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Biggest crypto influencers: 12 ranked, 6 of 8 counts held

By NAUT Research · · 6 min read

12 Crypto influencers ranked by the X follower count NAUT stored for each of them on 30 May 2026. Logos: Vitalik Buterin (vitalik.eth), H.E. Justin Sun 孙宇晨, Mario Nawfal, Marc Andreessen, Alex Becker, Brad Garlinghouse, hayden.eth, ZachXBT, Charlie Lee, cdixon.eth, beeple, Barry Silbert.

The biggest crypto influencers on X that NAUT can point you to are 12 people, led by Vitalik Buterin (vitalik.eth) at 6,629,470 followers and ending at Barry Silbert with 803,195, a combined 25,825,829 followers. NAUT tracks 398 influencer rows, 397 of them live and 301 carrying a follower count read on 30 May 2026, and this ranking is the 12 highest of those rows that both link to a live NAUT people page and carry a crypto or Web3 company on their own record.

How this crypto influencer list was built: NAUT's Influencer table was read on 11 November 2026, and every follower count in it was stored on 30 May 2026, so each number here is the count as NAUT last tracked it rather than a live figure. 45 of the 301 followered rows link to a live NAUT people page and 256 do not, which keeps 256 rows out of any list that has to link the person. The 15 highest of the 45 went through a role screen, and 3 came out because their own stored NAUT role names no crypto or Web3 company: Paul Graham and Garry Tan, both recorded at Y Combinator, and Balaji Srinivasan, recorded at Network School. That leaves the 12 below. 8 of the 12 had their stored count put to their own X account on 11 November 2026; the other 4 (Charlie Lee, @SatoshiLite; cdixon.eth, @cdixon; beeple, @beeple; and Barry Silbert, @BarrySilbert) were not read outside NAUT. Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.

Biggest crypto influencers on X: the 12 ranked by stored follower count

Ranked by the X follower count stored on each person's NAUT Influencer row, read on 30 May 2026, largest first. Each role is the one on that person's stored NAUT record unless the cell says otherwise.

Rank Person Role Followers
1 Co-founder at Ethereum 6,629,470
2 Founder at Tron 4,040,353
3 Founding Director at Humanity 3,539,983
4 Co-Founder at a16z Frontier 3,233,744
5 Strategic Advisor at Inspect, per his NAUT page 1,345,620
6 CEO at Ripple 1,305,484
7 Founder and CEO at Uniswap 1,050,779
8 Advisor at 1,033,244
9 Creator and Director at Litecoin 1,020,290
10 General Partner at a16z Frontier 917,924
11 Advisor at Render 905,743
12 Founder / CEO at Digital Currency Group 803,195

a16z Frontier is the firm NAUT records a16z crypto under, and cdixon.eth's own record names him as the founder of a16z crypto. The top 3 hold 14,209,806 of the 25,825,829 followers on this list, or 55.0%. 8 of the 12 sit between 803,195 and 1,345,620, so the spread across the bottom 8 of this list is under 1.7x.

How big is each of the top crypto influencers on X?

X followers as NAUT last stored them, 30 May 2026
  1. Vitalik Buterin6.63M
  2. Justin Sun4.04M
  3. Mario Nawfal3.54M
  4. Marc Andreessen3.23M
  5. Alex Becker1.35M
  6. Brad Garlinghouse1.31M
  7. hayden.eth1.05M
  8. ZachXBT1.03M
  9. Charlie Lee1.02M
  10. cdixon.eth0.92M
  11. beeple0.91M
  12. Barry Silbert0.80M

Each bar is the stored count rounded to 2 decimal places in millions, so 6.63 is Vitalik Buterin's 6,629,470 and 0.80 is Barry Silbert's 803,195.

Did the biggest crypto influencers' follower counts hold on 11 November 2026?

6 of the 8 counts put to the person's own X account on 11 November 2026 came back close enough to confirm NAUT's stored figure, and 2 came back contradicting it. The 6 that held are in the table; the 2 that did not are named with no count, because the only figure NAUT has for them is the one the check disagreed with. Every stored count in the table below was stored on 30 May 2026 and every re-read was taken on 11 November 2026. The second source read alongside each X account is listed in Sources.

Person Stored count Re-read 11 Nov
6,629,470 7,924,436, confirmed
4,040,353 4,309,374, confirmed
3,539,983 3,981,557, confirmed
3,233,744 Contradicted, left out
1,345,620 1,325,162, confirmed
1,305,484 1,302,648, confirmed
1,050,779 Contradicted, left out
1,033,244 1,117,963, confirmed

4 of the 6 confirmed counts came back above the stored figure and 2 came back below it. The largest move up is Vitalik Buterin, 7,924,436 against 6,629,470, which is 19.5% in 5.5 months. The smallest is Brad Garlinghouse at 1,302,648 against 1,305,484, a difference of 2,836. The practical reading for a deal maker: a snapshot this old is still right about who the big accounts are, and it is 1 re-check away from being right about how big.

What the biggest crypto influencers list gives a BD team

  • The title is the opening, ahead of the reach figure. 11 of the 12 hold a founder, creator, partner or advisor title at a named company on NAUT's record; Brad Garlinghouse, CEO at Ripple, is the 1 exception.
  • 4 of the 12 sit at a protocol a BD team can sell into or build on: Ethereum, Tron, Ripple and Uniswap, through Vitalik Buterin, Justin Sun, Brad Garlinghouse and hayden.eth.
  • 4 of the 12 sit at an investment firm on NAUT's record, which is the route for a founder raising: Marc Andreessen and cdixon.eth at a16z Frontier, Barry Silbert at Digital Currency Group and ZachXBT at Paradigm.
  • 256 of the 301 followered rows carry no linked contact record on NAUT, so a list built from the raw follower order hands you names with no page to open. Start from the 45 that link.
How a BD team can work this list
  1. Pick the company before the follower count4 of the 12 sit at Ethereum, Tron, Ripple or Uniswap, through Vitalik Buterin (vitalik.eth), H.E. Justin Sun 孙宇晨, Brad Garlinghouse and hayden.eth.
  2. Open the NAUT pageEach of the 12 names above links to a people page that shows the current role and which channels NAUT holds on file.
  3. Re-check the account before you write6 of 8 stored counts held on 11 November 2026 and 2 did not, so confirm the handle is live the day you send.
  4. Route through the firm's team4 of the 12 are at a16z Frontier, Digital Currency Group or Paradigm, where the deal is done by the firm's people.

How to reach the biggest crypto influencers on X through NAUT

Each of the 12 names in the table links to its NAUT people page, and that page states the current role, the X handle NAUT holds and which channels are on file for that person. 8 of the 12 had the X handle NAUT stores read on 11 November 2026, so those 8 are the ones to try first. Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.

Related reading on NAUT: Crypto contact data accuracy: 86 of 100 X handles, 0 suspended and What is NAUT: the crypto directory of 14,275 people.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

You can pull the people in this ranking by name or handle with a search call such as GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=zachxbt, sending Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY, at 5 credits a call, and each person record carries jobTitle, twitterHandle, company and the flags hasEmail, hasPhone, hasTelegram and hasLinkedin. A follower count is not one of the documented fields, so the 12 counts above come from NAUT's own data rather than from an API field; to open a person's channels, call GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people/{id}?include=private, which costs 10 credits the first time for that person and 5 after that, and the plans are at naut.so/pricing with the parameters at naut.so/docs/api. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial if you want the channels as well as the names.

Biggest crypto influencers FAQ

Who are the biggest crypto influencers on X?

On NAUT's record, the 12 biggest crypto influencers on X by stored follower count are Vitalik Buterin (6,629,470), H.E. Justin Sun (4,040,353), Mario Nawfal (3,539,983), Marc Andreessen (3,233,744), Alex Becker (1,345,620), Brad Garlinghouse (1,305,484), hayden.eth (1,050,779), ZachXBT (1,033,244), Charlie Lee (1,020,290), cdixon.eth (917,924), beeple (905,743) and Barry Silbert (803,195). Every count was stored on 30 May 2026 and the rows were read on 11 November 2026.

How current are these follower counts?

All 301 follower counts in NAUT's Influencer table carry the same check date, 30 May 2026, so they are 1 snapshot and not a live feed. 8 of the 12 people here had that stored count put to their own X account on 11 November 2026, and 6 of the 8 came back confirming it.

Where can I find these 12 crypto influencers and their contact channels?

All 12 have a NAUT people page linked from the table above, which shows the current role, the X handle and which channels NAUT holds for that person, and the same records come through GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=<name or handle> at 5 credits a call. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial to open them.

Which large crypto accounts are not in this ranking?

256 of the 301 followered influencer rows on NAUT carry no linked contact record, so they have no NAUT people page and cannot appear in a list that links every name, and 3 more of the 15 highest routed rows came out on the role screen. The ranking is therefore the 12 highest rows NAUT can both link and tie to a crypto or Web3 company.

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