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 Active users (monthly) Methodology

## 1. Overview

Active users (monthly) measures the number of unique addresses that initiate revenue-generating transactions on the Sui network. This metric serves as a primary indicator of user growth and network adoption. Because all transactions on the network require the payment of gas fees, every transaction sender is classified as a revenue-generating user.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain events**: Transaction records covering Sui
- **External data**: Asset metadata for the native gas asset

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Transaction data extraction

- **Purpose**: Identify all fee-paying activity on the network.
- **Logic**: Transaction records are extracted from the Sui blockchain. This dataset includes all validated transactions regardless of execution status, as gas costs are incurred for both successful and failed attempts.
- **Key fields**: `sender`, `block_timestamp`

### Component B: Unique user identification

- **Purpose**: Identify the distinct entities responsible for network activity.
- **Logic**: The `sender` address is retrieved from each transaction record. This address represents the account that signs the transaction and pays the associated gas fees.
- **Key fields**: `sender`

### Component C: Monthly aggregation

- **Purpose**: Calculate the count of unique participants per 30-day window.
- **Logic**: Unique sender addresses are aggregated using a monthly UTC grain. Duplicate occurrences of a single address within the same 30-day rolling window are excluded to ensure each address is counted only once per 30-day window.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` (used for monthly truncation)

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

Unique revenue-generating users over a rolling 30-day window.

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