Aztec Network now sits at the top of Santiment’s GitHub activity rankings for Layer 2 projects, leapfrogging Starknet, which had held the lead position. The rankings, tracking developer engagement across Ethereum scaling solutions, place Starknet in second and Optimism in third.
For a project with a market cap hovering around $61 million, that is a remarkable showing.
The numbers behind the shift
To appreciate the magnitude of Aztec’s climb, consider where things stood just a couple of months ago. In March 2026, Starknet posted a GitHub activity score of 213.97, while Aztec trailed at 191.83. That gap has now closed and reversed entirely.
Santiment’s methodology tracks notable GitHub events across project repositories, deliberately excluding certain commit types to filter out noise.
