Immutable operates a full-stack infrastructure platform for web3 gaming that includes blockchains, namely Immutable zkEVM and Immutable X, and other products, such as Passport and Orderbook. Creators & users sell NFTs on Immutable. They receive royalties from secondary sales (supply-side fees).

Immutable is a platform for building web3 games. Immutable was founded by James Ferguson, Robbie Ferguson, Alex Connolly, and launched in 2018. This dashboard includes data from Immutable Orderbook, Immutable zkEVM, and Immutable X.

IMX holders own and govern the protocol. They currently take a cut of the total trading fees paid by NFT buyers on Immutable Orderbook and the total transaction fees paid by transaction senders on Immutable zkEVM (revenue). Immutable's investors include ParaFi Capital, GameStop Digital Ventures, Fabric Ventures, etc.

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# Immutable Contract deployers Methodology

## 1. Overview

The Immutable contract deployers metric measures the daily count of unique addresses that deploy smart contracts on the Immutable zkEVM blockchain. This metric tracks developer activity and ecosystem growth by counting distinct deployer addresses that create new contracts each day. It answers the business question: "How many unique developers or entities are actively deploying contracts on Immutable zkEVM daily?"

## 2. Data sources

The calculation uses the following raw data sources:
- **Contract creation records**: Immutable zkEVM blockchain data containing contract deployment information
- **Transaction traces**: Blockchain transaction execution traces that capture contract creation events
- **Contract metadata**: Information about deployed contracts including creation timestamps, contract addresses, deployer addresses, and trace addresses

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Contract creation facts
- **Purpose**: Extract and standardize contract creation events from Immutable zkEVM blockchain
- **Logic**: Retrieve all contract creation records from Immutable zkEVM blockchain data. Extract key identifiers including the creation timestamp (`block_timestamp`), the deployed contract address (`account_address`), the address that deployed the contract (`deployer_address`), and the trace address where the creation occurred (`creation_trace_address`). Apply distinct filtering to ensure each contract creation is counted only once.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` for timing, `account_address` for the created contract, `deployer_address` for the entity creating the contract, `creation_trace_address` for transaction trace reference

### Component B: Daily deployer aggregation  
- **Purpose**: Count unique contract deployers per day on Immutable zkEVM
- **Logic**: Truncate creation timestamps to daily boundaries using day-level granularity. Group records by the truncated daily timestamp. Count distinct deployer addresses within each day to get the number of unique entities that deployed contracts. Assign business metadata including chain identifier ('Immutable zkEVM'), market sector ('blockchains_l2'), business segment ('blockchain'), and product identifier ('Immutable zkEVM').
- **Key fields**: Daily `timestamp`, `timestamp_grain` set to 'day', `contract_deployers` as the distinct count of deployer addresses

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The daily aggregation directly produces the core metric without requiring additional joins or combinations
- **Currency conversion**: Not applicable as this is a count-based metric measuring addresses rather than monetary values
- **Time aggregation**: Data is aggregated to daily boundaries with each day representing a complete 24-hour period. Missing days are filled with zero values using the fill_zeros strategy
- **Final calculation**: The final metric value represents the count of distinct deployer addresses that created at least one smart contract on Immutable zkEVM within each daily time period. Chain availability filtering ensures only validated blockchain data periods are included in the final results.

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

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