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 Contracts deployed Methodology

## 1. Overview

Contracts deployed measures the number of unique smart contracts published onchain. Within the Sui ecosystem, these are identified as Move packages. The metric serves as a proxy for the amount of new infrastructure or applications that are launched on the blockchain, providing insight into developer activity and ecosystem growth.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain events**: Move package publication records and transaction metadata from the Sui network

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Extraction of Move packages

- **Purpose**: Identify the publication of new smart contract code on the network.
- **Logic**: Move package publication data is extracted from the Sui ledger. Each package is identified by a unique ID representing the compiled Move code deployed to the network.
- **Key fields**: `package_id` (contract identification), `block_timestamp` (timing)

### Component B: Transaction validation and attribution

- **Purpose**: Ensure only successful deployments are counted and attribute them to a deployer.
- **Logic**: Move package records are joined with transaction data using the transaction digest and block timestamp. The dataset is filtered to include only transactions with a successful status, ensuring that failed deployment attempts are excluded from the count. The transaction sender is identified as the deployer address for the package.
- **Key fields**: `transaction_digest` (linkage), `status` (validation), `sender` (deployer attribution)

### Component C: Daily aggregation and normalization

- **Purpose**: Aggregate unique deployments into a daily time series.
- **Logic**: The total number of unique package IDs is counted and grouped by day based on the block timestamp using UTC boundaries. In instances where no packages are published on a specific day, a zero-filling strategy is applied to ensure the continuity of the metric's time series.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` (truncated to day), `contracts_deployed` (summed count)

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

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