diff --git a/apps/docs/blog/2024-04-24-octant-epoch-03-ecosystem-analysis.md b/apps/docs/blog/2024-04-24-octant-epoch-03-ecosystem-analysis.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4e2999d98 --- /dev/null +++ b/apps/docs/blog/2024-04-24-octant-epoch-03-ecosystem-analysis.md @@ -0,0 +1,171 @@ +--- +slug: octant-epoch-03-ecosystem-analysis +title: Trends and progress among OSS projects in Octant's latest epoch +authors: [ccerv1] +tags: [octant, ecosystem reports, open source] +image: https://site-assets.plasmic.app/75a76e63b052ad2cf61265abb50d3f6e.png +--- + +import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs'; +import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem'; + +Octant recently kicked off **Epoch 3**, its latest reward allocation round, featuring [30 projects](https://octant.app/projects). This round comes three months after Epoch 2, which had a total of 24 projects in it. There are 20 projects continuing on from Epoch 2 into Epoch 3 - including [Open Source Observer](https://octant.app/project/3/0x87fEEd6162CB7dFe6B62F64366742349bF4D1B05). + +During Epoch 2, we published a [blog post](https://docs.opensource.observer/blog/octant-epoch-02-ecosystem-analysis) with some high-level indicators about the 20+ open source software (OSS) projects participating in the round. In this post, we'll provide some insights about the new OSS projects and refresh our analysis for the returning projects. + +Overall, in Epoch 3, Octant is helping support: + +- 26 (out of 30) projects with at least some recent OSS component to their work +- 343 GitHub repos with regular activity +- 651 developers making regular code commits or reviews + +In the last 6 months, these 26 projects: + +- Attracted 881 first-time contributors +- Closed over 4,646 issues (and created 4,856 new ones) +- Merged over 9,745 pull requests (and opened 11,534 new ones) + + + +## New OSS projects + +Epoch 3 has a new cohort of popular, well-established OSS projects. + +[web3.js](https://octant.app/project/3/0x4C6fd545fc18C6538eC304Ae549717CA58f0D6eb) is one of the leading developer libraries for crypto apps. It has a massive contributor community and more than [80,000 other repos](https://packages.ecosyste.ms/registries/npmjs.org/packages/web3) rely on its npm package. Epoch 3 also includes [web3.py](https://octant.app/project/3/0x5597cD8d55D2Db56b10FF4F8fe69C8922BF6C537), a popular library for Python developers, which is housed in the `ethereum` GitHub org space and is a dependency for [4,000 other repos](https://packages.ecosyste.ms/registries/pypi.org/packages/web3). _PSA: OSO is in the process of onboarding [ecosyste.ms](https://ecosyste.ms/) dependency data right now._ + +The [Ethereum Attestation Service](https://octant.app/project/3/0xBCA48834b3653ec795411EB0FCBE4038F8527d62) is another foundational OSS project participating in the round. It has a lean team but a fast-growing contributor community and presence across various EVM chains. [Gardens (fka 1Hive)](https://octant.app/project/3/0x809C9f8dd8CA93A41c3adca4972Fa234C28F7714) is a long-standing project with a large footprint of OSS code (more than 100 repos!). Its recent activity has been focused on releasing a Gardens v2. [MetaGov](https://octant.app/project/3/0x9be7267002CAD0b8501f7322d50612CB13788Bcf) is a community laboratory that conducts peer-reviewed research and develops technical standards for emerging technology. It's been steadily building since 2019. + +There are also three younger OSS projects that are new to Epoch 3 but are in the sweet spot for Octant's support: small teams, shipping fast. [growthepie](https://octant.app/project/3/0x9438b8B447179740cD97869997a2FCc9b4AA63a2) is a data platform as a public good, with excellent real-time charts, such as [this one](https://www.growthepie.xyz/fundamentals/profit) showing L2 onchain profits. They are expanding their impact via a new project called the [Open Labels Initiative](https://github.com/openlabelsinitiative). [NiceNode](https://octant.app/project/3/0x9cce47E9cF12C6147c9844adBB81fE85880c4df4) is a simple, open source, desktop app that does exactly what it sounds like: runs a nice node for you. The project has been around for at least two years, but its contributor community has doubled over the past 6 months. [StateOfEth (by Ether Alpha)](https://octant.app/project/3/0x0194325BF525Be0D4fBB0856894cEd74Da3B8356) monitors potential attack vectors on Ethereum, including centralization risks, and does outreach to rally the community when needed. The maintainer, Ether Alpha, hosts a bunch of projects on its GitHub and has had a flurry of activity (over 10K commits) in the last 6 months. + + + +

+ | Project | Active Repos - Last 6 Months | Fork Count - Max of Active Repos | Star Count - Max of Active Repos | + |:-----------------------------|-------------------------------:|-----------------------------------:|-----------------------------------:| + | 1Hive Gardens | 9 | 37 | 28 | + | StateOfEth (by Ether Alpha) | 13 | 21 | 22 | + | Ethereum Attestation Service | 8 | 55 | 213 | + | growthepie | 4 | 5 | 13 | + | MetaGov | 21 | 20 | 72 | + | web3.js | 5 | 4831 | 18764 | + | web3.py | 1 | 1620 | 4790 | +

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+ | Project | Total Contributors - All Time | New Contributors - Last 6 Months | Full-time Developers - Avg Last 6 Months | Total Developers - Avg Last 6 Months | + |:-----------------------------|--------------------------------:|-----------------------------------:|-------------------------------------------:|---------------------------------------:| + | 1Hive Gardens | 326 | 2 | 0 | 2.2 | + | StateOfEth (by Ether Alpha) | 35 | 3 | 1.3 | 2.2 | + | Ethereum Attestation Service | 82 | 43 | 0 | 2 | + | growthepie | 8 | 2 | 1.2 | 4 | + | MetaGov | 65 | 3 | 0 | 5.2 | + | web3.js | 2308 | 112 | 0.2 | 5.2 | + | web3.py | 949 | 56 | 0 | 4.2 | +

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+ | Project | Commit Code - All Repos, Last 6 Months | Issue Closed - All Repos, Last 6 Months | Issue Created - All Repos, Last 6 Months | Pull Request Created - All Repos, Last 6 Months | Pull Request Merged - All Repos, Last 6 Months | + |:-----------------------------|-----------------------------------------:|------------------------------------------:|-------------------------------------------:|--------------------------------------------------:|-------------------------------------------------:| + | 1Hive Gardens | 139 | 42 | 65 | 88 | 67 | + | StateOfEth (by Ether Alpha) | 16217 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 8 | + | Ethereum Attestation Service | 275 | 20 | 24 | 75 | 42 | + | growthepie | 1025 | 1 | 0 | 56 | 54 | + | MetaGov | 417 | 20 | 31 | 45 | 43 | + | web3.js | 184 | 203 | 222 | 217 | 156 | + | web3.py | 243 | 137 | 65 | 148 | 121 | +

+ + + +## Non-OSS projects + +[Funding the Commons](https://octant.app/project/3/0x576edCed7475D8F64a5e2D5227c93Ca57d7f5d20/) is a returning project that acts as a generator function for all sorts of OSS projects and collaboration among projects. For instance, in April, FtC hosted a conference in Berkeley, California focused on funding open source software. There was representation from a number of the projects in Epoch 3, including Tor, growthepie, Drips, Hypercerts, Gitcoin, MetaGov, and Open Source Observer. + +[Boring Security](https://octant.app/project/3/0x52C45Bab6d0827F44a973899666D9Cd18Fd90bCF) is another project supporting the OSS community and Ethereum users, but more through its security-related efforts than through its code contributions. There are also two new, non-OSS projects - [ETH Daily](https://octant.app/project/3/0xEB40A065854bd90126A4E697aeA0976BA51b2eE7) and [RefiDAO](https://octant.app/project/3/0x7340F1a1e4e38F43d2FCC85cdb2b764de36B40c0) - joining the Epoch. Both are well-known fixtures in the Ethereum grantmaking community. ETH Daily provides a _daily_ podcast and newsletter to a community of 2000+ subscribers. RefiDAO is a podcast, eventmaker, and DAO of DAOs ("local nodes") working on regenerative finance and other real world use cases. Check them out! + +## Returning OSS projects + +We won't go into detail of every returning project, but here are some high level metrics for the 18 OSS projects in Epoch 3 that we also covered in Epoch 2. + + + +

+ | Project | Active Repos - Last 6 Months | Fork Count - Max of Active Repos | Star Count - Max of Active Repos | + |:-------------------------------------|-------------------------------:|-----------------------------------:|-----------------------------------:| + | Drips | 9 | 17 | 58 | + | Ethereum Cat Herders | 1 | 5040 | 12523 | + | EthStaker | 6 | 187 | 426 | + | Gitcoin | 47 | 422 | 886 | + | Giveth | 22 | 31 | 30 | + | Glo Dollar | 2 | 1 | 3 | + | Hypercerts | 10 | 24 | 81 | + | L2BEAT | 8 | 329 | 457 | + | MetaGame | 8 | 76 | 127 | + | NiceNode | 11 | 26 | 168 | + | Open Source Observer | 5 | 22 | 37 | + | Pairwise | 5 | 0 | 7 | + | Praise | 5 | 19 | 32 | + | Protocol Guild | 92 | 19417 | 46063 | + | Revoke | 6 | 208 | 620 | + | rotki | 17 | 475 | 2609 | + | Shielded Voting (by Shutter Network) | 15 | 14 | 57 | + | The Tor Project | 13 | 926 | 4304 | +

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+ | Project | Total Contributors - All Time | New Contributors - Last 6 Months | Full-time Developers - Avg Last 6 Months | Total Developers - Avg Last 6 Months | + |:-------------------------------------|--------------------------------:|-----------------------------------:|-------------------------------------------:|---------------------------------------:| + | Drips | 38 | 13 | 1 | 3.8 | + | Ethereum Cat Herders | 1515 | 129 | 1 | 2.8 | + | EthStaker | 228 | 40 | 1 | 4.7 | + | Gitcoin | 1807 | 67 | 5 | 17 | + | Giveth | 314 | 9 | 1.7 | 9.7 | + | Glo Dollar | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | + | Hypercerts | 25 | 9 | 0.3 | 2.7 | + | L2BEAT | 276 | 95 | 1.5 | 12.5 | + | MetaGame | 145 | 2 | 0.3 | 3.2 | + | NiceNode | 23 | 11 | 0.8 | 1.3 | + | Open Source Observer | 30 | 25 | 1.8 | 4.3 | + | Pairwise | 15 | 6 | 0.2 | 2.2 | + | Praise | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | + | Protocol Guild | 14721 | 890 | 11.3 | 60.7 | + | Revoke | 162 | 66 | 0.8 | 1 | + | rotki | 493 | 62 | 3.3 | 5.3 | + | Shielded Voting (by Shutter Network) | 22 | 6 | 0 | 3.5 | + | The Tor Project | 741 | 26 | 0.8 | 1.8 | +

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+ | Project | Commit Code - All Repos, Last 6 Months | Issue Closed - All Repos, Last 6 Months | Issue Created - All Repos, Last 6 Months | Pull Request Created - All Repos, Last 6 Months | Pull Request Merged - All Repos, Last 6 Months | + |:-------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------:|------------------------------------------:|-------------------------------------------:|--------------------------------------------------:|-------------------------------------------------:| + | Drips | 382 | 137 | 148 | 173 | 160 | + | Ethereum Cat Herders | 270 | 31 | 59 | 393 | 252 | + | EthStaker | 430 | 46 | 54 | 277 | 276 | + | Gitcoin | 2877 | 925 | 1007 | 1102 | 977 | + | Giveth | 2708 | 710 | 563 | 612 | 566 | + | Glo Dollar | 62 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | + | Hypercerts | 362 | 197 | 132 | 192 | 175 | + | L2BEAT | 754 | 39 | 34 | 1390 | 1255 | + | MetaGame | 255 | 58 | 35 | 80 | 61 | + | NiceNode | 255 | 18 | 35 | 161 | 121 | + | Open Source Observer | 678 | 332 | 437 | 505 | 482 | + | Pairwise | 330 | 89 | 128 | 76 | 73 | + | Praise | 24 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | + | Protocol Guild | 11167 | 1390 | 1528 | 4684 | 3688 | + | Revoke | 312 | 69 | 67 | 44 | 43 | + | rotki | 1937 | 168 | 188 | 1111 | 1073 | + | Shielded Voting (by Shutter Network) | 251 | 6 | 16 | 52 | 42 | + | The Tor Project | 428 | 7 | 15 | 11 | 2 | +

+ + + +## Make your allocations + +Like past iterations, the signal-to-noise ratio is very high among projects on the Octant app. The deadline to allocate rewards to these projects is 30 April 2024. If you're a staker, go allocate now! To allocate or find more information about the current set of projects, check out the [Octant App](https://octant.app/projects). + +If you are interested in contributing to analysis like this, we invite you to join [our data collective](https://opensource.observer/data-collective). You can also view the queries and analysis Notebook behind this and other Octant reports [here](https://github.com/opensource-observer/insights/tree/main/analysis/octant).