• Polkadot (DOT) is the number one cryptocurrency in the market regarding project development activity.
• On-chain analytics firm Santiment measures development activity not using the total number of commits but rather in terms of “events”.
• Polkadot and Kusama have a decent gap over other cryptocurrencies, as the development activity’s value is 4,117 for both coins.
Polkadot Continues To Top The Development Activity Chart
According to data from on-chain analytics firm Santiment, Polkadot (DOT) is still the number one cryptocurrency in the market regarding the project’s development activity. Kusama (KSM) and Cardano (ADA) are also among the top three assets for this indicator.
Measuring Development Activity Using “Events”
The “development activity” metric measures the work a cryptocurrency project’s developers have done on its public GitHub repositories during the last 30 days. This is gauged not using commits but in terms of “events” instead. An event refers to an action on GitHub like pushing a commit, forking a repository, creating an issue, etc. This approach benefits from avoiding inflating figures by counting old commits included in forks as new work under this developer’s name.
Top 20 Cryptocurrencies by Development Activity Over Last Few Years
The below chart shows how these top 20 cryptocurrencies ranked according to their development activity over recent years:
DOT seems to be on the top of this list | Source: Santiment on Twitter
As seen here, Polkadot and Kusama have a significant lead over other assets with 4,117 events each – while Cardano has recently dropped close to Cosmos’ metric score in fourth place.
Advantages of Measuring Dev Activity Using Events Rather Than Commits
The advantages of measuring dev activities using events rather than just commits include getting a more accurate gauge of developers’ actual work as opposed to inflating figures by counting old commits included in forks as new work under this developer’s name. Additionally, it avoids double-counting by only considering actions made by individual developers once per event i.e., if multiple developers take part in one commit that counts as one event only regardless of their contributions within it.
Conclusion
To sum up, Polkadot continues dominating crypto project dev activities according to data from Santiment when measured using its “events” metric – with some distance between it and second-placed Kusama while Cardano dropping against Cosmos lately yet still being among top three projects overall when looking at this indicator