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The more open source development activity there is on a project, the stronger that project usually is. The more active developers are in a code repository, the more supported and updated that project tends to be. 

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• Click on links to be directed to each project's respective repository page.
• ​Some projects have multiple repositories, I chose the most relevant or robust repo. to collect data from. 
• Highest grades awarded to projects with the most Total Activity (TA) points, which is the sum of repository commits and stars, for that quarter- [​>30k = A+]    [10k-30k = A]    [5k-9k = B]     [1k-4k = C]    [<1k = C-]  ​
• "NA" denotes projects that were not listed in the top 25 market cap, prior to the quarterly measurement. ​

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2020

​The Data:

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Q4 2020 Highlights- 

• Data was pulled on 12/16/2020
• Bitcoin’s last commit was “8 hours ago”, whereas Litecoin’s last commit was 4/28. 
  • This shows that a top project like Litecoin is not doing a good job at attracting new development on its platform. 
  • Litecoin is also not seeing a lot of stars, relative to commits it has, which means not as many developers endorse the project, relative to other longstanding top projects. 
• Bitcoin SV has very few stars relative to commits, showing that there is a lot of code being developed, yet it is not a widely respected project in the developer community. 
• Binance and Neo have a lot of stars relative to commits, showing there is a lot of hype in their repositories, but not a lot of development to back it up. 
• I found better, more updated GitHub pages for Ethereum Classic and Cosmos. This is now reflected in the Q4 data, but will cause discrepancies when comparing Q4 data to the previous quarters.
•  Ripple lost stars, which is very rare.
•  yearn.finance gained a lot of stars, but not a lot of commits to back it up.
•  Polkadot and Tezos made some noticeable gains. 

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Q3 2020 Highlights- 

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Q2 2020 Highlights- 

• Bitcoin SV has quite a few relative commits, but struggles with stars; compared to other projects that have that many commits. 
• Yet again, NEO and Binance have WAY more stars, relative to their development commits. This tells me that a lot of people are "liking" their code repositories, even though not much development is occurring. 
• Maker DAO has a lot of developer info available off Github, so it’s code repo may not be the best representation of developer activity. 
• Found the closest code repo I could for Bitfinex/LEO. Bitfinex has additional documentation for API integration. 
• Still can’t find a close enough code repo for USDT. 
• Hedge Trade had no movement in TA points
• Chainlink, Tezos, and Crypto.com Coin were the biggest gainers. 
• Dash, Ethereum Classic, Cardano, and Hedge Trade haven't added much, if any, new commits. Yet the longest standing one, BTC, added over 1k new commits.

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​Q1 2020 Highlights-

• Suspicious activity-
  • Yet again, NEO and Binance have WAY more stars, relative to their development commits. This tells me that a lot of people are "liking" their code repositories, even though not much development is occurring. 
• Up-
  • Crypto.com Chain upped its Total Activity points by almost 200%!! This is largely due to commits. Tezos and Chainlink have also been making a solid amount of progress. 
• Down-
  • Not surprising (due to bastardized reputation) that Bitcoin SV struggles with few stars even though it has a relatively high amount of code commits in its repository. 
  • Ethereum Classic, Ripple, Cardano, and Litecoin saw the least amount of progress, this quarter. 

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2019

The Data:

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Video highlights from the Q2 2019 data:

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Video highlights from the Q1 2019 data:

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2018

The Data:

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Video highlights from the 2018 data. ​Warning: this is 20+ minutes of me talking about numbers.