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

Polygon is a smart contract platform for decentralized applications & interoperability platform for blockchains. Polygon was founded by Jaynti Kanani, Sandeep Nailwal & Anurag Arjun and launched in 2017.

MATIC holders own and govern the protocol. They currently take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue). Polygon’s investors include Coinbase Ventures, ZBS Capital, MiH Ventures, etc.

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# Polygon Contracts deployed Methodology

## 1. Overview

This metric tracks the daily number of smart contracts deployed on the Polygon blockchain. It answers the question "How many new smart contracts are being deployed on Polygon each day?" by counting unique contract creation events from blockchain transaction data. The calculation aggregates contract deployment transactions by day and applies data quality filtering to ensure accurate reporting.

## 2. Data sources

- **Polygon contract deployment records**: Historical data of all smart contract deployments on the Polygon blockchain, including creation timestamps, contract addresses, deployer addresses, and transaction trace information
- **Polygon transaction traces**: Detailed transaction execution data that captures contract creation events and their associated metadata
- **Chain availability metadata**: Data quality indicators that identify periods when blockchain data collection may be incomplete or unreliable

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Contract creation extraction
- **Purpose**: Identifies and extracts all unique smart contract deployment events from Polygon blockchain data
- **Logic**: Retrieves contract creation records from Polygon blockchain data, capturing the `creation_timestamp` when each contract was deployed, the `contract_address` of the newly created contract, the `deployer_address` of the account that initiated the deployment, and the `creation_trace_address` indicating the specific transaction trace. Applies distinct filtering to ensure each contract creation is counted only once, removing any potential duplicate records that might exist in the source data
- **Key fields**: `creation_timestamp` (deployment time), `contract_address` (new contract identifier), `deployer_address` (deploying account), `creation_trace_address` (transaction trace reference)

### Component B: Daily aggregation
- **Purpose**: Groups contract deployments by day and counts the total number of contracts deployed each day
- **Logic**: Truncates the `creation_timestamp` to daily boundaries to group all contract deployments that occurred within the same calendar day. Groups the data by the truncated timestamp along with standard metric metadata fields including chain identifier set to 'polygon', market sector identifier set to 'blockchains_l1', business segment identifier set to 'blockchain', and product identifier set to null. Counts the total number of contract deployment records for each day using a count aggregation
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` (daily boundary), `contracts_deployed` (daily count), chain and sector metadata fields

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The daily aggregated counts are processed through a standardization macro that applies consistent formatting and fills any missing days with zero values using a 'fill_zeros' strategy
- **Currency conversion**: Not applicable as this metric counts contract deployments rather than monetary values
- **Time aggregation**: Contract creation timestamps are truncated to daily boundaries, ensuring all deployments within a 24-hour period are grouped together
- **Final calculation**: The final metric value represents the total count of unique smart contracts deployed on Polygon for each calendar day, with data quality filtering applied to exclude periods where blockchain data availability may be incomplete or unreliable

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

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