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# Rootstock Revenue Methodology

## 1. Overview

Revenue measures the portion of transaction fees retained by the Rootstock protocol. Fees on the network are distributed via the Reward Manager Smart Contract (REMASC), which allocates a majority share to miners for network security. The remaining portion, which constitutes protocol revenue, is directed to the RSK Foundation and a fee smoothing pool. This metric provides insight into the protocol's earnings from network activity after compensating supply-side participants.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain events**: Transaction metadata including gas price and gas usage data, covering Rootstock
- **External data**: End-of-day price feeds for the native asset (RBTC)

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Transaction fee extraction

- **Purpose**: Determine the total value of fees paid by users for transaction execution.
- **Logic**: Transaction records are parsed from the Rootstock blockchain. As Rootstock utilizes a pre-EIP-1559 fee mechanism, the total fee for each transaction is calculated by multiplying the gas price by the actual gas units consumed. These values represent the gross fees paid in the native asset (RBTC).
- **Key fields**: `gas_price`, `receipt_gas_used`

### Component B: Supply-side fee allocation

- **Purpose**: Identify the portion of fees distributed to network miners as supply-side compensation.
- **Logic**: The fee distribution logic defined by the Reward Manager Smart Contract (REMASC) is applied to the total fees. An 80% share is allocated to miners, who serve as the supply-side participants responsible for securing the network through merge-mining.
- **Key fields**: `remasc_miner_share` (set to 0.8)

### Component C: Protocol revenue calculation and USD conversion

- **Purpose**: Calculate the final protocol revenue and normalize the value to USD.
- **Logic**: Revenue is calculated as the difference between total fees and the supply-side miner share, effectively representing the 20% of fees retained by the RSK Foundation and the smoothing pool. The resulting values are normalized by decimal precision and converted to USD using end-of-day price feeds for RBTC. Daily totals are aggregated using UTC day boundaries.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp`, `fee_amount`, `fees_supply_side`

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

fees * take_rate (illustrative — revenue is observed directly per project, not derived from take_rate)

Fee revenue retained after supply-side payouts. Before cost of revenue (e.g. L2 DA fees) and before operating expenses.

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