Linea batches users' transactions and submits them to Ethereum, paying a share of the transaction fees to Ethereum validators (expense).

Linea is an L2 smart contract platform for decentralized applications on Ethereum. Linea was founded by the ConsenSys team and launched in 2023.

ConsenSys team owns and governs the protocol. ConsenSys's investors include ParaFi Capital, Microsoft, Coinbase Ventures, etc.

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# Linea Revenue Methodology

## 1. Overview

Linea revenue represents the total fees collected by the Linea Layer 2 blockchain network from transaction processing. This metric measures the network's ability to generate revenue through gas fees paid by users for transaction execution. The calculation aggregates all gas fees paid on the Linea network daily and converts them to USD values, providing insight into the network's economic activity and revenue generation.

## 2. Data sources

- **Linea blockchain transactions**: Raw transaction records from the Linea Layer 2 network containing gas usage metrics, effective gas prices, sender and recipient addresses, and transaction timestamps
- **End-of-day price feeds**: Daily ETH price data used to convert ETH-denominated gas fees to USD values
- **Token metadata**: ETH token information including contract address, symbol, and decimal precision for accurate price conversions

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Transaction data extraction
- **Purpose**: Gather raw transaction data from the Linea blockchain
- **Logic**: Extract all transactions from Linea blockchain records, including transaction timestamp, gas usage (`gas_used`), effective gas price (`gas_price`), and participant addresses. The data includes a hardcoded ETH token address (`0xe5d7c2a44ffddf6b295a15c148167daaaf5cf34f`) since Linea uses ETH as its native gas token
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` for timing, `gas_used` for computational cost, `gas_price` for the price per gas unit, and `token_address` identifying ETH as the fee currency

### Component B: Daily gas fee calculation
- **Purpose**: Calculate total daily gas fees paid on the Linea network
- **Logic**: For each transaction, multiply `gas_used` by `gas_price` to get the total gas cost in wei, then divide by 1e18 to convert from wei to ETH. Group all transactions by day using timestamp truncation, then sum the ETH-denominated gas fees for each day to get total daily fee collection
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` (truncated to day), `l2_gas_fees` representing the total ETH fees collected, and `chain` identifier for Linea

### Component C: USD conversion and standardization
- **Purpose**: Convert ETH-denominated fees to USD and apply business categorization
- **Logic**: Apply end-of-day ETH price feeds to convert daily gas fees from ETH to USD values. Assign business classifications including `blockchain` as business line, `blockchains_l2` as market sector, and `blockchain` as business segment. The chain identifier is standardized to `linea`
- **Key fields**: `fees` in USD, business categorization fields, and standardized `chain_id`

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The gas fees calculated in Component B flow directly into Component C for USD conversion, then the finalization macro standardizes the schema and validates data integrity
- **Currency conversion**: ETH-denominated gas fees are converted to USD using end-of-day ETH price feeds, with decimal correction applied to ensure accurate pricing
- **Time aggregation**: Daily boundaries are established by truncating timestamps to day level, ensuring consistent 24-hour reporting periods
- **Final calculation**: The revenue metric is set equal to the fees metric, as gas fees represent Linea's primary revenue stream. Any missing dates in the time series are filled with zero values to maintain continuous reporting

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

fees * take_rate (illustrative — revenue is observed directly per project, not derived from take_rate)

Fee revenue retained after supply-side payouts. Before cost of revenue (e.g. L2 DA fees) and before operating expenses.

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