https://www.developerreport.com![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ibb.co%2FWD6pfqZ%2Fphoto-2023-01-18-02-12-45.jpg&t=665&c=YZq89lFEAl367Q)
Ethereum leads in the number of developers
https://www.developerreport.com/developer-report"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."