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Santiment Lists the Top 10 Hardest-Working Altcoins on Solana: Big Difference at the Top

According to Santiment data, in terms of development activities in the Solana ecosystem, Chainlink (LINK) and Solana (SOL) are at the peak, while projects such as Jupiter (JUP) and Swarms (SWARMS) continue their uptrend.

In the cryptocurrency world, development activity—one of the most critical indicators for a project’s sustainability and future—is closely followed by investors. The latest report shared by the on-chain data analytics platform Santiment shows the last 30-day performance of projects within the Solana ecosystem. Especially based on activity ratios on GitHub, these data reveal which projects are more technologically productive and carrying the ecosystem on their backs.

Development Leaders in the Solana Ecosystem
According to the shared data, the projects in the top ranks and their performances are listed as follows:

Chainlink (LINK): It is in first place with a massive development score of 239.8 points. The project, which leads in the data provider category, is the most active name in the ecosystem with a price of 8.70 dollars. * Solana (SOL): The network’s main asset ranks second with 91.07 points. Solana’s efforts to develop its own network continue without slowing down even during periods when the price is around 80.33 dollars. * Jupiter (JUP): Standing out in the DeFi space, Jupiter increases its weight in the ecosystem by taking third place with 14 points. * Swarms (SWARMS): An AI-focused project, it climbed to fourth place with 12.23 points and has become one of the most attention-grabbing projects of the recent period.

Other Notable Projects in Software Activities
Further down the list, Jito (JTO), which offers a liquid staking solution, ranks fifth with 12.1 points, followed by Wormhole (W) with 10.6 points. Pyth Network (PYTH), which provides oracle services, is in seventh place with 10.4 points, while infrastructure project DoubleZero (ZZ) is included in the list in eighth place with 9.83 points.

At the bottom end, NFT-focused Metaplex (MPLX) is in ninth place with a score of 9.8 points, and the decentralized physical infrastructure network Helium (HNT) is in tenth place with a score of 9.53. These data show that the Solana ecosystem is not limited to the main network alone, and software productivity continues across a wide range—from DeFi to artificial intelligence.