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Crypto Influencer Lists Built to Brief

18/08/2026

Updated 19/08/2026

The request usually arrives in one line: we need influencers in India, or Asia, or Turkey, or whichever market the project is actually trying to reach. Sometimes we already hold those accounts and send them the same day. When we do not, we build the list from scratch — found, filtered, verified and priced — and hand it over within a week.

What You Actually Receive

Not a scraped export. Every account on the list has been checked by a person and, in most cases, already contacted on your behalf.

ColumnWhat it tells you
Handle and platformX, YouTube, TikTok, Telegram — whichever the audience actually uses in that market
Followers and average viewsViews matter more; follower counts are the easiest number to inflate
Engagement rateMeasured on recent posts, not lifetime averages
Audience checkWhether the following is a real community or purchased volume
Quoted priceWhat they told us, after we negotiated
Contact statusReplied, negotiating, declined, or unreachable — including the ones that said no

The declines are on the list deliberately. Knowing that four of the names you wanted will not work with your category is worth as much as the ones who will, and you would otherwise spend a fortnight discovering it yourself.

How the List Gets Built

1. Discovery

We pull candidates from every source available for that market — influencer platforms, our own base, adjacent-audience analysis, and the accounts that already appear around competitors in the region. Regional markets are where this matters most, because the well-known aggregators cover English-language Crypto Twitter and very little else.

2. Filtering

Most of what discovery produces gets thrown away. Accounts drop out for dead engagement, an audience in the wrong country, a following that does not survive inspection, or a content history that would put your project next to something you do not want to be next to.

3. Verification

Survivors are checked the same way we check accounts entering our own base: engagement quality, the composition of the follower network, and how many of those followers are people who matter in crypto rather than passers-by.

4. Outreach and pitch

We write to each account and pitch your project properly — what it is, why their audience would care, what the collaboration looks like. Response rates depend heavily on how the first message reads, which is most of why cold lists bought elsewhere convert so badly.

5. Prices and negotiation

We get their rate, then work on it. Volume across several accounts, longer engagements and flexible timing all move the number, and first quotes in this market are rarely final. You receive what they agreed to, not what they opened with.

Markets We Get Asked For Most

India and Southeast Asia come up most often, followed by Korea, Japan, Turkey and Latin America. These are the markets where a generic list fails hardest: audiences sit on different platforms, the language filters out most Western tooling, and the accounts with genuine local reach rarely appear in any English-language directory.

We have written separately about the Japanese and Korean crypto influencer landscapes if you want a sense of what those markets look like before commissioning anything.

Timeline

One week from brief to delivered list, including the outreach and the negotiation. If we already hold the accounts for that market, it is same-day — ask before commissioning anything, because often there is nothing to commission.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is this different from buying an influencer database?

A database is a snapshot of whoever was scraped when it was assembled, sold to everyone, and out of date on arrival. This is built for one brief, filtered against your category, and the accounts have already been contacted and priced. The useful part is not the names; it is knowing which of them will work with you and for how much.

Do you cover non-English markets properly?

That is most of what this service is for. English-language Crypto Twitter is well covered by tools anyone can buy. India, Korea, Japan, Turkey and Southeast Asia are not, which is why lists for those markets have to be built by hand.

What if the accounts turn out to be fake?

They get removed during filtering, which is where most of the candidates go. You see the verification signals for every account that survives, so you can disagree with our judgement rather than take it on trust.

Can you run the campaign as well, or only build the list?

Either. Some projects take the list and run it in-house, which is a perfectly reasonable outcome. Others hand the whole thing over — in that case the list feeds straight into a managed X KOL campaign or the equivalent on YouTube or TikTok.

How many accounts end up on a list?

It depends on how narrow the brief is. A specific market and niche might yield a dozen accounts worth approaching; a broader remit produces more. We would rather hand over fifteen names that answer than eighty that pad the document.

What do you need from us to start?

The market, the audience you are trying to reach, the platform if you have a preference, and anything your project cannot be associated with. That last one saves the most time.

Tell Us Which Market You Need

Send us the market and the audience, and we will tell you first whether we already hold those accounts — if we do, you get them without commissioning anything. Message us on Telegram.

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