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Crypto accelerators: 74 startups in 6 cohorts, 21 in trading

By NAUT Research · · 8 min read

74 Crypto accelerators startups named in 6 cohorts announced 29 June to 5 October 2026. Logos: Mercatus AI, Tribeca, Conta, Kravata, ClawPump, Traded.gg, SmartX, Liquorice, Asseto Finance, Predikt, DashX, Mana, Grow, Renn, GridPilot, Transact.sh.

Crypto accelerators named 74 startups across the 6 cohorts in this article, announced between 29 June and 5 October 2026, and onchain trading is the largest sector in that set with 21 of the 74 places. NAUT tracks 47 of those 74 companies as live pages, each one carrying the team, the sector and the funding history, and every company named below links to its page.

How this list was built: NAUT read each accelerator's own cohort page or cohort post, took the companies named there, then matched each one to its NAUT row on 1 November 2026. The 74 named places cover 73 distinct companies, because Flovia is named in both Base Batches 004 and Colosseum Accelerator Cohort 5. 47 have a live NAUT page and sit in the tables below. The other 27 are left out of the tables, 1 of them (Laso, in Colosseum Cohort 5) because its NAUT database row has no public page yet. 26 of those 27 carry a sector in the tally below; the 27th, Silicon Exchange in Alliance ALL18, was named on X without a product description NAUT could read, so it has no sector. The sector column is NAUT's reading of what each company says it builds. Every count here is cohort membership, never a funding amount.

Which sectors are crypto accelerators backing in 2026?

Onchain trading leads with 21 of the 74 places, then the mixed group at 17, stablecoin payments at 16 and AI agents for finance at 13. The table is ranked by the number of companies in each sector across all 6 cohorts. It covers the 73 named places where NAUT could read what the company builds, including the 26 with no NAUT page, so the shares are of 73, not 74.

Sector Companies Share of 73
onchain trading 21 28.8%
other 17 23.3%
stablecoin payments 16 21.9%
AI agents for finance 13 17.8%
consumer 4 5.5%
RWA 2 2.7%

Onchain trading and AI agents for finance each appear in all 6 cohorts, the mixed group in 5, stablecoin payments in 4, RWA in 2 and consumer in 1.

Companies per sector, the 73 named places with a sector read
  1. onchain trading21
  2. other17
  3. stablecoin payments16
  4. AI agents for finance13
  5. consumer4
  6. RWA2

Onchain trading and AI agents for finance are the 2 sectors that show up in all 6 cohorts. Consumer apps sit in 1 cohort only, Colosseum Accelerator Cohort 5, which holds all 4 of them.

Each cohort has its own tilt, so a reader sourcing in 1 sector can start with 1 program. The middle column reads as companies named, then how many of them have a NAUT page, and the Alliance ALL18 and Y Combinator 2026 rows count only the names NAUT could read, not the full cohorts:

Cohort Named / NAUT Largest sector
Base Batches 004 10 / 8 stablecoin payments, 4
Alliance ALL18 8 / 4 onchain trading and other, 3 each
YZi EASY Season 4 24 / 12 onchain trading, 8
Colosseum Cohort 5 21 / 17 other, 7
Sui Hydropower, 3rd 6 / 6 AI agents and onchain trading, 2 each
Y Combinator 2026 5 / 0 AI agents for finance, 3

Which startups are in Base Batches 004?

Base, Coinbase's layer 2, named the 10 teams in Base Batches 004 on 5 October 2026, which makes it the newest cohort here. 8 have a NAUT page.

Company What it builds Sector
Exchange for AI inference onchain trading
Self-custodial PIX payments account stablecoin payments
CLOB for tokenized stocks onchain trading
Borrow stablecoins against bitcoin stablecoin payments
Emerging-market tokenized asset app RWA
Tokenized options infrastructure other
Onchain FX for Africa stablecoin payments
Fixed-term credit, no liquidations onchain trading

Plus 2 more not yet on NAUT. 4 of the 10 build stablecoin payments, which is the strongest single-sector tilt of any cohort in this article.

Which teams are in Alliance ALL18?

Alliance announced ALL18 on 8 September 2026 as a 20-team cohort. 8 of those teams had a public name when NAUT read Alliance's own posts and launch index on 1 November 2026, and 4 of those 8 have a NAUT page.

Company What it builds Sector
Custom robot parts procurement other
Onchain yield strategy platform onchain trading
5 and 15 minute markets other
AI power-grid engineering AI agents for finance

Plus 4 more not yet on NAUT. Alliance's launch index labels 7 ALL18 products and leaves out the 8th, Silicon Exchange, which Alliance itself named on X on 6 October 2026. NAUT found no published roster for the remaining 12 places, so the rest of ALL18 is not public yet and the 8 names here are the ones a BD team can work today.

Which startups presented at YZi Labs EASY Residency Season 4?

Season 4 of the EASY Residency, run by YZi Labs (the firm formerly called Binance Labs), is the largest cohort here: 24 teams, 12 of them with a NAUT page. 8 of the 24 build onchain trading and 7 build stablecoin payments.

Company What it builds Sector
Verified onchain social trading onchain trading
LatAm stablecoin infrastructure stablecoin payments
Just-in-time trading credit onchain trading
Qualification layer for trading agents onchain trading
Tokenized hedge-fund strategy vaults onchain trading
Credit against payment flows onchain trading
Crypto accounting and tax other
Onchain FX for stablecoins stablecoin payments
Spend onchain balances directly other
AI creator intelligence platform AI agents for finance
Confidential institutional onchain finance other
Prop-AMM infra for EVM onchain trading

Plus 12 more not yet on NAUT. That is the widest gap in this article, because YZi's demo-day page links an X profile for only part of the roster, so the rest could not be matched to a NAUT row.

Which startups are in Colosseum Accelerator Cohort 5?

Colosseum, the accelerator for Solana teams, selected 21 startups for Accelerator Cohort 5 and announced them on 29 June 2026, drawn from 2,857 Frontier hackathon submissions and 112 Eternal submissions. 17 have a NAUT page, the best coverage of any cohort here.

Company What it builds Sector
Robotics operator DePIN network other
Thematic baskets of onchain assets other
Structured prediction-market products other
India stablecoin cross-border payments stablecoin payments
Onchain foreign-exchange platform stablecoin payments
No-rake fantasy sports pools consumer
Secondary market for private assets other
Tokenized real-estate debt yield onchain trading
Trading-card pricing and grading onchain trading
Agents that trade and lend AI agents for finance
Onchain trading-card battles onchain trading
Auditable onchain card game consumer
Physical supply chain for brands other
Stablecoin neobank for Philippine diaspora stablecoin payments
Onchain collectibles trading app onchain trading
Agent-run thematic portfolios AI agents for finance
USDC payouts for marketplaces consumer

Plus 4 more not yet on NAUT. Cohort 5 is the only cohort with consumer apps, all 4 of them in trading cards and sports.

Which startups are in the Sui Hydropower Fellowship third cohort?

The Sui Foundation's Hydropower Fellowship named 6 startups for its third cohort on 29 June 2026, and all 6 have a NAUT page.

Company What it builds Sector
RWA tokenization infrastructure RWA
Messaging-based crypto wallet other
Autonomous social media agent AI agents for finance
Social-feed prediction market onchain trading
Yield-bearing prediction positions onchain trading
Spend controls for AI agents AI agents for finance

2 of the 6 build AI agents for finance and 2 build onchain trading, which makes this the smallest cohort with the evenest spread.

Which Y Combinator 2026 companies are crypto?

NAUT read YC's crypto and web3 industry page on 1 November 2026 and got 50 of the 74 rows it lists, and the batch-filtered directory URLs returned a page title with no company rows. 5 crypto companies from the 2026 batches came out of that read: Fire Wallet and ORO AI from the Fall 2026 batch, Verdict Machine and Arbital from Spring 2026, and Masterpiece from the 2026 batch tagged P2026. None has a NAUT page yet, so there is no table for this one, and the full crypto count for any single YC 2026 batch stays unconfirmed.

What changed in crypto accelerators since the earlier 2026 cohorts?

The sector mix moved toward trading and away from a fintech-heavy split, and 1 program stopped publishing cohorts at all.

  • Alliance, cohort over cohort. Alliance said on 16 July 2026 that ALL17 took 2,089 applications down to 16 graduates, a 0.7% acceptance rate, split 44% fintech and stablecoins, 38% AI and 18% prediction markets. Of the 8 ALL18 teams with a public name, 3 build onchain trading, 3 sit in the mixed group, 1 builds AI agents for finance and the 8th, Silicon Exchange, has no product description NAUT could read.
  • Colosseum doubled. Colosseum's own announcement says Cohort 5 is roughly double the size of the cohort before it, at 21 startups.
  • YC stayed small on crypto. Biteye, a research account, posted on 29 October 2026 that crypto was 9 of about 626 YC companies across the Winter, Spring and Summer 2026 batches, 1.44%, with stablecoins and payments at 3 and trading and DeFi at 3. That is their count of those batches, not NAUT's.
  • YZi stayed crypto-heavy. The same Biteye post said 47 of the 55 YZi Labs companies it tracked in 2026 were crypto, about 85.5%, and that EASY Residency Seasons 3 and 4 together disclosed about 49 startups.
  • a16z crypto CSX. NAUT's check on 1 November 2026 found no 2026 CSX cohort it could confirm, so no CSX cohort is listed here.

NAUT also looked for 2026 cohort rosters at 9 other crypto and web3 accelerators: Outlier Ventures Base Camp, Orange DAO, Founders Inc, Aptos, Avalanche Codebase, NEAR, Polygon, Superteam and Chainlink BUILD. None of those produced a 2026 company list that NAUT could read, so none of them is counted above.

What crypto accelerators tell a BD team or an investor

These rosters are the earliest public signal that a team exists, which is the moment to reach a founder before a round closes and before a vendor list is set.

  • Sector first. 21 of the 74 named companies build onchain trading and 16 build stablecoin payments, so an infrastructure seller with 1 product can work 2 lists and cover 37 of the 74 places, exactly half of the set.
  • Freshness first. Base Batches 004 was named on 5 October 2026, the newest cohort here, and 8 of its 10 teams already have a NAUT page.
  • Coverage matters. Colosseum Cohort 5 gives 17 companies with a page, the most of any cohort, so it is the fastest list to work end to end.
  • Watch the overlap. Flovia is in 2 of these cohorts, so a founder who clears 1 accelerator's bar is a signal worth re-checking against the next cohort list.
How a BD team or an investor works these 6 cohorts
  1. Pick the sector21 of the 74 named companies build onchain trading and 16 build stablecoin payments.
  2. Start with the newest listBase Batches 004 was named on 5 October 2026 and 8 of its 10 teams have a NAUT page.
  3. Find the decision makerEach company page lists its team, as Kravata and Mercatus AI do.
  4. Open the channelVerified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan.

Related reading on NAUT: Binance Labs portfolio: 92 companies on NAUT, now YZi Labs and Crypto lead generation: 21 funded teams, 15 CEOs to pitch.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes, company by company: GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/kravata with Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY returns 1 of these 47 companies with its team, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/search?q=stablecoin payments returns projects and people together, up to 12 of each. Both cost 5 credits a call, and the parameters and plans are documented at naut.so/docs/api and naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for the people on those pages unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial and reveal them from the same call.

Crypto accelerators FAQ

Which startups are in crypto accelerators right now?

74 startups were named across 6 cohorts announced between 29 June and 5 October 2026: Base Batches 004 (10 teams), Alliance ALL18 (8 publicly named), YZi Labs EASY Residency Season 4 (24), Colosseum Accelerator Cohort 5 (21), the Sui Hydropower Fellowship third cohort (6) and 5 crypto companies from YC's 2026 batches that NAUT read on 1 November 2026. 47 of the 74 have a live NAUT page.

Which sectors do the 2026 crypto accelerator cohorts back most?

Onchain trading, with 21 of the 74 named places, then the mixed group at 17, stablecoin payments at 16 and AI agents for finance at 13. Onchain trading and AI agents for finance appear in all 6 cohorts, and the 4 consumer companies all sit in Colosseum Accelerator Cohort 5.

Which crypto startup accelerator named the most companies in 2026?

YZi Labs, whose EASY Residency Season 4 had 24 teams, ahead of Colosseum Accelerator Cohort 5 at 21 and Base Batches 004 at 10. 12 of the 24 YZi teams have a NAUT page, against 17 of 21 at Colosseum and 8 of 10 at Base.

Where can I find the founders and teams behind these 74 accelerator startups?

On NAUT: 47 of the 74 companies named in these 6 cohorts have a NAUT page with their team, their sector and their funding history, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/<slug> returns the same company and team through the API for 5 credits. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial and open the channel from the same record.

Did a16z crypto run a CSX cohort in 2026?

NAUT found no 2026 CSX cohort it could confirm when it checked on 1 November 2026. No 2026 CSX roster turned up, so no a16z cohort is counted in the 74 startups here.

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