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# Rootstock Contract deployers Methodology

## 1. Overview

Contract deployers measures the number of unique addresses that have deployed at least one smart contract on Rootstock. It is utilized as a proxy for the number of independent developers or entities by whom code is actively published onchain. This metric is used to evaluate the scale and activity of the developer ecosystem within the Rootstock network.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain events**: Contract creation records from Rootstock

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Contract creation identification

- **Purpose**: Identify every instance of a smart contract being deployed on the network
- **Logic**: Successful smart contract deployments are identified from network contract records. For each creation event, the address of the deployer and the timestamp of the block in which the contract was created are extracted.
- **Key fields**: `deployer_address`, `creation_timestamp`

### Component B: Daily unique deployer aggregation

- **Purpose**: Calculate the number of distinct entities deploying code each day
- **Logic**: Deployer addresses are aggregated by day using truncated block timestamps. A distinct count is performed on these addresses to ensure that each unique entity is counted only once per day, irrespective of the total number of contracts published by that address during the period.
- **Key fields**: `deployer_address`, `block_timestamp`

### Component C: Metric finalization and zero-filling

- **Purpose**: Ensure data consistency and a continuous time series
- **Logic**: The daily counts are cast to numeric data types to ensure precision. A zero-filling strategy is applied to maintain a continuous time series for days where no contract deployments are recorded. The final dataset is filtered to include only data that meets defined freshness and chain availability criteria.
- **Key fields**: `contract_deployers`, `timestamp`

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

Unique addresses that deployed at least one smart contract.

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