How Often Do Cryptocurrencies Commit New Code?

"The chart below shows that, of the top cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, some - like EOS, Cardano, Monero, and Bitcoin - have had a lot more commits than others - like Populous or Bitconnect". Since Bitconnect is a now defunkt ponzi scheme and not a cryptocurrency, their lack of Github activity makes sense :) This analysis would be more helpful if the author properly curated the projects / tokens to include in the study.

Is this only looking at one repository per project? Some projects, like Ethereum, have a number of repositories:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ethereum" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ethereum</a>

Here&#x27;s a site that tracks exactly this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptomiso.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptomiso.com&#x2F;</a>

Seems like there would be a big difference in metrics here if committers squash their commits or not.

I love this. I&#x27;ve been kicking around the idea of building an automated crypto index buyer that orchestrates purchases&#x2F;transfers on exchanges, around metrics like commits as well as use metrics like the ratio of on-chain value transfers to speculative on-exchange trading.<p>Would be nice to couple this with a Linux distribution that made it easy to create an offline wallet for new cryptocurrencies that become interesting, so you could immediately shift your coins off of exchanges.<p>A lot of them will probably become worth very little&#x2F;go to zero, but there&#x27;s a reasonable chance that the Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google etc. of the crypto world already exists as a fledgeling project.

Coingecko has been tracking this too, for example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coingecko.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;coins&#x2F;ethereum&#x2F;developer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coingecko.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;coins&#x2F;ethereum&#x2F;developer</a>

Another factor to consider is the content of each commit. Is it just copying from another project or making trivial changes, or is there real work being done?

I was curious about market cap to twitter followers or posts in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcointalk.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcointalk.org</a>.