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

Sui is a smart contract platform for decentralized applications (a blockchain). Sui was founded by Evan Cheng, Sam Blackshear, Adeniyi Abiodun, George Danezis and launched in 2022.

Sui (Mysten Labs) team & investors own and govern the protocol. They currently don’t take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue). Sui's investors include a16z, Coinbase Ventures, Electric Capital, etc.

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# Sui Contract deployers Methodology

## 1. Overview

Contract deployers is defined as the number of unique addresses that have successfully deployed at least one smart contract. It is utilized as a proxy for the volume of independent developers or entities that actively publish code on-chain. Only successful package deployments on the Sui network are included to ensure the metric reflects functional code contributions to the ecosystem.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain events**: `Move` package deployments and transaction metadata from Sui

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Contract creation identification

- **Purpose**: Identify valid smart contract deployments on the network.
- **Logic**: Successful `Move` package deployments are extracted from the blockchain. Transactions are filtered to include only those with a `Success` status, ensuring that failed deployment attempts are excluded from the dataset.
- **Key fields**: `package_id` (contract identifier), `transaction_digest`, and `status`.

### Component B: Deployer address attribution

- **Purpose**: Attribute each contract deployment to the responsible entity.
- **Logic**: Transaction records are joined with the identified package deployments using the transaction digest. The `sender` address of the transaction that initiated the deployment is designated as the deployer address.
- **Key fields**: `sender`.

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

- **Purpose**: Calculate the daily count of unique contract deployers.
- **Logic**: The number of unique deployer addresses is aggregated for each 24-hour UTC period. In instances where no deployment activity is recorded for a specific day, values are zero-filled to maintain a continuous time series. Results are grouped by date and chain.

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

Unique addresses that deployed at least one smart contract.

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