# Flow EVM Contract deployers Methodology

## 1. Overview

Contract deployers measures the number of unique addresses that have deployed at least one smart contract on Flow EVM. This metric serves as a proxy for the number of independent developers or entities actively publishing code onchain. It provides insight into the developer-side adoption and the growth of the application ecosystem within the Flow EVM environment.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain events**: `CREATE` and `CREATE2` contract creation traces from Flow EVM

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Contract creation identification

- **Purpose**: Identify successful smart contract deployments and their associated creators.
- **Logic**: Contract deployment records are extracted from Flow EVM. These records capture deployments initiated via `CREATE` and `CREATE2` operations. For each successful deployment, the address of the account that initiated the creation and the timestamp of the block in which the deployment occurred are retrieved.
- **Key fields**: `deployer_address`, `creation_timestamp`

### Component B: Unique deployer aggregation

- **Purpose**: Calculate the daily count of unique entities deploying code.
- **Logic**: The contract creation records are truncated to a daily grain using UTC day boundaries. A distinct count is performed on the deployer address field to ensure each individual address is counted only once per day, regardless of how many contracts were deployed by that address within the 24-hour period.
- **Key fields**: `deployer_address`, `block_timestamp`

### Component C: Final normalization and aggregation

- **Purpose**: Ensure data continuity and schema consistency for the final output.
- **Logic**: The daily counts are cast to the appropriate numeric types. A zero-filling strategy is applied to ensure the time series remains continuous for days where no contract deployments are recorded. The final values are then aggregated by the product identifier for Flow EVM.

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

Unique addresses that deployed at least one smart contract.

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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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