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# Rootstock Expenses Methodology

## 1. Overview

Expenses measures the total cost Rootstock incurs to operate its business, including token incentives paid to supply or demand-side users and protocol-level operating expenditures. This metric is currently set to zero. No on-chain token incentives or protocol-level operating expenses (such as contributor salaries or infrastructure costs) are captured for Rootstock within the current data scope.

## 2. Data sources

- **None**: This metric is set to a constant value and does not consume blockchain events

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Token incentive tracking

- **Purpose**: Assess the value of protocol-distributed assets to users or contributors
- **Logic**: Token incentives are hardcoded to zero. This reflects the absence of active on-chain incentive programs currently identified for the protocol.
- **Key fields**: `token_incentives`

### Component B: Final expense aggregation

- **Purpose**: Calculate the total operational cost for the project
- **Logic**: Total expenses are derived from the token incentives component. Because no additional traditional operating expenses are recorded on-chain, the final metric value is set to zero for all timestamps.
- **Key fields**: `expenses`

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

Total project operating and incentive expenses.

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