Which crypto tokens score highest on developer activity?

Solana (SOL) at 8, Uniswap (UNI) at 8, Chainlink (LINK) at 8, Sui (SUI) at 8, Curve Finance (CRV) at 8 lead the 251 rated tokens on Developer Activity, each scored 1 to 10 against the same definition.

What is a good developer activity score?

The median across the universe is 5 of 10 and the mean is 4.85, so anything at 7 or above sits well inside the top of the distribution. Only 0 of 251 tokens reach 9 or 10.

Does developer activity affect a token's market cap?

Rank correlation between Developer Activity and market capitalisation is 0.29 across 236 tokens with live market data. That is a weak relationship, so the market prices it only partly.

Traction

Developer Activity, ranked

Sustained engineering: contributor count, commit cadence and whether the roadmap ships.

One of the 25 variables in the framework. 251 tokens rated. Scoring pass 18 Sept 2026.

Median

5/10

mean 4.85

Scoring 9 or 10

of 251 rated

Composite link

0.76

correlation with total score

Market link

0.29

rank correlation with market cap, n=236

What this variable measures

Sustained engineering: contributor count, commit cadence and whether the roadmap ships.

A 10 means a deep, diverse, active contributor base. A 1 means an archive that has not moved in months.

Development is the leading indicator with the longest lead time. It turns before users do, in both directions.

What the universe says

Across 251 rated tokens the median score on Developer Activity is 5 of 10 and the mean is 4.85. No token scores 9 or 10, and 14 score 2 or below. Solana leads at 8 of 10.

Developer Activity correlates 0.76 with the composite score across the universe, which makes it strongly tied to overall standing. Tokens that win here tend to win everywhere, so a high score is confirmation rather than an edge.

Against live market capitalisation for the 236 tokens with a matched market row, Developer Activity carries a rank correlation of 0.29. The market leans this way but does not price it consistently, so the ranking below still contains disagreement worth using.

Developer Activity and Team Execution correlate 0.86, so reading both is close to reading one twice. Treat them as a single position on the same question rather than two independent confirmations.

Optimism (OP) scores 8 of 10 on Developer Activity, 1st of 251, on a market capitalisation under $500M. That gap between rank on this variable and rank by size is the whole reason to read the table rather than the top ten.

Distribution across the universe

Tokens at each score from 1 to 10. The shape matters: a variable where almost everything clusters at 3 is telling you the whole category fails it, not that one token is unusual.

All 251 tokens ranked

Sorted by score on this variable alone, so a token can lead here and rank poorly overall. That disagreement is the useful part: it is where a single-variable screen finds something the composite averages away.

251 crypto tokens ranked by Developer Activity, scored 1 to 10
#	Token	Developer Activity	Composite	Market cap	Verdict
1	SOLSolanaHigh-throughput L1 with dominant DEX volume and meme coin launchpad traction. Network reliability improved significantly post-2023.	8/10	170	$68.57B	HOLD
2	UNIUniswapFee switch live on 11+ chains. Protocol revenue $26-61M (P/S 57-73x). V4 on 18 chains, 2500+ hooks. 100M UNI burned but net inflationary (+1.43%/yr). BlackRock entered Feb 2026. a16z holds 41.5-55M UNI. $200M+ insider selling 2025. Unichain TVL $17.8-29.6M (not $532M). SEC safe harbor Apr 2026.	8/10	167	$4.91B	HOLD
3	LINKChainlink70% oracle dominance. DTCC Q4 2026. SOC 2 Type 2. $500M/yr treasury sell pressure. 2 ETFs live.	8/10	165	$10.01B	HOLD
4	SUISuiMove-language L1 with best TVL growth trajectory in 2025-2026. Strong DeFi traction but heavy vesting schedule is key risk.	8/10	146	$4.63B	HOLD
5	CRVCurve Finance44% of ETH DEX fee revenue is extraordinary. veCRV/Convex lock-in. ATH -96% (not -99.6%, illiquid spike).	8/10	140	$552.7M	HOLD
6	NEARNEAR Protocol43.7% of supply staked across 417 validators. TVL $185M (+58% since June). Buyback-issuance crossover claimed at revenue.near.org, gas fees still tiny.	8/10	135	$6.64B	CAUTIOUS HOLD
7	ARBArbitrumLargest Ethereum L2 by TVL with Arbitrum One and Nova chains. Real DeFi hub but token governance hasn't yet captured protocol value effectively.	8/10	134	$1.25B	CAUTIOUS HOLD
8	OPOptimismEthereum L2 with Superchain vision and OP Stack powering Coinbase Base. Real sequencer revenue but massive token vesting schedule is the key headwind.	8/10	123	$273.9M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
9	ETHEthereumInstitutional settlement layer. Commodity classification. Burn collapsed but moat intact.	7/10	187	$313.17B	HOLD CORE
10	WSTETHWrapped Lido Staked ETHLido's wrapped staked ETH, the DeFi collateral standard with about $17.7B TVL and native yield; dominant LST by every metric	7/10	185	$11.76B	HOLD CORE
11	BTCBitcoin	7/10	183	$1.67T	HOLD CORE
12	MKRMaker / Sky	7/10	177	not published	HOLD CORE
13	COWCoW Protocol	7/10	167	$82.3M	HOLD
14	RETHRocket Pool ETH	7/10	159	$946.8M	HOLD
15	AEROAerodrome Finance	7/10	157	$794.7M	HOLD
16	MORPHOMorpho	7/10	157	$1.75B	HOLD
17	LQTYLiquity	7/10	151	$23.3M	HOLD
18	JUPJupiter	7/10	151	$1.04B	HOLD
19	CETUSCetus Protocol	7/10	147	$25.0M	HOLD
20	FLUIDFluid (Instadapp)	7/10	145	$158.2M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
21	DRIFTDrift Protocol	7/10	142	$14.3M	HOLD
22	ARArweave	7/10	140	$274.9M	HOLD
23	INJInjective	7/10	139	$727.9M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
24	KMNOKamino Finance	7/10	138	$214.9M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
25	ENSEthereum Name Service	7/10	137	$269.1M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
26	SAFESafe (formerly Gnosis Safe)	7/10	132	$84.0M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
27	OLASOlas (Autonolas)	7/10	129	$13.4M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
28	TAOBittensor	7/10	128	$3.29B	CAUTIOUS HOLD
29	LITLighter	7/10	125	$876.5M	WATCH
30	POLPolygon system Token	7/10	123	$1.08B	CAUTIOUS HOLD
31	TIACelestia	7/10	120	$432.0M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
32	TONToncoin	7/10	110	$4.02B	WATCH
33	HYPEHyperliquid	6/10	193	$19.71B	HOLD CORE
34	GEODGEODNET	6/10	169	$137.0M	HOLD
35	SYRUPMaple Finance	6/10	168	$268.1M	HOLD
36	ETHFIEther.fi	6/10	162	$680.1M	HOLD
37	PENDLEPendle Finance	6/10	160	$391.5M	HOLD
38	VIRTUALVirtuals Protocol	6/10	151	$502.6M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
39	LDOLido DAO	6/10	146	$353.8M	HOLD
40	GMXGMX	6/10	143	$84.3M	HOLD
41	SKYSky (formerly Maker)	6/10	141	$1.86B	CAUTIOUS HOLD
42	AVAXAvalanche	6/10	138	$4.93B	CAUTIOUS HOLD
43	ACXAcross Protocol	6/10	137	$30.5M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
44	JTOJito	6/10	134	$263.0M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
45	SNXSynthetix	6/10	130	$137.5M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
46	AKTAkash Network	6/10	129	$210.6M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
47	GNOGnosis	6/10	128	$316.6M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
48	RENDERRender Network	6/10	127	$1.05B	CAUTIOUS HOLD
49	BERABerachain	6/10	127	$76.8M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
50	LPTLivepeer	6/10	123	$82.2M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
51	ORCAOrca	6/10	123	$167.2M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
52	GRTThe Graph	6/10	121	$297.6M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
53	VELOVelodrome Finance	6/10	121	$46.1M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
54	MAVMaverick Protocol	6/10	121	$13.1M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
55	VRTXVertex Protocol	6/10	121	not published	CAUTIOUS HOLD
56	PRIMEEchelon Prime	6/10	119	$14.8M	WATCH
57	MNDEMarinade	6/10	119	$15.6M	WATCH
58	IMXImmutable X	6/10	117	$156.3M	WATCH
59	XMRMonero	6/10	117	$10.41B	WATCH
60	APTAptos	6/10	116	$652.3M	WATCH
61	GNSGains Network	6/10	116	$9.5M	WATCH
62	SSonic (prev. Fantom)	6/10	115	$154.2M	WATCH
63	CFGCentrifuge	6/10	115	not published	WATCH
64	TNSRTensor	6/10	112	$27.8M	WATCH
65	FETFetch.ai (ASI Alliance)	6/10	109	$522.8M	WATCH
66	BICOBiconomy	6/10	109	$20.1M	WATCH
67	IOio.net	6/10	108	$63.1M	WATCH
68	EIGENEigenLayer	6/10	107	$226.1M	WATCH
69	PYTHPyth Network	6/10	107	$557.2M	WATCH
70	GELGelato	6/10	107	$498.0K	WATCH
71	SSVSSV Network	6/10	106	$42.1M	WATCH
72	ZROLayerZero	6/10	106	$850.4M	WATCH
73	GTCGitcoin	6/10	106	$15.9M	WATCH
74	SCROLLScroll	6/10	102	$4.7M	WATCH
75	ICPInternet Computer	6/10	102	$1.75B	WATCH
76	FILFilecoin	6/10	101	$867.2M	WATCH
77	MINAMina Protocol	6/10	98	$121.4M	PASS
78	RADRadicle	6/10	97	$19.5M	PASS
79	ATOMCosmos	6/10	96	$899.5M	PASS
80	STRKStarknet	6/10	93	$366.4M	PASS
81	WWormhole	6/10	92	$93.6M	PASS
82	WLDWorldcoin	6/10	89	$1.96B	PASS
83	CBETHCoinbase Wrapped Staked ETH	5/10	158	$484.5M	HOLD
84	OKBOKB	5/10	145	$2.75B	HOLD
85	BNBBNB	5/10	144	$102.38B	HOLD
86	BANANABanana Gun	5/10	135	$15.5M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
87	BGBBitget Token	5/10	135	$1.37B	CAUTIOUS HOLD
88	RAYRaydium	5/10	129	$670.5M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
89	CAKEPancakeSwap	5/10	123	$698.0M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
90	HNTHelium	5/10	122	$97.6M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
91	XRPXRP	5/10	121	$90.31B	CAUTIOUS HOLD
92	ENAEthena	5/10	120	$3.06B	CAUTIOUS HOLD
93	CHZChiliz	5/10	120	$165.6M	CAUTIOUS HOLD
94	COMPCompound	5/10	119	$234.1M	WATCH
95	STXStacks	5/10	118	$697.8M	WATCH
96	WOOWOO Network	5/10	118	$23.6M	WATCH
97	STGStargate Finance	5/10	117	$20.1M	WATCH
98	JOETrader Joe	5/10	117	$17.4M	WATCH
99	QNTQuant	5/10	116	$3.53B	WATCH
100	KASKaspa	5/10	114	$1.11B	WATCH
101	ADACardano	5/10	113	$9.57B	WATCH
102	HBARHedera	5/10	112	$4.09B	WATCH
103	GRASSGrass	5/10	111	$457.9M	WATCH
104	FTMFantom	5/10	111	not published	WATCH
105	MATICPolygon (Legacy)	5/10	110	$1.08B	WATCH
106	KNCKyber Network	5/10	110	$28.1M	WATCH
107	DYDXdYdX	5/10	109	$113.2M	WATCH
108	PERPPerpetual Protocol	5/10	108	$2.8M	WATCH
109	STORJStorj	5/10	108	$12.3M	WATCH
110	ALCXAlchemix	5/10	108	$6.6M	WATCH
111	OMMANTRA	5/10	108	$29.1M	WATCH
112	XLMStellar	5/10	108	$7.01B	WATCH
113	VELAVela Exchange	5/10	107	not published	WATCH
114	RUNETHORChain	5/10	106	$234.5M	PASS
115	SLNDSolend	5/10	106	not published	WATCH
116	FXSFrax Share	5/10	105	$28.3M	WATCH
117	QUICKQuickSwap	5/10	105	$7.0M	WATCH
118	RPLRocket Pool	5/10	104	$40.8M	WATCH
119	RDNTRadiant Capital	5/10	104	$1.0M	WATCH
120	RONRonin	5/10	104	$49.1M	WATCH
121	MLNEnzyme (Melon)	5/10	104	not published	WATCH
122	RSRReserve Rights	5/10	104	$100.3M	WATCH
123	KSMKusama	5/10	103	$90.6M	WATCH
124	SHDWShadow Token	5/10	103	$5.3M	WATCH
125	TRUTrueFi	5/10	102	$1.1M	WATCH
126	APEApeCoin	5/10	102	$146.9M	WATCH
127	ZECZcash	5/10	101	$22.59B	WATCH
128	ATHAethir	5/10	101	$132.9M	WATCH
129	ILVIlluvium	5/10	101	$31.5M	WATCH
130	MCMerit Circle (Beam)	5/10	101	not published	WATCH
131	GMTSTEPN	5/10	101	$25.0M	WATCH
132	AUDIOAudius	5/10	101	$22.7M	WATCH
133	SEISei	5/10	100	$457.3M	WATCH
134	USUALUsual Protocol	5/10	99	$23.6M	PASS
135	API3API3	5/10	99	$45.0M	PASS
136	FLRFlare	5/10	99	$609.8M	PASS
137	IOTXIoTeX	5/10	98	$34.2M	PASS
138	ALGOAlgorand	5/10	97	$1.05B	PASS
139	COTICOTI	5/10	97	$39.1M	PASS
140	SKLSKALE	5/10	97	$26.6M	PASS
141	REQRequest	5/10	97	$42.8M	PASS
142	POOLPoolTogether	5/10	96	$176.3K	PASS
143	FLUXFlux	5/10	96	$191.3K	PASS
144	CTSICartesi	5/10	96	$27.7M	PASS
145	ZKZKsync	5/10	95	$129.1M	PASS
146	BALBalancer	5/10	95	$9.1M	PASS
147	INVInverse Finance	5/10	95	$6.9M	PASS
148	CELOCelo	5/10	94	$57.3M	PASS
149	GLMRMoonbeam	5/10	94	$13.9M	PASS
150	RLCiExec	5/10	94	$61.1M	PASS
151	OSMOOsmosis	5/10	93	$26.6M	PASS
152	HOPRHOPR	5/10	92	$8.7M	PASS
153	SNTStatus	5/10	92	$38.1M	PASS
154	PONDMarlin	5/10	91	$14.2M	PASS
155	TRBTellor	5/10	90	$56.4M	PASS
156	PEAQpeaq	5/10	88	$102.2M	PASS
157	GOGGuild of Guardians	5/10	86	$960.1K	PASS
158	AAVEAave	4/10	156	$2.65B	HOLD
159	LEOUNUS SED LEO	4/10	126	$8.19B	CAUTIOUS HOLD
160	TRXTRON	4/10	125	$31.81B	CAUTIOUS HOLD
161	GTGateToken	4/10	123	not published	CAUTIOUS HOLD
162	KCSKuCoin Token	4/10	119	not published	WATCH
163	ONDOOndo Finance	4/10	115	$2.27B	WATCH
164	YFIYearn Finance	4/10	111	$86.4M	WATCH
165	THETATheta Network	4/10	105	$214.2M	WATCH
166	PENGUPudgy Penguins	4/10	104	$535.4M	WATCH
167	DOTPolkadot	4/10	103	$1.88B	WATCH
168	CVXConvex Finance	4/10	103	$193.9M	WATCH
169	KLAYKlaytn	4/10	103	not published	WATCH
170	CROCronos	4/10	102	$3.12B	WATCH
171	VETVeChain	4/10	101	$692.4M	WATCH
172	DASHDash	4/10	101	$683.9M	WATCH
173	CORECore	4/10	100	$29.2M	WATCH
174	BADGERBadgerDAO	4/10	100	$6.4M	WATCH
175	CFXConflux	4/10	98	$265.8M	PASS
176	NMRNumeraire	4/10	98	$105.4M	PASS
177	ACHAlchemy Pay	4/10	97	not published	PASS
178	ANKRAnkr Network	4/10	96	$46.1M	PASS
179	ALPACAAlpaca Finance	4/10	95	$138.7K	PASS
180	YGGYield Guild Games	4/10	95	$22.5M	PASS
181	POLYXPolymesh	4/10	95	$52.9M	PASS
182	CKBNervos Network	4/10	93	$61.4M	PASS
183	1INCH1inch Network	4/10	93	$138.1M	PASS
184	PROPPropy	4/10	93	$35.2M	PASS
185	FARMHarvest Finance	4/10	93	$5.1M	PASS
186	MBOXMOBOX	4/10	92	$298.5K	PASS
187	ALPHAAlpha Venture DAO	4/10	91	$483.2K	PASS
188	CELRCeler Network	4/10	90	$22.9M	PASS
189	NANONano	4/10	90	$46.6M	PASS
190	ETCEthereum Classic	4/10	90	$1.32B	PASS
191	ALICEMy Neighbor Alice	4/10	89	$16.9M	PASS
192	HIGHHighstreet	4/10	88	not published	PASS
193	SXPSolar	4/10	88	$2.5M	PASS
194	DENTDent	4/10	88	$6.2M	PASS
195	BLASTBlast	4/10	87	$4.9M	PASS
196	LEVERLeverFi	4/10	87	not published	PASS
197	NOSNosana	4/10	86	$52.5M	PASS
198	CANTOCanto	4/10	86	$2.0M	PASS
199	EGLDMultiversX (prev. Elrond)	4/10	85	$123.2M	PASS
200	ROSEOasis Network	4/10	84	$62.0M	PASS
201	BLURBlur	4/10	84	$55.8M	PASS
202	FORTHAmpleforth Governance	4/10	84	$3.0M	PASS
203	MASKMask Network	4/10	82	$45.8M	PASS
204	KAVAKava	4/10	80	$71.7M	PASS
205	PRCLParcl	4/10	80	$5.5M	PASS
206	AXSAxie Infinity	4/10	76	$207.3M	PASS
207	MOVEMovement	4/10	67	$40.6M	PASS
208	PAXGPAX Gold	3/10	141	$1.79B	HOLD
209	LTCLitecoin	3/10	102	$5.15B	WATCH
210	HTHuobi Token	3/10	98	$16.3M	PASS
211	MXMEXC Token	3/10	94	not published	PASS
212	BONKBonk	3/10	93	$300.8M	PASS
213	MOBILEHelium Mobile	3/10	92	$6.0M	PASS
214	XTZTezos	3/10	88	$336.3M	PASS
215	FLOKIFLOKI	3/10	88	$257.5M	PASS
216	AGLDAdventure Gold	3/10	86	$18.0M	PASS
217	BONDBarnBridge	3/10	82	$93.5K	PASS
218	WAXPWAX	3/10	81	$26.9M	PASS
219	FLOWFlow	3/10	78	$53.4M	PASS
220	LRCLoopring	3/10	78	$13.2M	PASS
221	IOTAIOTA	3/10	78	$248.2M	PASS
222	IDEXIDEX	3/10	77	$838.1K	PASS
223	MANTAManta Network	3/10	76	$31.1M	PASS
224	BTTBitTorrent	3/10	76	$357.4M	PASS
225	MCBMCDEX	3/10	76	$8.9M	PASS
226	SUSHISushiSwap	3/10	74	$66.7M	PASS
227	RVNRavencoin	3/10	74	$36.1M	PASS
228	BANDBand Protocol	3/10	73	$40.8M	PASS
229	MODEMode Network	3/10	72	$666.9K	PASS
230	SHIBShiba Inu	3/10	71	$3.17B	PASS
231	NEONeo	3/10	68	$166.5M	PASS
232	RBNRibbon Finance	3/10	68	$1.7M	PASS
233	SUPERSuperVerse	3/10	67	$144.5M	PASS
234	JASMYJasmyCoin	3/10	67	$243.3M	PASS
235	MANADecentraland	3/10	66	$197.1M	PASS
236	SANDThe Sandbox	3/10	58	$219.2M	PASS
237	GALAGala Games	3/10	53	$114.2M	PASS
238	ORDIORDI	2/10	96	$88.5M	PASS
239	DOGEDogecoin	2/10	89	$13.83B	PASS
240	NOTNotcoin	2/10	73	$45.0M	PASS
241	ZILZilliqa	2/10	63	$64.9M	PASS
242	SPELLSpell Token	2/10	63	$16.0M	PASS
243	KDAKadena	2/10	50	$3.0M	PASS
244	PEPEPepe	1/10	92	$1.70B	PASS
245	WIFdogwifhat	1/10	88	$227.9M	PASS
246	POPCATPopcat	1/10	73	$46.9M	PASS
247	DOGSDOGS	1/10	62	$22.6M	PASS
248	QTUMQtum	1/10	61	$97.7M	PASS
249	MEMEMemecoin	1/10	57	$36.6M	PASS
250	NEIRONEIRO	1/10	56	$35.3M	PASS
251	ONEHarmony	1/10	48	$32.9M	PASS

Scores come from the research pass dated 18 Sept 2026 and do not move with price. Market capitalisation is from the live snapshot fetched 7 Oct 2026, so the two columns are stamped at different times on purpose.

Variables that move with this one

Correlations across all 251 rated tokens. A number near 1 means the two variables are close to the same measurement, which is worth knowing before treating a second high score as independent confirmation of the first.

Common questions

Which crypto tokens score highest on developer activity?: Solana (SOL) at 8, Uniswap (UNI) at 8, Chainlink (LINK) at 8, Sui (SUI) at 8, Curve Finance (CRV) at 8 lead the 251 rated tokens on Developer Activity, each scored 1 to 10 against the same definition.
What is a good developer activity score?: The median across the universe is 5 of 10 and the mean is 4.85, so anything at 7 or above sits well inside the top of the distribution. Only 0 of 251 tokens reach 9 or 10.
Does developer activity affect a token's market cap?: Rank correlation between Developer Activity and market capitalisation is 0.29 across 236 tokens with live market data. That is a weak relationship, so the market prices it only partly.

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Research and analysis, not investment advice. Correlations describe the rated universe at one point in time and are not predictions.