Developer Report by Hashed Emergent. A quarterly record of crypto developer activity in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, with Egypt and Ghana for context, built from public commit data.

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Developer data: Open Dev Data by Electric Capital, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Country context: GitHub Innovation Graph, CC0. Figures are our own derivations; Electric Capital and GitHub do not endorse them.

Figures published here are available under CC BY 4.0; the code is MIT. Every figure is an observed minimum over an attributed cohort, not a national developer count.

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Area Layer in Africa | Developer Report by Hashed Emergent

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Area Layer

Release 2026-Q4· reporting Q3 2026

Area Layer in Africa

How many of the tracked developers in each country contribute to Area Layer, and how that changes. A developer counts for Area Layer when they contribute to any project in it, as the source files them. Every count is an observed minimum.

CSV, every country and period

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Nigeria
Kenya
South Africa
Egypt
Ghana

Egypt and Ghana are comparators

Area Layer across the tracked countries, Q3 2026

Shares are of each country's own tracked active developers. Changes compare the same ecosystem in the same country.

No country has 5 or more developers in Area Layer in Q3 2026.

Changes, intensity and tenure are published for the latest eight quarters where a country has 20 or more developers in the ecosystem. Shares need at least 50 active developers in the country and 5 in the ecosystem; a cell under 5 developers is not published.

Release 2026-Q4· source snapshot 20261005T130551· data through 2026-09-27· Revision log