2024 Global Encryption Developer Report: Total number of people rise by an average of 39% per year, with Asia surpassing North America with the highest proportion

Electric Capital's sixth annual developer report, which analyzed a record-breaking 9.02 billion code submissions and 1.7 million code repositories, reveals the latest trends and developments in the encryption industry. This article is sourced from Maria's tweet by Electric Capital, compiled, translated and written by Foresight News. (Previously: Ethereum Devcon Bangkok Conference Horror, Developers Targeted by Knife-wielding Robbers?) (Background: TONX API Joins Forces with Top 20 Giants in the Ecosystem! Together with Blum, Catizen, CoinGecko, Google Cloud Builds TON Developer Ecosystem) Since its inception, the Electric Capital Developer Report has involved 829 people, analyzing a record-breaking 9.02 billion code submissions covering 1.7 million code repositories. How did the encryption industry perform in 2024? Key points: The encryption industry is global, and developer momentum has shifted from North America to other regions. Developers and use cases are diversifying in different ecosystems. Applications cover all time zones, demonstrating widespread use around the world. We underestimated the number of developers in the encryption field because our statistics only followed open source development activities. Our methodology includes: merging developer data into a single standard identity, identifying and excluding robot accounts, and removing code repositories that do not reflect development activities such as data lists. Since Ethereum's launch in 2015, the encryption industry has grown at an average annual rate of 39%. In 2015, there were about 1,000 active developers per month. Today: the number of active developers per month has grown to 23,613. In the past year, the number of active developers per month has decreased slightly by 7%. However, the number of developers with more than two years of experience in the encryption industry has increased by 27%. These experienced developers have driven the industry's development, contributing 70% of code submissions. What changes has the encryption industry undergone since 2015? Let's take a look at the global diversity of encryption developers. The gravity of developers' distribution has shifted from the United States and Europe, which accounted for 82%, to other parts of the world. Asia is now the continent with the highest proportion of developers, with one out of every three encryption developers residing in Asia. Europe ranks second. Since 2015, North America has dropped from first place to third place. We can identify the top ecosystems in these continents based on the proportion of developers. Calculated by the proportion of developers, Ethereum is the top ecosystem in every major continental plate. Solana ranks second. Polygon ranks third in Asia and South America. Polkadot ranks third in Europe. Base ranks third in North America. Dfinity ranks third in Africa. The United States, India, the United Kingdom, China, and Canada have the largest share of encryption developers globally. The United States is still the country with the highest proportion of encryption developers, but it has been declining since 2015. India has risen from tenth to second place. The top three ecological developers in terms of country: Ethereum ranks first in the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and Canada, and second in India. Solana ranks first in India and second elsewhere. Base ranks third in the United States and India. Polygon ranks third in the United Kingdom. NEAR Protocol ranks third in Canada. India has the most new encryption developers in 2024. 17% of new encryption developers are from India. Let's focus on new developers-39,148 new developers explored the encryption field in 2024. We can divide these new developers by ecosystem. Solana became the ecosystem with the most new monthly developers in July 2024. The overall situation of new developers in 2024: Solana ranks first among ecosystems with the most new developers. Ethereum ranks second. Dfinity, Aptos, Base, BTC, SuiNetwork, NEAR Protocol, Polkadot, Polygon, and Starknet all have over 1,000 new developers joining. Arbitrum, BNBCHAIN, Optimism, StellarOrg and ton_blockchain all have over 500 new developers joining. Who is growing the fastest in terms of the total number of developers? The total number of developers reflects the interest of new developers and hackathon participants. According to data from the third quarter of 2023 and the fourth quarter of 2024, the top ten ecosystems with the fastest growth in the total number of developers are: who is growing the fastest in terms of the number of full-time developers? Full-time developers submit code for more than 10 days per month, so they contribute stable work to the ecosystem. According to data from the third quarter of 2023 and the fourth quarter of 2024, the top ten ecosystems with the fastest growth in the number of full-time developers are: Many developers are active on multiple on-chains-now, one out of every three encryption developers is working on multiple on-chains, and this trend continues to rise. The percentage of active multi-chain developers has increased from less than 10% in 2015 to 34% in 2024. Chains with the most multi-chain developers share developer resources with Ethercoin. EVM chains share the most developers and have significant network effects: 74% of multi-chain developers work on EVM on-chain. Since 2021, the proportion of EVM cross-chain deployments has increased fourfold. Base is the most popular chain for EVM multi-chain deployments in 2024, but Base's deployers tend to stay on Base on-chain. As deployers publish code to multiple on-chains, where is most of the original code written? Prior to 2020, almost all original on-chain code logic on EVM was on Ethereum. Now, no EVM chain accounts for more than 30% of code innovation. Base now accounts for 25% of all on-chain original on-chain code logic on major EVM chains. This is how the Ethereum ecosystem maintains its leadership in code innovation-through L2 chains. 65% of innovation occurs on Mainnet and ETH L2 on-chain. The Ethereum ecosystem demonstrates strong network effects by dominating EVM and multi-chain developers. How is this ecosystem performing? Ethereum has 6,244 active developers per month, down 17% from the same period last year. Most of the losses came from developers who joined Ethereum after 2021. Among developers who are already working on Ethereum, developers with more than two years of experience have grown by 21%. Now, more than half of Ethereum developers work on Ethereum L2 on-chain, up from 25% in 2022. The monthly active developers on Ethereum L2 chain have grown significantly in the past four years, with a total of 3,592 developers since the launch of Arbitrum in 2021,...