Ethereum задает темп в разработке: 16,1 тыс. новых специалистов в 2025 году Translation: Ethereum Sets the Pace in Development: 16.1k New Specialists in 2025

As of the beginning of 2025, the number of developers in the ecosystem of the second-largest cryptocurrency has increased by 16,181. This information was provided by representatives of the Ethereum Foundation, citing data from Electric Capital.

The blockchain has become a leader in this metric. The top three also include Solana and Bitcoin, which attracted 11,534 and 7,494 new specialists, respectively. Polygon ranked fourth with 3,681, while Stacks secured the fifth position with 3,246.

Ethereum maintains its status as the primary blockchain in terms of active developers, boasting 31,869. This is nearly double that of its closest competitor, Solana, which has 17,708 professionals working on its network.

As noted by a user, developers are drawn to Ethereum for several reasons:

The blockchain of the second-largest cryptocurrency remains the biggest ecosystem in the industry, hosting dozens of layer-2 solutions.

According to L2Beat, more than $52.94 billion is locked within layer-2 networks, marking a 28.8% increase over the past year.

The leading solutions include Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism.

Ethereum is also home to decentralized applications and protocols. The total value locked (TVL) in the DeFi sector based on the second-largest cryptocurrency network exceeds $87.2 billion.

Users’ opinions about Ethereum’s success are divided. Some have questioned whether professionals genuinely prefer the leading altcoin’s network for development.

“I’ve been working on Ethereum for eight years, and it remains the worst user experience of all possibilities. I’m not exaggerating for effect. It’s an absolutely terrible platform from an ordinary user’s perspective, and I don’t understand why it has so many developers—if there are so many, why can’t they just make it better?” wrote a user under the pseudonym Guy on the Earth.

Others emphasized that any specialist entering the blockchain field “ultimately transitions to Ethereum.”

Many were also surprised by the number of new and active developers in the first cryptocurrency’s network.

“What are all these 7,000+ Bitcoin specialists doing all day?” asked a community member under the alias Suraj Sharma.

Additionally, the Ethereum scaling-focused project Brevis has introduced zkEVM technology known as Pico Prism, which has brought the blockchain closer to its target of 10,000 transactions per second (TPS).