1/ @Solana has led crypto developer expansion through multiple market cycles.
2025 brought record onboarding, new geographic leaders, and sustained professional growth even as retention trends diverged.
Inside the data behind Solana’s developer economy 🧵
1/ @Solana schedulers all run the same protocol, but no two build blocks the same way.
Some include votes first, some pack more CU, some skip more blocks, some pay validators more. We classified all 9 schedulers across 3 axes.
Full breakdown 🧵👇
@solana@jito_sol@0xGhostLogs@Rakurai_io@harmonic_gg@jump_firedancer 27/ The three @harmonic_gg variants earn the most revenue per CU and per transaction on Solana.
Per CU:
• FD Harmonic: PRF +50% vs avg
• Agave Harmonic +42%
• FD Harmonic: BAL +33%
Per tx:
• FD Harmonic: PRF +58%
• FD Harmonic: BAL +33%
• Agave Harmonic +30%