Data from Chainspect | Sep 13, 2025, 03:35 UTC
# Name	Developers	Repos	Commits	Stars	Watchers
1 Solana Layer 1	10,698 0.01%	107	85,038 0.01%	37,679 0.08%	1,905 0.05%
2 Polkadot Ecosystem Ecosystem	8,866 0.16%	459 2.23%	675,169 0.74%	33,701 2.08%	5,447 2.83%
3 Kusama Ecosystem Ecosystem	8,852	449	670,205 0.00%	33,016 0.00%	5,297
4 Ethereum Layer 1	5,921 0.10%	250	305,155 0.04%	130,679 0.01%	10,312 0.02%
5 opBNB Layer 2	3,778	144	165,792 0.00%	13,366 0.09%	1,802
6 BNB Greenfield Layer 1	3,777 0.03%	144	165,792 0.00%	13,366 0.09%	1,802
7 BNB Chain Layer 1	3,777 0.03%	144	165,792 0.00%	13,366 0.09%	1,802
8 Cardano Layer 1	3,483	175	221,870 0.07%	11,370 0.02%	2,156 0.05%
9 Optimism Layer 2	2,963 0.03%	93	169,866 0.01%	12,632 0.07%	1,119
10 Arbitrum Layer 2	2,298	126	184,536 0.03%	10,276 0.07%	1,714 0.06%
11 Bitcoin Layer 1	1,874 0.05%	22	113,556 0.04%	102,127 0.02%	5,590 0.02%
12 Polygon Sidechain	1,652	147 0.68%	61,311 0.08%	9,081 0.13%	1,767 1.72%
13 Celo Layer 2	1,555 0.13%	175	70,302 0.02%	2,887 0.14%	1,635
14 Kaia Layer 1	1,310	49	48,271	192	100
15 NEAR Layer 1	1,150 0.09%	211	73,211 0.04%	9,523 0.33%	1,549 0.07%
16 Aptos Layer 1	1,142 0.18%	116	48,598 0.05%	9,526 0.07%	1,842 0.05%
17 MultiversX Layer 1	948 0.21%	259	163,266 0.04%	2,823 0.04%	2,984
18 eCash Layer 1	936	4	35,717 0.02%	1,318	155 0.65%
19 xx network Layer 1	883	86	50,469	992	82
20 BSV Blockchain Layer 1 New	874	118	50,824 0.20%	1,407	569
21 Fantom Layer 1	826	162	58,707 0.00%	1,680 0.12%	1,058
22 Avalanche Layer 1	746 0.13%	109	60,307 0.13%	6,555 0.06%	1,285
23 ICP Layer 1	727	160	110,592 0.10%	9,109 0.07%	2,287
24 Stellar Layer 1	656 0.31%	115	44,892 0.16%	10,551 0.01%	2,449
25 Hedera Layer 1	642 0.16%	80	29,960 0.02%	1,600	843

The number of active developers is one of the most widely used metrics for measuring the health and growth of a blockchain ecosystem. It reflects how many independent builders are contributing code, maintaining repositories, and pushing commits across the network’s core and ecosystem projects.

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