A leading cryptographic library saw 4 million downloads in only August.
The developer report created by Electric Capital is the only estimate there has ever been for the number of web3 developers.
According to the analysis, there were 18,000 web3 developers by the end of 2021, compared to 31 million developers worldwide.
Not much at all!
However, as their technique only included open-source code repositories, it was impossible to determine how many 18,000 repositories were undercounted.
The number of "ethers" package downloads since January 2021 is depicted in the chart below. It is the foundation for many crypto/web3 applications, making it a valuable indicator of developer interest.
Since January 2021, monthly downloads have increased linearly, from 1 million in January to 4 million in August 2022.
You may assume that 18,000 is much too few, but it won't necessarily translate to millions of new developers monthly.
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