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Polkadot’s Q2 was rife with hits and misses

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Polkadot jumped from third to second place in terms of total developer count in Q2.
The DeFi landscape witnessed a descent after peaking in mid-April.

Multichain protocol Polkadot [DOT] released a report highlighting the state of the ecosystem in the second quarter of 2023. Touching down on key areas like development activity, staking, and the decentralized finance (DeFi) economy, the report revealed some fascinating insights.

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Development activity on the rise

Over the years, Polkadot has emerged as one of crypto’s largest developer ecosystems. Q2 2023 further solidified its dominance in development activity.

The core developer count, which is basically the number of distinct GitHub users that made at least one commit to the repositories, reached an all-time high of 181 on 22 March. Though there was a sharp decline in the latter part of April, the metric rebounded to stay consistent until the end of the quarter.

Polkadot jumped from third to second place in terms of total developer count as of 1 June, with nearly 1,923 builders operating on the network. About 33.93% of these were full-time developers.

Source: Polkadot

What’s hot in staking?

On the staking front, Polkadot benefitted from some key enhancements introduced in the last quarter. The fast unstake mechanism, which allowed unstaking of DOT before the usual 28-day waiting period, was widely embraced.

Since its implementation, an average of six unique users and 2.38K DOT have been unbonded on a daily basis.

Moreover, daily rewards from nomination pools rose steadily, from the range of 1.06K-2.55K DOT in April to that of 1.69K-3.56K DOT in June. On the other hand, rewards earned by

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Author: Aniket Verma

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