Top Public Blockchains: Which Projects Performed Best in 2019?

Public blockchains are an important part of the blockchain industry infrastructure. After several years of rapid growth, there are currently hundreds of public blockchains worldwide. The industry has now entered into a period of rising competition among these blockchains. Looking back on 2019, how did the sector perform? Which projects continued to diligently develop and push forward? Which had the most influence on social media? Which had the highest transaction volumes? Which blockchain has the most diverse and most stable dApp ecosystem?

In this report, PAData analyzes 35 blockchains selected from CoinMarketCap’s “Top 100 Cryptocurrencies by Market Capitalization.” We have divided these 35 blockchains into two main categories: large cap blockchains are those that ranked in the top 20 and mid cap blockchains are those that ranked 21–100. PAData gathered data from GitHub, on-chain data, and social media websites to come up with a collection of 2019 top blockchain rankings.

Which had the Highest Level of Blockchain Development Activity?

Bitcoin Tops the Group and Several Mid Cap Blockchains were Very Active

The best way to measure the performance of a blockchain project is to see how actively developers are contributing to its code. Of the 35 projects selected, 32 all have open source code on GitHub [1]. PAData analyzed the total number of stars, total number of forks, and total commits of each project on GitHub to determine…