Mantra is a Decentralized Exchange (DEX), initially built on Ethereum and upgraded to the Mantra Chain, a blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK.

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# MANTRA Block time Methodology

## 1. Overview

Block time measures the average time interval between consecutive block production on the Mantra blockchain, expressed in milliseconds and aggregated daily. This metric indicates the blockchain's block production speed and network performance consistency. The calculation uses raw blockchain block header data to compute time differences between consecutive blocks, then averages these intervals by day.

## 2. Data sources

- **Mantra blockchain block headers**: Raw block data from the Mantra blockchain containing block timestamps, block heights, and validator/proposer information
- **Block timestamp data**: Native blockchain timestamps indicating when each block was produced
- **Block sequence data**: Block height/number information providing the sequential ordering of blocks

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Block data extraction
- **Purpose**: Retrieves raw block information from the Mantra blockchain
- **Logic**: Extracts block timestamps (when blocks were produced), block numbers (sequential block identifiers), and validator addresses from Mantra blockchain block headers. The `timestamp` field is renamed to `block_timestamp` and `block_height` is renamed to `block_number` for consistency
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` (block production time), `block_number` (sequential identifier), `validator` (block proposer address)

### Component B: Consecutive block pairing
- **Purpose**: Creates pairs of consecutive blocks to enable time interval calculation
- **Logic**: Orders blocks by block number in ascending sequence and uses a window function to attach the previous block's timestamp to each current block. This creates the necessary data pairs to calculate time intervals between consecutive blocks
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` (current block time), `previous_timestamp` (preceding block time), `block_number` (for ordering)

### Component C: Individual block time calculation
- **Purpose**: Calculates the time interval for each individual block
- **Logic**: Computes the millisecond difference between each block's timestamp and its predecessor's timestamp. Excludes the first block since it has no predecessor. Truncates block timestamps to day boundaries for subsequent daily aggregation
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` (day boundary), `block_time` (milliseconds between consecutive blocks)

### Component D: Daily aggregation
- **Purpose**: Aggregates individual block times into daily averages
- **Logic**: Groups all block time intervals by day and calculates the arithmetic mean. Assigns standard metadata including chain identifier as 'mantra', market sector as 'blockchains_l1', and business segment as 'blockchain'
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` (daily boundary), `block_time` (average milliseconds per block for the day)

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: Individual block time calculations are averaged by day using standard arithmetic mean
- **Currency conversion**: Not applicable - block time is measured in milliseconds
- **Time aggregation**: Daily boundaries using timestamp truncation, with all blocks produced within a calendar day contributing to that day's average
- **Final calculation**: The final metric represents the average time in milliseconds between consecutive block production events for each day on the Mantra blockchain

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

avg(block_timestamp - previous_block_timestamp)

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