The performance of the developer community often plays an important role in gauging the pulse of the blockchain ecosystem. In particular, over the past month, Ethereum, $BNB Chain and Polygon maintain their leading positions based on developer activity.
Other notable names, Santiment’s data shows, include Arbitrum, Solana, Cosmos, Optimism, Avalanche, Gnosis, and Harmony. Nevertheless, when it comes to the individual performance of these platforms, developer activity has significantly decreased over the past 30 days.
Ethereum tops blockchain in monthly developer activity with 38.4,000 events and 904 contributors
In terms of developer activity, Ethereum remains the top player in the blockchain space. In this regard, the blockchain network recorded a total of 38,400 developer activity events during the month. This figure represents a decrease of 17.35%. In addition to this, the number of event contributors also decreased by 11.89% to 904 people.
Following that, $BNB The second top blockchain, Chain, had 15.9K events, representing a plunge of 29.32%. Similarly, a decline of 14.64% brought the number of contributors to 478.
Polygon then emerged as the third most notable blockchain ecosystem in terms of developer activity, with 13.5,000 events. However, this number represents a 26.34% drop and a 13.32% decrease in the number of contributors with 358 people. Additionally, Arbitrum follows with 10.5K developer activity events and 295 contributors. These numbers represent declines of 27.5% and 8.1% for the month as a whole.
Developer activity slows across midsize blockchain networks
Solana, with 10.4,000 events and 298 contributors, shows a decline of 25.75% and 5.1%, according to Santiment data. Similarly, Cosmos, the top 6 blockchain based on developer activity, experienced a decrease of 32.04% and 12.9%, reaching 10.2,000 events and 243 contributors.
Separately, Optimism’s 10.1K developer activity events and 284 contributors accounted for 28.87%, plummeting 8.97% for the month overall. Moreover, Avalanche witnessed a noticeable performance drop despite becoming a top 8 blockchain according to developer activity. 9.4K events and 246 contributors represent a drop of 26.14% and 14.88%.
Separately, Gnosis’ 8.9K events and 203 contributors show a decrease of 23.97% and 9.78%. At the conclusion of the list, Harmony blockchain recorded 8.6K events and 217 contributors, representing a decrease of 21.87% and 13.2%.
