Despite record highs for network charges in February, development on some of the industry’s leading Ethereum based projects has continued unabated.

The research stated that development activity is an often-underrated indicator of project success. It demonstrates the ongoing commitment to creating a working product, continuously polishing and upgrading its features, and staying true to the long-term roadmap.

The research focused solely on pure ERC-20 projects that are currently committed to developing on Ethereum. It has used 30-day Github activity to track development status and action.

We’ve just released our top 10 highest developing #Ethereum-based project countdown for the month of February! Read what the fastest moving projects using $ETH tech. are working on:

1) $GNO @gnosisPM
2) $SNT @ethstatus
3) $MANA @decentraland
4) $UMA @UMAprotocol

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— Santiment (@santimentfeed) March 3, 2021

The Ethereum Project Top Ten

At the top of the list for developer activity in February is the decentralized prediction market platform Gnosis. Despite a 28% slide in GNO token prices for the second half of the month, the Gnosis team has been busy working on the product.

Gnosis launched on the xDai Ethereum sidechain, joined the Open DeFi alliance, and launched a new collaborative grants initiative for Gnosis Safe Apps last month.

Status was the second most developed Ethereum based project with a number of updates for the open source mobile dApp browser and messenger. SNT prices hit a three-year high of $0.125 in February.

Virtual metaverse and NFT protocol Decentraland was third in the list of developer activity with a number of features introduced to improve user experiences.

DeFi synthetic asset protocol UMA came in fourth with two main focuses for the month; getting some major protocols out the door, and there was a collaboration with BadgerDAO.

Coming in at number five for developer action was Chainlink which announced the official mainnet launch of Off-Chain Reporting (OCR). This significantly improves the efficiency of how data is computed across Chainlink oracles, reducing operating costs by up to 90%, it added.

“The most immediate benefit to DeFi and its users will be a 10x increase in the amount of real-world data that can be made available to smart contract applications.”

DeFi Dominates

These were the five most developed platforms in the Ethereum ecosystem for February 2021, and they were dominated by DeFi.

Also featuring in the top ten list was Skale Network, a decentralized modular cloud for running Ethereum-based dApps. MakerDAO, which is consistently in the top ten for development, was in seventh place.

Decentralized data exchange protocol Ocean, computing sharing economy Golem, and analytics platform Santiment itself rounded out the top ten.