According to @santimentfeed, the top 10 Ethereum-associated projects by recent development activity are MetaMask mUSD (up), Starknet STRK (up), Chainlink LINK (down), Safecoin SAFE (up), Decentraland MANA (down), Ethereum ETH (down), Status SNT (down), XDC Network XDC (up), Cartesi CTSI (up), and Worldcoin WLD (up), source: Santiment (@santimentfeed) on X, Jan 5, 2026. The up or down tags indicate each project’s ranking change versus last month based on Santiment’s filtered notable GitHub activity across project repositories, source: Santiment (@santimentfeed) on X, Jan 5, 2026. Santiment states its methodology filters for meaningful commits to better reflect true developer engagement and that these development activity trends are useful for crypto trading, source: Santiment methodology article referenced by @santimentfeed. Traders can build an ETH-ecosystem watchlist around rising development activity names mUSD, STRK, XDC, CTSI, and WLD, while monitoring relative slowdowns in LINK, MANA, ETH, and SNT for changes in builder cadence, source: Santiment (@santimentfeed) on X and Santiment methodology article. Santiment also offers a bookmarkable ETH-based project watchlist for ongoing monitoring to track these development activity trends in real time, source: Santiment (@santimentfeed) on X, Jan 5, 2026.

According to @santimentfeed, the top Ethereum ecosystem coins by filtered GitHub development activity this month are LINK, SNT, ETH, MANA, INXT, HOT, LDO, CRV, LPT, and GRT, with all showing upward positioning versus last month, source: Santiment on X, Dec 8, 2025. According to @santimentfeed, development activity is measured via Santiment’s methodology that filters notable commits to avoid noise and is presented as a signal useful for crypto trading, source: Santiment Medium methodology article. According to @santimentfeed, traders can monitor the live ETH-based project watchlist to track momentum changes in development activity across these ERC-20 and ETH-associated projects, source: Santiment app watchlist. According to @santimentfeed, the rankings highlight LINK at #1, SNT at #2, and ETH at #3, signaling strong builder engagement in oracle, messenger, and base-layer categories relevant to liquidity and infrastructure narratives, source: Santiment on X, Dec 8, 2025. According to @santimentfeed, this metric reflects developer progress rather than price performance and is intended as a fundamental activity indicator for risk assessment and discovery, source: Santiment Medium methodology article.