On January 9th, the Solana Foundation stated that by 2023, the Solana developer ecosystem will have over 2500 monthly active developers on its open source repository, with a three-month developer retention rate increasing from 31% to over 50%. Additionally, the United States still dominates in terms of winning hackathons, but the share of hackathon submissions from regions outside of the United States has significantly increased, from 76% in 2021 to 91% in Hyperdrive.