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, reprinted by Odaily with authorization.

For the project side, continuous development investment and results are an important basis for ensuring that the project can go further. Recently, Outlier Ventures released a report titled "2021 Blockchain Development Trends", which analyzed the code development activity of major blockchain projects, DeFi and NFT projects in the past 12 months and the development trend in 2021 .

After searching 186 GitHub projects, indexing 6,163 code repositories, and analyzing more than 1 million commits, the report authors found that Ethereum remained the most actively developed blockchain protocol over the past 12 months, followed by Cardano and Bitcoin; while projects like Polkadot, Cosmos, and Avalanche continue to grow in core development and contributors. It is worth noting that Filecoin also directly jumped to one of the top five projects with the most active development projects.

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The top five projects in the number of blockchain project Commits

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The top five projects of blockchain project core developers

In the past year, the number of developers of the three companies Avalanche, Terra, and Flow has increased dramatically. Among them, Avalanche's weekly and monthly active developers have increased by 4 times in the past year, reaching about 50% of Cosmos and Polkadot.

In addition, projects including Solana (36%), Monero (35%), Zilliqa (33%), Tezos (30%) and Near Protocol (22%) also increased in the number of developers; Near Protocol in 2020 4 It reached a strong peak around the end of the month when the mainnet was launched.

In addition, the core development indicators of projects such as Tron, EOS, Komodo and Qtum, which were once known as Ethereum killers, as well as Nano, Handshake and WAX, have all dropped by more than 50%. It should be noted, however, that WAX and its move to the NFT marketplace may explain the reduced development activity on the project.

On the other hand, since most of the DeFi protocols developed based on Ethereum are open source, it is obvious that core developers and contribution activities have increased, and the most active ones are Maker, Gnosis, and syntix, while Aave and Bancor have also clearly shown a noticeable increase. Both SushiSwap and Yearn Finance were launched in 2020, and soon surpassed other DeFi protocols.