# Crypto code commits fall 75% as developers move to AI projects

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/03/12/crypto-developer-activity-sinks-to-multi-year-low-as-ai-absorbs-github-s-talent-boom
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Crypto-code-commits-fall-75percent-as-developers-move-to-AI-projects?index=0x69b3d628c19845e9c2d849ed2b9eacee538bfa236db88215d1d371edb7ca45eb233aa8e9
Submitted by rvolz.eth on 2026-03-13 UTC, 2 upvotes, 1 comment

## Summary

Blockchain projects are losing developers as contributors shift toward artificial intelligence work, according to data from analytics platform Artemis. Weekly crypto commits to repositories fell roughly 75% from about 850,000 to 210,000 since early 2025, while active developers declined 56% to around 4,600. Over the same period, GitHub added about 36 million developers in 2025 and hosts more than 4.3 million AI-related repositories. The article suggests crypto may be consolidating rather than collapsing, as developers with more than two years of tenure now produce roughly 70% of commits.

## Comments

**tim**: > with weekly crypto code commits down about 75 percent

What's particularly insane is that code commits generally should be up, because people code so much faster with coding agents. So the fact that crypto can't even maintain the number of commits with this structural tail wind is nuts