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Crypto developer activity

CryptoKeyhole counts the work in each project’s own public code: in the 30 days to , Ethereum had 298 active developers and 3,679 commits, the most of any project we cover, ahead of Solana (108) and Hedera Hashgraph (79).

Crypto projects ranked by active developers, commits and releases in their own public code.

Most active developersEthereum, 298Last 30 days
Biggest riseEthereum, +24Active developers against a month earlier
Commits, all projects8,753+22% on the 30 days before
Releases, all projects589Last 90 days

From our own copies of each project’s public repositories, updated hourly. Last update 9 November 2026, 01:15 UTC

Who is building

Active developers and commits over the 30 days to , each against the 30 days before; releases over 90 days; the line is commits week by week for a year. Click a heading to sort.

Crypto projects ranked by active developers in their own public repositories, last 30 days
ProjectActive developersChangeCommitsChangeReleasesLast 12 months
EthereumETH298+243,679+22%9123,520
SolanaSOL108+141,162+3%719,571
Hedera HashgraphHBAR79+24417+41%383,632
BitcoinBTC65+16359+51%83,664
ChainlinkLINK56–225−19%333,765
CardanoADA53−3659+31%535,980
PolkadotDOT51+5123−5%171,393
XRPXRP36+5137−12%151,554
ZamaZAMA35+4193−18%202,108
SuiSUI29−2180+2%163,130
NearNEAR26+5152+55%291,828
AptosAPT20+1133−4%172,098
AvalancheAVAX18−1116+53%41,089
StellarXLM15−896−37%311,455
POL (ex-MATIC)POL9−535−62%8944
UniswapUNI9+322+22%72219
The GraphGRT9+613+86%3768
Bitcoin CashBCH8+1727+1977%71,428
BNBBNB7−328−58%7609
Lido DAOLDO6−520−50%62,101
ToncoinTON5−19−82%61,193
MorphoMORPHO4+428–0130
DogecoinDOGE4+310+900%0353
SKY Governance TokenSKY4−26−25%045
ArbitrumARB3−343+126%75,412
Curve DAOCRV3−121+40%0791
Ethereum Name ServiceENS3+26+200%037
WorldcoinWLD2−420−57%8626
Fetch.aiFET2−14−76%7134
TRONTRX1−5117+44%13975
LitecoinLTC1–11−48%2186
AaveAAVE1−11−50%0191
EigenCloudEIGEN1+11–0220
CompoundCOMP0–0–05
HyperliquidHYPE0–0–024
NillionNIL0–0–00
PendlePENDLE0−10−100%080
QuantQNT0–0–00
Wrapped BitcoinWBTC0–0–00
ether.fiETHFI0−10−100%0927

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Rising and cooling

More developers than a month ago

  1. Ethereum274 → 298+24
  2. Hedera Hashgraph55 → 79+24
  3. Bitcoin49 → 65+16
  4. Solana94 → 108+14
  5. The Graph3 → 9+6

Fewer developers than a month ago

  1. Stellar23 → 15−8
  2. POL (ex-MATIC)14 → 9−5
  3. Lido DAO11 → 6−5
  4. TRON6 → 1−5
  5. Worldcoin6 → 2−4

Projects with at least five active developers in either month; a developer is active on a day when they made a counted commit in the 30 days up to it.

How we count

CryptoKeyhole keeps its own copies of each project’s public repositories and reads them every half hour. An active developer is a distinct author with at least one counted commit in the 30 days up to a day; authors are told apart by a keyed hash of their e-mail address, and no name or address is kept or published. A commit is a non-merge change, counted once per project however many of its repositories carry it. A release is a new version number in a repository’s tags, counted once on the first tag that carries it.

The ranking uses final days only, so the open day never shortens a project’s month. Each project’s name links to its Active Developers chart, and the commit count to its Developer Commits chart, where the full history, the method and the repositories are in the chart’s info.

Repositories counted

Coverage and limits

  • Only each project’s own public repositories count: node clients, protocol specifications and improvement proposals, core contracts and official SDKs, from the project’s own GitHub organisation. Websites, documentation, forks of other projects, audit-contest copies and third-party tools are left out.
  • Work in private repositories, or published only as finished binaries, is not seen. Hyperliquid publishes its node as binaries, so its count covers its public SDK, contract and node-distribution repositories only.
  • A commit is counted once per project, on the day it reached the counted branch (its writing date for history found when we started mirroring); commits that came from an upstream project count for that project only.
  • Automation (dependency bots, CI accounts) is not counted as a developer, and merge commits are not counted.
  • Left out on purpose: PEPE, no public repositories; ENA, only minting-API samples and audit-contest copies are public; SHIB, Shibarium’s public repositories are copies of Polygon’s code; ONDO, only occasional snapshots are published.
  • Not covered yet: ALT, APE, AXS, BAT, EDGE, ERA, FF, FLOKI, GALA, IMX, LIT, MNT, PROM, SAND, SENT, SPX, SYRUP, WLFI, ZRO.

Questions

Which crypto project has the most developers?

Among the projects CryptoKeyhole covers, Ethereum, with 298 active developers in the 30 days to , then Solana (108) and Hedera Hashgraph (79).

How is developer activity measured?

By reading each project’s own public code: active developers are the distinct authors of counted commits in the last 30 days, commits are non-merge changes counted once per project, and releases are new version numbers. Bots and merge commits are left out.

Why do some projects show little or no activity?

Some work happens in private repositories or is published only as finished software, and some projects are simply quiet. The coverage section lists what each count can and cannot see.

How often is the ranking updated?

Every hour, from repositories read every half hour; the ranking counts final days only, up to yesterday.

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Counts are CryptoKeyhole’s own, from public repositories as each project publishes them; they measure visible work, not its quality.