Midnight Network Calls Devs to Tag GitHub Repos Now

Midnight Network urges developers to tag GitHub repos before mainnet. Untagged work won’t appear in Electric Capital’s industry developer count.

Midnight Network is making its move before the mainnet drops. The network is asking every developer building on its chain to properly tag their GitHub repositories. Miss the window, and your work simply won’t get counted.

According to @MidnightNtwrk on X, developers need to ensure their work is visible, counted, and recognized as part of the network before the first public developer count gets locked in. The post was direct. No tagging, no credit.

Electric Capital produces the most widely cited developer report across blockchain. Investors, protocols, and media all rely on it to read which networks are growing. Their tooling scans GitHub commits, contributor counts, and repository metadata. If a repo is missing the right topics, it doesn’t get linked to Midnight regardless of how active the work is.

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Your Repo Is Invisible Without This

Lauren Lee, Director of Developer Relations, laid out the steps on March 5, 2026. Three quick actions. Each takes under five minutes per repository.

First, developers must add GitHub topics. Specifically, the topic midnightntwrk on every Midnight project, and compact if the project uses the Compact language. Lee was pointed out about what not to use. Topics like midnight, midnight-network, or midnight-ecosystem are not tracked. They won’t work.

Second, one attribution sentence near the top of the README. The exact wording matters. Electric Capital’s tooling scans for specific phrases. Paraphrasing breaks the automated recognition. Projects built directly on Midnight use: “This project is built on the Midnight Network.” SDKs and infrastructure use the integration variant. Developer tooling projects have their own designated line.

Third, open a pull request to the Midnight Awesome dApps list on GitHub. That’s the community directory at github.com/midnightntwrk/midnight-awesome-dapps. It makes projects discoverable to partners and teams evaluating the network.

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One Window, Years of Consequences

The timing is deliberate. Midnight is submitting its full developer map to Electric Capital for the first time, timed to mainnet. Developer counts captured around a mainnet launch feed into a rolling window. That window shapes how new networks get ranked and covered going forward.

Networks that show up in that window with strong numbers get recognized. The ones that don’t start from a deficit. Correcting that takes months. Sometimes longer.

As @MidnightNtwrk stated on X, if a project isn’t tagged correctly, the work won’t show up in those metrics at all. The network already has hundreds of active developers using Compact, deploying on Preprod, and shipping real applications. But activity without attribution doesn’t get counted anywhere that matters.

Each of the three steps has a corresponding quest on Zealy. Completing them earns points and puts developers on the Midnight leaderboard. The quests cover adding the GitHub topic, inserting the attribution sentence, and submitting the PR.

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The Record That Sticks

These three changes don’t touch how the code runs. They change how the work gets seen. Midnight’s first public developer count will feed into every industry report, investor briefing, and network comparison that references it for years ahead.

A repo that completes the steps becomes a developer who gets officially credited for building on Midnight. One that doesn’t stay invisible to the tooling, even if the code is production-grade.

Questions can be directed to the Midnight Discord in the #dev-chat channel, or by replying to the original post from @MidnightNtwrk.

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