NAUT tracks 54 organisations at Devcon 8, the Ethereum developer conference held 3 to 6 November 2026 at the Jio World Centre in Mumbai, and a badge scan follow-up run against that roster on 7 November 2026 leaves 8 of them callable on the first working day after the event. 37 of the 54 have a named decision maker on NAUT, 32 of those also have a Telegram handle, an email address or a LinkedIn profile on file, and 8 clear a third filter of at least 1 funding round on NAUT's record.
A stack of badge scans is a list of logos. The crypto BD playbook below turns it into 3 queues of different cost in 4 steps: 8 teams worth a call this week, 29 that need 1 lookup first, and 17 that need a name before any message is worth sending.
Data note
- Read from NAUT's database on 7 November 2026. The roster is the Devcon 8 organiser, the supporter and impact-hub logos, the employers of confirmed speakers and the community partners from devcon.org, captured 9 October 2026 and re-read live on 7 November 2026. Devcon adds speakers weekly, so this is a source-backed snapshot of the attending organisations, never a complete attendee list.
- The 54 are Devcon 8 attendees at organisation level, meaning the companies NAUT could resolve from the event's own pages, each re-read against NAUT's database on 7 November 2026.
- By category the 54 split into 27 supporters, 20 speaker employers, 5 community partners, 1 organiser and 1 impact hub. 0 of the 54 rows are archived or merged on NAUT.
- A decision maker here is a contact row whose stored job title reads as a decision-making seat (Chief, Head, Founder, Director, Lead, VP and the like), matched on the title text. A reachable channel means NAUT holds a Telegram handle, an email address or a LinkedIn URL for at least 1 person at that organisation. No contact value was read or copied for this article.
- 6 claims went to outside sources: the event's dates and venue, and the funding record NAUT holds for 5 of the 54 organisations. 1 came back confirmed with its quote found on the page, the event claim. 3 came back contradicted on the exact day of the round, and 2 were not found, which is why the money column below gives a month instead of a date. The other 49 organisations had no outside check at all, so every count in this article is NAUT's own record as read on 7 November 2026.
- NAUT's row for Aztec Network holds 14 separate investment records, high against every other funded team at this event, which show between 1 and 7. That round count looks like 2 or more records against 1 round, so this article names the row and leaves its funding total out until the records are checked.
What does a badge scan follow-up look like in 4 steps?
Sort the scans by what you already know about each one, then spend your week on the queue that needs no research. On this roster that is 8 of 54.
Step 1: split the scan into 3 tiers before you write anything
Run every company from the badge list against 3 fields on its NAUT page: is a decision maker named, does NAUT hold a channel for that person, and does the company have a funding round on record. Tier 1 is all 3 and gets a call. Tier 2 is 1 field short and gets 1 lookup. Tier 3 has no name on file and gets a search before it gets a message. The 54 Devcon 8 rows split 8, 29 and 17.
Step 2: call the 8 that clear all 3 filters
These 8 carry 60 named decision makers between them, from 13 at Polygon down to 2 each at CoW Protocol and Aztec Network. Every one has a reachable channel and a funding round on NAUT's record, so the research is done and the only question left is which seat to write to. Pick 1 name per company: the same note landing with 4 people at 1 team is visible to all 4.
Step 3: spend 1 lookup each on the 29 that are 1 field short
The 29 split into 2 jobs. 5 of them have a named decision maker and no Telegram, email or LinkedIn on file, so the missing piece is a channel. The other 24 have both a name and a channel and no funding round on NAUT's record, which makes them reachable today and unqualified on money: Base, with 11 named decision makers, and the Ethereum Foundation, with 8, both sit here. A team with no round on file can still be the right call, so read the company's own page before you treat a blank funding field as a no.
Step 4: send the 17 with no name on file to a lookup, not to a mailbox
17 of the 54 have no decision-maker title on NAUT at all, Arkiv and Swarm among them. A generic address is the lowest-yield route out of a conference, so these go to a name search first: the company's own site, its X account, or a NAUT search by title. 1 of the 17 has funding on record, Swarm, with 4 rounds and $21,933,953 on NAUT, which makes it the one row in this tier worth the lookup before the others.
- Split the list3 fields on each NAUT page give 8 call-today teams, 29 one lookup short and 17 with no name.
- Call the 860 named decision makers across the 8, from 13 at Polygon to 2 at CoW Protocol.
- Fix the 295 need a channel, 24 need a funding read before they are qualified.
- Name the 17No decision-maker title on file, so search the name first; Swarm's 4 rounds make it first in line.
Which Devcon 8 teams can you call today?
The 8 organisations below clear all 3 filters on NAUT's 7 November 2026 read, ranked by the Seats column, which counts the named decision makers NAUT holds for each. The funding column is NAUT's own record of rounds and totals, given to the month.
| Team | Seats | Senior seat | NAUT funding |
|---|---|---|---|
 Polygon |
13 | Head of BD | 4 rounds, $455,610,000, last February 2022 |
 Circle |
12 | Chief People Officer | 1 round, $100,000,000, September 2026 |
 Monad |
12 | Lead AI Engineer | 7 rounds, $619,030,000, last November 2025 |
 Ethereum |
7 | Chief Growth Officer | 1 round, $18,300,000, July 2014 |
 Fluid |
6 | Head of Marketing | 4 rounds, $24,500,000, last July 2026 |
 Gnosis |
6 | Head of Product | 1 round, $12,500,000, April 2017 |
 CoW Protocol |
2 | Co-Founder and CEO | 1 round, $23,000,000, March 2022 |
 Aztec Network |
2 | Head of Product and Co-Founder | 14 records on file, total held back, see the data note |
The 7 teams with a funding total this article prints account for $1,252,940,000 on NAUT's record. Each team's own NAUT page carries the names behind the seat in the table, and each person page says which channels NAUT holds. Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.
Who at each Devcon 8 team has the most senior seats on file?
NAUT holds between 2 and 13 decision makers at each of the 10 Devcon 8 organisations charted below, which includes 2 teams from the 29-row middle tier. A deep bench is a routing problem rather than a bonus: more names means more ways to pick the wrong one.
Base
Ethereum FoundationBase and the Ethereum Foundation are the 2 chart rows outside the call-today 8: both have names and a channel, and neither has a funding round on NAUT's record.
Where does a badge scan follow-up stall?
It stalls at the name, not at the company. Of the 54 organisations, 17 have no decision-maker title on file and 5 more have a name with no channel beside it, so 22 of the 54 cannot be contacted from NAUT's record alone today. That is a statement about NAUT's coverage of those 22 rows, never a verdict on the team: a company with nothing on file may simply have no contact row minted yet.
Money is the looser filter here. 10 of the 54 have at least 1 funding round on NAUT's record. 8 of those 10 are the call-today list, 1 is Swarm, with no name on file, and 1 has a single named contact with no channel. The other 44 may well be funded without NAUT holding the round, so treat a blank funding field as a question for the first call.
What should a founder raising do with this list?
Read it from the other side. The 8 call-today teams include 2 investor rows, Circle and Gnosis, and the Ethereum Foundation sits in the middle tier with 8 named decision makers and a channel. A founder who scanned those badges has a warm first line and a named seat to send it to, which is the whole value of having been in the room.
- Start with the 3 investor-side rowsCircle, Gnosis and the Ethereum Foundation are all reachable on NAUT today.
- Lead with the round7 of the 8 call-today teams carry a funding record, $1,252,940,000 in total.
- Write to 1 seatPick the single most senior title on file, from Chief Growth Officer to Head of BD.
Related reading on NAUT: Devcon 8 Mumbai: 54 teams, 143 decision makers, 70 on Telegram and Crypto conference networking: 5 steps, 844 decision makers.
Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?
Yes. A team and its seats come back from GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/monad with an Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY header, and a title search across the roster comes back from GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=Head of BD&contactType=team, at 5 credits per data call, with Essential at $49 a month giving 3,000 credits. The documented endpoints and quotas are at https://naut.so/docs/api and the plans at https://naut.so/pricing. Revealing a person's verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn costs 10 credits the first time and 5 after that, and those channels unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial at https://naut.so.
Badge scan follow-up FAQ
What do I do with crypto conference contacts after an event?
Split them into 3 queues on 3 fields: a named decision maker, a channel on file for that person, and a funding round on record. Run against the 54 organisations NAUT tracks at Devcon 8 on 7 November 2026, that gives 8 teams to call this week, 29 that need 1 lookup, and 17 that need a name first.
Which Devcon 8 teams on NAUT are ready for a first call?
8 of the 54: Polygon, Circle, Monad, Ethereum, Fluid, Gnosis, CoW Protocol and Aztec Network, with 60 named decision makers between them as of 7 November 2026.
Where can I find the Devcon 8 teams and their contact channels?
On NAUT. Each of the 54 organisations has a company page listing its team and the channels held for each person, and the same records come back from GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/<slug>. The verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn behind those pages unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial at https://naut.so.
How long should a badge scan follow-up take?
The 8 call-today teams need no research, so they go out first. The 29 in the middle tier need 1 field each, a channel for 5 of them and a funding read for 24, and the 17 with no name on file need a search before anything else, which is why they come last.
Why do 17 Devcon 8 teams have no decision maker on NAUT?
NAUT holds no contact row with a decision-making title for those 17 of 54 as of 7 November 2026, Arkiv and Swarm among them. That is coverage rather than a judgement on the team, and a name found on the company's own site can be searched on NAUT to pick up the rest of the record.
Sources
- NAUT's own database, read on 7 November 2026: the 54 Devcon 8 organisations, the contact rows at each whose stored title reads as a decision-making seat, whether a Telegram handle, email address or LinkedIn URL is held for any of them, and the investment records against each company.
- Devcon 8 dates and venue: the Ethereum Foundation blog of 23 December 2025, which states "Devcon 8 will be hosted November 3-6, 2026 at the JIO World Center in Mumbai, India", with the same dates and venue on devcon.org.
- The funding record NAUT holds for 5 of the 54 organisations was put to public sources on 7 November 2026. 3 came back contradicted on the exact round date and 2 were not found, so the table gives the month and names NAUT as the source of the totals. The other 49 organisations were not put through that check.