New research from Electric Capital shows that Ripple is one of the few projects whose number of developers has increased by 18% year-on-year. In October, the number of active XRP developers was 172.

There is also an increase in developers in the Starknet (4% YoY), zkSync (6% YoY), Aztec Protocol (168% YoY) and Celestia (145% YoY) projects. TON saw modest growth of 8% YoY with 126 active developers.

Since October 2022, the number of developers has decreased by 27%, but compared to October 2020 there is an increase of 66%, indicating the overall development of the open source developer community over the past three years.