Polkadot developers log a record 15,433 commits in September

In the third quarter, Polkadot blockchain developers contributed more than 500 commits per day on GitHub on average, according to a press release. By September, the figure reached 15,433, surpassing the values of any other network, including Ethereum.

In August, developers made 14,930 commits, and in September they set a new historical high. This was not deterred by the negative conditions in the crypto market.

Record-high activity was recorded in XCM messaging system — in August the figure reached 26,258, according to Polkadot Subscan.

The team linked this to the opening of new channels between parachains to boost functional interoperability and create new use cases.

In total, since the inception of XCM, more than 140,000 messages have passed across 135 channels.

In Kusama’s testnet the number of active parachains reached 40, while in Polkadot it stood at 26.

During the third quarter, the Web3 Foundation’s grant program supported 37 projects. Their total number since its launch has approached 500.

The Polkadot treasury allocated more than 9.6 million DOT for spending proposals. In Kusama, the figure stood at 346,700 KSM.

“In the third quarter, fundamental metrics, such as the number of validators, the percentage of coins staked from the total supply, and the minimum data required to launch an active validator […], confirmed a functioning and healthy ecosystem”, — according to a Messari report.

Earlier in September, Polkadot developers presented a roadmap, which contains the first set of major optimizations to the consensus protocol since its launch in December 2021. One of the updates envisions increasing network throughput to 100,000–1,000,000 TPS without compromising security.

In the same month, the issuer of USDT announced support for the Polkadot blockchain.

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