# Testnet traction: more active developers than Polkadot

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-01-19
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** Citizen Cosmos and OmniFlix Network: Conversations with Jack ft. Greg Osuri Akash Network, S1E1 (Citizen Web3)
- **Watch at:** 00:09:53 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCRG5sAp_Sc&t=593s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2021-01-19-testnet-traction-more-active-developers-than-polka-fzve/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Testnet traction: more active developers than Polkadot," Citizen Cosmos and OmniFlix Network: Conversations with Jack ft. Greg Osuri Akash Network, S1E1 (Citizen Web3), 19 Jan 2021, 00:09:53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCRG5sAp_Sc&t=593s

## Quote — verbatim

> When we launched our latest testnet we had 3,800 or so deployments in two weeks... about 80 applications that people shared... and about 480 or so monthly active developers right now on the testnet, which is phenomenal — for comparison, Polkadot has about 420 monthly active developers.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Pre-Mainnet-2 metrics; the earlier 2019 incentivized testnet had ~1,900 deployments, 130 providers, growing ~30% week over week [00:07:46].