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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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# Flow Contract deployers Methodology

## 1. Overview

Contract deployers measures the number of unique addresses that deployed new smart contracts on the Flow blockchain on a given day. This metric tracks development activity and ecosystem growth by counting distinct deployer addresses across both Flow execution environments: Flow EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine compatible) and Flow (native Flow smart contract platform). The metric provides insight into developer adoption and smart contract deployment trends on the Flow blockchain.

## 2. Data sources

- **Flow blockchain contract creation logs**: Contract deployment records from the Flow EVM environment containing deployer addresses, contract addresses, creation timestamps, and contract bytecode
- **Flow blockchain event logs**: Native Flow `AccountContractAdded` events from the Flow environment that are emitted when smart contracts are deployed to Flow accounts
- **Flow blockchain transaction data**: Transaction records providing context for contract deployments including transaction IDs and block information
- **Flow blockchain block metadata**: Block timestamps and block numbers for temporal aggregation of deployment events

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Flow EVM contract deployments
- **Purpose**: Counts unique deployer addresses that created contracts on Flow's EVM-compatible execution environment
- **Logic**: Processes contract creation records from Flow EVM environment, filtering to distinct deployer addresses per day. Uses contract creation data similar to Ethereum CREATE and CREATE2 operations, capturing when new smart contracts are deployed to the EVM-compatible layer of Flow
- **Key fields**: `deployer_address` (address that initiated contract creation), `block_timestamp` (when deployment occurred), `contract_address` (newly created contract), `contract_bytecode` (deployed code)

### Component B: Flow contract deployments  
- **Purpose**: Counts unique deployer addresses that deployed contracts on Flow's native Cadence execution environment
- **Logic**: Processes `AccountContractAdded` event logs from native Flow blockchain, filtering to distinct deployer addresses per day. These events are emitted when smart contracts written in Cadence are deployed to Flow accounts, representing the native Flow smart contract development approach
- **Key fields**: `deployer_address` (account address deploying the contract), `block_timestamp` (deployment time), `contract_name` (name of deployed contract), `code_hash` (hash of deployed Cadence code)

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: Union both Flow EVM and Flow deployment datasets while maintaining separate chain identifiers to distinguish between the two execution environments
- **Time aggregation**: Daily aggregation using timestamp truncation to day boundaries, ensuring consistent daily reporting periods
- **Distinct counting**: Count distinct deployer addresses within each day and execution environment to avoid double-counting addresses that deploy multiple contracts
- **Zero-filling**: Apply zero-fill strategy to ensure continuous time series even on days with no contract deployments
- **Final calculation**: The final metric represents the total number of unique addresses that deployed at least one smart contract on either Flow EVM or Flow execution environments on a given day, with results separated by execution environment for granular analysis

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

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