed by someone else. We're not linking the channel itself since it's a private community space, not a public one.