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- Hedera led Santiment’s RWA GitHub development ranking, while Chainlink slipped as Avalanche and Stellar held their positions.
- The top 10 list also featured upward moves for Chia and OriginTrail, with IOTA the biggest decliner.
Hedera, Chainlink, Avalanche, and Stellar led real-world asset crypto development over the past 30 days, according to Santiment’s GitHub activity ranking shared Wednesday. The update, posted by Santiment’s SanSights account, tracks verified development actions across project repositories and compares monthly movement using directional indicators.
Santiment’s ranking centers on development activity rather than price action. The dataset aggregates validated repository events, such as commits, code pushes, and issue interactions. It also filters spam, keeping the comparison focused on active engineering work during the measured period.
CNF earlier reported that Hedera, now topping Santiment’s RWA development list, is also expanding real-world adoption through a new payments-and-verification integration. Stripe and MINGO announced an integration that lets event organizers connect an existing Stripe account and manage payments, ticket issuance, and payouts from one dashboard.
Under the setup, Stripe continues to process fiat payments while MINGO records ticket authenticity, ownership, and transfer rules on Hedera.
Santiment RWA GitHub Ranking’s Top 10
Hedera ranked first and showed a rise from the prior month, while second-placed Chainlink slipped in ranking. Avalanche held third with no change, while Stellar remained fourth and also stayed flat compared with the previous month. While the order may change, these have been the four most dominant networks in the RWA sector in recent months.
A previous report we covered revealed that the fourth-ranked Stellar also posted strong network activity in 2025. Stellar said it processed about 2 billion transactions last year while maintaining a lifetime uptime of 99.99%. It also reported $13 billion in real-world asset payment volume during the year
Source: Santiment on X
Beyond the top four, Chia ranked fifth and moved up, Axelar placed sixth and held steady, while IOTA ranked seventh and moved down. VeChain remained eighth, Injective stayed ninth, and OriginTrail ranked tenth after a slight rise, completing Santiment’s list of the top ten RWA projects by development activity.
The ranking reflects a mix of networks and infrastructure providers tied to tokenized assets, cross-chain connectivity, and settlement tooling. As a result, the list includes projects that support issuance, data delivery, and interoperability, which are common building blocks in many RWA-focused blockchain deployments.
At the time of writing, Stellar (XLM) was trading at $0.2299, up 13% over the past week, according to CoinMarketCap. Hedera (HBAR) was trading at $0.124, while Chainlink (LINK) changed hands near $13.28, up 8.91% over the past seven days. Avalanche (AVAX) traded around $13.89, after an early-week push that eased into the latest price.
