A written report published past blockchain and AI investment firm Outlier Ventures has found a decline in developer activity of roughly xx% on average across 12 leading blockchain and cryptocurrency projects.

In Outlier Ventures' Blockchain Developer Study for the second quarter of 2022, the house notes that development fell past half for top markets Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Eos (EOS), and Tron Tron (TRX).

Despite the retraction in building, the firm notes that some signs of strong developer activeness surrounding various crypto projects, with Theta (THETA) and Cardano (ADA) seeing increases in core code updates of 931% and 580% respectively.

Top crypto projects see slides in development

Eos saw the fastest drop in development, with the project's mainnet launch in June year precipitating an 86% autumn in edifice taking place.

Bitcoin Cash saw the second-largest pass up in activity, with evolution falling past 63%. Outlier Ventures attributes much of the drib to the Bitcoin SV (BSV) fork that took place in November 2022.

Tron besides saw a heavy retracement in development, with a 53% driblet in action.

Monthly active development on Tron, Eos, and Bitcoin Cash: Outlier Ventures

Monthly active development on Tron, Eos, and Bitcoin Cash: Outlier Ventures

Cardano, Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Corda all saw activity fall by near 20%, while Ripple (XRP), Hyperledger, and Stellar (XLM) also saw development declines year-over-yr.

Polkadot and Cosmos (Cantlet) were the only projects to exhibit an increase in total development, increasing by 15% and 44% respectively.

Lawmaking update on the rise for most cryptos

The report also measured the number of weekly commits and code updates for the top 30 open-source protocols past marketplace cap, plus Corda and Hyperledger.

Weekly code updates for Eos, Tron, and MakerDAO (MKR) saw huge update decreases of 94%, 96%, and 98% respectively, with VeChain (VET), Stellar, BSV, Neo (NEO), Crypto.com (CRO), Creation, IOTA (MIOTA), and Polkadot also posting declines overall.

Withal, more than than 50% of the projects examined saw a meaning increase in code updates, including Ethereum Archetype (ETC), Chainlink (LINK), and Bitcoin.