Solana’s (SOL) lively builders have declined by over 90% to 75 builders from round 2,500 recorded in January, in line with Token Terminal information.
Based on the information aggregator, builders throughout the Solana ecosystem peaked on Jan. 9 when it hit 2,453. Since then, the numbers have been drastically dropping.

Token Terminal determines an lively developer based mostly on an ecosystem by the “variety of distinct GitHub customers that made 1+ commits to the mission’s GitHub repositories throughout the previous 30 days.”
Solana devs disagree
Builders throughout the Solana ecosystem have disagreed with the information from the aggregator.
Superteam, a neighborhood of builders engaged on initiatives throughout the Solana ecosystem, tweeted, “that is incorrect to say the least. There have been extra devs on our neighborhood name yesterday.”
Tuan Pham Minh, a software program engineer with Kyber Community, wrote:
“Lol you present evaluation with solely a single closed information supply.”
Different builders like Jac0xb stated:
“These numbers are rubbish. Ethereum solely has 250 builders LOL? Solana solely has 75 LOL? Possibly you’re simply misconstruing “lively builders” with builders engaged on the blockchain repo.”
In the meantime, Solana’s official Twitter deal with tweeted on Nov. 10 that “hundreds of devs on Solana with a thousand plus packages used each single day. 1,092 packages used on Solana on Nov. 8 — close to an all-time excessive — and an estimated >25,000 distinctive builders who’ve written, deployed, and audited Solana packages.”
Ethereum builders prime different prime blockchains
Token Terminal information steered extra every day lively builders on Ethereum than on each different blockchain community.

Based on the information, there have been 194 lively builders on Ethereum (ETH) as of Dec. 16, whereas there have been 143 builders on Cardano (ADA). Different networks with over 100 every day builders included Polkadot (DOT), Web Laptop (ICP), Kusama (KSM), and Cosmos (ATOM). Energetic every day builders on Bitcoin (BTC) have been solely 16.
In the meantime, studies revealed that the typical month-to-month variety of lively distinctive builders for Bitcoin Core varies between 40-60.