Crypto lead list prioritization, in short: score every newly funded team on 3 things you can read off a page (how fresh the round is, whether its size fits what you sell, and how many named decision makers you can reach), then call down the ranked list. NAUT tracks 116 crypto funding rounds announced from 8 September to 7 November 2026, 60 of them at teams whose own description reads as crypto or Web3, and the 3-step score below turns those 60 into the top-10 call list in this article.
How this list was built: on 7 November 2026, NAUT's data was read for every round announced from 8 September 2026 up to that day. That is 116 rounds. 56 came out on the crypto scope gate, because a row's own description has to name crypto, blockchain, a token, a chain, a protocol or a mining or digital-asset business before it belongs on a crypto BD list, and a sector tag alone is not proof. 60 rounds survived. 1 more row was set aside as a database defect: it carries 1 company's name, domain and X handle with another company's summary, and NAUT is fixing it rather than printing it. Each of the 10 rounds in the call list was then put to public sources, and all 10 came back confirmed. 9 of the 31 people on those teams had their current title checked against their own X profile plus a second page, 8 confirmed and 1 contradicted and left out. The other 50 scoped rounds were not put through a source check, so read them as NAUT's record rather than as a checked claim.
Crypto lead list prioritization in 3 steps
The score is deliberately small. 3 inputs, 30 points, and every input is something a BD lead can see on a NAUT company page without asking anyone. It runs on a crypto BD lead list of any length, because all 3 inputs come off the company page rather than out of a call.
- Freshness decides the order of your week. A round announced 5 days ago has a budget conversation running right now.
- Round size decides whether you are the right size of vendor. A $5M to $30M team has money and no locked-in supplier list.
- Reachability decides whether the lead is a lead at all. A company with no named decision maker is a logo, not a call.
- Gate the list on crypto56 of the 116 rounds came out because their own description names no crypto product. Count after the gate, never before.
- Score 3 things, 10 points eachFreshness, a $5M to $30M round, and named decision makers with a live X handle. 14 of the 60 rounds reached 20 of 30.
- Break ties on the date13 scored rows survived the defect check, and the 10 most recent became the call list, from CRSHMARKET on 2 November back to Anvil on 6 October 2026.
- Open the person, not the company31 decision makers sit at these 10 teams, 22 of them with their own NAUT page. Call the CEO or the COO first.
Step 1: freshness, worth 10 points and gone in 10 days
Freshness here is 10 points on the day a round is announced, falling 1 point a day to 0 after 10 days. It is harsh on purpose, because a funding announcement is a window rather than a state. On the 60 scoped rounds only 6 were announced in the 10 days to 7 November 2026, so 54 of them score 0 on this input. That is the honest shape of a 2-month window read on 1 day: most of your list is already cold, and the fix is reading the feed weekly rather than scoring harder.
CRSHMARKET is the only team in the call list with freshness left, at 5 points for a round announced on 2 November 2026.
Step 2: round size, and why $5M to $30M scores highest
A round size tells you about budget and about timing. 10 points goes to a round of $5M to $30M, 6 points to $30M to $100M, 5 points to $1M up to $5M, and 3 points to anything above $100M. The logic is a vendor's logic: a team that just raised $8M is hiring and buying, while a team that raised $300M has a procurement process and incumbent suppliers already inside it.
Of the 60 scoped rounds, 36 disclosed an amount and 24 did not, which is why 24 rows score 0 here through no fault of their own. 17 of the 36 land in the $5M to $30M band. The 10 teams in the call list raised $111.7M between them, every one of them in or just under that band, from $3.5M at CRSHMARKET to $30M at Hyperbolic Labs.
Step 3: reachability, 4 points a name plus 2 for a live account
Reachability is the input most lead lists skip, and it is the one that decides whether anything gets sent. Each named decision maker on file is worth 4 points, a company X handle adds 2, and the input caps at 10. A decision maker here is a person whose stored title carries CEO, founder, co-founder, COO, CTO, CPO, chief, head of, VP, president, managing director, general partner or partner.
All 60 scoped rows have an X handle on NAUT. 56 of the 60 have at least 1 decision maker on file and 4 have none, and 35 of the 60 cap the input at 10 points. Across the 10 teams in the call list NAUT holds 31 decision makers, 22 of them with their own NAUT person page.
Which newly funded crypto teams made the top-10 call list?
Ranked by the 3-step score out of 30, top row first, with ties broken by announcement date, most recent first. All 10 scored 20 of 30. Names counts the decision makers NAUT holds for that team, the Step 3 input rather than a score, and Lead is the lead flag on NAUT's record.
| Team | Round | Raised | Names | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 CRSHMARKET |
Seed, 2 Nov 2026 | $3.5M | 3 |  6th Man Ventures |
 Luxor |
Strategic, 27 Oct 2026 | $16M | 6 |  CMT Digital |
 0xPredicate |
Series A, 27 Oct 2026 | $8M | 2 |  Blockchain Capital |
 Cancore |
Seed, 27 Oct 2026 | $7.2M | 2 | No lead flag |
 Hyperbolic Labs |
Extended Series A, 27 Oct 2026 | $30M | 4 | No lead flag |
 HoneyB |
Seed, 20 Oct 2026 | $5M | 2 |  Portal Ventures and  PEER VC |
 Multiliquid |
Seed, 15 Oct 2026 | $8M | 2 |  Polychain Capital |
 Noah |
Extended Seed, 7 Oct 2026 | $16M | 4 | No lead flag |
 Vest Exchange |
Seed, 7 Oct 2026 | $13M | 4 | Portal Ventures |
 Anvil |
OTC Purchase, 6 Oct 2026 | $5M | 2 |  Founders Fund |
14 of the 60 rounds scored 20 of 30. 1 of the 14 is the defective row set aside above, and 3 more fell below the date cut: Forward Industries on 23 September, Evernorth on 18 September and RealGo on 8 September 2026. Nothing in the window scored above 20, because the freshness input decays to 0 after 10 days and no round inside the top band was announced in the 10 days to 7 November 2026.
7 of the 10 rounds carry a lead flag on NAUT's record. For Hyperbolic Labs, NAUT records General Catalyst and Vista Equity Partners as backers with no lead flag, while the company's own blog names Walden Catalyst as the round's lead and calls the round Series A1 rather than the extended Series A that NAUT's row stores. Cancore has 6 backers on file led by nobody, MH Ventures among them, and Noah has 4, FJ Labs among them. A backer count here is NAUT's record of who joined, never the full cap table.
How much did each team on the call list raise?
All 10 disclosed an amount, which is itself a filter: 24 of the 60 scoped rounds disclosed nothing and scored 0 on size for it.
Who runs each company, and who do you call first?
CRSHMARKET, a livestream prediction market built on Monad. Raised $3.5M, announced 2 November 2026. Led by 6th Man Ventures, with Lattice and Reciprocal Ventures also on NAUT's record. 3 names on file: Evan Rama as Co-Founder and CEO, Param Patel as Co-Founder and COO, Lucas Pichette as Co-Founder and CTO.
Luxor, a full-stack Bitcoin mining and AI compute company. Raised $16M in a strategic round led by CMT Digital, announced 27 October 2026. The deepest bench in the list, with 6 decision makers on file, including Nick Hansen as CEO, a COO, a CPO and heads of hardware and software, marketing and derivatives. None of the 6 has a NAUT person page yet, so reach them through the company page and the company X account.
0xPredicate, a blockchain financial services application. Raised an $8M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, announced 27 October 2026, with 1kx, Tribe Capital and Paxos also on NAUT's record. Nikhil Raghuveera is Co-Founder and CEO, with a second co-founder row on file.
Cancore, a Canton-native liquidity layer for tokenized finance. Raised $7.2M, announced 27 October 2026, with 6 backers on NAUT's record and no lead flag. Wasif Rashid is Co-Founder and CEO, Aleksey Sdvizhkov Co-Founder and COO.
Hyperbolic Labs, an open-access AI cloud. Raised $30M, announced 27 October 2026, the largest round in the call list. Jasper Zhang is Co-Founder and CEO and Yuchen Jin Co-Founder and CTO, with heads of marketing and operations beside them.
HoneyB, an institutional yield layer for Bitcoin. Raised $5M, announced 20 October 2026, co-led by Portal Ventures and PEER VC. Josh Gordon is Co-Founder and CEO; neither of the 2 names on file has a NAUT person page yet.
Multiliquid, a stablecoin-space liquidity protocol. Raised $8M led by Polychain Capital, announced 15 October 2026, with CMT Digital, Circle Ventures and 3 more on NAUT's record. Will Beeson is Founder, with a COO beside him.
Noah, a stablecoin payment platform in the United Kingdom. Raised $16M in a seed extension, announced 7 October 2026, with FJ Labs, LocalGlobe, Endeit Capital and Felix Capital on NAUT's record. Shah Ramezani is Co-Founder and CEO, Chris Sargent CTO, plus a co-founder and a head of banking.
Vest Exchange, a multi-chain perpetual DEX for crypto, equities and forex. Raised $13M led by Portal Ventures, announced 7 October 2026. Justin Ma is CEO, with a CTO, a founder and a co-founder row beside him.
Anvil, an Ethereum DeFi protocol for collateral management and secured credit. $5M OTC token purchase led by Founders Fund, announced 6 October 2026, with Pantera Capital and 4 more on NAUT's record. Tyler Spalding is Founder. The second name on this row is left out here, because the X account it points at belongs to a differently named person, so the stored title did not survive the check.
Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.
What crypto lead list prioritization leaves out
The score ranks what NAUT holds, and a page NAUT has not filled yet scores low for that reason alone. 2 of the 10 teams in the call list have no NAUT person page against any of their names, so a reachability score of 10 can still mean a cold start. 24 of the 60 scoped rounds disclosed no amount, and an undisclosed $10M round looks the same as a dust round to this score. The 3 inputs also say nothing about fit: a mining and compute company and a stablecoin payment platform both sit near the top here, and only 1 of them is going to buy what you sell.
So prioritize crypto leads on the score and then spend the time the score saved on the text. Run it, then read the 10 descriptions. The ranking tells you the order to work the list in, and each company's own text tells you which of the 10 deserve a tailored first line.
Related reading on NAUT: Crypto lead scoring: 5 points, 39 of 51 teams score 4 or more and Crypto lead generation: 21 funded teams, 15 CEOs to pitch.
Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?
Yes. The call that returns a team from this list with its people is GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/hyperbolic-labs, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects?sector=DeFi&sort=recent&page=1&limit=100 walks recent project rows a page at a time, both with Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY. Data and search calls cost 5 credits each, plans start at $49 a month for 3,000 credits, and the parameters are listed at naut.so/docs/api with the plans at naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for the people on these pages unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial before you work the list.
Crypto lead list prioritization FAQ
How do I prioritize a crypto lead list?
Score each newly funded team out of 30 on 3 inputs: freshness of the round, a round size that fits what you sell, and the number of named decision makers you can reach. On NAUT's 116 crypto rounds announced 8 September to 7 November 2026, that score put 14 of the 60 crypto-scoped rounds at 20 of 30 and produced the 10-team call list in this article.
Which newly funded crypto teams should a BD lead call first?
In NAUT's data read on 7 November 2026 the top 3 by this score are CRSHMARKET, which raised $3.5M on 2 November 2026, Luxor at $16M on 27 October 2026, and 0xPredicate at $8M on 27 October 2026. All 3 have a named CEO row on file.
Why does a 2-month window leave most leads scoring 0 on freshness?
Because freshness in this score falls 1 point a day and hits 0 after 10 days, and only 6 of the 60 crypto-scoped rounds in the 8 September to 7 November 2026 window were announced in the 10 days to 7 November 2026. Score weekly rather than once every 2 months.
Where can I find these funded crypto teams and their decision makers?
On NAUT. The 10 teams each have a project page listing their round, their backers and their team, and the 31 decision makers across them include 22 with their own NAUT person page, reachable through GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/<slug> or the search box on naut.so. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial to open the channels.
How many of these rounds were checked against public sources?
All 10 rounds in the call list were put to public sources on 7 November 2026 and all 10 came back confirmed. 9 of the 31 people at those teams had their title checked as well, 8 confirmed and 1 contradicted and left out; the other 50 scoped rounds were not source-checked.
Sources
- NAUT's own data, read on 7 November 2026: every crypto funding round announced 8 September to 7 November 2026, each round's backers and lead flag, and the decision makers on file at each company.
- CRSHMARKET, $3.5M seed: Dealroom, which reports the $3.5M seed round for the New York livestream prediction market and names 6th Man Ventures as its lead, and KuCoin, both 2 November 2026.
- Luxor, $16M strategic: Cointelegraph, which reports the $16M strategic round at Luxor Technology and names CMT Digital as its lead, and Crypto Briefing, both 27 October 2026.
- 0xPredicate, $8M Series A: TokenPost and CoinGape, 27 October 2026.
- Cancore, $7.2M seed: The Block and Dealroom, 27 October 2026.
- Hyperbolic Labs, $30M: the company's own funding post, which names the round Series A1 and Walden Catalyst as its lead, and KuCoin, 27 October 2026.
- HoneyB, $5M seed: The Defiant, which reports the $5M seed round at Nectar Group, Inc., the company developing the HoneyB platform, co-led by Portal Ventures and Peer Ventures, and KuCoin, 20 October 2026.
- Multiliquid, $8M seed: KuCoin, which reports an $8M seed round led by Polychain, and The Block, 15 October 2026.
- Noah, $16M seed extension: Crypto Briefing, which reports a $16M extension taking the seed round to $38M, and EU.VC, 7 October 2026.
- Vest Exchange, $13M seed: Phemex, which reports the $13M seed round at the crypto proprietary trading platform Vest, led by Portal Ventures, and Crypto Briefing, 7 October 2026.
- Anvil, $5M OTC purchase: CoinDesk and Yahoo Finance, 6 October 2026.
- 9 founder and CEO titles were checked against the person's own X profile plus a second page on 7 November 2026. 8 confirmed. The 1 that came back contradicted, a CEO row on the Anvil page, is left out of this article.