Whats Solana

Solana is a highly functional open source project that implements a new, permissionless and high-speed layer-1 blockchain.

Created in 2017 by Anatoly Yakovenko, a former executive at Qualcomm, Solana aims to scale throughput beyond what is typically achieved by popular blockchains while keeping costs low. Solana implements an innovative hybrid consensus model that combines a unique proof-of-history (PoH) algorithm with the lightning-fast synchronization engine, which is a version of proof-of-stake (PoS). Because of this, the Solana network can theoretically process over 710,000 transactions per second (TPS) without any scaling solutions needed.

Whats Solana Programs?

Solana programs can be said to be smart contracts. A smart contract is simply a program that runs on the blockchain. It's a collection of code and data. It ran on the blockchain so that nobody can change the code. The contract will be automatically activated when certain conditions are met.

What Do We Want?

We want to track developer growth in an ecosystem through the number of unique contracts used and anylizing them

How We Do It?

using fact_events table to calculate the volume of use programs

Conclusions

number of unique programs used per day increased over this timeframe