A community of minds working together made this momentum possible, and the growing support of a diverse number of developers has resulted in a more thoroughly tested - and thereby robust - code base. Like any other constituent, the developer community needs to be nurtured and engaged with for long-lasting benefits. These might include the establishment of a dedicated "Developer relations" team that engages with the developer community through events, developer resources and training materials.

In turn, developer feedback is taken into consideration by the core teams who engineer many of the open-source protocols that make blockchain applications work. For Ethereum developers, a long list of open-source tools has been published to help developers get started. When software architects offer their support, it becomes possible to harness the potential of a robust developer ecosystem.

Serg Metelin is the head of developer relations at Block.