DeFi Saver aggregates multiple DeFi protocols and users perform different strategies through DeFi Saver.

DeFi Saver is a non-custodial DeFi aggregator built on Ethereum. DeFi Saver was founded by Nenad Palinkasevic & Andrej Cvoro and launched in 2019.

DeFi Saver team & investors own and govern the protocol. They currently take all of the total trading fees paid by traders (revenue).

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# DeFi Saver Expenses Methodology

## 1. Overview

The DeFiSaver expenses metric measures token incentives paid by the protocol to users or stakeholders. This metric represents the cost to DeFiSaver of incentivizing user behavior through token rewards or subsidies. The calculation methodology sets all token incentive values to zero, indicating that DeFiSaver does not currently distribute token incentives as expenses. The metric maintains the same dimensional structure as the protocol's fee collection to enable consistent reporting and analysis.

## 2. Data sources

The underlying data sources include:
- **Token transfer events**: Parsed `Transfer` events from Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Optimism blockchains showing tokens sent to DeFiSaver fee receiver addresses
- **Token metadata**: Token contract information including decimal places and symbols for proper value calculation
- **End-of-day price feeds**: Daily USD price data for converting token amounts to dollar values
- **Protocol configuration**: Hardcoded fee receiver addresses for each supported blockchain network

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Fee collection data extraction
- **Purpose**: Identifies all tokens received by DeFiSaver fee receiver addresses across supported chains
- **Logic**: Extracts token transfer events where the recipient address matches known DeFiSaver fee receivers. On Ethereum, transfers to `0x6467e807db1e71b9ef04e0e3afb962e4b0900b2b` are captured. On Arbitrum and Optimism, transfers to `0x76720ac2574631530ec8163e4085d6f98513fb27` are captured. Only non-removed transfer events are included to ensure data quality
- **Key fields**: Block timestamp for daily aggregation, transaction hash and log index for uniqueness, recipient address for filtering, token address and transfer amount for value calculation

### Component B: Fee metric standardization  
- **Purpose**: Converts raw token transfers into standardized daily fee metrics with proper business categorization
- **Logic**: Groups token transfers by day using timestamp truncation. Applies decimal correction using token metadata to convert raw transfer amounts to proper token units. Converts corrected amounts to USD using end-of-day price feeds. Categorizes all fees under Asset Management business line and yield aggregator segment. Fills missing dates with zero values to maintain continuous time series
- **Key fields**: Daily timestamp boundaries, chain identifier, business line and segment classifications, token address and symbol, USD-converted fee amounts

### Component C: Token incentives calculation
- **Purpose**: Determines token incentive expenses paid by the protocol
- **Logic**: Uses the fee metric structure as a template to maintain consistent dimensions and time boundaries. Overrides all token incentive values to zero, indicating DeFiSaver does not currently distribute token rewards as expenses. Maintains the same timestamp, chain, and product dimensions as the underlying fee data
- **Key fields**: Timestamp and chain from fee structure, product identifier, token incentive amount (hardcoded to 0)

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The expenses metric directly takes the token incentive values, which are set to zero
- **Currency conversion**: No additional conversion needed as incentive amounts are hardcoded to zero
- **Time aggregation**: Daily boundaries maintained from the underlying fee metric structure  
- **Final calculation**: Expenses equals token incentives, resulting in zero for all time periods and chains

The final expenses metric will show zero values across all dates and supported chains (Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism), reflecting that DeFiSaver does not currently incur token incentive expenses. The metric maintains proper dimensional structure to enable consistent reporting alongside other protocol metrics like fees and revenue.

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

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