Blockchains (L3)

Anime

# Anime Block time Methodology

## 1. Overview

The Anime block time metric measures the average time between consecutive blocks on the Anime blockchain, calculated daily. This metric provides insights into the blockchain's performance and network efficiency by tracking how quickly new blocks are produced. The calculation uses millisecond-precision timing data from blockchain block headers to compute daily averages of block production intervals.

## 2. Data sources

- **Anime blockchain block headers**: Raw block data from the Anime blockchain containing block timestamps and sequential block numbers
- **Blockchain infrastructure data**: Core blockchain metadata including block production timestamps and block height information

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Block timestamp extraction
- **Purpose**: Extract and prepare block timing data for interval calculations
- **Logic**: Retrieves block timestamps and block numbers from Anime blockchain block headers. Filters out the genesis block (block number 0) as it has an artificial timestamp at the start of Unix time that would skew calculations. Applies incremental loading logic to only process recent blocks when updating the metric.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` (when the block was mined), `block_number` (sequential block height)

### Component B: Block interval calculation  
- **Purpose**: Calculate the time difference between consecutive blocks
- **Logic**: Uses a lag window function ordered by block number to pair each block with its immediate predecessor. Calculates the time difference in milliseconds between consecutive block timestamps using timestamp difference functions. Excludes the first block in the sequence since it has no predecessor.
- **Key fields**: `previous_timestamp` (timestamp of the prior block), `block_time` (milliseconds between blocks)

### Component C: Daily aggregation
- **Purpose**: Group block intervals by day and calculate daily averages
- **Logic**: Truncates block timestamps to daily boundaries to create aggregation groups. Groups all block intervals within each day and calculates the average block time. Adds chain metadata identifying this as Anime blockchain data in the L2 blockchain market sector.
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` (daily boundary), `chain_id` ('anime'), `market_sector_id` ('blockchains_l2')

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The daily averaged block times are processed through a finalization macro that applies standard metric formatting and fills missing days with zero values
- **Time aggregation**: Data is aggregated to daily granularity with day-truncated timestamps as the time boundary
- **Chain filtering**: Applies chain availability filtering to ensure only valid time periods for the Anime blockchain are included
- **Final calculation**: The final metric represents the average block production time in milliseconds for each day, calculated as the mean of all individual block intervals within that day

*This methodology was automatically generated by Token Terminal's methodology analyzer.*

avg(block_timestamp - previous_block_timestamp)

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