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Nansen alternatives: 4 tools checked, 276 people at 30 teams

By NAUT Research · · 6 min read

276 Nansen alternatives people NAUT lists at 30 crypto teams, with round records at 23, read 14 November 2026. Logos: Aptos, ChainLink, Phantom, Circle, Avalanche, Lido, Morpho, Optimism, ZkSync, Ethena, Pendle, Jupiter, NEAR Protocol, Solana, Uniswap, Aave.

Of the 4 Nansen alternatives NAUT checked for crypto people and funding data (Nansen itself, Arkham, Dune and NAUT), NAUT is the 1 whose data on the same 30 well-known crypto teams could be tested: NAUT tracks 276 people at all 30 teams and 87 funding round records at 23 of them, read on 14 November 2026. Nansen and Dune were checked only on what their own docs say about free and paid credits, and Arkham returned a Cloudflare 403 challenge to every NAUT fetch, so its data is marked not tested.

How this test was run: NAUT wrote and published it, so read it as a vendor test. For each tool NAUT checked 2 things: whether its people and funding data on the 30 teams could be tested, and what its own page says about the free start and paid credits. Every rival fact comes from that rival's own page, read on 14 November 2026; none of those pages shows a publication date, so the read date is the date that applies. Data behind a login or a paid plan is marked "not tested". NAUT took a fixed list of well-known crypto teams in order and kept the first 30 with a live NAUT page and a summary. The people and round counts are NAUT's own records and were not checked against an outside source here. NAUT checked 7 claims about the rivals against their own pages: 6 held and are used below, 1 did not and is left out. NAUT also read the Messari docs, which say its legacy API is in maintenance mode and point new integrations to the Blockworks API. CryptoRank and DefiLlama returned HTTP 403 to NAUT's fetch and are not in the test. NAUT will retest every rival page on 14 February 2027.

What are the best Nansen alternatives for crypto research and BD?

For a BD lead or an investor who needs the people and the funding history behind a crypto team, the table below is what NAUT could measure across these 4 crypto research tools. Data is named people and funding rounds at the 30 teams, and Pricing is the free start and paid credits per each tool's own page. A "not tested" cell means NAUT could not read it, never that the tool lacks it.

Tool Data Pricing
NAUT 276 people at 30 of 30 teams; 87 round records at 23 of 30 Free plan at $0 with no card, plus a 7-day trial with credits; Essential at $49 a month for 3,000 credits
Nansen Not tested 100 trial credits, then a daily top-up to a 10-credit balance; Pro: 2,000 credits, topped back up to 2,000 each month
Dune Not tested 2,500 trial credits for up to 7 days with Plus plan features; paid plans include monthly credits
Arkham Not tested Not tested
  • Nansen describes itself on its homepage as "Trade Everything Onchain With AI". Its credits page says the Pro plan gets "2,000 credits to start, then a monthly top-up of your included credits back up to 2,000". Its pricing page returned 404 to NAUT's fetch, and NAUT did not log in to a paid Nansen account, so its people and funding data on the 30 teams is not tested.
  • Dune: its credits and billing docs say "New accounts receive 2,500 total trial credits for up to 7 days with Plus plan features." and "Paid plans include monthly credits." The same page says free access carries no monthly credits and adds "Free accounts and trials cannot buy extra credits." Its marketing and pricing pages returned HTTP 403 to NAUT's fetch.
  • Arkham: intel.arkm.com, platform.arkhamintelligence.com, arkhamintelligence.com and arkm.com each returned a Cloudflare 403 challenge to NAUT's fetch, so its data and pricing are not tested. A reader looking for Arkham alternatives gets the same NAUT figures as above.

Which Nansen alternatives show who works at each team?

NAUT's data shows named people at all 30 teams, and at 23 of them at least 1 person holds a founder, co-founder or CEO title (54 such titles in all). The table lists every team, ranked by people on NAUT, with its round records and the newest round date on NAUT's record.

Team People Rounds Newest
26 2 25 Jul 2022
23 2 17 Sep 2017
22 3 See page
18 1 22 Sep 2026
17 8 12 Dec 2024
16 3 3 Mar 2022
16 3 1 Aug 2024
16 3 17 Mar 2022
13 5 16 Nov 2022
11 6 24 Feb 2025
9 2 28 Apr 2021
8 1 2 Feb 2026
7 1 10 Aug 2023
7 1 5 Sep 2025
7 14 6 Apr 2022
7 4 7 Feb 2022
7 0 None
6 5 12 Oct 2020
5 0 None
5 0 None
5 7 9 Jun 2021
5 2 8 Sep 2022
5 0 None
3 2 31 Aug 2021
3 3 13 Oct 2022
2 0 None
2 2 14 Nov 2019
2 0 None
2 7 20 Mar 2023
1 0 None

The 7 teams with no founder or CEO title on file are Polygon, Curve Finance, Linea, Compound, Synthetix, StarkNet and Base. For those, start from the people NAUT does list and ask who owns partnerships.

Which teams have the deepest people records on NAUT?

People on NAUT, the 10 teams with the most
  1. Aptos26
  2. ChainLink23
  3. Phantom22
  4. Circle18
  5. Avalanche17
  6. Lido16
  7. Morpho16
  8. Optimism16
  9. ZkSync13
  10. Ethena11

Aptos leads with 26 people, while Uniswap, Arbitrum and 5 more teams have 3 or fewer.

Which Nansen alternatives cover crypto funding data?

Of the 4 tools, NAUT is the 1 whose funding data on these teams could be tested: it holds 87 round records at 23 of the 30 teams. NEAR Protocol has the most with 14, then Avalanche with 8, and Solana and Synthetix with 7 each.

What contact data does NAUT hold for these people?

This sits outside the table above, because NAUT could not test the same thing in any rival. Of the 276 people at the 30 teams, NAUT has a Telegram on file for 188, a LinkedIn for 206 and an email for 4. Telegram is on file for someone at 28 of the 30 teams (Synthetix and Base have none), and the 4 emails sit at Phantom (3) and Optimism (1). Each person page says which channels NAUT has on file.

How a BD team can work this list
  1. Pick the teamStart with a recent raise, such as Circle (22 Sep 2026) or Jupiter (2 Feb 2026).
  2. Find the decision makerOpen its NAUT page: 23 of the 30 teams list a founder, co-founder or CEO.
  3. Check the channel188 of the 276 people have a Telegram on file and 206 a LinkedIn.
  4. Read the funding87 round records at 23 teams show when each team raised.

Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.

Related reading on NAUT: Messari alternatives: 3 tools tested on 113 crypto rounds and Crunchbase alternatives: 3 tools, 33 rounds, 100 contacts.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes: GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/aptos with the header Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY returns 1 company with its team for 5 credits, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people/{id}?include=private reveals a person's private channels for 10 credits the first time. The Essential plan is $49 a month for 3,000 credits; the docs are at naut.so/docs/api and plans at naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan: start a 7-day trial.

Nansen alternatives FAQ

What are the best Nansen alternatives for crypto people and funding data?

Of 4 tools NAUT checked on 14 November 2026 (Nansen, Arkham, Dune and NAUT), NAUT is the 1 whose data on 30 well-known crypto teams could be tested, with 276 people at all 30 and 87 round records at 23. Nansen and Dune were checked only on their own credits pages, and Arkham returned a 403 to every NAUT fetch, so their people and funding data is not tested.

Does Nansen have a free plan?

Nansen's credits page, read on 14 November 2026, says the Free plan starts with 100 trial credits and then tops up daily to a 10-credit balance, and the Pro plan gets 2,000 credits topped back up each month.

How many free credits does Dune give new accounts?

Dune's credits and billing docs, read on 14 November 2026, say new accounts get 2,500 total trial credits for up to 7 days with Plus plan features, and that free accounts and trials cannot buy extra credits.

Where can I find the people at Aptos, Circle or Phantom and their contact channels?

NAUT lists 26 people at Aptos, 18 at Circle and 22 at Phantom, and across the 30 teams in this test it has a Telegram on file for 188 of 276 people; GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/aptos returns the Aptos team. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan: start a 7-day trial.

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