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tially maximize its potential to best serve us.
IGURING out how foundational technologies, more than 68 million projects and 24 million par-
such as the Internet or mobile, morph and ticipants (figure 1).1 GitHub also appears to host the
grow is not easy. New technologies often at- most important projects for the blockchain commu-
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tract a wide variety of developers, including many nity. The activity on GitHub provides a unique op-
freelancers from around the world. The sheer num- portunity to identify who is behind blockchain’s de-
ber of developers, the types of problems they are velopment, what type of programming is powering
trying to solve, and the geographic spread can make it, where the talent resides, how networks and com-
it difficult to anticipate where any new technology munities of projects and developers are organized,
is headed. and what risk factors exist for investing resources
But perhaps the fundamental difference with into repositories.
blockchain development is that it has largely been Financial services firms seem to be leading the
orchestrated in the open-source environment. Bit- way in blockchain applicability; they currently have
coin, the original blockchain system, was birthed in the most commercial use cases of blockchain in the
open source. marketplace. Our findings could help firms improve
Accordingly, in an effort to better understand their ability to identify su