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# Bifrost Number of validators Methodology

## 1. Overview

The number of validators metric measures the daily count of unique validators actively participating in block production on the Bifrost blockchain. This metric tracks validator network participation by counting distinct validator identifiers who authored blocks each day, providing insight into network decentralization and validator activity levels.

## 2. Data sources

- **Bifrost blockchain block data**: Raw block production records from the Bifrost blockchain containing block metadata, timestamps, and validator identifiers
- **Block production records**: Individual block records with validator identification data showing which validator authored each block
- **Blockchain metadata**: Block numbers and timestamps for temporal organization and daily aggregation

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Block data extraction
- **Purpose**: Extract and standardize raw block production data from the Bifrost blockchain
- **Logic**: Raw block data is extracted from Bifrost blockchain records, with key fields including block timestamps, block numbers, and `author_id` values. The `author_id` field represents the unique identifier of the validator who produced each block. Block timestamps are cast to timestamp format and block numbers are converted to integers for proper data type handling.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` for temporal aggregation, `block_number` for block identification, and `author_id` as the validator identifier

### Component B: Daily validator aggregation
- **Purpose**: Count unique validators who produced blocks each day
- **Logic**: Block timestamps are truncated to daily boundaries using day-level time truncation. Data is grouped by day along with standardized metadata fields including market sector classification as blockchains layer 1, business segment as blockchain, product identification as Bifrost Substrate, and chain identification as bifrostio. For each day, a distinct count is performed on the `author_id` field to determine how many unique validators produced blocks.
- **Key fields**: Daily truncated `timestamp`, `number_of_validators` as the distinct count of `author_id` values, and classification metadata fields

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The daily validator counts are processed through the finalize metric macro which standardizes the output format and applies data quality measures
- **Fill strategy**: A fill zeros strategy is applied to ensure days with no block production or validator activity are represented with zero values rather than missing data
- **Time aggregation**: Data is aggregated to daily boundaries with each day showing the count of unique validators who produced at least one block
- **Final calculation**: The metric value represents the total number of distinct validators who authored blocks on each given day, calculated as a count of unique `author_id` values per day from Bifrost blockchain block production data

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

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