Odaily Planet Daily reports that the blockchain ecosystem is losing developers, while AI projects dominate growth on GitHub. According to Artemis data, since the beginning of 2025, weekly code commits for crypto projects have dropped from approximately 850,000 to 210,000—a 75% decline—while the number of active developers has fallen by 56% to around 4,600.
Meanwhile, GitHub added approximately 36 million new developers in 2025, surpassing 180 million global users, with overall platform commits increasing by about 25% year-over-year. AI-related repositories exceeded 4.3 million, while repositories integrating large language model SDKs grew by approximately 178% to over 1.1 million. Monthly active contributors to generative AI projects exceeded 1 million. Jupyter Notebook repositories increased by about 75%, Dockerfile repositories by about 120%, and TypeScript surpassed Python and JavaScript to become the most used programming language on GitHub.
Within the crypto space, Ethereum's weekly active developers dropped 34% over three months to 2,811, Solana fell 40% to 942, and Base declined 52% to 378. Aptos saw approximately 60% developer attrition, BNB Chain submissions dropped 85%, and Celo fell 52%. The only category still growing is wallet infrastructure, with active developers increasing by approximately 6% to 308.
Electric Capital’s annual report shows that the industry’s monthly active developers peaked at approximately 31,000 in 2022 and declined to about 23,600 in 2024. Among retained developers, those with more than two years of experience contributed approximately 70% of commits, while newcomers with less than 12 months of experience decreased by 58%.