According to Santiment, the top 10 DeFi projects by development activity this month are 1) Chainlink (LINK), 2) DeepBook on Sui (DEEP), 3) DeFiChain (DFI), 4) FOX (FOX), 5) Lido (LDO), 6) Injective (INJ), 7) Babylon (BABY), 8) dYdX (DYDX), 9) Centrifuge (CFG), and 10) Curve (CRV), with directional markers indicating each project's ranking change versus last month, source: Santiment. Santiment also states it covers development activity for over 4,000 projects and links its methodology for measuring non-price developer activity, source: Santiment.

According to @santimentfeed, the top 10 DeFi projects by development activity are 1) Chainlink (LINK) unchanged, 2) DeepBook on Sui (DEEP) unchanged, 3) DeFiChain (DFI) unchanged, 4) FOX (FOX) up, 5) Lido (LDO) up, 6) Babylon (BABY) down, 7) Injective (INJ) up, 8) Centrifuge (CFG) up, 9) dYdX (DYDX) up, and 10) Curve (CRV) up, with directional arrows indicating ranking changes versus last month. Source: @santimentfeed on X, Oct 8, 2025. @SANTIMENTFEED states it tracks development activity for over 4,000 projects and links to its methodology covering how GitHub-based development metrics are compiled. Source: @santimentfeed on X, Oct 8, 2025; Santiment methodology article on Medium. This list is a DeFi-specific ranking by Santiment and reflects relative development activity per its published methodology. Source: @santimentfeed on X, Oct 8, 2025; Santiment methodology article on Medium.