One way to track developer growth in an ecosystem is through the number of unique contracts used. Create a visualization of the number of unique programs used per day since the beginning of January.

What type of programs are the most popular, and what programs seem to be gaining in popularity over that timeframe? Does it appear that development is still ongoing in the bear market?

Introduction

Programs on Solana are Like smart contracts on other chains.

in this analysis we want to take look at top programs on solana chain since the beginning of January.

lets start with number of unique programs used every day on solana.

even in bear market number of unique programs used on Solana increased every day.

chart in the right side shows number of programs used each day since the beginning of january.

you can see how number of programs increases over time.

Top Programs

Most of Top programs List contains solana Defi ecosystem.

In This part You can see Top programs on solana chain by number of usage every day since the beginning of January.

as you can see serum has more transactions compare to other programs.

Serum is a decentralized exchange software built on Solana where cryptocurrencies can be bought and sold by traders.

Lots of transactions related to serum on solana chain.

Next program is Mango market, Mango Markets is decentralized exchange (DEX) that offers traders up to 20x leverage on popular trading pairs.

next programs called solana, solana program handle, Create new accounts, allocate account data, assign accounts to owning programs, transfer lamports from System Program owned accounts and pay transaction fees.

Two next programs are swap dapps, Raydium and Jupiter.

Last one called zeta, Zeta is an options trading platform on Solana, enabling users to effectively hedge risk against crypto market movement and events.

Lets take a look at this programs daily transactions over time.

Chart below shows number of transactions for each top programs on daily basis.

From the middle of January Number of transactions related to Zeta programs increased till today.

also from early Jun number of solend transactions increased. but in total on each day we can see serum has most of trasnactions. and in recent days number of transactions related to this program increased.

==Conclusion==

Number of Unique Programs increased over time from the beginning of January.

Top Programs based on number of usage or transactions are related to Solana defi ecosystem.

we have seen How number transactions related to Zeta a Option trading platform increased since early January and continues till today.

Also number of transactions related to serum platform increased in recent days.

it can be concluded development on solana chain still ongoing in the bear market.