Players buy NFTs from the Decentral Games & trade them on the aftermarket. Players can also upgrade or activate NFTs against a fee.

Decentral games is a non-custodial casino protocol built on Ethereum and other adjacent blockchains. Decentral Games was founded by Steve Becerra & Miles Anthony and launched in 2019.

DG tokenholders own and govern the protocol. They currently take all of the mint, royalty, upgrade, activation, tournament wearable, shine, node operator, and metaverse marketing fees paid by users (revenue). Decentral Games’ investors include Metaverse Ventures & Bitscale Capital, etc.

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# Decentral Games Expenses Methodology

## 1. Overview

The Decentral Games expenses metric measures the daily USD value of token incentives distributed by the protocol as operational expenses. This includes both gameplay rewards paid to players and governance token distributions to stakeholders. The calculation treats all token incentive distributions as protocol expenses, providing insight into the cost structure of operating the decentralized gaming platform.

## 2. Data sources

The calculation uses the following raw data sources:
- **Ethereum token transfers**: Parsed `Transfer` events for DG governance token distributions from treasury and contributor accounts
- **Polygon token transfers**: Parsed `Transfer` events for ICE gameplay incentive distributions from the protocol's incentive account
- **End-of-day token price feeds**: USD price data for both DG and ICE tokens to convert native token amounts to dollar values
- **Token metadata**: Contract addresses, decimal place information, and token specifications for proper amount calculations

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Gameplay incentives extraction
- **Purpose**: Captures ICE token rewards distributed to players for gameplay activities
- **Logic**: Extracts `Transfer` events from Polygon blockchain where the ICE token contract `0xc6c855ad634dcdad23e64da71ba85b8c51e5ad7c` transfers tokens from the designated incentive account `0x1ae5397942bf43ce1fe3f137622a0a7a33ac4826` to player addresses. Each transfer represents a gameplay reward payment and includes the `block_timestamp`, `transaction_hash`, `log_index`, recipient address, and transfer `amount`. All transfers are classified as 'Gameplay' incentive type on the 'polygon' chain.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` for timing, `amount` for incentive value, `to_address` for recipient identification, and `token_address` for asset specification

### Component B: Governance incentives extraction  
- **Purpose**: Captures DG token distributions related to governance and protocol operations
- **Logic**: Extracts `Transfer` events from Ethereum blockchain where the DG token contract `0x4b520c812e8430659fc9f12f6d0c39026c83588d` transfers tokens to the xDG staking contract `0x4f81c790581b240a5c948afd173620ecc8c71c8d` from three authorized source addresses: treasury 1 `0x7a61a0ed364e599ae4748d1ebe74bf236dd27b09`, treasury 2 `0x99cef4a71d42c131fd20c0f24f30b0eb0b22792c`, and contributor account `0x7146cae915f1cd90871ecc69999beffdcaf38ff9`. These transfers represent governance token distributions for staking rewards and operational purposes. All transfers are classified as 'Governance' incentive type on the 'ethereum' chain.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` for timing, `amount` for distribution value, `from_address` for source validation, and `token_address` for asset specification

### Component C: Daily aggregation and classification
- **Purpose**: Combines both incentive types and aggregates them into daily totals by chain and token
- **Logic**: Unions the gameplay and governance incentive data, then truncates timestamps to daily boundaries using `timestamp_trunc(block_timestamp, day)`. Assigns standard business classifications including 'gaming' as `market_sector_id` and 'game' as `business_segment_id`. Groups data by date, chain, and token address, then sums the total `amount` values for each combination to create daily incentive totals.
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` for daily boundaries, `chain_id` for blockchain identification, `token_address` for asset grouping, and aggregated `token_incentives` amounts

### Component D: USD conversion and standardization
- **Purpose**: Converts native token amounts to USD values and applies proper decimal corrections
- **Logic**: Takes the daily aggregated token incentive amounts and applies decimal correction based on each token's contract specifications, then converts to USD using end-of-day price feeds for the corresponding date. The conversion process accounts for the different decimal places of DG tokens (18 decimals) and ICE tokens (18 decimals) to ensure accurate USD calculations. The metric finalization process validates data completeness, ensures consistent schema, and applies gap-filling logic for missing dates.
- **Key fields**: Converted `token_incentives` values in USD with proper decimal adjustment

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The USD-converted token incentive amounts are treated as protocol expenses, representing the cost of operating the gaming platform and governance system
- **Currency conversion**: All amounts are converted to USD using end-of-day price feeds matched to the transaction date, with proper decimal place corrections applied based on token contract specifications
- **Time aggregation**: Data is aggregated to daily boundaries, with timestamps truncated to the start of each day
- **Final calculation**: The expenses metric equals the sum of all daily token incentive distributions converted to USD, representing the total operational cost of the protocol's incentive programs across both gameplay rewards and governance distributions

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

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