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Interlay is a decentralized Bitcoin bridge powered by Polkadot Relay chain.

INTR holders own and govern the protocol. Interlay’s investors include IOSG Ventures, Hypersphere Ventures, D1 Ventures, etc.

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# Interlay Active users (daily) Methodology

> **Archived 2026-07-23.** Token Terminal stopped tracking Interlay after the project announced it is winding down operations. The methodology below describes how this metric was calculated while the chain was tracked; historical values remain accurate and accessible.

## 1. Overview

The Daily Active Users (DAU) metric for Interlay measures the number of unique addresses that performed at least one transaction or operation on the Interlay blockchain each day. This metric provides insight into daily user engagement and adoption of the Interlay network, which is a Bitcoin-backed DeFi platform that enables cross-chain functionality.

## 2. Data sources

The calculation relies on:
- **Interlay blockchain extrinsic records**: All transaction and operation records from the Interlay network, including transaction metadata, timestamps, and sender information
- **Blockchain metadata**: Extrinsic IDs, block timestamps, and user address information from Interlay network operations

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: User activity extraction
- **Purpose**: Extracts and standardizes all user activity from Interlay blockchain extrinsics
- **Logic**: Processes raw Interlay extrinsic records and extracts key user activity data. Each extrinsic represents a transaction or operation on the Interlay network. The component extracts the `block_timestamp` for timing, `extrinsic_id` for unique identification, and the `id` field which represents the user address (transaction sender). Adds standardized metadata including chain identification as 'interlay', market sector classification as 'blockchains_l1', business segment as 'blockchain', and user type as 'Transaction sender'.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` for transaction timing, `user_address` (from the `id` field) identifying the transaction sender, `extrinsic_id` for unique transaction identification

### Component B: Daily active user aggregation  
- **Purpose**: Aggregates user activity to calculate daily distinct active users
- **Logic**: Takes the standardized user activity data and applies daily time boundaries by truncating timestamps to day granularity using `timestamp_trunc`. Groups data by the truncated daily timestamp and other dimensional attributes (chain, user_type, product_id), then counts distinct user addresses for each day. This ensures each unique address is counted only once per day regardless of how many transactions they performed.
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` truncated to day level, `user_dau` representing the distinct user address count, dimensional attributes for segmentation

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The user activity data flows directly from extraction to daily aggregation without complex joins
- **Time aggregation**: Daily boundaries are established by truncating block timestamps to day granularity, ensuring consistent 24-hour periods
- **Chain filtering**: Applies availability filtering to ensure data quality and only includes periods where Interlay chain data is considered reliable
- **Final calculation**: The final DAU value represents the count of distinct user addresses that performed at least one extrinsic (transaction/operation) on the Interlay network within each calendar day

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

Unique revenue-generating users over a fixed 24-hour window.

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