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Crypto contact database: 6 tools, 50 founders, 44 X handles

By NAUT Research · · 8 min read

50 Crypto contact database founders and CEOs tested on 6 tools, 44 with an X handle on NAUT. Logos: Bitfinex, ZeroStack, World Liberty Financial, Flow, Jeeves, NEAR Protocol, Immutable X, Avalanche, World, ZkSync, Polygon, Yuga Labs.

A crypto contact database earns its price when it hands you the person, the title and a channel you can message today. NAUT tracks the 50 crypto founders, co-founders and CEOs tested here across 21 companies, and on 30 October 2026 all 50 had a live person page and a live company page on naut.so: 44 of the 50 carried an X handle, 23 a LinkedIn URL, 18 a Telegram presence and 1 an email on file.

NAUT published and ran this test, and NAUT sells 1 of the 6 tools compared, so read it as the house view with the working shown. The criteria and the 50-person sample were registered on 30 October 2026 before any tool was scored, every rival fact below comes from that tool's own page on the day it was read, and anything behind a login or a paid account is marked not tested. A page that returned nothing readable is reported as what happened to NAUT's fetch, never scored as a zero. Retest date: 30 November 2026.

How the sample was built: on 30 October 2026 NAUT queried its own database for current roles whose title reads founder, co-founder, CEO, business development, general partner, managing partner or investor at a live, published company, found a pool of 150 and kept the top 50 by their company's NAUT-tracked raise. Those 50 rows sit against 21 companies and are 49 distinct names, because NAUT lists Shaul Kfir under 2 rows at Canton Network; both rows stay in the counts and both are linked in the table below. 49 of the 50 are project-side founders, co-founders or CEOs and 1 is investor-side, Jean-Louis van der Velde, CEO at Bitfinex, because ranking by raise pulls the sample toward well-funded project teams, so crypto investor contacts make up 1 row of the 50. NAUT reports a count per channel here and never the handle, the address or the URL behind a row.

The single email on file matches the wider database: 722 of 15,267 published NAUT contact records carry an email, about 4.7%, read on 30 October 2026. Email is the thinnest channel NAUT holds, and this test reports it as measured.

What did this crypto contact database test measure?

4 criteria, fixed on 30 October 2026 before a page was opened, each 1 step a BD lead takes before sending a first message:

  1. Can a reader with no account open a page for a named person in this sample?
  2. Which contact channels does the tool name on a person record, on its own page?
  3. What does its own page say it charges for that data?
  4. What does its own page claim about depth on crypto-native decision makers?

Ranked by how much of the sample each tool could be scored on, the 6 crypto bd tools in this test came out like this. The person-page column asks whether a reader with no account could open a page for a named person in this sample, the channels column is what each tool's own page names on a person record, and the price column is what its own page said it charges on the day it was read. NAUT was scored on the 50 rows. Apollo.io and LinkedIn Sales Navigator were scored on their own dated pages only, and no lookup of these 50 named people was run on either; DropsTab was fetched and not tested on a person; RootData and CryptoRank had no readable page.

Tool Person page Channels Price
NAUT 50 of 50 rows X, Telegram, LinkedIn, email from $49 a month
Apollo.io not tested emails, mobiles, direct dials not tested
Sales Navigator not tested InMail not tested
DropsTab not tested not tested not tested
RootData not tested not tested not tested
CryptoRank not tested not tested not tested

Apollo.io is the rival with the most to quote. Its pricing page, read on 30 October 2026, says "Access 240M contacts & 30M companies", and its product data page lists the fields "Emails, Mobile numbers, Direct dials, Firmographics, Job changes, Intent signals". Telegram and X do not appear in that field list. No Apollo.io lookup of these 50 named people was run, so every row-level cell for it stays not tested.

LinkedIn Sales Navigator's compare-plans page, updated 27 September 2026, sets the outreach allowance as "50 InMails per month". The plan text read that day names no email, Telegram or X field on a person record, and its per-seat prices did not clear this test's source check, so its price cell stays not tested as well.

3 tools could not be scored on a person at all, and each is named once here. DropsTab's homepage loaded for NAUT's fetch on 30 October 2026, which is why it stands in this test for the 2 blocked crypto trackers. No lookup of these 50 people was run on it, so it stays not tested. rootdata.com answered the same fetch with a 200 and a 1,463-byte script shell holding no readable pricing or team text, the result NAUT also got on 26 and 27 October 2026. cryptorank.io returned HTTP 403 to NAUT's fetch on 30 October 2026, on its homepage and on its pricing page.

Which crypto contact database shows the person, the title and the channel?

NAUT was the 1 tool of the 6 that this test ran on a named person, and it opened a page with no account for 50 of 50 rows: each has a live person page and a live company page on naut.so, carrying the title as NAUT holds it. The other 5 tools were not tested on a person lookup. 45 of the 50 carry at least 1 contact channel, and 1 row, at Polygon, carries all 4.

5 rows carry no channel yet: Jean-Louis van der Velde at Bitfinex, Alexandr Vlasov at ZkSync, Nikolai Durov at TON, Saeed Badreg, now CEO at Sunrise (the sample row read Wormhole), and the second of the 2 Canton Network rows for Shaul Kfir. That is NAUT's own gap, stated here because the test was registered before it was scored.

All 50 rows, with the title and the company NAUT holds for each and the channels on file on 30 October 2026.

Person Title, company Channels
CEO, none on file
CEO, LinkedIn
Co-Founder, X
Co-founder Dapper Labs, X
Product Co-Founder, X, Telegram
Co-founder Dapper Labs, X, Telegram
Founder and CEO, X, LinkedIn
Co-founder, X, Telegram, LinkedIn
Co-founder, CEO NEAR Foundation, X, Telegram, LinkedIn
Co-founder, X, Telegram, LinkedIn
Co-founder, X, Telegram, LinkedIn
Co-founder Ava Labs, X
Co-founder, X
Co-founder, CEO, X, LinkedIn
Co-founder, X
Co-Founder and Head of R&D, Matter Labs, none on file
Co-founder, X, Telegram, LinkedIn
Founder, X, Telegram
Founder & CEO, X, Telegram, LinkedIn, email
Founder, X
Co-Founder, X
Co-founder , Chairman, X
CEO, X
Co-founder, , X
Founder, none on file
Co-founder & Developer, Core X
CEO, Sunrise (sample row read: CEO, ) none on file
CEO, Sunrise (sample row read: CEO & Founder, ) X, LinkedIn
CEO, SCRT Labs, X, Telegram
Investor / Builder, X, Telegram, LinkedIn
Co-Founder, Digital Asset, none on file
Co-Founder, Digital Asset, X, Telegram
Co-Founder, X, Telegram, LinkedIn
CEO, X, Telegram, LinkedIn
Founder and CEO (Nova Labs), X, Telegram
Co-founder, X
CEO, / Nova Labs X
Founder, X, Telegram, LinkedIn
Co-Founder & Principal Engineer, Labs X
Co-founder, CEO, X, Telegram
Co-founder, COO, X, LinkedIn
Founder, X
Co-founder, X, LinkedIn
Founder, X, LinkedIn
Co-founder & CEO, X, LinkedIn
Co-founder, Mysten Labs, X, LinkedIn
Co-founder/CTO, X, LinkedIn
CEO, Mysten Labs / Co-founder, X, LinkedIn
Co-founder, Mysten Labs, X, LinkedIn
Co-founder, Mysten Labs, X, Telegram, LinkedIn

3 of those rows need a note. ZeroStack, where Daniel Reis-Faria is CEO, describes itself on its own site as an AI-focused asset management company and lists digital assets among the categories it invests in. The 2 Badreg rows are shown with their current title: NAUT's live person page for Shadddowfax Badreg reads sunrise_defi as the current company, with Wormhole named as prior experience, and Solana's Breakpoint lineup lists Saeed Badreg at Sunrise. The database rows read for this test still placed both at Wormhole, and the 2 rows may be 1 person. NAUT keeps both in the counts because the test was registered on the database as read on 30 October 2026, and both stay counted under Wormhole in the company figures; the 49 distinct names would be 48 if the 2 merge.

Anyone listed here can ask for their NAUT profile to be removed at naut.so/legal/data-deletion.

Which contact channels does NAUT hold for these 50 people?

Per channel, counted from the 50 rows on 30 October 2026, with the share of the sample each count works out to.

Channel On file for Share What it opens
X handle 44 of 50 88% a public reply or a DM
LinkedIn URL 23 of 50 46% a connect request or InMail
Telegram 18 of 50 36% a direct chat
Email 1 of 50 2% a direct inbox
At least 1 of the 4 45 of 50 90% a first message today
All 4 1 of 50 2% a choice of channel

Every 1 of the 18 Telegram rows also carries an X handle, so Telegram adds a second route to a person you could already reach on X.

How many of the 50 does each company account for?

Sampled people with at least 1 contact channel on NAUT, by company
  1. Solana7
  2. Sui5
  3. Canton Network4
  4. Flow3
  5. World3
  6. Polygon3
  7. Yuga Labs3
  8. Helium3
  9. NEAR Protocol2
  10. Avalanche2
  11. ApeCoin2

Ranked by the number of sampled people with at least 1 channel on file, each person counted once under the company NAUT's record assigns, Solana leads with 7 of its rows and Sui follows with 5. The other 8 companies in the sample each account for 1, and the 2 remaining, ZkSync and Bitfinex, account for none.

What this means for a crypto BD team

  • Build the list on the channel you can actually send on. 44 of these 50 rows carry an X handle and 18 carry Telegram, so an X-first sequence reaches 44 people and an email-first sequence reaches 1.
  • Crypto founder contact data is worth more when the company sits on the same record. All 50 rows here link to the company page, so you know which entity you are writing about before you write.
  • 11 companies account for 37 of the 45 reachable rows, so 11 account pages cover most of the list.
  • 5 rows carry no channel yet, so budget for a route NAUT does not hold, or pick a colleague at the same company.
How a BD team can work these 50 rows
  1. Start at the company11 companies hold 2 or more reachable rows, from Solana with 7 to ApeCoin with 2.
  2. Pick the personEach company page lists its team with the title NAUT holds, so you write to the founder or the CEO by name.
  3. Send on X first44 of the 50 carry an X handle, against 18 on Telegram and 1 on email.
  4. Keep a second route18 rows carry both X and Telegram, so a quiet thread has a backup.

What this means for a founder raising

  • The same 50 rows are the comparison set an investor or a partner looks you up in, so a thin page is a thin first impression.
  • 49 of the 50 rows here are project-side, so a founder reading this is looking at peers, and only 1 row is investor-side.
  • 23 of 50 carry a LinkedIn URL, so a LinkedIn profile is on file for close to half of your peers here.
  • Your own page is a reachable page when it carries at least 1 channel, which 45 of these 50 do.
How a founder can use this test
  1. Check your own rowAll 50 people here have a live NAUT person page, so look yours up and read what it shows.
  2. Count your channels45 of the 50 carry at least 1 channel, 29 carry 2 or more and 1 carries all 4, so 3 channels puts you ahead of 39 of the 50.
  3. Name the companyEvery row links to its company page, which is where a backer checks your raise history.

How to reach these 50 decision makers

Work down the channels in the order the data supports: X for the 44, Telegram for the 18 who also run it, LinkedIn for the 23, email for the 1. Each person's NAUT page holds the channels NAUT has on file for that row, and each company page holds the rest of the team, which is the route for the 5 rows with nothing on file yet.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes. The person records behind this test are served by GET /v1/people on the NAUT API, which returns jobTitle, twitterHandle, company and the flags hasEmail, hasPhone, hasTelegram and hasLinkedin, so you can count channel coverage the way this page does. A data or search call costs 5 credits, and revealing a person's private channels through /v1/people/{id}?include=private costs 10 credits the first time as a permanent unlock, then 5. Keys are minted at naut.so/developer, the endpoints are documented at naut.so/docs/api, and plans start at $49 a month for 3,000 credits on naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for the people on NAUT unlock on any paid plan: start a 7-day trial.

A query that returns founder rows like these is GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=co-founder&contactType=team&limit=50, and 1 named row from this test comes back from GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=sandeep%20nailwal, each sent with the header Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY.

Crypto contact database FAQ

What is the best database for crypto contacts?

In this test of 6 tools on 50 crypto founders and CEOs, run on 30 October 2026, NAUT opened a page for a named person in the sample with no account for 50 of 50 rows. NAUT was the 1 tool of the 6 this test ran on a person lookup: Apollo.io and LinkedIn Sales Navigator were read on their own dated pages and not tested on these 50 people, and RootData, CryptoRank and DropsTab were not scored on a person.

Which contact channels does NAUT hold for these 50 crypto founders?

Of the 50 rows read on 30 October 2026, 44 carry an X handle, 23 a LinkedIn URL, 18 a Telegram presence and 1 an email on file, and 45 of the 50 carry at least 1 of the 4. Sandeep Nailwal at Polygon is the only row in the sample with all 4 channels on file.

Where can I find these 50 crypto decision makers and their contact channels?

Every 1 of the 50 people in this test has a live person page on naut.so and a live page for the company they sit against, 21 companies in total, and each person page shows the channels NAUT holds for that row. The same records come back from GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people on the NAUT API at 5 credits a call, with private channels unlocked through ?include=private.

Why are RootData and CryptoRank marked not tested?

On 30 October 2026 rootdata.com answered NAUT's unauthenticated fetch with a 200 and a 1,463-byte script shell holding no readable pricing or team text, and cryptorank.io returned HTTP 403 on its homepage and its pricing page. Neither could be scored on its own words, so both are named as not tested and neither is scored as a zero, and DropsTab was fetched in their place.

When will this crypto contact database test be retested?

The retest date registered with the criteria on 30 October 2026 is 30 November 2026, when the same 50 rows and the same 6 tools are read again and the counts are republished.

Sources

  • Apollo.io pricing page, read on 30 October 2026: apollo.io/pricing, for the "Access 240M contacts & 30M companies" line.
  • Apollo.io product data page, read on 30 October 2026: apollo.io/product/data, for the field list quoted above.
  • LinkedIn Sales Navigator compare-plans page, updated 27 September 2026 and read on 30 October 2026: business.linkedin.com/sales-solutions/compare-plans, for the "50 InMails per month" allowance.
  • DropsTab homepage, fetched on 30 October 2026: dropstab.com.
  • Pages marked not tested, each fetched without a login on 30 October 2026: rootdata.com, a 200 with an empty script shell, and cryptorank.io/pricing, HTTP 403.
  • ZeroStack's own site, read on 31 October 2026: zerostack.ai, for its self-description as an AI-focused asset management company and for the digital assets among the categories it invests in.
  • NAUT's live person page for Shadddowfax Badreg, read on 31 October 2026: naut.so/people/shadddowfax-badreg, for the current company that page shows against the database row read for this test.
  • Solana's Breakpoint lineup, read on 31 October 2026: solana.com/news/breakpoint-london-lineup, for Saeed Badreg's current company, Sunrise.
  • NAUT API parameters, credits and plan prices: naut.so/docs/api and naut.so/pricing, read on 31 October 2026.
  • NAUT figures are read from the NAUT database on 30 October 2026 and recomputed from the 50 rows, each company counted once. Every person and company named above links to the page the figure came from.