- Solana leads with a 100.93 dev score, showing unmatched GitHub activity and strong investor confidence across its core blockchain projects.
- Wormhole and Pyth Network gain traction with rising prices and dev scores, signaling growing demand for cross-chain and oracle tools.
- JITO, Drift, and io.net drive Solana’s DeFi and AI growth as smaller caps see strong development and weekly price gains in key sectors.
Solana ($SOL) has ranked first in development activity across its ecosystem. The blockchain posted a dev activity score of 100.93, significantly outpacing its closest peers. This metric, based on actual GitHub events rather than commits, reveals a bullish indicator of continuous engineering momentum behind Solana’s core and satellite projects.
Solana, Wormhole, and Pyth Dominate the Dev Rankings
In a post by Santiment, Solana was ranked the top project, backed by an ecosystem-wide push in development activity. With a current price of $135.01, up 1.76% over the last seven days, and a market cap of $71.72 billion, Solana holds 12th place globally. Its high dev score underscores deep investment into blockchain infrastructure, dApps, and scalability tools.
Wormhole ($W) came second with a 37.77 score and a weekly gain of 3.01%, trading at $0.058516. Its $258.87 million market cap highlights growing adoption of its cross-chain messaging layer. Pyth Network ($PYTH), ranked third, posted a 30.67 dev score, rose 2.28% this week, and now trades at $0.087361. With a $502.32 million market cap, PYTH remains critical in delivering decentralized data feeds across Solana-based protocols.
DeFi, Smart Contracts, and Yield Projects Push Forward
According to Santiment, Drift Protocol ($DRIFT) registered a 28.2 dev score, trading at $0.372363 after a 2.69% rise. With a $115.4 million cap, DRIFT continues refining Solana-native decentralized exchange features. NEON posted a 22.37 score and trades at $0.087569, up slightly this week. Its $20.96 million market cap reflects its work on Ethereum-compatible execution layers on Solana.
JITO ($JTO) earned a 20.33 score with a $1.991963 price, slightly down 1.02%, yet maintains a hefty $685.33 million market cap. Its staking and MEV tools are still among the most used in Solana DeFi. io.net ($IO) followed with a 20.17 score and 4.81% weekly growth to $0.635637, driven by AI infrastructure use cases, with a $105.89 million valuation.
NFTs, AI, and Data Protocols Keep Building
Helium ($HNT) recorded a 14.87 score, priced at $2.18 and up 1.47%, with a market cap of $400.58 million. Metaplex ($MPLX), critical to Solana NFTs, posted 13.83 in development and trades at $0.132104. Swarms ($SWARMS) rounded out the top 10 with a 13.73 score, steady at $0.015256, advancing decentralized storage tools.
All ten Solana projects- SOL, W, PYTH, DRIFT, NEON, JTO, IO, HNT, MPLX, and SWARMS- show real development momentum and consistent GitHub-based contributions, reinforcing Solana’s dominance across crypto verticals.
