Miners process transactions and receive fees from users (supply-side fees).

Litecoin is a distributed ledger for transfer and store of value (a blockchain). Litecoin was founded by Charlie Lee and launched in 2010.

LTC holders own and govern the protocol. They currently do not take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue). Litecoin’s investors include Block Ventures, etc.

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# Litecoin Token incentives Methodology

## 1. Overview

Token incentives for Litecoin measures the daily USD value of mining rewards distributed to miners through coinbase transactions. This metric represents the economic incentives paid by the Litecoin blockchain to secure the network, calculated by aggregating all mining rewards from successful block mining and converting them to USD using end-of-day price feeds.

## 2. Data sources

- **Litecoin blockchain transaction data**: Raw Litecoin transaction records including coinbase transactions, transaction outputs, block timestamps, and block heights
- **Transaction metadata**: Flags identifying coinbase transactions (`is_coinbase`) and transaction structure data
- **End-of-day price feeds**: Daily USD pricing data for Litecoin (LTC) token conversion
- **Block data**: Block timestamps and heights for temporal aggregation

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Coinbase reward extraction
- **Purpose**: Identifies and extracts mining rewards from Litecoin coinbase transactions
- **Logic**: Filters Litecoin transactions to include only coinbase transactions using the `is_coinbase` flag. For each coinbase transaction, unnests the `outputs` array to access individual transaction outputs. Sums all `value` fields from outputs within each coinbase transaction to calculate the total mining reward for that block. Groups results by `block_timestamp` and `block_height` to aggregate rewards at the block level.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp`, `block_height`, `total_coinbase_value` (sum of all output values), `is_coinbase` flag, transaction `outputs` array

### Component B: Historical data processing
- **Purpose**: Aggregates daily token incentives for historical data (before 2022-01-01)
- **Logic**: Takes coinbase reward data and truncates `block_timestamp` to day-level granularity using timestamp truncation. Filters data to include only records before January 1, 2022. Groups by truncated timestamp and token metadata fields, then sums `token_incentives` to get daily totals. Adds standardized metadata including chain identifier, token symbol (LTC), and token address (native).
- **Key fields**: Daily aggregated `token_incentives`, `timestamp` (day-truncated), `chain`, `contract_name`, `token_symbol`, `token_address`

### Component C: Recent data processing  
- **Purpose**: Aggregates daily token incentives for recent data (2022-01-01 and later)
- **Logic**: Applies same daily aggregation logic as historical component but filters to include only data from January 1, 2022 onwards. Uses incremental processing to efficiently handle new data by looking back only a specified number of days from the most recent partition. Groups by truncated daily timestamp and sums token incentives.
- **Key fields**: Same as historical component - daily aggregated `token_incentives`, timestamp, and token metadata

### Component D: Data combination
- **Purpose**: Combines historical and recent data partitions into complete dataset
- **Logic**: Uses union operation to merge historical data (pre-2022) with recent data (2022 onwards), creating a complete time series of daily token incentives without gaps or overlaps.
- **Key fields**: Complete daily time series of `token_incentives` with consistent schema across all time periods

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: Historical and recent partitions are unioned to create complete daily time series of token incentives
- **Currency conversion**: Native LTC values are converted to USD using end-of-day price feeds through the `convert_to_usd_and_correct_decimals` macro, with decimal correction disabled since values are already in proper units
- **Time aggregation**: Data is aggregated at daily boundaries using timestamp truncation to day level, ensuring consistent daily granularity
- **Final calculation**: The final metric value represents the total USD value of mining rewards distributed on each day, calculated as the sum of all coinbase transaction output values for that day converted to USD using end-of-day exchange rates. Gap-filling strategy applies zeros for days with no mining activity, and standardized business metadata (business line, market sector) is applied through the `finalize_metric_token_incentives` macro.

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

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