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# Rootstock Supply-side fees Methodology

## 1. Overview

Supply-side fees measures the portion of transaction fees distributed to miners for securing the Rootstock network. As a merged-mined blockchain, Rootstock utilizes the Reward Manager Smart Contract (`REMASC`) to automate the allocation of fees between different network participants. This metric captures the specific share of native `RBTC` gas fees that is directed to service providers (miners) to incentivize the provision of computational power.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain events**: Transaction data including gas price and gas used from the Rootstock chain
- **External data**: End-of-day price feeds for the native `RBTC` asset

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Gross transaction fee calculation

- **Purpose**: Determine the total transaction fees generated on the network before any distribution takes place.
- **Logic**: For every transaction, the gas price is multiplied by the actual gas used. Because Rootstock utilizes a pre-EIP-1559 fee mechanism, the total fee is derived without a base fee or priority fee split.
- **Key fields**: `gas_price`, `gas_used`

### Component B: Miner share allocation

- **Purpose**: Apply the protocol-defined distribution ratio to identify the supply-side portion.
- **Logic**: A fixed allocation of 80% is applied to the total transaction fees. This percentage represents the miner share as defined by the `REMASC` contract logic, which distributes the remaining 20% of fees equally between the RSK Foundation and a smoothing pool.
- **Key fields**: `fee_amount`

### Component C: USD conversion and aggregation

- **Purpose**: Normalize values and convert the native asset amounts into USD.
- **Logic**: Fees are normalized by decimal precision and multiplied by end-of-day price feeds for the `RBTC` asset. The resulting values are aggregated by day according to UTC boundaries to produce the final daily supply-side fee metric.

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

Portion of fees distributed to service providers or supply-side participants.

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