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# Rootstock Average revenue per user (ARPU) Methodology

## 1. Overview

Average revenue per user (ARPU) measures the daily revenue generated per active user on the Rootstock network. This metric indicates the protocol's effectiveness in monetizing individual user activity through transaction fees. For Rootstock, revenue is specifically defined as the portion of transaction fees not distributed to miners, representing the value captured by the RSK Foundation and the reward smoothing pool.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain events**: Transaction data and transaction sender addresses from the Rootstock network
- **External data**: End-of-day price feeds for RBTC
- **Revenue**: Derived from the Revenue metric
- **Active users (daily)**: Derived from the Active users (daily) metric

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Gross fee extraction

- **Purpose**: Identify the total transaction fees paid by users on the network
- **Logic**: Transaction data is parsed to extract the gas used and the gas price for every successful transaction. Since Rootstock is a pre-EIP-1559 network, the total fee for each transaction is calculated by multiplying the gas price by the gas used.
- **Key fields**: `gas_used`, `gas_price`

### Component B: Protocol revenue determination

- **Purpose**: Calculate the specific portion of fees retained as protocol revenue
- **Logic**: A fee-sharing split is applied based on the Reward Manager Smart Contract (REMASC) logic. While 80% of collected fees are distributed to miners as supply-side fees, the remaining 20% is categorized as protocol revenue. This 20% share represents the allocations directed to the RSK Foundation and the reward smoothing pool.
- **Key fields**: `fee_amount`

### Component C: Active user identification

- **Purpose**: Count the number of unique participants interacting with the network daily
- **Logic**: Distinct transaction sender addresses are aggregated over 24-hour UTC windows. Only the original initiators of transactions are counted to ensure the metric reflects unique active users (daily) rather than total transaction volume or internal contract interactions.
- **Key fields**: `from_address`

### Component D: USD normalization and aggregation

- **Purpose**: Convert native asset values to USD and calculate the final average
- **Logic**: RBTC amounts are normalized by decimal precision and multiplied by end-of-day price feeds. The total daily protocol revenue in USD is divided by the total number of active users (daily). In instances where no activity is recorded, the metric is filled with zero to ensure a continuous data series.

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

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