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# Gnosis Contract deployers Methodology

## 1. Overview

The Gnosis contract deployers metric measures the daily count of unique addresses that deployed smart contracts on the Gnosis blockchain. This metric provides insight into developer activity and smart contract deployment trends on the Gnosis chain. The calculation identifies all contract creation events for each day and counts the distinct number of addresses that initiated these deployments.

## 2. Data sources

The calculation relies on the following raw data sources:
- **Gnosis blockchain transaction traces**: Complete transaction execution traces from the Gnosis blockchain that capture internal contract creation operations
- **Gnosis contract metadata**: Processed contract creation events that identify when and by whom contracts were deployed
- **Gnosis block data**: Block timestamps from the Gnosis blockchain for temporal aggregation

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Contract creation extraction
- **Purpose**: Identifies all contract creation events on the Gnosis blockchain with relevant metadata
- **Logic**: Extracts contract creation records from Gnosis blockchain data, capturing the timestamp when the contract was created (`creation_timestamp`), the address of the deployed contract (`contract_address`), the address that deployed the contract (`deployer_address`), and the trace address indicating where in the transaction execution the contract was created (`creation_trace_address`). The data is deduplicated to ensure each contract creation is represented only once in the dataset.
- **Key fields**: `creation_timestamp` for temporal analysis, `deployer_address` for counting unique deployers, `contract_address` for contract identification, and `creation_trace_address` for tracing deployment context

### Component B: Daily aggregation
- **Purpose**: Aggregates contract creation data to count distinct deployers per day
- **Logic**: Groups the contract creation data by day using timestamp truncation to daily boundaries. For each day, counts the number of distinct `deployer_address` values to determine how many unique addresses deployed contracts on that day. Assigns standard metadata including chain identifier as 'gnosis', market sector as 'blockchains_l1', business segment as 'blockchain', and product identifier as null.
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` truncated to day level, `contract_deployers` as the count of distinct deployer addresses, and standardized dimension fields for consistent reporting

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The contract creation data flows directly into the daily aggregation component without additional joins, as both components operate on the same underlying contract creation dataset
- **Currency conversion**: Not applicable as this is a count metric rather than a value-based metric
- **Time aggregation**: Data is aggregated to daily boundaries using timestamp truncation, ensuring each day captures all contract deployments that occurred within that 24-hour period
- **Final calculation**: The final metric value represents the count of distinct deployer addresses that created at least one smart contract on the Gnosis blockchain during each specific day. The calculation uses a fill-zeros strategy to ensure continuity in the time series, setting the deployer count to zero for days when no contracts were deployed. Chain availability filtering is applied to ensure data quality and exclude periods where blockchain data may be incomplete or unreliable.

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

Unique addresses that deployed at least one smart contract.

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