GitHub reveals interesting statistics regarding developer involvement in active blockchain projects for 2021.
A report detailing developer activity for different tokens has been published by Santiment, which can be a critical indicator of long-term project success. A platform called GitHub provides statistics on developer activity. GitHub is a premier software repository site for projects like Solana, Polkadot, Ethereum, and IOTA. It is a centralized version control system where project code is publicly visible and developers can suggest and submit improvements and additions to an existing project.
The top 20 projects by aggregated development activity for 2021 include Cardano, Kusama, Polkadot, and Ethereum. The NFT-focused Flow project comes in at number nine. Kusama is a development sandbox comprised of a scalable network of unique blockchains whose code is based mainly on Polkadot. It is used to test applications before deploying them on Polkadot. The number of active contributors to any project’s GitHub repo gives insight into the reach of that project’s developer network.
Cardano wins this metric for 2021, with 53 daily contributors. Other notable projects with a significant number of daily active developers include the Trust Wallet token, with 28 developers, and Filecoin, with 22 developers.
Developer interest in the Solana token is especially evidenced by the attendance at Solana’s Hackathon events. The number of registrations for the inaugural hackathon in Oct 2020 was 1000. It then increased to 3000 for the Solana X Serum DeFi Hackathon in Feb. 2021 and 13000 for the Solana Season Hackathon in May 2021.
GitHub commits increased
In GitHub, a commit is a way to add a change to a project. Cryptomiso reports the number of commits made in a project on GitHub. In the last 12 months, there have been 8193 commits for the Trust Wallet Token project and 4552 commits for the Solana token. The most active contributor to Cardano between September 2016 and January 2022 is gromakovsky, with 2200 commits, followed by volhovm with 837 commits.
DeFi protocol development activity
Concerning DeFi protocols, it appears that sidechains, bridges, and layer two solutions have driven development. The top 20 projects leading the way in development activity include defichain, PancakeSwap, and Uniswap. Ethereum remains the leading platform for DeFi apps, and the top 10 DeFi coins by market cap in 2021 were based on Ethereum.
