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

Cronos is a smart contract platform for decentralized applications (a blockchain). Cronos was founded by Crypto.com and launched in 2021.

CRO holders own and govern the protocol. They currently do not take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue).

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# Cronos Expenses Methodology

## 1. Overview

The Cronos expenses metric measures the total operational expenses incurred by the Cronos blockchain protocol, primarily consisting of token incentives paid to users, validators, or other network participants. For Cronos, this metric is consistently zero because the protocol does not operate a token incentive program. The calculation serves to maintain data consistency across Token Terminal's blockchain analytics framework while accurately reflecting Cronos's operational model.

## 2. Data sources

The calculation uses the following data sources:
- **Scraped blockchain data**: Daily fee data scraped from the Cronos blockchain network, used primarily for establishing the time series structure and chain metadata rather than the actual expense values
- **Protocol configuration**: Hardcoded values reflecting Cronos's operational model where no token incentives are distributed

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Fee data structure extraction
- **Purpose**: Establishes the time series framework and chain metadata for the expenses calculation
- **Logic**: Scraped Cronos fee data is processed to create daily timestamps and chain identifiers. The system deduplicates entries by selecting the most recently inserted data for each day, ensuring data freshness and accuracy. This data serves as a template for the time series structure rather than contributing to the actual expense calculation
- **Key fields**: Daily `timestamp`, `chain_id` for Cronos, and metadata fields for data validation

### Component B: Token incentives calculation  
- **Purpose**: Calculates the token incentives component of expenses, which represents the primary expense category for blockchain protocols
- **Logic**: All token incentive values are explicitly set to 0, reflecting the fact that Cronos does not operate a token incentive or reward program for users, validators, or other network participants. This is implemented by taking the time series structure from the fee data and applying zero values across all time periods
- **Key fields**: `token_incentives` set to 0 for all records, maintaining the daily timestamp structure

### Component C: Expenses mapping
- **Purpose**: Maps token incentives directly to the expenses metric following Token Terminal's methodology
- **Logic**: The zero token incentive values are directly used as the expenses values, since token incentives represent the primary expense category for blockchain protocols. No additional expense categories are added for Cronos
- **Key fields**: `expenses` field populated with the zero `token_incentives` values

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The expenses metric is a direct mapping of the token incentives values without additional aggregation or combination steps
- **Currency conversion**: No currency conversion is required since all values are zero
- **Time aggregation**: Data is maintained at daily grain with no further time-based aggregation
- **Final calculation**: The final expenses value equals the token incentives value (0) for each day, providing a consistent zero expense metric that accurately reflects Cronos's operational model of not distributing token incentives

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

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