Ethereum is still the home of builders. And we can add more context to that. @ElectricCapital ’s 2025 Developer Report shows that 16,181 new developers made their first commit in the Ethereum ecosystem this year ( 40% more than Solana and more than double Bitcoin). Routescan can explain why this dominance persists and what happens onchain as result: Ethereum doesn’t stop at L1, it includes all rollups and modular extensions that depend on it for security, from @base and @Optimism to @zora, @modenetwork , @LineaBuild , and beyond, and this modular sprawl is not fragmentation. Every rollup adds new surface area for developers to experiment while inheriting Ethereum’s security and tooling stack. Ethereum doesn’t compete with its L2s. It scales through them. 🔭 What we see onchain — Routescan data When we look at verified contract growth across ecosystems, the pattern mirrors developer inflow almost perfectly: 🥇 Greater Ethereum → 1,155,200 🥈 Optimism Superchain → 951,536 🥉 Nomina → 794,543 ▫️ Avalanche → 599,697 In total, over 3.5 million verified smart contracts are now deployed across the extended Ethereum universe, and that number has accelerated sharply in 2025, coinciding with the same period of developer growth shown by Electric Capital. It is also worth noting that the Superchain, which now counts nearly one million verified contracts, is not external to Ethereum, but part of it. The OP Stack and its rollup network are built directly atop Ethereum’s security guarantees, and all contract verification data ultimately anchors to the same base layer. In Routescan’s classification, the Superchain can therefore be considered a subset of the Greater Ethereum ecosystem, rather than a separate competitor. From another perspective the onchain layer confirms what GitHub already hinted: the Ethereum stack isn’t just attracting new devs, it's retaining more devs through deployable innovation. One of the sustained acceleration in verified contracts, happened especially after the Dencun upgrade. A network effect in observability: the more rollups and L2s connect to Ethereum, the more developers converge on shared standards (EVM, Solidity, verification pipelines). The innovation compounds behind the Ethereum stack: - Each new L2 adds composability. - Each verified contract adds clarity. - Each developer adds a multiplier to both.