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Accelerate Ecosystem Growth
Ecosystem growth means attracting and retaining customers, users, and builders. Measure indicators of durable growth in highly competitive markets like AI or crypto.
Monitor Entire Ecosystems
OSO measures every aspect of your ecosystem, from developers to dependencies to user activity. OSO tracks cohorts of users, developers, and applications across your ecosystem and your competitors.
Speed Up Time-To-Insight
With hundreds of built-in data models, quickly see how your strategies are working. Create new models and analysis with ease with OSO AI Agent.
Understand The ROI of Your Efforts
Speed up your experimentation feedback loop by understanding the impact of your growth strategies. We connect user activity to specific programs and investments, so you can see what drives real growth.
Integrate and Enrich Your Data With Ease
Connect our datasets to your internal CRM and databases with secure privacy controls. With dozens of data integrations, we make it easy to enrich your proprietary datasets.
What Our Partners Say About Us
“I can tweak the rewards algorithm and see the impact on every project in minutes.”
Jonas Seiferth
Optimism Foundation
“You analyzed and clustered 30K+ repos and their dependencies in a day. Wow.”
Ramshreyas
Ethereum Foundation
“Seeing all this info about Builders makes me feel like I'm in God mode.”
Sara
Optimism Foundation
“Your pipeline and models are very sophisticated and completely open.”
Molly
Protocol Labs
“I can tweak the rewards algorithm and see the impact on every project in minutes.”
Jonas Seiferth
Optimism Foundation
“You analyzed and clustered 30K+ repos and their dependencies in a day. Wow.”
Ramshreyas
Ethereum Foundation
“Seeing all this info about Builders makes me feel like I'm in God mode.”
Sara
Optimism Foundation
“Your pipeline and models are very sophisticated and completely open.”
Molly
Protocol Labs
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Matthias
growthepie
“You made it easy for me to advise the 4337 work – I love seeing the impact.”
Kofi
Coinbase
“World Chain builders are super motivated by the current Retro Funding algorithms.”
Andy
World
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Matthias
growthepie
“You made it easy for me to advise the 4337 work – I love seeing the impact.”
Kofi
Coinbase
“World Chain builders are super motivated by the current Retro Funding algorithms.”
Andy
World
Case Studies
Featured Case Study
The world's largest and fastest-growing smart contract developer ecosystem
11,662
monthly active developers — nearly 2× Solana
32%
of builders stay in the ecosystem after 1 year
~250
monthly active developers from Speedrun Ethereum
#1
ecosystem for new developer acquisition in 2025
Ethereum leads developer acquisition by a wide margin
Ethereum added 9,817 new developers in 2025 — more than Solana (4,354) and Bitcoin (3,149) combined. With 11,662 active developers, the base is nearly twice the size of the next-largest ecosystem. The 2025 Developer Trends report on ddp.oso.xyz confirms that by every measure, developers new to crypto prefer Ethereum.
Builder loyalty is exceptional: 74% stay in the ecosystem after 2 years.
OSO's DeFi Builder Journeys analysis of 40 top protocols finds that 74% of builders remain active on their home project or within the same ecosystem year over year. Cross-ecosystem migration between Ethereum and Solana amounts to effectively zero net flow — builders who leave overwhelmingly go inactive rather than defecting to a rival chain.
Developer programs drive measurable, lasting growth
Speedrun Ethereum alumni account for ~250 monthly active developers in the Ethereum ecosystem. OSO's retention analysis shows that builders who engage past the 3-month mark show significantly stronger long-term contribution, validating a depth-over-breadth program design that Ethereum-aligned foundations and grant programs can replicate.
Developer tooling is the highest-ROI onboarding pipeline
Over 65% of qualified DeFi builders had prior open-source experience before joining their home protocol. Tools like Foundry, Hardhat, and Truffle function as recruiting infrastructure — attracting the most retainable segment of future builders before they've even chosen an ecosystem. OSO's feeder project analysis identifies exactly which repos are producing tomorrow's builders.
Analysis powered by ddp.oso.xyz — open-source developer analytics built on Electric Capital Open Dev Data, GitHub Archive, and OSO. Data covers January 2015 – December 2025.
When Arbitrum launched its grants program, we indexed over 300 open source projects and 13,000 code artifacts. Our report revealed insights on developer engagement and ecosystem growth, giving Arbitrum a foundation for tracking future impact.
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We've tracked multiple cohorts of open source projects funded by Octant over successive funding rounds. Our coverage shows how Octant's funding has been instrumental in keeping these projects building during a choppy market.
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