Liquidity providers deposit funds into PoolTogether and receive a return on investment in lottery winnings (supply-side fees).

PoolTogether is an asset management (no-loss lottery) protocol built on Ethereum and other adjacent blockchains. PoolTogether was founded by Leighton Cusack and launched in 2019.

POOL tokenholders own and govern the protocol. They currently do not take a cut of the total return on investment paid by liquidity providers (revenue). PoolTogether’s investors include IDEO CoLab Ventures, DTC Capital, ConsenSys Ventures, etc.

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# PoolTogether Active users (daily) Methodology

## 1. Overview

Daily Active Users (DAU) for PoolTogether measures the number of unique users who interact with the PoolTogether v4 protocol each day across multiple blockchain networks. This metric captures user engagement by tracking three core activities: depositing funds into prize pools, withdrawing funds from prize pools, and claiming prizes. The calculation aggregates distinct user addresses per day, providing insights into daily protocol adoption and user retention patterns.

## 2. Data sources

- **PoolTogether v4 smart contract events**: Parsed event logs from PoolTogether v4 protocol deployed across Ethereum, Avalanche, Polygon, and Optimism networks
- **Prize claiming events**: `ClaimedDraw` events from `PrizeDistributor` contracts (Ethereum, Avalanche, Optimism) and `RewardDistributor` contracts (Polygon)
- **Deposit events**: `Deposited` events from `YieldSourcePrizePool` contracts across all supported chains
- **Withdrawal events**: `Withdrawal` events from `YieldSourcePrizePool` contracts across all supported chains  
- **Blockchain transaction metadata**: Block timestamps and transaction identifiers for temporal aggregation and event correlation

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: User interaction extraction
- **Purpose**: Identifies and standardizes all user interactions with PoolTogether v4 protocol across multiple chains
- **Logic**: Extracts user addresses from three types of PoolTogether v4 events. For prize claiming events, the `user` parameter identifies users claiming their winnings. For deposit and withdrawal events, the `operator` parameter identifies users adding or removing funds from prize pools. Each interaction is classified by user type: users claiming prizes or withdrawing funds are labeled as "Withdrawer", while users depositing funds are labeled as "Depositor". All interactions are tagged with standardized business metadata including "asset_management" as the market sector and "yield_aggregator" as the business segment
- **Key fields**: `user` addresses from claiming events, `operator` addresses from deposit/withdrawal events, `block_timestamp` for temporal tracking, `transaction_hash` and `log_index` for event identification

### Component B: Daily user aggregation  
- **Purpose**: Converts raw user interactions into daily active user counts by removing duplicate addresses within each day
- **Logic**: Block timestamps are truncated to daily boundaries using day-level precision. User addresses are then deduplicated within each day, chain, and user type combination. This ensures that users who perform multiple transactions on the same day are only counted once in the daily active user metric. The aggregation maintains chain-level granularity and user type classification to enable detailed analysis
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` truncated to day level, distinct `user_address` values, `chain` identifier, `user_type` classification

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: User interactions from all chains and event types are combined into a unified daily active user count. The metric preserves chain-level and user type-level granularity while ensuring no double-counting of users within daily periods
- **Currency conversion**: Not applicable - this is a user count metric
- **Time aggregation**: Daily boundaries are determined by truncating blockchain timestamps to day precision, ensuring consistent 24-hour periods regardless of timezone
- **Final calculation**: The final DAU value represents the count of distinct user addresses that performed at least one qualifying interaction (deposit, withdrawal, or prize claim) with PoolTogether v4 protocol on a given day, segmented by blockchain network and interaction type

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

Unique revenue-generating users over a fixed 24-hour window.

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