In April, despite significant losses in the cryptocurrency market, second-level networks showed developer activity, which indicates faith in these projects. 💻📉 The Santiment platform noted that Ethereum scaling protocol Optimism was the leader with the most developer activity, despite a 17% drop in its OP token.

Next comes Starknet, which, despite high activity, has lost about 36% of its value. Arbitrum, Cartesi, Immutable X and Skale Network take third, fourth, fifth and sixth places, respectively. Their tokens also showed a significant decline.

The last four projects on the list are Bitcoin layer-2 sidechain MintLayer and Ethereum-based networks Polygon, MetisDAO and Mantle. Their tokens also showed significant losses in April.