Knowing the developers: an analysis of go-ethereum and parity-ethereum

As part of our series on knowing the developers, this week we're taking a dive into the number two cryptocurrency by market cap and liquidity: Ethereum.

Ethereum’s code permits certain functionalities that has made it a strong draw for developers who want to build on top of the platform. Truffle, a development framework for Ethereum, allows us to get a sense of just how many. Before going into the numbers, it is important to note that it can be argued that while the data from Truffle is interesting, it may be nothing more than a vanity metric. This is because Truffle is a Node Package Manager. Every replication of a project pulls the full rpm source tree again, which means downloads can often be coming from the same DApps already in development. Truffle has had 1,778,655 downloads, but because of what we just noted, it should only be used as a proxy for the number of dApps in development.