Validators process transactions and receive fees from users (supply-side fees).

Solana is a smart contract platform for decentralized applications (a blockchain). Solana was founded by Anatoly Yakovenko, Greg Fitzgerald, Raj Gokal, etc. and launched in 2020.

SOL holders own and govern the protocol. They currently take a cut of the transaction fees paid by users (revenue). Solana’s investors include Polychain Capital, ParaFi capital, Passport capital, etc.

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# Solana Contracts deployed Methodology

## 1. Overview

Contracts deployed measures the number of unique programs published onchain. It is used as a proxy for the volume of new infrastructure or applications that are launched on the blockchain. On Solana, this metric specifically tracks the deployment of new executable code via the system's upgradeable deployment architecture. Because Solana programs are frequently reused to support multiple distinct assets or accounts, the deployment count represents the introduction of unique logic to the ecosystem.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain events**: `DeployWithMaxDataLen` instructions from the `BPF Loader Upgradeable` program on Solana

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Program deployment extraction

- **Purpose**: Identify the creation of new upgradeable programs on the Solana blockchain
- **Logic**: `DeployWithMaxDataLen` instructions are parsed from the `BPF Loader Upgradeable` program. These instructions represent the initialization of new program accounts with a specified data length. Each unique instruction is captured along with the program account, the deployer account (transaction signer), and the block timestamp. Distinct records are filtered to ensure each program deployment is counted only once.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` (timing), `program` (program account identification), `transaction_id` (uniqueness)

### Component B: Daily aggregation and zero-filling

- **Purpose**: Calculate the total number of deployments per day and ensure data continuity
- **Logic**: The count of unique program deployments is aggregated into daily intervals using the UTC block timestamp. All values are cast to a standardized numeric format for consistent reporting. For any days within the time series where no deployment instructions are detected on-chain, values are filled with zeros to maintain a complete historical dataset.
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` (daily grain), `contracts_deployed` (sum of deployments)

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

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