Updated: Jan 17, 2023
We fingerprinted 250 million code commits across open-source repositories to create the 2022 Developer Report.
Executive Summary
We are 14 years into the creation of open-source crypto. In the first 7 years, 1,000 monthly active developers wrote code. In the last 7 years, crypto gained over 22,000 monthly active developers.
There are now 23,343 crypto monthly active developers in crypto.1. Monthly active developers grew +5% year-over-year, despite 70%+ decline in prices.
- 23,343 monthly developers as of December 2022.
- 471,000+ monthly code commits are made monthly toward open-source crypto.
- +8% YoY growth in Full-Time developers. Full-Time developer growth is the most important growth signal to track because they contribute 76% of code commits.
- All-time high of 61,000+ developers contributed code for the first time in 2022.
2. Crypto network value is back to January 2018 levels, but monthly active developers have increased +297% since 2018. Comparing the previous crypto winter to today:
- 3x growth in Bitcoin monthly active developers, from 372 to to 946.
- 5x growth in Ethereum monthly active developers, from 1,084 to 5,819.
- Solana, Polkadot, Cosmos, & Polygon grew from fewer than 200 devs to 1,000+ developers.
3. Major ecosystems are emerging beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum.
- 72% of monthly active devs work outside the Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems.
- Solana, NEAR, and Polygon grew 40% YoY and have 500+ total monthly active developers.
- Sui, Aptos, Starknet, Mina, Osmosis, Hedera, Optimism, and Arbitrum grew 50%+ YoY and have 100+ total monthly active developers.
- 3,901 developers work in DeFi every month across multiple chains, +240% since DeFi summer. 50% of DeFi developers are outside of Ethereum.
- 900+ developers write code monthly in NFTs across chains, +299% since 2021.
Why Developers?
An early and leading indicator of value creation in emerging platforms is developer engagement. Developers build killer applications that deliver value to end users, which attracts more customers, which then draws more developers.Because crypto is significantly open source, we have a unique and unprecedented ability to understand an emerging industry that may be worth many trillions.
300+ Contributors: Tracking the Crypto Developer Community is an Open-Source Effort
In the first Developer Report published in 2019, we only tracked 3,000 crypto ecosystems and 21,000 repos. This year we tracked over 9,000 ecosystems and over 163,000 repositories specifically dedicated to crypto, comprised of over 124 million lines of code.
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