{"id":89966,"date":"2025-10-16T13:21:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=89966"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:32:17","slug":"ethereum-surpasses-solana-and-bitcoin-in-attracting-new-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ethereum-surpasses-solana-and-bitcoin-in-attracting-new-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Surpasses Solana and Bitcoin in Attracting New Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of 2025, the number of developers in the ecosystem of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has increased by 16,181. This was reported by representatives of the Ethereum Foundation, citing data from Electric Capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/ New data confirms: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ethereum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Ethereum<\/a> is the #1 ecosystem for new developers in 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZThdbGDf0X\">pic.twitter.com\/ZThdbGDf0X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ethereum Foundation (@ethereumfndn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ethereumfndn\/status\/1978492951874687020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The blockchain has become the leader in this metric. The top three also include <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-solana-sol\">Solana<\/a> and Bitcoin, which attracted 11,534 and 7,494 new specialists, respectively. <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-polygon-matic\">Polygon<\/a> took fourth place with 3,681, and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/stacks-co-founder-predicts-collapse-of-most-bitcoin-l2-solutions\">Stacks<\/a> came fifth with 3,246.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum remains the leading blockchain in terms of active developers, with 31,869. This is nearly double the number of its closest competitor, Solana, which has 17,708 specialists working on its platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ce3d917f19a720a9-7002520827194071-1024x701.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-267651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ce3d917f19a720a9-7002520827194071-1024x701.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ce3d917f19a720a9-7002520827194071-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ce3d917f19a720a9-7002520827194071-768x526.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ce3d917f19a720a9-7002520827194071.png 1061w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ethereumfndn\/status\/1978492961319972878\/photo\/1\">X\/Electric Capital<\/a>.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gandalfcryptto\/status\/1978762855492051195\">noted<\/a> by one user, developers choose Ethereum for several reasons:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>deep liquidity;<\/li>\n<li>powerful tools;<\/li>\n<li>advanced <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-layer%e2%80%912-solution-in-blockchain\">second layer<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>on-chain demand.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The blockchain of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization remains the largest ecosystem in the industry. Dozens of L2 solutions operate on Ethereum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/l2beat.com\/scaling\/summary\">L2Beat<\/a>, more than $52.94 billion is locked in second-layer networks. Over the past year, this figure has increased by 28.8%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-a2a33c76016d292e-7002535526354409-1024x584.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-267652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-a2a33c76016d292e-7002535526354409-1024x584.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-a2a33c76016d292e-7002535526354409-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-a2a33c76016d292e-7002535526354409-768x438.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-a2a33c76016d292e-7002535526354409.png 1150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: L2Beat.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The top three solutions include Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum is also a &#8220;home&#8221; for decentralized applications and protocols. The <span data-descr=\"total value locked\" class=\"old_tooltip\">TVL<\/span> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-decentralised-finance-defi\">DeFi<\/a> sector based on the network of the second-largest cryptocurrency exceeds $87.2 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-908d05151164f1b1-7002606997656288-1024x533.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-267653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-908d05151164f1b1-7002606997656288-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-908d05151164f1b1-7002606997656288-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-908d05151164f1b1-7002606997656288-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-908d05151164f1b1-7002606997656288-1536x800.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-908d05151164f1b1-7002606997656288.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Top 10 largest DeFi projects on Ethereum. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/chain\/ethereum\">DeFi Llama<\/a>.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Community Reaction\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>User opinions on Ethereum&#8217;s achievement were divided. Some doubted that specialists truly prefer the leading altcoin&#8217;s network for development.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been working on Ethereum for eight years, and it&#8217;s still the worst user experience imaginable. I&#8217;m not dramatizing or exaggerating for effect. It&#8217;s an absolutely terrible platform from the perspective of an ordinary user, and I don&#8217;t understand why it has so many developers \u2014 if there are so many, why can&#8217;t they just make it better?&#8221;,\u00a0\u2014 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/guyontheearth\/status\/1978598862136000684\"><em>wrote<\/em><\/a><em> a user with the nickname Guy on the Earth.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Others <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LucidLabsFi\/status\/1978711975619076325\">emphasized<\/a> that any specialist entering the blockchain &#8220;ultimately transitions to Ethereum.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many were also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/suraj_sharma14\/status\/1978716048477093921\">surprised<\/a> by the number of new and active developers in the network of the first cryptocurrency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;What do these 7000+ Bitcoin specialists do all day?&#8221;, \u2014 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/suraj_sharma14\/status\/1978716048477093921\"><em>inquired<\/em><\/a><em> a community member under the pseudonym Suraj Sharma.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, the Ethereum scaling project Brevis <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/new-scaling-technology-brings-ethereum-closer-to-10000-tps\">introduced<\/a> a zkEVM technology called Pico Prism. It brought the blockchain closer to the target of 10,000 <span data-descr=\"transactions per second\" class=\"old_tooltip\">TPS<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of the year, the number of developers in Ethereum has increased by 16,181, according to the Ethereum Foundation citing Electric Capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Since the start of the year, the ecosystem has attracted over 16,000 specialists.","creation_source":"ai_translated","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1192,46,1159],"class_list":["post-89966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-developers","tag-ethereum","tag-solana-sol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"293","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Since the start of the year, the ecosystem has attracted over 16,000 specialists.","is_update":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89967,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89966\/revisions\/89967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}