The Question

With Electric Capital’s release of its annual report on developer activity, the topic of “developers” is a hot topic across crypto. Produce a rich analysis of NEAR developer activity, using metrics and definitions of your choice to answer the questions: How many developers are active on NEAR? How active are they? How this has changed over time?

Introduction

What Is NEAR Protocol? (NEAR)

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NEAR Protocol is a software that aims to incentivize a network of computers to operate a platform for developers to create and launch decentralized applications.

Central to NEAR Protocol’s design is the concept of sharding, a process that aims to split the network’s infrastructure into several segments in order for computers, also known as nodes, to only have to handle a fraction of the network’s transactions.

By distributing segments of the blockchain, rather than the complete blockchain across network participants, sharding is expected to create a more efficient way to retrieve network data and scale the platform.

NEAR operates in a similar manner to other centralized data storage systems like Amazon Web Services (AWS) that serve as the base layer on which applications are built. But rather than being run by a single entity, NEAR is operated and maintained by a distributed network of computers.

Just as AWS allows developers to deploy code in the cloud without needing to create their own infrastructure, NEAR Protocol facilitates a similar architecture built around a network of computers and its native cryptocurrency, the NEAR token.

Methodology

This dashboard aims to look closer at the developers world in Near . in the first part , you can find general information about the number of Developers, Projects and Repositories. also, the median , average and maximum number of projects per developer can be found.

the second section, discusses about the developers, showing them in weekly basis and by daily new and old ones. also, the distribution of developers per Origin,5 developers with most of the projects created,5 developers with most of open projects and 5 developers with most of Merged projects are provided. the distribution of developers per state and heatmap of active developers count on different days and hours are available too.

third part shows the information above about the projects.

last part also reveals some information about the contracts on Near.

Developer stats

Observations

• The weekly number of active developers (also old and new ones count) are shown in the chart above. the trend was positive and increasing . maximum number of total active developers were on the week June 20 with 149 developers which 35 of them were first time active ones.

• The pie chart related to distribution of developers per Origin indicates Near as the one with 40.2% of developers were active on.

• Dependabot with 10.64 k was the developer with most of the projects created.

• Dependabot with 187 was the developers with most of open projects.

• Dependabot-perview with 1954 was the developers with most of Merged projects.

• Develepers were less active on weekends compared to other days.

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Project stats

Observations

• The weekly number of created PRs are shown in the chart above. the trend was positive and increasing . maximum number of total created PRs were on the week Apr 25 with 687 .

• The pie chart related to distribution of created PRs per Origin indicates Near as the one with 50% of PRs were active on.

• Of all PRs created , 44.5% merged with others and 43% closed.12.5% are still open.

• Develepers were less active on weekends compared to other days.

• The Tuesdays at 16 was the time with most of PRs created.

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• the latest project created at 2022.12.28 by Mina86 as runtime: introduce PublicKeyBuffer to avoid memory allocation

General Metrics

To close this section, here it can be seen the number of smart contracts created over time, both successful and failed creations.

In this case, the trajectory looks similar to the trasnactions fees one. The number of new smart contracts remained constant from the beginning until April 2022, but then decreased a little bit.

So far, there have been more than 10k unique smart contracts created and 233 failed contracts.

Contracts : Deployment and Performance

Observations

• 52.4 projects opened so far by 2.4 developers. Its 21 prs per developer and it is very interesting. 45.8k of prs has been closed which shows a ratio of 87.5%. average closed prs per developer is 18.5. median prs per developer is 2 and max is 10.8k.

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Conclusion

• Projects and developers play a vital and significant role in the Near network. The advantage of this network is that it has created a suitable platform for developers to create diverse and practical projects.
• As seen, in 2022, the number of projects has faced a significant growth and jump. There has been a great reception from the developers. So that more than half of the projects have been created this year.
• developers were less active on weekends and in controversial, Tuesdays at 16 were the most active hours of them.
• the latest project created at 2022.12.28 by Mina86 as runtime: introduce PublicKeyBuffer to avoid memory allocation