Here Are the Top Yield Farming Projects by Development Activity

The newly launched screener ranks yield farming projects based on development activity, using GitHub data pulled from official project repositories.

The idea behind the tool is to show where teams are actively building, shipping updates, and maintaining infrastructure, even during periods of weak market sentiment. Santiment says the screener is designed to cut through short-term noise and highlight long-term commitment across decentralized finance.

DeFiChain, Aave and Yearn lead developer activity

Based on the most recent 30-day snapshot, DeFiChain tops the leaderboard, signaling a strong pace of ongoing development. Close behind are Aave and Yearn Finance, two long-established DeFi platforms that continue to invest heavily in protocol upgrades and tooling.

Their positioning suggests that, despite market volatility, core lending and yield aggregation infrastructure remains an active area of innovation rather than stagnation.

Yield optimizers and leverage protocols remain active

The next tier of the leaderboard features Beefy Finance and Gearbox. Both projects operate with more complex yield strategies, and their high development rankings indicate continued work on automation, risk controls, and capital efficiency.

This points to sustained engineering effort not only in basic yield farming, but also in more advanced DeFi strategies that cater to experienced users.

Broader DeFi ecosystem shows steady building

Completing the top ten are ApeSwap, Alchemix, YieldBasis, Inverse Finance, and QuickSwap.

Santiment’s data suggests these projects have maintained consistent development momentum, even if their tokens are not in the spotlight. The diversity of the list shows that building activity spans DEXs, lending platforms, yield optimizers, and experimental DeFi models.

How Santiment measures development activity

Santiment explains that the rankings are based on notable GitHub events rather than raw commit counts. This approach is intended to filter out automated updates and low-value changes, focusing instead on meaningful development signals such as feature additions, improvements, and maintenance work.

By standardizing this methodology across projects, the firm aims to make comparisons more reliable and less prone to manipulation.

Why development data matters in volatile markets

While Santiment stresses that strong development activity does not guarantee price appreciation, it argues that sustained builder engagement is one of the clearest indicators of long-term viability. Projects that continue to ship during downturns are often better positioned when market conditions improve.

The firm plans to update the yield farming development leaderboard on a monthly basis, allowing investors and analysts to track which projects are accelerating, slowing down, or quietly losing momentum as the DeFi landscape continues to evolve.

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