Electric Capital’s Maria Shen dives into her company’s recently published research report about Web3 open-source development in 2021 and shares her thoughts and insights on how developers are flocking to Web3 in a manner that goes far beyond just Bitcoin and Ethereum. Show topics:

• Maria’s biggest takeaways from the Electric Capital Developer Report
• how developer growth is affected by asset price
• which ecosystems are growing fastest
• why Maria thinks the growth in Bitcoin development has slowed down
• why Maria is so impressed by Ethereum’s performance in terms of retaining developers
• how closed-source development on, for example, Solana or Flow could affect the report’s findings
• the significance of Polkadot, Solana, NEAR, Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche, and Terra growing faster than Ethereum did at similar points in its history
• developer growth in DeFi during 2021
• why Electric Capital did not study developer growth for NFTs, DAOs, or gaming
• why Maria is so interested in studying community growth going forward
• what Maria will be watching for in 2022

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Episode Links

 

Maria Shen

https://twitter.com/MariaShen 

Previous Unchained appearance: https://unchainedpodcast.com/electric-capital-on-the-coins-punching-below-their-weight/ 

 

Electric Capital

• https://www.electriccapital.com/

 

Electric Capital Developer Report (2021)

https://medium.com/electric-capital/electric-capital-developer-report-2021-f37874efea6d 

Previous reports: https://medium.com/electric-capital 

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