According to @santimentfeed, the top Solana ecosystem projects by development activity for the latest month are 1) Solana (SOL), 2) Wormhole (W), 3) Pyth Network (PYTH), 4) Drift Protocol (DRIFT), 5) Swarms (SWARMS), 6) Helium IOT (IOT), 7) Jito (JTO), 8) Metaplex (MPLX), 9) Marinade (MNDE), and 10) Jupiter (JUP, source: Santiment on X, Sep 22, 2025). According to @santimentfeed, month-over-month direction shows Pyth, Swarms, Helium, and Marinade rising, Drift and Jito declining, and Solana, Wormhole, Metaplex, and Jupiter unchanged (source: Santiment on X, Sep 22, 2025). According to @santimentfeed, the rankings are calculated using enhanced GitHub event data following Santiment’s objective methodology detailed in its Medium article (source: Santiment methodology on Medium).

According to Santiment (@santimentfeed), the latest Solana ecosystem development leaderboard ranks Solana SOL first, Wormhole W second, Drift DRIFT third, Pyth Network PYTH fourth, and Swarms fifth, with directional arrows noting each project's rise or fall versus last month, Source: Santiment (@santimentfeed). According to Santiment (@santimentfeed), this ranking highlights the projects with the highest measured development activity within the Solana ecosystem, offering traders a data-driven screen to prioritize ecosystem leaders, Source: Santiment (@santimentfeed). According to Santiment (@santimentfeed), traders focused on Solana rotations can monitor liquidity and news flow around SOL, W, DRIFT, and PYTH given their leadership in this development snapshot, Source: Santiment (@santimentfeed).