Creators & users sell NFTs on OpenSea. They receive royalties from secondary sales (supply-side fees).

OpenSea is a non-custodial NFT marketplace protocol built on Ethereum. OpenSea was founded by Alex Atallah & Devin Finzer and launched in 2017.

OpenSea team & investors own and govern the protocol. They currently take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by buyers (revenue). OpenSea's investors include a16z, Coatue, Founders Fund, etc.

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# OpenSea Token incentives Methodology

## 1. Overview

The OpenSea token incentives metric measures the value of token-based rewards or incentive payments distributed by OpenSea to users, typically as part of loyalty programs, trading incentives, or ecosystem growth initiatives. Currently, this metric is set to zero across all time periods and blockchain networks, indicating that OpenSea does not operate active token incentive programs. The calculation leverages OpenSea's fee tracking infrastructure to maintain consistent data structure and temporal coverage while hardcoding incentive values to zero.

## 2. Data sources

The token incentives calculation relies on the following data sources for structural consistency:

- **Fee transaction infrastructure**: Processed data from OpenSea's fee calculation system that tracks trading activity across Seaport and WyvernExchange protocols
- **Blockchain network metadata**: Chain availability and configuration data to determine supported networks
- **Time series structure**: Daily timestamp boundaries and product identifiers from the fees tracking system
- **End-of-day price feeds**: Token price data used in the underlying fee infrastructure (though not directly used for incentives since values are zero)

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Base data extraction
- **Purpose**: Establish the temporal and dimensional structure for token incentives reporting
- **Logic**: Extract the fundamental dimensions (timestamp, chain_id, product_id) from the OpenSea fees calculation infrastructure. This ensures the token incentives metric maintains the same time series coverage and dimensional structure as other OpenSea metrics, even when no actual incentives are distributed
- **Key fields**: Uses `timestamp` for daily boundaries, `timestamp_grain` set to 'day', `product_id` for protocol identification, and `chain_id` for blockchain network identification

### Component B: Token incentives assignment  
- **Purpose**: Set the actual token incentives value for each record
- **Logic**: Hardcode the `token_incentives` field to 0 for all records across all time periods and blockchain networks. This reflects OpenSea's current business model which does not include token-based incentive programs or rewards distribution to users
- **Key fields**: The `token_incentives` field is consistently set to 0, representing zero USD value in token incentives distributed

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The base dimensional data is combined with the zero incentive values to create complete records
- **Currency conversion**: No currency conversion is required since all values are zero, though the infrastructure supports USD reporting when incentives are present
- **Time aggregation**: Data is structured on daily boundaries using the 'day' timestamp grain
- **Final calculation**: Each record contains zero token incentives value, maintaining data completeness and structural consistency with other OpenSea metrics while accurately representing the absence of token incentive programs

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

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