# Injective Cosmos Contract deployers Methodology

## 1. Overview

Contract deployers measures the number of unique addresses that have deployed at least one smart contract on Injective Cosmos. This metric serves as a proxy for the volume of independent developers or entities actively publishing code onchain. It is used to evaluate the growth, retention, and activity levels of the developer ecosystem within the Injective Cosmos environment.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain events**: Contract creation and instantiation records on Injective Cosmos
- **External data**: Asset metadata for chain and product identification

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Injective Cosmos contract creation extraction

- **Purpose**: Identify all unique instances of smart contract deployments.
- **Logic**: Data is extracted from contract registration records on Injective Cosmos. Each deployment event is identified by the contract address, the deployer address, and the block timestamp. Only successful contract creations are included in the dataset.
- **Key fields**: `deployer_address`, `contract_address`, `block_timestamp`

### Component B: Unique deployer aggregation

- **Purpose**: Calculate the number of distinct entities deploying code.
- **Logic**: The total count of distinct deployer addresses is aggregated with daily granularity. If a single address performs multiple contract deployments within the same UTC day, that address is counted as one unique deployer for that day.
- **Key fields**: `deployer_address`, `timestamp`

### Component C: Finalization and zero-filling

- **Purpose**: Ensure data consistency and continuity for reporting.
- **Logic**: Timestamps are truncated to UTC midnight. Values are cast to standardized numeric formats and mapped to the Injective Cosmos product identifier. A zero-filling strategy is applied to ensure the time series remains continuous for days where no contract deployment activity is recorded.
- **Key fields**: `contract_deployers`, `product_id`, `timestamp`

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

Unique addresses that deployed at least one smart contract.

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Injective is a smart contract platform for decentralized finance applications (a blockchain) and an orderbook exchange protocol. Injective was founded by Eric Chen, Albert Chon etc. and launched in 2020. Note that this dashboard only tracks Injective's blockchain business.

INJ holders own and govern the protocol. They currently take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue) via Burn Auctions. Injective's investors include Binance, Jump Crypto, Mark Cuban, etc.

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