# Akash testnet developer traction exceeded Polkadot's monthly actives

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2020-12-20
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** "The Akashian Challenge: Closing Live Stream" (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:26 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXW6N4R6j80&t=266s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2020-12-20-akash-testnet-developer-traction-exceeded-polkadot-it2r/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash testnet developer traction exceeded Polkadot's monthly actives," "The Akashian Challenge: Closing Live Stream" (Akash Network), 20 Dec 2020, 00:04:26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXW6N4R6j80&t=266s

## Quote — verbatim

> About 3,600 app deploys... and about 460 or so unique developers. To put this number into context, DOT \[Polkadot\], which is a very popular project, has about 430 monthly active developers.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Greg's week-two testnet recap, arguing the SDL configuration abstraction level was validated by the breadth of deployed apps.