Ethereum blockchain outpaces Bitcoin in terms of new developers

Since the beginning of 2025, the Ethereum ecosystem ETH $3,793.56 Bridged Ether (StarkGate) -3.13% Market capitalization $92.09 million VOL. 24 hours $3.36 billion has attracted the largest number of new developers among all blockchains — 16,181 specialists. This was reported by the Ethereum Foundation with reference to data from the analytical company Electric Capital. In the ranking, Ethereum is ahead of Solana SOL $183.65 Binance-Peg SOL -2.98% Market capitalization $0.2 billion VOL. 24 hours $1.2 billion , which has added 11,534 developers, and Bitcoin BTC $108,611.00 Mezo Wrapped BTC -2.03% Market capitalization $37.1 million VOL. 24 hours $4.27 billion with an indicator of 7,494. The top five also includes Polygon (3,681) and Stacks (3,246).

Overall, Ethereum remains the leader in terms of the number of active developers — 31,869, which is almost twice as many as Solana, which employs 17,708 specialists. Analysts explain the popularity of the network among specialists by its high liquidity, developed infrastructure, access to powerful tools, and active development of Layer 2 solutions.

According to L2Beat, more than $ 52.94 billion is currently blocked in the second-level networks built on Ethereum, which is 28.8% more than a year ago. The three largest L2 projects include Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism. In addition, Ethereum remains the main platform for decentralized applications and protocols: the total blocked value (TVL) in the DeFi sector exceeds $ 87.2 billion.

However, not all users have taken the news positively. Part of the community believes that despite the number of developers, the platform remains difficult to use. One developer noted that the user experience has «hardly improved» in the eight years of working with Ethereum. Others emphasize that most new crypto professionals eventually move to the Ethereum ecosystem.

Earlier it was reported that the Brevis project team presented a zkEVM technology called Pico Prism, which allows Ethereum to scale up to 10,000 transactions per second, bringing the network closer to the performance level of traditional payment systems.