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South Korea crypto companies: 15 on NAUT, 10 are investors

By NAUT Research · · 6 min read

15 South Korea crypto companies on NAUT: 10 investors, 4 projects and 1 custodian, read 5 November 2026. Logos: MetaCene, Hashed, Cosmostation, DeSpread, fourpillarsfp, Xangle, A41, DSRV, BDACS, ReBlock, Bridge34, Trinito, Blocksync Ventures, Aegis Ventures, Blocore.

NAUT tracks 15 South Korea crypto companies, read from NAUT's database on 5 November 2026: 10 rows typed as investors, 4 project rows and 1 service row. The biggest investment firm on the list by X following is Hashed, a Seoul venture fund, and the biggest project row is the blockchain game MetaCene, the only 1 of the 15 with a live token on NAUT's record.

How this list was built: on 5 November 2026 NAUT read every company row whose stored country is South Korea, 15 rows in all, and kept each one, because all 15 are crypto or Web3 companies by their own listed type and stored description. The X following figures are the numbers each row's NAUT page shows on that date. 2 rows are stored under their X handle (Xangle_official and fourpillarsfp); this article uses the brand name Xangle for the first and NAUT's stored name for the second, and links each one to its own NAUT row.

What was put to an outside source, and what was not: NAUT sent 12 claims about 8 of the 15 companies to outside sources on 5 November 2026. 6 claims, covering Hashed, MetaCene, Xangle and fourpillarsfp, came back confirmed with the wording located on the page or carried by a second source, and only those 6 are used here. 5 more came back confirmed, but the runner could not locate the quoted wording on the page it read, so the details on Aegis Ventures, BDACS, DSRV, Hashed's founding line and MetaCene's Ethereum chain tag and live token appear below only as what NAUT's own record says. 1 claim, that ReBlock is DAO Maker's direct marketing partner for the Korean market, was not found on a primary source, so it is left out. The other 7 rows were not put to an outside check at all.

South Korea crypto companies: which firms does NAUT track?

All 15 rows, ranked by the X following each row's NAUT page shows on 5 November 2026. 8 of the 15 carry a description on NAUT and 7 carry none; 5 of the 15 carry a sector tag.

Company Sectors and record X following
Gaming. Blockchain MMORPG homeland, with a live token and Ethereum as its chain tag 345,269
No sector tags. Venture fund based in Seoul and Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage blockchain and crypto teams 49,040
No sector tags, no description on file 23,319
No sector tags, no description on file 23,053
Infrastructure, Intelligence. Web3 Research Institute 16,780
Intelligence. Crypto data and research platform 13,312
No sector tags, no description on file 6,567
Infrastructure, Custody. Validation node infrastructure 6,366
Custody. Digital asset custodian 2,010
No sector tags. Korean digital marketing agency that also runs a small venture fund, at seed and private stages 1,197
No sector tags, no description on file 620
No sector tags, no description on file 470
No sector tags, no description on file 189
No sector tags. Seoul venture capital firm backing blockchain teams and helping them enter the Korean market 97
No sector tags, no description on file 6

Every 1 of the 15 rows carries an X handle, so each page gives you a channel to open before you write to anyone.

Which South Korea crypto companies are funds, and which build products?

10 of the 15 are typed as investors on NAUT, which makes the South Korea crypto VC side the bigger half of this list. The other 5 split into research, infrastructure, custody and gaming, grouped here by each row's own stored type and description.

Group Rows Companies
Typed as an investor on NAUT 10 , , , , , , , , ,
Research and data platforms 2 ,
Node and validator infrastructure 1
Custody 1
Blockchain gaming 1

4 of those rows have an outside source behind them. A 2024 release on Korea Blockchain Week says "FACTBLOCK is the founder and organizer of Korea Blockchain Week, also co-hosted by Hashed." Pantera Capital's own post on its investment in fourpillarsfp describes it as an independent crypto research firm based in Seoul, founded in 2023. Xangle's company page describes it as a crypto data research platform and an on-chain and off-chain data provider, which matches what NAUT's record says. NAUT's stored handles @hashed_official and @MetaCeneGame were both confirmed against the companies' own site and news pages on 5 November 2026.

South Korea crypto companies by X following

X following per row, the 10 South Korea rows above 1,000
  1. MetaCene345269
  2. Hashed49040
  3. Cosmostation23319
  4. DeSpread23053
  5. fourpillarsfp16780
  6. Xangle13312
  7. A416567
  8. DSRV6366
  9. BDACS2010
  10. ReBlock1197

MetaCene's 345,269 followers are larger than the other 14 rows added together, and the 5 rows left out of the chart sit under 1,000: Bridge34 at 620, Trinito at 470, Blocksync Ventures at 189, Aegis Ventures at 97 and Blocore at 6.

Which South Korea crypto companies have a named decision maker?

3 of the 15 rows carry a named lead on NAUT, 5 names in total, and 4 of those 5 have their own NAUT page.

holds 3 of them: Simon Seojoon Kim as CEO and Managing Partner, Ethan Kyuntae Kim and Ryan Sungho Kim as Co-Founder and Partner.

lists Alan Tan (Qunzhao Tan) as Founder and CEO. An outside profile read on 5 November 2026 calls him "the co-founder and CEO of MetaCene, a blockchain-based MMORPG platform."

names a CEO called Jason, with no profile page minted on NAUT yet, so there is a role to ask for here and no page to open.

The other 12 rows carry no named person on NAUT, so the X handle in the table above is the way in. Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.

What this tells a BD team

  • 10 of the 15 rows are typed as investors on NAUT, so a BD team selling tools, data or services into Korea is mostly selling to funds.
  • Only 3 rows carry a named lead, so 12 of the 15 need a handle-first approach rather than a named contact.
  • The product-side buyers are specific: BDACS in custody, DSRV in validator infrastructure, Xangle and fourpillarsfp in research and data.
How a BD team can work the 15 South Korea rows
  1. Start with the 10 funds10 of the 15 rows are typed as investors, led by Hashed at 49,040 X followers.
  2. Open the 3 rows with a named leadHashed lists 3 partners and MetaCene lists its Founder and CEO.
  3. Match the product-side 5 to what you sellBDACS is a digital asset custodian and DSRV runs validation node infrastructure.

What this tells a founder raising in Korea

  • 3 of the 10 funds sit above 10,000 X followers: Hashed, Cosmostation and DeSpread.
  • Aegis Ventures carries a NAUT description that names help entering the Korean market, which is the reason a foreign founder usually wants a Korean fund on the cap table.
  • 7 of the 15 rows carry no description on NAUT, so read the company's own site before you pitch it.
How a founder raising in Korea can use this list
  1. Shortlist by reach3 of the 10 funds sit above 10,000 X followers; Blocore sits at 6.
  2. Ask for the partner by nameSimon Seojoon Kim is CEO and Managing Partner at Hashed.
  3. Fill the gaps yourself7 of the 15 rows carry no description on NAUT, so check their own site first.

How to reach the decision makers

Every 1 of the 15 rows carries an X handle on its NAUT page, and 4 of the 5 named people have their own page with the channels NAUT holds on file for them. Open Hashed or MetaCene and the team block on the page lists each person; open the person and the page says which channels NAUT has for them.

Related reading on NAUT: How to find decision makers in a company: 5 steps for crypto and Crypto investor database: 50 funds, 299 contacts measured.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes, row by row. GET https://api.naut.so/v1/search?q=Hashed returns the matching projects and people, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/investors/hashed returns that fund with its team and portfolio, which is where the 3 named Hashed partners in this article come from; each call costs 5 credits, documented at naut.so/docs/api, and a key is included with every plan at naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial and reveal them.

South Korea crypto companies FAQ

Which crypto companies are based in South Korea?

NAUT's data shows 15 company rows with South Korea as their stored country on 5 November 2026: the funds Hashed, Cosmostation, DeSpread, A41, ReBlock, Bridge34, Trinito, Blocksync Ventures, Aegis Ventures and Blocore, the research and data platforms fourpillarsfp and Xangle, the validator infrastructure firm DSRV, the custodian BDACS and the blockchain game MetaCene.

How many South Korea crypto companies on NAUT are investment firms?

10 of the 15 rows NAUT tracks in South Korea on 5 November 2026 are typed as investors, and Hashed is the largest of them by X following at 49,040.

How many of these Korean blockchain companies were checked against an outside source?

NAUT put 12 claims about 8 of the 15 rows to outside sources on 5 November 2026, and 6 claims about 4 companies (Hashed, MetaCene, Xangle and fourpillarsfp) came back confirmed with the wording located on the page or carried by a second source. The other 7 rows were not put to an outside check.

Where can I find the people who run these 15 South Korea crypto companies and their contact channels?

On NAUT: 3 of the 15 rows carry a named lead, 5 names in total, and 4 of those have their own NAUT page showing which channels NAUT holds, or you can pull the same records with GET https://api.naut.so/v1/investors/hashed for 5 credits. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial to see them.

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