Development activity is often an undervalued predictor of a project’s success in the cryptocurrency space as it demonstrates not only a team’s monthly dedication to building a working product but also improving and updating its features.
According to data provided by on-chain data platform Santiment, out of the top 20 publicly visible cryptocurrency projects’ development activities on Github, Cardano, Kusama, and Polkadot are recognized as the top projects with the most development activity in 2021. Indeed, Cardano is slightly ahead of both Kusama and Polkadot in terms of overall development activity in the past year.
The platform tracks development data from thousands of public Github repositories, with the exception of “non-developer events”, such as commit comments, individuals following an issue, release downloads, and others to avoid inflated data.
