Validators process transactions and receive fees from users (supply-side fees).

Aptos is a smart contract platform for decentralized applications (a blockchain). Aptos was founded by Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching and launched in 2022.

APT token holders own and govern the protocol. They currently don’t take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue). Aptos’ investors include Binance Labs, Jump Crypto, Apollo, etc.

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# Aptos Contracts deployed Methodology

## 1. Overview

The contracts deployed metric measures the daily number of new smart contracts deployed on the Aptos blockchain. This metric provides insight into developer activity and ecosystem growth by tracking when new contracts are created and deployed to the network. The calculation uses a simple count aggregation of distinct contract creation events, grouped by day.

## 2. Data sources

- **Aptos contract creation data**: Raw blockchain data containing contract deployment records with creation timestamps, unique contract identifiers, and deployer addresses
- **Aptos block timestamps**: Blockchain timestamp data used for temporal aggregation and daily boundary determination

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Contract creation extraction
- **Purpose**: Extracts and deduplicates contract creation records from raw Aptos blockchain data
- **Logic**: Selects distinct contract creation events from Aptos blockchain records, ensuring each contract deployment is counted only once. Extracts the `creation_timestamp`, `contract_id`, and `deployer_address` fields
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` (contract creation time), `contract_id` (unique contract identifier), `deployer_address` (address that deployed the contract)

### Component B: Daily aggregation
- **Purpose**: Groups contract creations by day and counts the total deployments per day
- **Logic**: Truncates timestamps to day granularity using timestamp truncation, then groups all contract creation records by date. Applies count aggregation to determine the number of contracts deployed each day. Adds standard dimensional metadata including `chain_id` set to 'aptos', `market_sector_id` set to 'blockchains_l1', and `business_segment_id` set to 'blockchain'
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` (day-level granularity), `contracts_deployed` (daily count of deployed contracts), dimensional fields for data organization

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The daily aggregation component directly produces the final metric values with no additional combining required
- **Currency conversion**: Not applicable - this is a count-based metric
- **Time aggregation**: Daily boundaries determined by timestamp truncation to day level, ensuring consistent 24-hour periods
- **Final calculation**: The final metric value is the count of distinct contracts deployed per day on the Aptos blockchain, with zero-filling applied for days without any contract deployments to maintain continuous time series data

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

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