What is NAUT: the crypto directory of 14,275 people

NAUT is a crypto directory of 14,275 people, 6,808 companies, 3,413 investors and 862 service firms, and a free account with no card reads all 4 of those directories in full. The direct Telegram, email and LinkedIn on a person cost 10 credits to unlock, the same price on Essential, Pro and Team, with unlocks included on Enterprise, and the contact stays yours once you have it.

Data note

The tab counts on this page were read on 24 October 2026 from NAUT's own public API, the one the tabs themselves call, so they match what the product showed at that reading. Prices, plan limits, the rollover ceiling and the credit mechanics come from naut.so/pricing read the same day, cross-checked against the tier definitions the application runs on. Contact coverage and the per-fund round counts were measured read-only against the production database, which is a different base and is named wherever it is used. What a signed-out visitor sees was checked by loading each tab with no session, and by running a search and a filter from that same signed-out state.

NAUT's own marketing headline reads "13,100+ verified people" and "7,300+ crypto projects". Those are hand-set figures that are not refreshed with the data, which is why this page quotes the live API totals instead. Counts move daily as rows are added, so treat them as a reading of 24 October 2026 rather than a fixed number. Written by NAUT Research.

What is in the NAUT crypto directory?

4 entity directories, 4 feeds, an events directory and 3 personal tabs. The directories are the product proper: companies, investors, people and the firms you can hire. The feeds sit on top of them and say what moved.

People is the largest list by a wide margin, and that ordering is the point of the product: the companies and the rounds exist to get you to a named person. The Fundraises tab holds all 8,649 rounds but opens on the last 90 days, so the default view is the 193 from that window.

Which tabs does the crypto directory have?

12 destinations down the left rail: 3 groups, with Events standing on its own between 2 of them.

The directories run together at the top: Pulse first, then Companies, Investors, People and Services. A company page carries its sectors, its chains, its funding history and its team, so Tether, Polygon, Uniswap, Aave and Monad each resolve to one page rather than a search result.

An investor page does the same from the other side, and ranks the funds by what they have actually done. Alliance DAO sits on 202 NAUT rounds, more than any other backer. Coinbase Ventures is on 184, AU21 Capital on 168, NGC Ventures on 152, OKX Ventures on 134 and Animoca Brands on 126, with LD Capital next on 121. That is the top of the Investors tab on 24 October 2026, counted as the distinct rounds each name appears on. Animoca is the one to notice: it is a company row that also carries an investor type, so it ranks 6th among backers while keeping its own company page.

Intelligence is one expandable row holding Catalysts, Fundraises and Articles. It was folded into a single row on 18 October 2026, which is why the rail reads shorter than the tab count suggests. Events sits below it, flat, because it is a directory of event pages rather than a feed: Devcon 8 on 3 November, Digital Asset Summit London 2026 on 10 November, Singapore Blockchain Week 2026 on 13 November and Solana Breakpoint 2026 on 15 November are all on it today.

Personal holds Concierge, Unlocked and Watchlists, and all 3 redirect a signed-out visitor to the sign-in page. They are the only 3 that redirect, but signing out holds something back on 7 of the 12. Companies, Investors, People and Services each show a guest the first 6 rows and no pager. Fundraises shows 6 rounds of the window. An event page shows 6 of its companies and 6 of its decision makers, and withholds the curated shortlist entirely. The funding card on Pulse drops from 6 rounds to 2. What is not withheld is the search itself: signed out, the search box and every filter still work and still report the real total, so filtering People down to the rows holding a Telegram answers 6,706 and shows you 6 of them. Each of these gates keys on the session rather than the plan, so a free account with no card opens the full list.

The Services tab is worth a separate look, because it is the one most people miss. 713 of its 862 firms carry a type, across 24 of them, and Influencers alone is 397, 46% of the tab. Research is 67, Media and PR 57, Audit and security 42, Compliance and KYC 36 and Market making 25. A firm can also appear here while living under Companies: Certik is a company row that lists under Audit and security, and Chainalysis under Compliance and KYC. Auros, a service firm proper, sits under Market making.

What is free on NAUT, and what costs credits?

Search and reading are free with an account that needs no card. The direct contact is the paid part.

A free account carries 0 credits a month, so the free plan is a reading plan. The trial is the way to spend without paying: 7 days on Essential or Pro monthly, with your card on file and the first charge on day 7. A trial carries 20% of the plan's monthly credits, so 600 on Essential and 1,200 on Pro, which is 60 and 120 unlocks. The paid plans themselves are $49 a month for 3,000 credits on Essential, $99 for 6,000 on Pro and $249 for 15,000 on Team.

Checked against the production database the same day, 11,205 of the 14,303 live people rows hold at least one direct channel, which is 78%. A Telegram handle is on 6,710 of them and a LinkedIn URL on 8,953. NAUT sells a verified Telegram as the product, and its pricing page states the standard those channels are held to: "Every Telegram, email and LinkedIn is checked before it enters the directory, and you only spend credits once a contact is confirmed."

How much does one unlock cost, and do credits roll over?

One unlock costs 10 credits. That price is the same on Essential, Pro and Team, and on Enterprise an unlock spends nothing at all. So $49 a month buys 300 unlocks, $99 buys 600 and $249 buys 1,500. Unlocks are not the only thing credits buy: an Ask NAUT answer past your allowance costs 5 credits, and a Deep answer 25.

Unused credits roll over, with a ceiling of exactly 2x your monthly allowance on a monthly plan.

The ceiling is applied at the monthly refresh, on the balance you are holding when it runs. A Pro account sitting on 12,000 credits is already at its ceiling, so that month's 6,000 are dropped rather than stacked, and a monthly refresh can never take that balance past 12,000. The practical reading: a quiet month is forgiven, 2 quiet months in a row are not.

An annual plan works differently, and the ceiling in that table does not apply to it. It front-loads the first 3 months at purchase, 9,000 credits on Essential, 18,000 on Pro and 45,000 on Team, then drips the monthly allowance through the rest of the year. Neither the upfront grant nor any of those drips is clipped, so an annual Pro buyer holds 18,000 credits on day one, 6,000 above the monthly plan's ceiling.

What a BD team gets from the crypto directory

• The round tells you who just has budget. Fundraises holds 8,649 rounds, 193 of them in the last 90 days, each with the funds that backed it.
• The company page tells you who to ask for, because the team sits on it.
• The unlock tells you where to send the message, at 10 credits a person.
• Events tells you who is in the room next: 11 conference pages, 4 of them still ahead, starting with Devcon 8 on 3 November.

What a founder gets from NAUT

• 3,413 entries on the Investors tab, each showing the rounds that backer has actually been on, so a shortlist is built from behaviour rather than a website. Most are funds with their own investor page; about 436 are angels, who open on their person page instead.
• A partner you can name: Olaf Carlson-Wee is on NAUT as the founder of Polychain Capital, and their page carries the channels NAUT holds for them, LinkedIn in their case.
• 862 service firms when the need is a market maker, an auditor or a compliance vendor, with 25 market makers and 42 audit firms among them.
• Watchlists, so a fund you pitched in March surfaces on your feed the next time it moves.

How to reach the decision makers

Open the person's page, press Unlock, and 10 credits returns the channels NAUT holds for them. Everything you have ever unlocked stays on the Unlocked tab and exports to CSV on any paid plan, up to 1,000 contacts a day on Essential, 10,000 on Pro and uncapped on Team. When NAUT does not hold the person, Concierge is the door: name them, and the research desk comes back with an answer inside 5 business days on Essential, 3 on Pro and 1 on Team. A confirmed "no public Telegram" counts as an answer. The allowance is 30 lookups a month on Essential, 70 on Pro and 300 on Team.

Crypto directory FAQ

What is NAUT?

NAUT is a crypto contact database and directory at naut.so, holding 14,275 people, 6,808 companies, 3,413 investors and 862 service firms as of 24 October 2026. A free account with no card reads every list; the direct Telegram, email and LinkedIn on a person are revealed by an unlock costing 10 credits. NAUT states that each channel is checked before it enters the directory.

How much does a NAUT unlock cost?

10 credits, and the price is identical on Essential at $49 a month, Pro at $99 and Team at $249. Enterprise accounts unlock without spending credits. Every unlock is permanent, so you never pay for the same person twice.

Is the crypto directory free to search?

Yes, and the search itself needs no account at all. Signed out on 24 October 2026, the search box and every filter work and report the real total, but the list shows only the first 6 rows and no pager. A free account, which needs no card, opens the full list, company and project profiles, and a public person profile showing name, role, company and X handle. The first 3 funding rounds on a company are free too, with full history on a paid plan.

Do NAUT credits roll over?

Yes, up to 2x your monthly allowance: 6,000 on Essential, 12,000 on Pro and 30,000 on Team, with no ceiling on Enterprise. That ceiling applies to the monthly refresh on a monthly plan, and anything above it is dropped when the refresh runs. An annual plan is exempt, so its 3 months upfront and every monthly drip after it land in full, and an annual Pro buyer holds 18,000 credits on day one.

How many people are in the NAUT crypto directory?

14,275 on 24 October 2026, which is the total the People tab reports. Measured separately against NAUT's production database, 11,205 of its 14,303 live people rows hold at least one direct channel, which is 78%. A Telegram handle is stored for 6,710 people and a LinkedIn URL for 8,953.

Sources

• naut.so public API, read 24 October 2026: the People, Companies, Investors, Services, Fundraises, Events and Articles endpoints the tabs themselves call.
• naut.so/pricing, read 24 October 2026: plan prices, credits a month, the rollover ceiling, the free plan's contents and the unlock price.
• NAUT production database, read-only, 24 October 2026: contact channel coverage and the per-fund round counts.
• The application NAUT runs in production, 24 October 2026: the tier and credit definitions, the trial grant, the rollover and annual drip behaviour, the Ask allowances and the row each tab shows a signed-out visitor.
• naut.so loaded with no session, 24 October 2026: the 6-row guest previews, the 3 redirects and the event page gate.