星球日报
星球日报|Mar 12, 2026 06:42
[Code Submissions for Crypto Projects Drop by 75%, Developers Shift to AI Sector] Odaily Planet Daily reports that the blockchain ecosystem is losing developers, while AI projects dominate growth on GitHub. According to Artemis data, since early 2025, weekly code submissions for crypto projects have dropped from approximately 850,000 to 210,000, a decline of about 75%, with the number of active developers decreasing by 56% to around 4,600. Meanwhile, GitHub has added approximately 36 million new developers in 2025, bringing its global user base to over 180 million, with overall platform submissions increasing by about 25% year-on-year. Among these, AI-related repositories exceed 4.3 million, and repositories integrating large language model SDKs have grown by approximately 178% to over 1.1 million. Generative AI projects now have over 1 million monthly active contributors. Jupyter Notebook repositories have grown by about 75%, Dockerfile repositories by about 120%, and TypeScript has surpassed Python and JavaScript to become the most-used programming language on GitHub. Within the crypto sector, Ethereum's weekly active developers have dropped by 34% in three months to 2,811, Solana by 40% to 942, and Base by 52% to 378. Aptos has lost about 60% of its developers, BNB Chain's submission volume has decreased by 85%, and Celo has dropped by 52%. The only category still experiencing growth is wallet infrastructure, where active developers have increased by about 6% to 308. Electric Capital's annual report shows that the industry's monthly active developers peaked at around 31,000 in 2022, dropping to approximately 23,600 in 2024. Among the remaining developers, those with over two years of experience contributed about 70% of submissions, while newcomers with less than 12 months of experience decreased by 58%.
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