Stacks miners batch users' transactions and receive fees from users (supply-side fees). Miners submit transactions to Bitcoin, paying a share of the transaction fees to Bitcoin miners.

Stacks is an smart contract platform for creating decentralized applications on Bitcoin (a blockchain). Stacks was founded by Muneeb Ali and Ryan Shea, and launched in 2021.

STX tokenholders own and govern the protocol. They currently do not take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue). Stacks' investors include IOSG Ventures, The Spartan Group, Hashkey Exchange, etc.

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# Stacks Contracts deployed Methodology

## 1. Overview

The Stacks contracts deployed metric measures the total number of smart contracts deployed on the Stacks blockchain each day. On Stacks, smart contract deployments are identified by the `smart_contract` transaction type. Each deployment creates a contract at the address `{deployer_address}.{contract_name}`. This metric provides insight into the rate of new contract creation and developer productivity on the Stacks network.

## 2. Data sources

- **Stacks blockchain transaction data**: Transaction records containing transaction hashes, block timestamps, transaction types, and contract deployment metadata

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Contract deployment identification
- **Purpose**: Identify all smart contract deployment transactions on Stacks
- **Logic**: Filter Stacks transactions to include only those with `transaction_type = 'smart_contract'`, which represent contract deployment operations. Each qualifying transaction represents one new smart contract being deployed to the network.
- **Key fields**: `transaction_hash` (unique deployment identifier), `block_timestamp` (deployment time), `transaction_type` (filter for 'smart_contract')

### Component B: Daily contract count aggregation
- **Purpose**: Count the total number of contracts deployed per day
- **Logic**: Block timestamps are truncated to daily boundaries. Within each day, distinct contract deployment transactions are counted to determine the total number of new contracts deployed. Metadata fields are applied including `chain_id` as 'stacks' and `market_sector_id` as 'blockchains_l2'.
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` (daily), `contracts_deployed` (count of deployments)

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: Daily contract deployment counts are processed through a finalization macro for schema validation and temporal completeness
- **Currency conversion**: No currency conversion required as this is a count-based metric
- **Time aggregation**: All data is aggregated to daily boundaries using timestamp truncation
- **Final calculation**: The final metric value represents the total number of smart contracts deployed on Stacks within each daily time period, with zero values filled for any missing days to maintain a continuous daily time series

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

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