New leader: Top crypto projects by technology development

Hey-hey! As you know, Contora team is engaged in collecting and analyzing social and technology-related data on crypto projects and startups.

Thousands of developers are working on improving existing and creating new projects every day, that’s why the data is changing lightning-fast, and there’s always much room for improving our data analysis algorithms as well.

Recently our team was contacted by the Cardano developers community (see this Twitter thread) regarding our Top crypto projects by technology development story, and with their help, we’ve figured out that we haven’t been tracking all the Cardano’s repositories. In our previous analysis, we took into account only the Cardano Foundation GitHub profile, but there’s another profile that was suggested.

After that, we put the new repository on review and decided to make some improvements to our data-tracking algorithm. We’ve double-checked GitHub repositories we track for all crypto projects in our database, made several fixes to update our developers data, streamlined all the repositories, and… We got a new picture of which crypto projects are leading the market in terms of technology development!

Here’re the updated top crypto projects by the number of active GitHub contributors over the last month:

Cardano developers contacted us reasonably — they are taking the lead with 357 active GitHub contributors. And here’s what the entire picture for its GitHub contributors looks like, it’s really devs-powered:

And ADA proves this fact by how many updates they share on social networks/news. Some of the latest are the Vasil upgrade and connection with DappRadar. Btw, they caused a significant increase in the number of ADA’s Twitter mentions:

Ok, things became clear for Cardano. What about Solana which led the top at the end of April, but now is at 9th place only? We can see the answer by looking precisely at the active GitHub developers chart:

Any expert who can say why does it seem like developers are leaving SOL? Comment below, please.

Other new players who got into our top are:

• Filecoin (FIL) — is a decentralized storage system that aims to “store humanity’s most important information.”

• Status (SNT) — secure messaging app, crypto wallet, and Web3 browser built with state-of-the-art technology. The SNT’s current price (on Sep 12th) is $0.034 — interestingly, projects with such a low price for the token go toe-to-toe with the colossal market players.

Since this article is written to fresh you up on the current situation with the developers, we also want to include data on the top crypto projects by the growth of GitHub commits over the past 3 months to have a complete picture (DappRadar had a huge spike in July):

That’s all for now! Show your interest by leaving some claps and comments if you want our team to analyze these top projects deeper and include all the off-chain data points we have on them.

P.S. If you represent a business and are interested in getting access to these and many other dashboards (Reddit sentiment, mentions on Twitter, development activity, etc.) or API, just drop me a line at contora.ai.

Also, we are always eager to improve and achieve new heights in the accuracy and value of our data, so your feedback and recommendations are always appreciated!