Weekly cryptocurrency code commits have decreased by 75% compared to early 2025, as developers accelerate their shift towards AI.

CycleProphet

2026-03-12 07:55:09

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Deep Tide TechFlow News, on March 12, according to CoinDesk, since early 2025, developer activity in the cryptocurrency space has been continuously declining. Weekly code commits have dropped from about 850,000 to approximately 210,000, a decrease of about 75%. The number of active developers has decreased by 56%, down to around 4,600. Meanwhile, AI-related projects are attracting a large number of developer resources.

Major public blockchains are all experiencing developer attrition. Ethereum’s weekly active developers have decreased by 34% over the past three months to 2,811. Solana has decreased by 40% to 942. Base has decreased by 52% to 378. Aptos has lost about 60%, BNB Chain’s code commits have fallen by 85%, and Celo has decreased by 52%. Currently, only wallet infrastructure categories are experiencing slight growth, with about 308 weekly active developers, an increase of approximately 6%.

In contrast, the GitHub platform added about 36 million developers in 2025. The platform’s total code commits for the year increased by approximately 25% year-over-year. AI-related code repositories have exceeded 4.3 million, and the number of monthly active contributors to generative AI projects has surpassed 1 million.

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