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UAE crypto companies: 69 on NAUT, Gaming the top sector

By NAUT Research · · 7 min read

69 UAE crypto companies company rows on NAUT with the United Arab Emirates as their country, read 4 November 2026. Logos: Multibank, M2, Klickl, Phoenix Group, TransFi, Radio Caca, Artyfact, EMCD, Solmate, ADI, BECO Capital, Morningstar Ventures, The Open Platform (TOP), Token Bay Capital, Global Ventures, Verofax.

NAUT tracks 69 UAE crypto companies: every company row in its crypto and Web3 directory that carries the United Arab Emirates as its country, read on 4 November 2026. 35 of them are projects building a product, 30 are investors or funds, and 4 are launchpads, a launchpad platform or a market maker.

Gaming is the largest sector tag on the list with 10 companies, ahead of Infrastructure with 6 and AI with 5. NAUT's data shows 69 of the 69 rows carry an X handle, 51 carry a website and 42 carry a description, which is what a BD lead or a founder raising in the region has to work with before the first message.

How was this list of UAE crypto companies built?

NAUT's database was read on 4 November 2026 for every company row whose country field says United Arab Emirates. 86 rows came back, 1 of them archived and merged into another, which leaves 85 live rows.

15 of those 85 came out because they are not companies: each is an individual profile tagged as an investor, carrying a person's name or a personal X handle with no company description and no domain. Among them is the person page of Lucy Gazmararian, whose firm Token Bay Capital stays on the list as its own row. 1 more row came out after a source check: Hub71 is Abu Dhabi's government-backed technology ecosystem for startups of every sector, so it is a startup hub rather than a crypto company. That leaves 69.

4 of the 69 rows had a claim checked against an outside source on 4 November 2026: BECO Capital, M2, Coinstore and Multibank. The other 65 are NAUT's own record and were not checked against an outside source for this article. A dash in any table below means that field is empty on the row's own NAUT page, and the type and sector labels are NAUT's own, not a judgment made here. NAUT stores a country rather than a city, so the emirate is known only where a source check named it: 2 of the 4 checked rows are crypto companies in Dubai (BECO Capital and Multibank) and 2 point to Abu Dhabi crypto companies (M2, licensed in ADGM, and Coinstore's UAE base in Al Danah). Written by NAUT Research.

Which UAE crypto companies are on the investor side?

30 of the 69 rows are UAE crypto investors: venture firms, incubators, funds and a few trading or media businesses that NAUT files on the investor side of its directory. 8 carry a fund type on NAUT, 6 of them Venture and 2 Incubation.

Firm Fund type
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Venture
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Venture
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Venture
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Venture
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Incubation
Venture
Venture
Incubation

A 2026 fund manager profile read for this article says BECO Capital was "Established in 2012 and based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, providing early-stage growth capital and support for technology companies in the MENA region". Its NAUT page is the row to open for a founder raising a first round in the Gulf.

Which UAE crypto companies build products, and in what sectors?

35 rows are projects with a product: chains, games, payment rails, exchanges, wallets and data tools. 33 of them carry at least 1 sector tag on NAUT.

Company Sector tags
Infrastructure, L1/2/3
Gaming
Gaming
Gaming, AI
Infrastructure, DePIN, AI
Tools, AI
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Gaming, Tools
Gaming
Payment
Market Maker, DEX (Decentralized Exchange)
Intelligence, RWA
Neobank
Gaming
Meme
Custody, Funds
CEX (Centralized Exchange), RWA
SocialFi
L1/2/3, Privacy
L1/2/3
DAT
SocialFi, Media
Gaming
Gaming, AI
DeFi, Infrastructure
Infrastructure, RWA
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
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Tools
Gaming, L1/2/3
Gaming
AI
DeFi
Neobank, Payment

4 more rows are platforms rather than product teams: 3 launchpads and 1 market maker.

Company Type Sector tags
Platform Launchpad
Launchpad Launchpad
Service provider Market Maker
Launchpad Launchpad

What do the sector tags say about this list?

This table ranks the sector tags by how many of the 69 companies carry each one. A company can carry more than 1 tag, so the counts overlap.

Sector tag on NAUT Companies tagged Examples
Gaming 10 , ,
Infrastructure 6 , ,
AI 5 , ,
L1/2/3 4 , ,
Launchpad 3 , ,
RWA 3 , ,
Tools 3 , ,
DeFi 2 ,
Market Maker 2 ,
Neobank 2 ,
Payment 2 ,
SocialFi 2 ,

10 more sector tags sit on 1 company each: CEX (Centralized Exchange), Custody, DAT, DePIN, DEX (Decentralized Exchange), Funds, Intelligence, Media, Meme, Privacy. 32 of the 69 rows carry no sector tag at all, which is the single biggest gap in this cut of NAUT's data.

Which of these companies are exchanges or trading venues?

4 rows on the list run a trading or banking venue, and all 4 had a claim checked against an outside source on 4 November 2026 or carry their own NAUT description.

  • M2. An encyclopedia page read for this article calls M2 Exchange "a cryptocurrency trading platform based in the United Arab Emirates regulated by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority within ADGM", and Cointelegraph reported the ADGM permission as a second source.
  • Coinstore. A 2026 sector directory read for this article says it is "based in Al Danah, United Arab Emirates". The same check put its primary headquarters in Singapore, so the UAE side of Coinstore is an office rather than its global base.
  • Multibank. Its NAUT page calls it among the largest fully regulated derivatives trading platforms in over 25 countries with daily volume of about $35B. A company profile read for this article confirms the Dubai headquarters and says it keeps "over 25 offices in key financial centers across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and the Americas".
  • Klickl. NAUT files it under Neobank and its page describes a global virtual asset service provider. That row was not checked against an outside source for this article.

Who can you actually reach at these companies?

NAUT's data shows 9 named team members across 6 of the 69 companies, and 7 of those names have their own NAUT person page. That is the honest size of the people layer on this country cut: the other 63 rows carry no named team member yet, so the X handle and the website are the way in.

Person Title on NAUT Company
CEO
CEO / Ignitor
Founder & CEO
CEO
Co-Founder & CEO, MindWave Innovations Inc.
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and CTO

Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.

Named team members on NAUT, the 6 UAE companies that have any
  1. MindWaveDAO3
  2. Ozone Chain2
  3. Multibank1
  4. Radio Caca1
  5. Artyfact1
  6. Solmate1

How can a BD team work this list?

  • Split the list by side before you write anything. A pitch to a fund is a different message from a pitch to a product team, and the split here is 30 investor rows against 35 project rows.
  • Use the sector tag as the opener. Gaming carries 10 companies, Infrastructure 6 and AI 5, so a studio selling to game teams has a ready shortlist.
  • Expect to start on X. 69 of the 69 rows carry an X handle and 51 carry a website, so the first contact point exists for every row even where the description does not.
  • Treat the 32 untagged rows as research, not leads. Those pages carry no sector tag, so read the row before you spend a message on it.
How a BD team can work the UAE list
  1. Pick the side30 of the 69 rows are investors or funds, 35 are projects and 4 are launchpads or a market maker.
  2. Filter by sectorGaming is the largest tag with 10 companies, then Infrastructure with 6 and AI with 5.
  3. Open the company page42 of the 69 rows carry a description, 51 a website and 69 an X handle.
  4. Find a personNAUT's data shows 9 named team members at 6 of the 69 companies, 7 with their own NAUT page.

Related reading on NAUT: Crypto VC Singapore: 11 funds, 1 with a 2026 round and What is NAUT: the crypto directory of 14,275 people.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

NAUT's documented /v1 endpoints carry no country parameter, so this country cut came from NAUT's own database rather than from an API call, and no single documented call reproduces the 69 rows. The nearest documented calls are GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/klickl for 1 company record with its team, GET https://api.naut.so/v1/search?q=Klickl to find a row by name and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects?sector=Gaming&limit=100 for the sector cut, each with an Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY header and 5 credits a call. Keys, parameters and quotas are at naut.so/docs/api and plans at naut.so/pricing, where Essential at $49 a month carries 3,000 credits. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for the people on these pages unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial if you need the channels as well as the names.

UAE crypto companies FAQ

Which crypto companies are based in the UAE?

On 4 November 2026 NAUT tracked 69 company rows with the United Arab Emirates as their country, among them Multibank, M2, Klickl, Phoenix Group, TransFi, ADI, EMCD and BECO Capital. 35 of the 69 are product teams, 30 are investors or funds and 4 are launchpads or a market maker.

How many UAE crypto investors does NAUT track?

NAUT's data shows 30 investor-side rows with the United Arab Emirates as their country on 4 November 2026, including BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Morningstar Ventures, Token Bay Capital, The Open Platform (TOP) and Phoenix VC. 6 of them carry the Venture fund type and 2 carry Incubation.

Is Hub71 a crypto company?

No. A source read for this article says it is "backed by the Abu Dhabi government and the emirate's sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company", and its own page describes a home for tech startups from all sectors, so Hub71 is an Abu Dhabi startup ecosystem rather than 1 of the 69 crypto companies counted here.

Where can I find the people at UAE crypto companies and their contact channels?

Open the company's NAUT page: across the 69 UAE rows NAUT's data shows 9 named team members at 6 companies, 7 of them with their own person page, such as Dr. Vin Menon at MindWaveDAO and Oleg Boytsov at Artyfact. A call like GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/mindwavedao returns 1 company with its team, and verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial to reveal the channels.

Which UAE crypto companies work in gaming?

Gaming is the largest sector tag in this cut, on 10 of the 69 companies as of 4 November 2026, including Artyfact, Radio Caca, LandRocker, Project SEED, Dragonz Land and Alaska Gold Rush. Infrastructure follows with 6 companies and AI with 5.

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