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

BNB Chain is a smart contract platform for decentralized applications (a blockchain). BNB Chain was founded by Changpeng Zhao and launched in 2020.

BNB holders own and govern the protocol. They currently take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue).

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# BNB Chain Active users (daily) Methodology

## 1. Overview

The BSC Daily Active Users (DAU) metric measures the number of unique addresses that initiated at least one transaction on the BSC ecosystem (including both mainnet and opBNB L2) within a 24-hour period. This metric provides insights into the actual usage and adoption of the BSC blockchain platform by counting distinct transaction senders across both Layer 1 and Layer 2 components of the ecosystem.

## 2. Data sources

- **BSC mainnet transaction records**: Raw transaction data from the Binance Smart Chain mainnet, including transaction metadata, sender addresses, and block timestamps
- **opBNB transaction records**: Raw transaction data from opBNB (BSC's Layer 2 scaling solution), including transaction metadata, sender addresses, and block timestamps

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: BSC mainnet daily active users
- **Purpose**: Identifies unique daily active users on BSC mainnet by tracking transaction senders
- **Logic**: Extracts all transactions from BSC mainnet transaction records. For each transaction, captures the `from_address` (transaction sender) and `block_timestamp`. Applies daily timestamp truncation using `timestamp_trunc` to group transactions by calendar day. Uses `distinct` operation to ensure each user address is counted only once per day, regardless of how many transactions they sent
- **Key fields**: `from_address` as the unique user identifier, `block_timestamp` truncated to day level, metadata fields including `market_sector_id` ('blockchains_l1'), `business_segment_id` ('blockchain'), and `product_id` ('bsc')

### Component B: opBNB L2 daily active users  
- **Purpose**: Identifies unique daily active users on opBNB Layer 2 by tracking transaction senders
- **Logic**: Extracts all transactions from opBNB transaction records. For each transaction, captures the `user_address` (transaction sender) and `block_timestamp`. Applies daily timestamp truncation to group transactions by calendar day. Uses `distinct` operation to ensure each user address is counted only once per day on the L2 network
- **Key fields**: `user_address` as the unique user identifier, `block_timestamp` truncated to day level, metadata fields including `market_sector_id` ('blockchains_l2'), `business_segment_id` ('blockchain'), and `product_id` ('bsc')

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: Both BSC mainnet and opBNB L2 daily active users are combined using a union operation. Each component contributes unique user addresses per day with their respective chain classifications
- **Currency conversion**: Not applicable - this metric counts unique addresses rather than monetary values
- **Time aggregation**: Daily boundaries are established by truncating block timestamps to day level. Each unique address is counted once per calendar day per chain
- **Final calculation**: The final DAU count represents the total number of unique addresses that sent at least one transaction on either BSC mainnet or opBNB L2 during each calendar day. Users active on both chains in the same day are counted separately for each chain, providing visibility into cross-chain activity patterns. An availability filter is applied to ensure data completeness and quality before final output.

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

Unique revenue-generating users over a fixed 24-hour window.

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