Executive Summary

The number of new crypto developers is growing for the first time since 2017

New monthly crypto developers grew 15% in 2020, increasing for the first time since 2017
80%+ of all active developers today came in the last two years

There is a flight to quality: high quality ecosystems are growing while others are shrinking

Monthly active crypto developers have stayed flat even as new developers joined due to developer loss outside of the Top 200 ecosystems by network value
The number of developers outside of the Top 200 decreased by 30% from December 2018

Developer activity is particularly strong across Bitcoin, Ethereum, some Layer 1s, and Decentralized Finance

Bitcoin ecosystem has 70%+ more developers than it did 3 years ago
300+ new developers per month commit to the Ethereum ecosystem
67% increase in monthly active developers in Decentralized Finance since January 2020

Full Report

We fingerprinted 276,000+ code repositories and 89 million code commits to create this 2020 Developer Report.

This work requires mapping many thousands of project repositories. We’ve opened our ecosystem map on GitHub so that anyone can contribute:

We welcome any feedback or comments on this report. Please do let us know how we can improve our data and analysis.

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