Solana developer activity has dropped 29% from its peak, but overall development activity remains above the 2022 cycle high.

BlockBeats News, June 18th, according to data from the Solana ecosystem platform Syndica, the number of active developers on Solana has dropped by about 29% from the peak in May 2025, and is currently around 1,220 people.

Despite the slight decline in the number of active developers, on-chain development activity remains high. The data shows that there were about 28,400 developer events in May, which is roughly 70% higher than the peak in August 2022. Development activities including code commits, Pull Requests, and code reviews are still significantly higher than the previous peak.