Developer growth by ecosystem: Solana, Base, Sui up; Polygon, Arbitrum down
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Electric Capital data shows Solana/SVM, Bitcoin, Base and the Move stack (via Sui) growing in developers over two years. Polygon and Arbitrum lost over 30%, Polkadot and Cosmos are down, Starknet and NEAR show modest gains.
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Polygon and Arbitrum each lost over 30% of devs in two years
Base is the strongest EVM performer in full-time dev growth
Polkadot and Cosmos are down
Solana/SVM dev ecosystem has seen strong growth in the past 2 years.
Interestingly also Bitcoin, Base (strongest EVM performer in terms of fulltime devs growth), and the Move stack (mainly driven by Sui).
While EVM stack also experienced some slight growth and still dominates in absolute numbers (mainly due to Ethereum), Polygon and Arbitrum have both seen a >30% decline in number of devs over past two years.
Polkadot and Cosmos also down bad, while Starknet and NEAR show modest uptrends.
Data from @ElectricCapital
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