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
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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