# Flow Contracts deployed Methodology

## 1. Overview

Contracts deployed is defined as the number of unique smart contracts published onchain. It is utilized as a proxy for the volume of new infrastructure and applications launched on the blockchain. This metric aggregates developer activity across both the Flow Cadence environment and Flow EVM.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain events**: `AccountContractAdded` events from `FlowSystemContract` contracts and contract creation records from Flow EVM, covering Flow and Flow EVM

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Flow contract tracking

- **Purpose**: Capture contract deployments on the Flow Cadence environment
- **Logic**: `AccountContractAdded` events are parsed from `FlowSystemContract` contracts. Each event is identified as a unique contract initialization on the network. The total number of events is aggregated to determine the count of new contracts deployed within the environment.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp`, `in_address` (deployer address), `in_contract` (contract name)

### Component B: Flow EVM contract tracking

- **Purpose**: Capture contract deployments on the Flow EVM environment
- **Logic**: Contract creation records are extracted from Flow EVM data, specifically identifying unique addresses generated through `CREATE` and `CREATE2` operations. The distinct count of these addresses is calculated to determine the number of EVM-compatible smart contracts deployed.
- **Key fields**: `creation_timestamp`, `contract_address`, `deployer_address`

### Component C: Final aggregation and normalization

- **Purpose**: Consolidate deployment counts and align with standard reporting intervals
- **Logic**: Deployment counts from both Flow and Flow EVM are combined. Results are aggregated to a daily granularity using UTC day boundaries. A zero-filling strategy is applied to ensure a continuous time series for the combined metric.
- **Key fields**: `timestamp`, `product_id`, `contracts_deployed`

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

Unique smart contracts published onchain.

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Blockchains (L1)

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

Flow is a smart contract platform for decentralized applications (a blockchain). Flow was founded by Roham Gharegozlou, Dieter Shirley and Mikhael Naayem and launched in 2019.

FLOW holders own and govern the protocol. They currently don’t take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue). Flow’s investors include a16z, Coatue, Coinfund, Fabric Ventures, etc.

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